 I'm going to go ahead and start a recording now. Can everybody go ahead and put their phone on mute? Too many people to mute. Okay, so this recording will be available on the practice tool. So if you have any questions, you should be able to go back and reference it. But without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and get started here. And this is, as usual, a brand new track terrace tool. We've got a few more people here. We've kind of redesigned it based on the feedback that we got last go round. We've tried to make it easier for you all to communicate with each other, and also easier for you to communicate with the speakers and the presentation owners. I think last year, or excuse me, last summit, for those of you that were track chairs, we kind of limited the communication intentionally and had it go through us. And that was just an effort to try and streamline the process. I think we found that it wasn't exactly streamlined. So we've tried to enable you all to have those tools of communication, so you can talk directly with the presenters to see exactly what it is they're trying to do, and also to be able to offer constructive criticism and feedback. I think there has been a tendency for some talks to be submitted with potentially fantastic content, but they don't have a catchy title or their abstract isn't quite right. So we're hoping that you all will be able to pluck those diamonds from the rough, as it were. So another sort of big change that we did this year is in the voting. We're no longer allowing people to – they won't be able to link directly to their presentation. So we won't see the kind of heavy company push for people to promote and vote for their session. Of course, people are welcome to promote it on Twitter, and we encourage that. But what we're trying to do is prevent some of the waiting that has been done in the past, where just a handful of presentations get, you know, thousands of votes and the rest get 15 or 20. We've also kind of randomized things a bit on the voting tool, more so than in the past, and we've got some weighted randomization to help surface talks that may not have been seen yet. So that's kind of big picture stuff. We've also improved the speed of both the Track Shares app and the voting tool. So we've got – Excuse me, can you get – somebody's still not on mute and seems to be pounding on a keyboard. Yes, I hear that as well. So just – if everybody could just one more time check and make sure they're on mute, that would be great. I know someone's out there. Okay. So the Track Shares tool will work in two phases. So the first round, what we're going to do, we've obviously closed call for presentations. So you all will have a chance to run through the tool and look for anything that is obviously erroneous, a test that might have gotten through, or something that just doesn't seem quite right. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity here to suggest changes if things are in the wrong track. So that's the first phase, and Erin, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you all will have five days to do that, or six days. Yeah, we're giving you through the weekend, just knowing that you all have day jobs that you're doing, and this is on top of all of that. So we are giving you through the weekend, I believe it's end of day on Sunday, Sunday the 24th. Perfect. Okay, and then the second phase will actually be reviewing the presentations again, ranking them, and looking at the community voting average and that type of thing, and then finalizing your track lists. So I'm going to go ahead and start demoing the tool. This is the first page that you'll see when you come to the site. You will be able to select a category, you'll only be able to see categories that you're actually a track chair for. I'm an admin, so I get to see them all, even though I'm actually only currently assigned as a track chair to one track, which is community building. So I've set myself up as the track chair on this for demo purposes. And the first thing you'll see is when I select community building, I'll see my list of all my talks. A new feature that we have this year is a set of filters, and these filters should help you stay a little more on top of what you have and haven't reviewed, as well as look at your team selections very quickly, which things still need to be voted on, which things were suggested to move to your category or track, and then sort of your different voting options. So I'm going to click on the first one here, and you can see that we've got up top the title of the presentation, who the submitter was, the level category. If I wanted to, I could request a category change, and that would be right here. So if I wanted to suggest that this move to IT strategy, I could go ahead and submit that request, and we'll get into what happens there later. I'm going to cancel that for now. The way that I vote on these is I say yes, or I'm interested, or no thanks. And this kind of helps me go through and filter down the line. So one of the big requests in the past has been a way to kind of flag presentations that you're interested in or that you just want to dismiss out of hand, so that you can kind of eliminate those from your group. So we try to address that and allow you an easy way to build your list and to be able to filter through these things. Additionally, you'll see the community vote average and the total number voted on. And then here you'll see how many other people within your track chair or within your track have the same opinion as you. How many are interested, how many have said absolutely yes. And then we've done a popularity score, which is basically yes is a total of, gives you two points, interest and gives you one point, no thanks, gives you minus one. So your popularity score is an average of all those for all of the people that have voted. Down here you'll see the information that people have submitted with their talk, the abstract problems addressed, and what attendees should expect to learn. And then you can see who's