 Lovely. Well thank you all for coming to this session this morning. You know it's early as I was saying in the beginning and trying to make this presentation sort of long on stories and pictures to make it an easier one to sort of start the day off with. And before I dig in, if you want any of the information that's available in this presentation, you can download all these slides now at bit.ly forward slash openconcni17. And Joe, maybe if you could tweet that out. You know, if you're looking for any of the citations, more information that's all in very small font at the bottom of the screen, but you can find it there. And if there are any stories in this presentation that you find useful, feel free to download and repurpose it. Of course it's under CCBuy. So this morning I'm going to talk a little bit about sort of engaging the next generation what we've been able to do at Spark through our opencon program. There we go. Some of the lessons that we've learned and sort of the vision that we have for creating culture change at scale through the next generation. I'm Nick Shachy. I'm the director of programs and engagement at Spark as well as the founding organizer of Opencon, which we launched in 2014. And I'll get around to explaining more about exactly what Opencon is, but before I do, I want to talk a little bit about why we started it. And that's because, you know, I think fundamentally this problem was setting the default to open and research and education and advancing open access, open data. Open education is fundamentally one of culture change. It's about getting the millions of researchers and educators that are out there to start thinking differently about how they share their results, their articles, their data, their educational materials. I don't think that's too controversial a statement, nor do I think the next one is either. The culture change is extremely difficult to accomplish in my search to find a funny gift to pair with this. I was sadly unsuccessful, but unsurprisingly the first like five to 10 results when you look at culture change on Google are these sort of like G-Wiz business articles about how difficult culture changes, which I think makes sense. It's like they're all plagiarizing themselves. But again, I think stating the obvious that the culture change is quite difficult. And in this space, one of our Opencon alumni from this year wrote a blog post reflecting on their experience. And this passage, I think, really speaks to both the difficulty of culture change as well as sort of how it's accomplished, right? The work of culture change is nuanced. Each of us in our own efforts as individuals and our roles at our institutions and organizations will likely only make small inroads. At first, the work will be a meditation in patients. There will be pitfalls and frustrations. It will be hard. But the sustained United effort will make a difference. And I think sort of unpacking this a little bit. To me, this is getting as that culture change happens in these sort of millions of micro interactions that people have on campuses every day. It's getting colleagues to start thinking just a little bit differently about first learning what open as then thinking about how maybe it's in their interest, or at least not disadvantageous. It's the small interactions that get people to start thinking a little bit differently. The sort of pulling things off another level, culture change is even more difficult when you think about doing it both at scale and in context, right? So we're not talking about just doing this at one institution. We're talking about doing it for the entire system of research or for education. And by in context, what I mean is that what open is the kind of mechanisms that are appropriate policies that are appropriate practices that are appropriate very vastly between institutions and between countries. And so we're not just trying to shift everybody to one culture of open. We're trying to shift to cultures of open that are contextually appropriate for their situation. And because of this difficulty, I think is a large reason why we vastly under invest in culture change. You know, if you look at the investments that we make to try to open up research and education, you know, mostly it's in things like infrastructure, right? And infrastructure projects like COS or share, Sage by Networks archive, it's in, you know, publishers that are open like plus like elife, like the open library of humanities, it's in things like advocacy, like the work that Spark does, like with the data coalition doing all these things are really, really important. But you know, when you start to think about what are the projects that are really trying to facilitate culture change that are investing in people, I think it's a lot harder to come up with with these examples. And I think a lot of the reason why is because it's so difficult to create create this shift. So I want to start off with a story of I think it's illustrative of sort of how open or how culture change happens. So this is the group photo from our first open con in 2014. And I want to talk about this person right here in the front row, which is Robin Shampo, a librarian at Oregon Health and Sciences University. And she attended the first open con meeting, got really energized and went back and did lots of really interesting things. So she soon she got back started writing a grant proposal that ended up getting funded to create a program called Open Insight. That's essentially set up a series of workshops regular workshops on campus at OHSU. She organized Science Hack Portland, organized monthly series of open data and data science education workshops in collaboration with other scientists on campus, you know, lots