 Well, hi there friends. Welcome to another event from Nonprofit Tech Club Austin. It's affiliated with N10, we've got our friend Tristan here, and TechSoup who I'm representing briefly today. So, I'm Eli, I'm a TechSoup community manager. And this chapter, Nonprofit Tech Club Austin is affiliated with TechSoup Connect, which is a global network of tech for good meetups. And it's all sort of under the umbrella of TechSoup, which is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits get implement and use technology effectively. So, like any community, we've got some ground rules, we've got some, some guidelines. So our first here is that we welcome everyone. The second is that we put community first, because we're all here to support each other. Our third is that we're here to build stronger nonprofits. So we're going to talk a lot about technology today. It's like the lens that we use for looking at the topic, but ultimately we're a community of nonprofits who are here to support each other. Fourth, we invite participation. We think that everyone has something to learn and contribute. But that also, of course, leads into number five. We treat each other with kindness and respect. And that means there is an open chat window here, but before you go too well in that chat window, just take a moment to ask yourself if you're bringing your kindest and most empathetic self. And if you think you can pass that base test, then go for it. But just take a moment before you do anything and make sure you're bringing your best self to the table. We, of course, need your help. Carolyn and Carl and Dale and the whole team have put together a really amazing lineup of events through the rest of the year. But they need more ideas. They need more event producers. They need more people working on the marketing team. They need note takers. If you are interested in getting involved, one, it's super fun. Two, it'll be easy. So reach out in the chat or ping Carolyn and she'd be happy to help you out. So let me tell you a little bit about TechSoup. As I said, a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits with hardware, software, technology, all that fun stuff. And the way that happens is we've partnered with about 120 of the largest technology companies, the boxes, the zooms, the Cisco's, the Dell's, the Zoom, the product we're in right now to help them expand their discounted and organization program to nonprofits globally. And just to give you a sense practically of what that could mean, I've mocked up 10 person nonprofit, and given you a good sense of the kinds of savings that come through that TechSoup account, which is by the way, totally free so get on it. And of course, sometimes you're not going to get the answers you need in this event itself. You know, shocking, but sometimes it'll happen. TechSoup has got some good forums, as of course does our friends over at Ntech. And finally, more events just like this one are happening over at events.techsoup.org, where you're going to see both the TechSoup webinars, as well as the events from all the other chapters across the globe doing amazing events. So you can see events from the groups in Nairobi or events from the groups in Romania or the events in the groups in the UK. So go check it out. And here's just the sampling of the upcoming events that the teams put together. But again, you should just go and register for all of them because they're going to be fabulous. And with that, I am going to get out of the way. And so for the Carolyn. All right. Now, let me share my screen. Thanks everyone for coming. We appreciate you very much. Okay, here we go. I have just a few slides before I hand the program off to Tristan and our guest. Here we go. Non-profit Tech Club Austin. I made this little logo for this year using Adobe Spark. And the only way I learned how to do that was our Adobe Spark program. I've learned a lot from TechSoup programs myself, not only coordinating. So there we are. And I'll share some links here soon so you can follow up. And these will all appear on the recording of the program that Eli will post eventually this week. But we are that's our hashtag. We are part of the network of tech clubs across the nation and the world. Our partner with N10 was our founding sponsor and TechSoup Global and TechSoup Connect is the new name we have through our partnership with TechSoup. So programs are free to all and we have lots of great volunteers to help us make decisions on that. Again, all volunteer programs free. Anyone can come anytime and we post the recordings on Facebook and elsewhere so you can access them 24-7 later if you don't have time to attend the actual program. And our mission is simply to help individuals and nonprofits, seeing cost-effective techniques and solutions to make their work easier and more effective. That's that. And I wanted to say hooray to the home team. Thanks everybody who helped us with prep programs. We're all full on our schedule for 2021 and here they are. You can find us online and RSVP for any of these and we're starting now to look to 2022. So if you have some ideas or need help with a certain topic, please reach out and let me know anytime. We are again all volunteer, our expert guest speakers, speaker free, and we urge you to support them always. We really appreciate their time. And our volunteers include and here's our LinkedIn links. You can find us on LinkedIn anytime. I am so grateful. It used to be Dale and me by ourselves. And we have some great help now. Thank God. So there they are. And we'd also like to thank our local sponsor, Capital Factory, which