speaking and the opportunity to email the speakers. If you were to email these speakers, a ticket is created in Zendesk so that we can at least stay on top of those conversations. But you're free to reach out to the speakers in any form you'd like. Additionally, I can leave comments here for other track chairs to see if I happen to email people. I'm not going to because this will actually send an email. Something will be noted in the activity stream here that says, yes, I emailed these people. Or if you suggest a category change, all of those things, pretty much anything that occurs within a presentation is recorded down here at the bottom of the activity stream. So when you're looking through a particular presentation and you're wanting to leave some information for another track chair, that's the place to do it. And then you can look over here and see that there's actually a comment that's been left. So this is a way for you all to communicate with each other, basically. Any questions so far on this page? Jimmy, question, how many sessions did you guys get this time around? I'm not sure if we're revealing that number publicly yet. I was just curious, OK. Yeah, it was a good amount, comparable to Austin, I'd say. Good, great. So Mike, one other question. I was trying to follow along by getting to the same URL you're at. Are we supposed to have access to this tool yet? Or has that not yet been opened? Not yet. Now, we'll assign that and send that out in a separate email. Any others? The next thing that you'll see, and I'm going to go ahead and go ahead. So Jimmy, sorry to interrupt. Is there a timeline that you'll cover on when we should be evaluating, when we should do the second evaluations that you alluded to earlier, things along that nature? Yes, we will send out that timeline and communicate all of that with you, Aaron and Disney, and I should be working on that email today, I believe. Yeah, that's correct. So expect all of that. So I've made a few selections here, and now if I go over to selections, I can see what I've chosen. So you'll be able to see all of your teammates, all of your code track chairs, selections, as well as your own. And then you'll see here on the right, there's also a team list. So if I want, I can add each of these to my team list. I can also change the ranking of any of these for myself, as well as change the ranking for my teammates, or excuse me, for my team list. Again, you can see here what the status is of these, if I have selected it, if there are comments on them. And you can also link back to the individual talk. Jimmy, what's a team list? What do you mean by a team list? So, okay, sorry about that. So basically, as you make your selections, each track has a certain number of talks. And it kind of varies from track to track. In this case, for community building, there are a total of 12 selections. And any additional selections are considered alternates. I think there are anywhere from two to four alternates spinning again on the track size. So when I make my individual selections, I mentioned you'll see the list for the rest of your teammates in here. Right now, it's just me. But all of your team will make their selections, make their top 12. And then as a group, you'll get together and discuss which tracks will make it to the team list. And so you can appoint one person or everybody can kind of make that suggestion and work on building the list together. But that team list is going to be what's finally submitted back to the Open SAC Foundation and what we'll use to build the schedule for the summit. Okay, thanks. Sure. So in other words, the team list is actually the selections of the team. And then what is selections? Those are your individual selections. So those are the ones which I, as a track chair, said yes to. Right. I assume if I mark it down to the rest of the track chairs to build your team list. Sorry, say that again? No, I was just saying and then as each track chair builds their own list, you then negotiate with the rest of your fellow track chairs on that track to build your team list, which is what gets submitted. That is correct, yes. And is the mechanism for doing that part of this tool or do we communicate with other track chairs outside of this tool? You would communicate with other track chairs either through the comments on each of the presentations so you can leave comments. So I imagine I've marked a few extras interested here just so you can kind of see. So going through this, if I'm looking at my selections, I say, all right, well, I've got three that I'm interested in. You know, maybe I'm not so sure about this one. So I go down and I leave a comment. Does anyone have any thoughts? Needs a better abstract or something along those lines. And I can post that comment. And then my, when I go to selections and other track chairs see, okay, this is in my selection. But I'm going to add it to the team list, but there are some comments on it. So you can either communicate through the tool or you're welcome to communicate with each other outside of the tool. In what you just did here by adding it to the team list, didn't you effectively make that the choice of this group? I did, but only for demonstration purposes. So it's, and it can also be removed by anyone else on the team. So ideally, I would build my list, right? And then once I say, all right, I'm interested in this one, I'm going to change it from interested to yes. And then I'm going to go back to my selections and see, okay, now it's added here. Now everybody can see what my list is and what my suggestions are. So each of the track chairs in your group can go through and see what everybody else has chosen, you can kind of compare and contrast your lists. I can tell you that generally speaking, there tend to be a handful that everybody chooses. And then there tends to be some that each person kind of favors. So that's a kind of a good way to look at it. You can sort of look to see what the commonalities are and that's an easy win, so you can all agree to move those to the team list. And then