of of interesting work, including advocating for policy changes. And so, you know, one example of the kind of thing that fell out of this effort was she made a significant impact on an earlier researcher named Danielle Robinson, who is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at OHSU. And she wrote this wonderful blog post for Mozilla and the full link is here at the bottom of this screen. It's too small for you to read, but if you download the slides, you can get it. But as I was saying, Danielle is a PhD candidate. And you know, in this blog post, she talks about how, you know, she had sort of bought into the argument that you sort of need to be closed and proprietary and, you know, focus on just getting published in the top tier journals. But as she went through her PhD work, she became, you know, increasingly skeptical of that. And then early in 2015, she saw Flyer for a roundtable discussion on scientific publishing, which is one of those events that Robin put together with the grant after she came out of OpenCon. And that was the start of, you know, an entire sort of mindset shift for Danielle. And, you know, sort of after getting engaged with Robin's efforts, she ended up essentially partnering with her to help put on these workshops on campus at OHSU. And as a researcher talked to other early career researchers and faculty about the importance of Open, she joined the organizing team for CSDCon last year in Portland, the conference that some of you might be familiar with. After Danielle attended OpenCon herself, she actually partnered with another alum named Kirstie Whitaker, who I'll actually talk about in a minute on a project called Open Advice, which is sort of like an agony ant style sort of advice column for people trying to make their work openly available. And at the end of 2016, she was named a Mozilla open science fellow, you know, based on her interest and ideas for getting getting involved. One of the other things that I noticed recently is that in her Twitter profile, in her description, she likes to talk about how she hangs out with librarians, which I can't definitively say came out of this, but I'm pretty sure that it did. And talking about her, you know, Danielle's experience after attending OpenCon herself in person, she's talked about how it's had a major influence on her career as a researcher. And it's not just Danielle. There are plenty of other examples, like Danielle, who has a story similar to Danielle's about how she sort of got engaged and open through Robin's efforts and has gone on to start doing research. In Danielle's case, it's about a project called My Not Open Science that's aiming to assess the current attitudes of researchers in academia towards open with an eye towards improving the efficacy of open outreach efforts. And again, this, you know, originally flowed through the workshops that Robin had on campus and then Danielle came to OpenCon. And so there's a wonderful blog post that sort of goes into all these details that Danielle Robinson wrote for Mozilla, but essentially sort of traces back all these efforts to Robin's participation and OpenCon in 2014. You know, Danielle's getting involved in those workshop efforts and sort of how that's helped to bootstrap a culture of open on campus and sort of talking about engaging with OpenCon. Robin said that not only has it sparked strategies for making open science the norm at Oregon Health and Science University, it's also influenced their career trajectories and success of everyone that that was set up. So this is sort of one of the like micro stories I think of sort of how culture change happened. So I want to talk a little bit more about this sort of mysterious thing called OpenCon that we're really trying to hone to be sort of an engine to create this culture change. So OpenCon is a conference, it's also a year-round community. Calling OpenCon just a conference is sort of like calling an iPhone like a rotary phone. In some ways it resembles it, but it does a lot more than just that. So in terms of the conference itself, each year we have a global meeting that brings together students and early career researchers from around the world. And the first two days of the meeting are kind of similar to other meetings that you might see. It's a lot of panel presentations, workshops, those sorts of things. But then the third day sort of takes the discussions that happened during the first two and puts them into action. So for the first three OpenCons that we had, the third day was an advocacy day. So we took all the participants to Capitol Hill here in DC in 2014 and 2016, had meetings with Congress people, with White House, with executive agencies, and really gave the participants a meaningful advocacy experience that they could learn from and then go and put those skills to use back home in a lot of the survey results, including from some of the people that I've already showed, you know, talk about how having that first experience has really gotten them to think about how it's their responsibility to start engaging in these discussions at a policy level. This past year in Berlin, we did something slightly different, which is instead of doing an advocacy day, we actually had what we call a duethon, which is a term that was invented by Joe McArthur from our team right here in the front row. And what a duethon is, it's sort of like, it's kind of like a hackathon, but you know, for I guess much broader, right? It's not just tech projects, it's work sprints on anything from building advocacy campaigns to there's a group that launched the open comm network, which is aiming to produce podcasts and other media talking about open research and in education. And so this is one of examples