has been valuable in helping us with venues when we met in person, but also they promote us on their Capital Factory event calendar. And I talked to them fairly regularly. They've been sending Capital Factory swag bags to our guest speakers as a little extra treat. We love that about them. And here are those links again later on you can follow up with all of this and if you need help just reach out anytime. So there we go now I guess I stopped my share and turn it over. Now I've been a member of intent for about 10 years and I actually found it to be so useful that it is my primary professional organization affiliation today. And so I was really excited to have Tristan join us from Portland, Oregon to give us an update because actually we have our tech club, of course, but there's like a whole another level of activity going on with Austin with our Google Digital Inclusion Fellowship, which is an annual program. And so there's a lot of digital inclusion work going on and there's a lot NTC and other stuff and I was like, you know, I don't even know what's going on with my own organization. I do try and get on the conversation platform intent and share ideas but basically there's just so much going on we've been through so many big changes and I only see intent getting more influential and necessary to say the least so I give it to Tristan to introduce myself introduce and share the latest and greatest. Yeah, thank you all so much for having me. I appreciate the, the glowing endorsement of and 10 Carolyn. I think that kind of like ties into just the work of intent in it being a community driven organization that thrives not only on like new voices but voices that have been there for a period of time to like we want everyone there because all of those are with experiences. And certainly we need them now more than ever so. So yeah so thanks so much. Just a brief. I'll try and keep it brief. Quick intro on myself is my name is Tristan Penn I use he him pronouns I am the community engagement and equity manager for and 10. And I like, like Carolyn was saying I am here in beautiful Portland. We just got off a week of really for Portland hot weather, but I'm from the Midwest so if it's not June and it's not 100 degrees, I don't want it, and I want to feel the summer. It's been a little lackluster for me but everyone else in Portland is like wow the seat wave. So, so that's where I'm calling from and that's also Clackamas and Multnomaland. So, I want to just like open up and I know Dale asked. In addition to my intro to talk about how I came to be at and 10 and just a brief backstory on how I found my way to end 10. And it's a, it's, I won't say everyone's everyone's stories unique, but you know I feel like it was just a huge leap for me at the time. I had been working in after school programming I graduated college from the University of Kansas I'm born and raised from Kansas Central Kansas, and I went to KU and all through college I worked as a part time. After school group leader for boys and girls club there and so then I was, I got on full time with them at right after the. I think everyone was familiar with, you know, the events of 2009 and 2008. And I was lucky enough to keep my job in those times. And, you know, that was a very dicey time because I didn't know day to day, you know, just given the grant landscape, a lot of the work that we did at boys boys and girls club was federally funded grants so we were at risk of a lot of them getting taken away in the entire situation. So, so I worked with boys and girls club and I was lucky enough to work through that and to continue to be employed with them and I moved up through the organization worked for them for about seven to eight years and then I was offered a job with the boys and girls club in boys and girls club in eastern Washington in the tri cities and so I lived there for a year and worked for that club decided that that area was not my cup of tea, and so I decided to keep on going west and I moved from eastern Washington to Portland and worked for the boys and girls club here for about three years so a lot the bulk of all of the nonprofit work and experience that I have has been in after school programming and youth development, whether it's direct service whether it's the marketing communications piece whether it's the program management the project management, the administration, the C suite executive level I've done it all. And it's given me a really wide swath and experience of, you know, how after school programming and also just like how nonprofits work to when you're working in, you know, nonprofit for this will be my 17th year of working in nonprofit and I, you know, there are a lot of things along the way, and I think for me the biggest lesson that I learned, leaving boys and girls club was really like a pain, I wouldn't say a painful decision but it was a really it was one of those things that it's you know, in order to write a really good and I think that was the case with boys and girls club and just after school programming in general was that I was getting incredibly burnt out, incredibly burnt out working 10 to 12 hour days and, you know, opening the club closing and staying behind with staff and kids who needed rides home and also in the middle you know doing all of the the administrative pieces of that and so you know after you do that for, you know, a long time years. I was a little scared to move away on you and so I decided to move away from from direct service and boys and girls club and youth development, and I was a little scared to make that jump and to see what