you can, as you said, negotiate the rest of the tracks or the rest of the presentations. For those, I mean, I have the same questions when I did this for the first time in Austin. What makes it a lot easier, as Jimmy was just saying, is when you do this and you see the other lists that your other track chairs have made, it becomes real simple to, you generally will populate, I think, your team list really quickly just by finding the presentations that everybody has sort of moved to the top of their own list. We did that with probably six to eight of our 10 selections last time, that everybody seemed to just vote on that presentation. So it was an easy move to the team list. And keep in mind too that this second phase of selecting, putting things in the team list, that's the phase two part. So you have a little bit of time to get used to the tool, and then of course we'll solicit the call for votes. So there's some time to talk amongst yourselves as track chairs about what your goals are, and you'll also have a chance to look over all of the selections in your track before voting so that you can hopefully get a good idea of what it is you want to select. I hope that the changes we've made, and I know for those of you that have been track chairs for a few rounds here, I think this is a dramatic improvement from the track chairs tool in the past. So hopefully those of you that are new are having an easy time of it. But if not, we have a whole team of people here to tell about and answer questions. And then I can go over really quickly for change requests. If I were to request that this talk be moved to hands on workshop, for example, this is seen by admins. So this isn't something that all the track chairs will have access to, but I can see here, and I have to be available to approve it. I technically don't have the permissions right now, but I can see what's pending, and if I want to approve it for a move, then it would be noted. And then when I went back to hands on workshops, I would see that this new track has been sitting there and has asked it to be moved to my track. So that's kind of how that works. So there's a confusion. If the first step is where we decide which talks belong where, then the ordering of that should happen after that. We shouldn't be doing that before, right? I mean, technically, there's nothing to stop you from marking things as interested. And in fact, I would encourage you to do so, but keep in mind you're doing that without the voting aspect and that type of thing. And you're welcome to make a list ahead of time, but the goal of this first phase is really just to put through change requests for any track that you think is just a misplace, and also to quickly look through and make sure you don't see any clearing errors. This first phase has been to take an hour or two of your time, no more than that. And I think the full track chair selection should maybe take five to six hours. So although it depends on how heavy the negotiations go amongst your fellow track chairs, I think. And Jimmy, that when we decide, if we decide we want to move something from, I don't know, community building to evaluating open stack, that approval ultimately comes from you guys, right? That's correct. Yeah. And I can't think of an instance where we have not approved it, but it's just mainly to prevent total chaos. Yeah, we had a couple of go back and forth over the fence a couple of times and we did it for Austin, but they ultimately landed in the right spot. Okay, right. Um, is there anything else I can cover for anyone at the moment? I have a question. This all looks really cool. It's a nice improvement from last year. Um, but last year we did run into some a little bit of buggy behavior with, with this, with the system. So I'm wondering how would you like us to report any, any issues back if as we're, as we're going through it? Uh, you can send anything to speaker support at openstack.org. It's probably the best, the best one to hit all of us. Um, okay. I'm, I monitor that pretty full time. Um, and I'm happy to help with that stuff. And I, we, we took, uh, several rounds of, of feedback, um, from the tractors full from, from both phases last time and then kind of a wrap up as well. Um, plus, uh, all the internal issues that we, that we kind of went over. Um, so I hope that you will see a less buggy tool this time. I know there were some things that, that were really caused some problems last time. And then I hope that we addressed that, but it is software at the end of the day. Great. Thank you. Sure. No, it looks like a nice improvement. And Jerry, just when do you think we'll get the, the, the green light to start moving stuff? I should, I should have the, your permission is built out by no later than end of day. I would expect, um, I need to, I need to sync with Aaron on an email, but I would expect it out pretty quickly. Okay. So, and then we have between whenever we get that and end of the weekend to do the, the moving around. Perfect. So you also send the kind of a schedule when as a kind of deadline for various milestone, uh, the deadline for moving the categories deadline for identifying the box and agreement between the chairs. Okay. Is there a way to add the people's email addresses to the, uh, uh, is our pet? We should start by Aaron. Hey, yeah, sorry. I saw that in chat. Um, I was just going out to get the link. We can include that in the email. If, if folks are wanting to use it that way, there also is the track chair mailing list. If you're wanting to, um, to send any sort of communication to the whole group, but I understand wanting to be able to just email those in your own track. So we will open up that etherpad and send the link around. Perfect. Thank you. Anybody else? I'm sure there will be, uh, plenty of questions moving forward. Um, again, speaker support at opensack.org is, is the place to send that. Um, I appreciate everybody's time today and, and thank you again for, for all the work you're doing. Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks, Aaron. Thank you guys.