else was out there, I knew I loved nonprofits and wanted to stay within the sector. I also knew that I wanted to stay in community based programs but youth development was something that was really, I loved, but I needed to bless it, bless and release it. So, I took a chance and applied for a nonprofit tech organization by the name of 10 and I am so grateful that I was given the opportunity by Amy and the team and 10 and continue to be grateful. As I think it's really challenged me in a lot of ways and I also think it's been something that I have really grown to love and to understand that nonprofits work in so many different ways and to be a part of and 10 as a capacity building organization for the sector has been so rewarding I thought the work and the work that I did when I was in youth development was absolutely rewarding for the communities that I served but also now knowing being a part of and 10, just like understanding the reach and the breadth of what we do and how we can support not only individual nonprofit professionals but organizations and whole communities of nonprofit professionals has really been enlightening and very inspiring to so that was something I hadn't been familiar with before is the capacity building piece of it so you know that rising tides lift all ships. I think it's really rang true with intent so that's how I got here and you know I think when I worked or when I first got on with with intent I was a little nervous. The people that I worked with were all very just tech savvy and I, you know, I think the in the beginning I was incredibly self conscious about my, my experience with technology and my connections with it. And also like, you know, not only self conscious but also like, you know, there's a healthy amount of imposter syndrome that comes with that to everyone that everyone that I work with still is like, Oh, we can do this and, you know, oh we use all these tools and use all these applications and programs and that's great and I've learned a lot but you know I feel like the first couple, you know months as I got up to date with them and, you know, acclimated was like are you, are you all sure you want me here like I, I feel like, you know, and so. But I think the one thing that's been really reassuring in the beginning was Amy being like yes you have what none of us have in spades and so being able to do the community work and also more importantly, towards the end of my time with boys and girls club I started to really get into and lead and Stewart, a lot of the equity work, the diversity equity and inclusion work that we're doing at boys and girls club and so it was a really nice transition to be able to like take on that role as well with N10 and to not only I feel like I was able to. Oh gosh, how am I going to make technology and equity like come together but realize that like oh wow it's all it's all one thing it's all. How we, how we look at things and so yeah so that's my, my N10 story that's how I came to be here now I'm coming up on my third year, which is so wild to believe at N10 so I. This last year has been absolutely a, a wild time, and I think all of us would, you know I hate to belabor the word, but it's definitely been unprecedented. And it's definitely been enlightening and I think that kind of ties into, you know, jumping from my story and the equity work that I have now started to take over in a more meaningful way at N10. It has been that this pandemic has really highlighted what we need in this sector and, or what has been already been voiced by a lot of the folks in our sector to so you know, parents, folks with disabilities folks that folks that are taking over a family and loved ones have been asking for these like work from home remote accommodations that have, you know, what it would make their life and their work in the nonprofit sector so much easier. And, and I think one thing that the pandemic has highlighted is that a lot of times before the pandemic happened those folks that were making those asks of like hey, we need some accommodations we need to be able to like work from and do those things and getting a hard no from the higher ups, the admin team that the the C suite of people. Wow. As soon as the pandemic happened it was like, oh yeah, we can do that. And so it's really it's, it's one of those things where we, we didn't know the pandemic was happened but we could have predicted and planned for these things as a sector. And when I say we I mean those folks and leadership in any sort of nonprofit could have could have seen what was going to happen and come. Now I'm glad that folks were able to if they're working, you know, in a in an organization. They were, they were given the opportunity to work from home but that hasn't been the case for a lot of, for a lot of, you know, folks and nonprofit so I think that this let you know the last year with the pandemic has been absolutely enlightening for a lot of us and I really hope that this is a tipping point for all of us in the sector, not only the nonprofit spec sector but more specifically the technology nonprofit sector to be able to I don't want to say hold the line because I feel like that implies that we're like in some sort of battle but I think there is a push and pull of like, I want folks to hold the line and say this is what my standard of work is now. And I want to advocate and now that I've done it and advocated for myself and my accessibility and my needs at home and my and the, and the, you know, the accommodations that have been made in order for me to work from home. I hope that that continues and that's no balls moving forward pandemic or not. So that's, that's the other piece that's the pandemic and I want to hold space for that too because in addition to, you know, the pandemic, I so much has happened in the world and in the last year outside of the pandemic. I know the majority of the folks that are calling in or listening are you know based in Texas and in Austin but I want to hold space and see if I can make a connection in that like you all. I remember I was on a call with Carolyn in February and I was like how are things going. Um, y'all just like finished up with a really wild winter storm like is everything okay and you know, and I, I, I empathized with that too because that is such a on top of just like the anxiety of having a pandemic and working from home, having a natural disaster like that happen and just to turn your whole state, your area, your region, your communities upside down at a time when nonprofits are needed most is just so stressful. And the only, it's not a one to one connection but the only other time where I feel like I empathized with that whole with everything y'all were going through in Texas was in September in Portland in an organ there was unprecedented wildfires that came through for about two to three weeks the sky was red, it was the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced and so the air quality had maxed out at the highest it's ever been recorded and so it doesn't go. The needle doesn't go any higher but a lot of folks were saying don't go outside because that if the needle were able to go all the way it would go all the way and so, you know, coupled with a pandemic of, you know, not being afraid to breathe the air around people and now you're not even going to breathe the air outside because it's so abysmal abysmally bad is just, I thought of that I thought of that time to because I think y'all in Texas like just, it was like y'all are brought to your knees, and that's just and I understood that at that time. I'm going to say we had a program in April, it was totally, you know, we didn't even know how timely it would be, but in El Paso, entrepreneur developed and volunteer by text program and so when the polar vortex and he was starting to expand and when the polar vortex hit that platform just took off like a rocket because people are like texting I need this I need that okay sign up sign up and we'll get so and so to take that to you and pick this up and go over there. So, that was help action. Yeah, so he might be somebody you all would like to hear from doing that in TC next year and I just thought it was like totally right on the heels of that. It was like, that's like the power of community to when when things come together and like in the worst of circumstances but you know that's the power of our community and that like we're able to mobilize in a way that's very quick and without a lot of bureaucracy on it and you know I think I don't want to like I'm partial to Midwesterners and like you know that whole Kansas Oklahoma Texas I'm from there and so it's like, I feel like there's always this idea of like, we just got to get it done. So, you know, and I love that idea. And I know that's like not specific to like the Midwest and I know everyone has their pockets of folks who are like very industrious and very wanting to just get things done. But this is a definite get it done. Right. I can I can hold space and honor that to just being from Kansas. I have a lot of friends that I went to college with that are that were from Texas and so, you know, I think that's just the power of community and it's really during the pandemic, we've had to lean really hard into those networks and into those communities with the, not even, you know, as an additional but like communities and what they mean and look like and sound like and feel like through the lens of tech, you know, Eli kicked it up at the very beginning and said we're looking at this with the lens of technology, and that's really, we've really had to force ourselves, you know, in a pandemic in an ice storm in a polar vortex in a in a wildfire, you know, state of emergency, we've had to really lean on those technology pieces to form communities are to form community during those times and that's tough to because all of us are very stretched thin and we all know how nonprofit works to where it's like, you know, a trial by fire like you know sink or slam type of thing so just wanting to hold space for all of those things that have just happened for people and you know, I think the other piece to providing equitable accommodations for folks in nonprofits or in, you know, in a pandemic is being able to say, look, we're all incredibly stretched thin, your lives are not 100% your job and to be able to tell people and I'm blessed to be able to work at N10 where they're like, you know, shape your day however you need to shape your day because all of us are working in this collective global trauma. And so you're not going to be able to have that like nine to five if you do go with the go with God like I think that's wonderful that you have you know the ability to maintain but a lot of us have been working in spurts, you know, oh well I'll work in the morning from like seven to nine, and then I'll you know take a break and go on a walk and do some errands, and then come back on and do those things so I think it's provided a lot of flexibility when leadership is able to do so for people and or is not even willing to do it but is like realizing that that is a priority as well in order to maintain sustainable and healthy and mentally healthy workforces so there's that I know that's the big long spiel. Well tell me did we have we gotten some Google digital inclusion fellowship applicants. Oh, that was my next thank you so much for the for the nudge in the same way. So that we have our did I'm looking up here too because I have two screens and I just have like the little brief one pager and I can I'm happy to send this link, and I'll put it in the chat for you all to so it's not cost. So this is the. This is the application page for our digital inclusion fellowship and we are actively looking for folks to join to join our fellowship to and I know the honor who's like the program manager that has been working over time trying to get the word out to so if you all know anyone, or you would like to apply for it by all means please do apply get it out get the word out. We'd love to have folks be a part of this fellowship. And when is the deadline to apply. So the deadline to apply is, let's see here. We may have we're coming up on it. Or it's just got extended I just came out of a meeting this afternoon so it has gotten extended to because we really want to make sure that there's a couple spots and slots that we need build. So we are working overtime to get those filled and it's a really great opportunity and you get a lot of support in order to create and implement programming within your own work at any you know at the nonprofit that you work at to advance digital inclusion across the sector and some great Austin fellowship. Yeah, folks from Avon say and let me does and others so awesome public library event. So I'm hoping more people will apply from Austin and know that it's there so yeah well, after your talk I'll post that link. Awesome. Cool. So there's diff. I wanted to give a brief update and please if put in the chat if y'all are listening or if you're like you know watching live stream on YouTube or Facebook. Please feel free to send out a message or post a question and Carolyn will get it to me or I'll look at yeah I'll email it to you later. So NTC so let's talk about NTC I. This was our first year. Doing it virtually and, you know, not to, you know, look back in the past but you know we were ready to roll at, you know, March 9. I had my bags packed we're about to roll out a week later to Boston and not Boston excuse me Baltimore and then we had to cancel three days later and so that was like such a hard decision to go through and I'd love to talk. Not not now but if you all want to talk about like really making tough decisions right. During during a pandemic or just making tough decisions that aren't for some people aren't popular for some people it's like a given and you know and being able to balance the needs of the community, not only the needs of the community but the safety and the health of the community when we knew so little during you know about what this actually was was it was really hard and I think it impacted us in that moment so with that being said, we were able to pivot really quickly because we're an organization that's focused on tech, and so we were able to pivot and plan pretty quickly for the next year, which would, which was this year and we just finished it up in March, and it was such a great opportunity and I think all of us were kind of like holding our breath. We used a lot of we contracted out with a with a socio to put on put on our the conference through their platform and it worked really well. We did a lot of really cool fancy footwork with with zoom, which I was surprised that we're, we're going to include zoom at all but we're able to do a lot of fancy footwork with zoom in creating some very community adjacent pop ups meetings breakout rooms where folks got to float around in a way that felt organic or about as in person as you can in zoom. So, so that was really great. And, and I think the one thing was for me as I, I'm shifting towards less of the community engagement role and taking out a lot more of the equity role at and 10 focusing on like racial equity and how they intersect and how we can support folks, folks of color, black indigenous and folks of color in the sector, and bringing them, you know, the resources and supporting them, however they need to. So I think, because of that we were able to create a racial affinity space and online racial affinity space at our NTC. Yeah, which was great to and it was a continuation of what we have done in person. And I was able to help out with that and create those things and to really start to see that community folks of color within the community. And really start to gather around and prioritize the things that they want they need and they need support and from folks that look like them, you know, going forward after this call Carl would be a great person to consult with on that. I believe he got involved with tech and learning it at Austin free net and Austin free net has always been a big advocate for digital inclusion and has organized programming for that. So you and I are going to have to talk. I really knows the, you know, what's going on in Austin. Right on. So, so that's the, that's the brief quick and dirty of how NTC went and what, where are you going to meet next year next year. We're still deciding that right now. Austin. I love Portland but I'm like I need to travel I need to go somewhere I need to like, you know, do some work elsewhere and so I, and Andrea is in talks with a lot of, because a lot of our contracts are so kind of like up in the air because of, you know, the pandemic that we don't know how long this is going to be and hopefully we have some information from her and Amy and the leadership team fairly soon to, to nail down where what you know the deeps. So then we can all move forward and get back to the business of living. And so, yeah, so so that's that's what NTC is I wish I could give more information about, you know, so there's that and now look, I think a lot of people don't know that they can get online and sign up for courses on the intent website and get certificates even ask for a better provider. So between tech soups courses in your courses they're really cutting edge and straightforward so I guess I wanted to put a word out. Here's something this is like from the hacker mentality which like I just hack everything and never read the instructions which probably is probably a mistake but still, it's worked fairly well. But here's my thing because I consult with a lot of nonprofits and mostly some of the smaller nonprofits past few years integration. I get in there and it's just a constant problem I mean maybe that's the sector needs to you know all the, the public sector the companies but man is it that that topic. I'm doing it and just on my own saying that system that doesn't quite go that well with this but this one does and it's like you know I'm saying it's a, I know it's there's just a million different ways that nonprofits have patched together because I need this here I need sign up. But they could have give false boom that would be really good. Well, and it's one of those things too and you bring up two really great points to you think of two really great points and not that like and 10 has the answer to everything we don't know we're a community based organization and we're an iterative organization and we grow with the community as y'all grow as we all grow and so real quick I put the education and courses link in there for those of you all who want to, you know, explore that a bit more. And the other piece too is like you know, the integration piece is you know that patchwork quilt of any nonprofit like oh cool well, you know we track volunteers here in this spreadsheet and then we, we also do this on this, you know database, and we got this database for free 10 years so we don't want to update and you know I think there are so many things that are new and shiny and also things that are offered for free to nonprofits that, of course nonprofits will take because they're free but you know I think, as we go into, as we go into this new age of like being able to focus and prioritize equity. It's being able to just look at like funding and say, Oh, this is great and it's free. I don't think it's going to serve us and I know a lot of organizations aren't in that place to do so. I think it's given folks cause to pause to at least say how can we steward this in a way that makes sense not only for us in our mission, but also for like being able to, to, to, to make sure that you're getting the biggest impact or output of whatever that's being given to you and if it's not and it doesn't serve you then don't and I, one thing that that we do offer in addition to this and I'll pull it up and, and I'll send the link as well is, and that leads right into we have an equity guide I worked really hard. Yeah, we need that. Yeah, with Amy and the community and members of the community to put out a 21 22 page equity guide, and it doesn't cover everything but it talks about technology, you know the equity guide the equity guide for nonprofit technology, and it's free y'all can download it. And it creates, where's the chat at there we are. It creates, you know, just prompts and best practices and things for you all to chew on to think of and how you can implement it in your own work and in your own nonprofit what it regardless of role to so it's, it talks about data usage usage it talks about funding and budgeting, professional development, and it talks, it speaks to the equitable ways in which organizations can implement equity on top of nonprofit, but also like, in addition to that it can also you know, do it as an organizational level but also as an individual to and so it's accessible for anyone and it's not exclusionary to any role that you're in anyone can do this because at the end of the day regardless of your role in a nonprofit we're all technologists, we're all here, wanting to to push forward our mission and you know after this pandemic when all of us are literally zoom will be a verb by the end of this year. We need to really ensure that you know everyone in our in our organization is up to speed when it comes to equitable technology practices. So there's that there's our equity guide that we we put out and please if you all have questions about it. This is you know a conversation and I'm happy to answer any other questions that linger, even after this or for those of you all who are watching as a replay. So please feel free Tristan at and 10.org to reach out. There are three other things that I want to get to really quick and I know. Please, you know, play the music if you need to play me off like on the Oscars, because I'm long winded and I will go on and on and on. But we have a tech tech accelerate to and so it's a tool that I'm throwing a lot of links that you all. That's okay. And post them on our page. Tech Accelerate it's a free assessment tool for anyone in nonprofit, and it's it's tool agnostic so it really does tell you what, you know, it has that kind of a gauge where you're at in terms of your organizational growth, and it talks about, let's see here, I'm going to pull, I think I just sent the wrong page. That's okay, I can look it up and I'll find it for sure. I'm on in town all the time. So I will post it for sure. It talks about it speaks to like the your engagement practices, what do you need to do, based on the size of your organization organization what do you need to do in order to like grow and really stay true to your mission and values it talks about engagement it talks about infrastructure it talks about leadership and organization. Is this the right setup for you and it's all free. It talks about a lot of resources to fill it out and figure it out and self determine for their own whatever path they need to blaze or or really work hard to get through so Tech Accelerate is a great tool and opportunity that we all can use, and I know Lord gosh, I wish Tech Accelerate would have been around, or I would have been aware of n 10 just in general, when I was working for boys and girls club you know 10 years ago or I'm like, Oh, this seems so obvious, but not Not everyone's on board with this decision and, you know, so there's that we have tech accelerate that's a really great tool for folks to use. And then just a couple other things and then I will. I will wrap up. We have, which will be going live later this week. If you want to join a committee. We have, I think about six committees that are getting rolled out and we're going to we're streamlining all of our like community application pieces. So it's not so like ad hoc and errands and infrequent. And it follows just like where applications are open once a year and then we'll reopen them in a year. So we have our accessibility committee, our DEI, our diversity, equity and inclusion community committee, as well as our technology committee or membership committee. We've been tasked with being the steward of the pizzagatti prize. So we're going to have a community grant selection committee. I think that's, oh, in the session advisory committee who could forget that for NTC. So if you all are part of the creation process for next year's MTC that's also the place to be so that will be coming up soon I can't send a link for that just yet but it should be keep an eye on the website this week it should be up there. And then the last but not least to we're looking for a lead organizer to kind of help provide more focused and intentional help and support more so than I can do. Because I'm, I'm shifting to more of the equity work and Jude, our membership directors taking on more of the community engagement pieces. So we're looking for some, some lead organizers to be point people for not only the tech clubs but also the online forum organizers to so if you want to, or if you know people who would be good at those things and to provide those supports. It's a really great opportunity that comes with like a monthly stipend as well to, and I can I have that as well too and that's the last thing I got to there's a lot going on at, at, let's see here. There's a lot going on at and 10 and you know, yeah, I know it sometimes I'm like oh my gosh it's making my head spin but it's also it's also exciting and invigorating and. It's the passion of all the folks that I work with. I would say from the times I've been able to go to the MTC that it's such a welcoming commit group of people and people from all over the nation who attend, and very friendly and not snobby, and they, they're not all know it all. You know, they really kind of go what's your problem. Oh, here, here you go. Here's an idea. And you get some super brainy presentations and all that, but you can easily break those down when you just go talk to somebody and I recommend it highly because so many times people get intimidated by those big conferences and see is one word that you don't need to feel that it's and it's totally worth it like you're at at the end of it you're uplifted by it so sure. So that's really good but also to anybody watching this later leave comments in the below beneath the posting on Facebook and I will translate those over move them over to Tristan and just be sure and include your. Email that would be a good but otherwise yeah it really appreciate your taking the time very much and let's hope for better times ahead. But I'm more technology and I really like working from home I have to admit. It's been, it's been an adjustment but now I'm like on board. I'm like don't know. I get so much done and then if I can go for a walk like it's right there I can go for water go to the gym. And then I'm like ready to work overtime. I'm like, I really get motivated but it, it's reducing the strict structure of work and knowing people are watching all the time and everything it's so I hope more companies will let go that's been a subject of several news features recently like how are we going to deal with it now that we're people want people are willing to quit in order to work from home. Yes. There we're not going to let it let it go. It's like hey, you don't, you're not going to let me work from home I'm going somewhere else. Well, somebody who will. Anyway, well, I actually have, believe it or not a one campaign call. I'm a long time volunteer for the one campaign ending global poverty and encouraging the distribution of vaccines globally to every single human being. So I must go. But thanks very much for taking the time Tristan and for all your great work tell everybody hello we appreciate them long distance we know we're kind of quiet but we're posting I will pass on the message to you and you all reach out if you all need anything and a happy to be of service in any way. All right, we'll be talking to you and I'll put all those links up here shortly. It's also nice to meet you. Oh likewise. We'll see you guys later. Bye.