of one of the groups in a duethon session looking at open research data as an educational tool. And actually there's an entire website dedicated to the duethon, where you can see all of the ideas that came out of that session this year that are continuing to evolve at duethon.opencon2017.org. One of the other sort of distinguishing characteristics for open con is that it's an application only meeting, which I totally understand is slightly ironic for a meeting that's totally about open, but open con's mission is to sort of advance the next generation's work on opening up research and education. One of the issues with young folks with early career individuals with students is that they typically have poor access to travel funding and so if we want sort of the best people in the room, not just those from wealthy institutions, we have to provide significant amounts of travel support and that means an application process. So this is data showing for 2014 through 2016 how we allocated our general scholarship funding. So you know 2016 I think we had about $75,000 in general travel support and that is fairly reflective of where we were this year. So the majority of open con participants receive fuller partial travel subsidies to participate. So that's the global meeting, that's one piece of it. We also have satellite events that are hosted around the world. These are photos from forward events we had in the last year held in Nairobi, San Francisco, Toronto and Srinagar in India and we now regularly see close to 30 satellite events each year hosted by a very diverse group of satellite event hosts and sort of take these global themes and translate them down to the local level and I'll get back to the scale of these satellite events in just a moment. And then finally the third and final piece is that we also have a year-round community that's an active email list. We also have monthly community calls. There are two different sets actually there's one that's sort of a general community call that has you know policymakers, researchers, librarians, publishers, all types and then we also have an early career librarian community call as well that really focuses on you know sort of both say it's like half and half sharing best practices about how to do open advocacy effectively on campus and half a group therapy session about sort of the struggles and difficulties of carrying out that work on campus often sort of in an isolated environment where you're one of the only people really working on open on campus. So that's sort of an overview of sort of the OpenCon conference and community. I want to take a few minutes to walk you through a couple other examples of how we've seen the impact of OpenCon propagate out which I think is illustrative of sort of our theory of change for creating culture change. So this is another OpenCon participant right here. His name is Rashon Karn. He's now a medical doctor in Nepal and after attending OpenCon he started a national level group called Open Access Nepal that has since set up chapters at many of the institutions there in Nepal across the country and they've been active in raising awareness about open research and education practices you know running workshops for both early career faculty as well as more senior individuals and Rashon actually got one of the world's strongest institutional open access policies passed at Tripland University which is sort of the top university in Nepal that is not only like sort of requires you know sort of articles made accessible it actually carries a full open licensing requirement that faculty need to make their work available under a CC by license that he passed through that that institution and in talking about sort of how he got started on this path you know sort of credits the OpenCon community for educating him about these issues giving him ideas of how he could be effective and then connecting him with mentors and colleagues to make that work a reality and actually I got back from Kathmandu just about four or five days ago because Rashon hosted the first Asian regional meeting that brought together open access advocates from across Asia you know from China from Indonesia from Bangladesh and a number of other countries for a two-day conference aiming to spur collaboration within that region and actually for a while he had the prime minister from Nepal confirmed for the meeting unfortunately they had a snap election last Thursday which sort of deep six that idea but we did get the national information commissioner and the joint secretary for public health which speaks to the level of policy discussions that they've been able to have in advance even as early career individuals within that country so that's sort of an overview of Rashon's direct impact but the model that he has created in open access to Nepal has started to inspire others and lead to similar efforts elsewhere so conduct Monroe Islam is one of her 2016 OpenCon alumni who's actually a librarian in the office of the prime minister of Bangladesh and after learning about Rashon's efforts he started essentially a clone of open access to Nepal open access Bangladesh which looks very similar but with his position within the prime minister's office even has more direct access to the government there and actually they brought I think close to 12 people to that Asian regional meeting so even in its first year has been really effective in gaining traction in that country and then just another example that I only learned about last week when I was at this meeting one of our OpenCon satellite events host Miriam from Jakarta who's hosted now three satellite events I believe and hers was really interesting again I didn't know the full extent event till last week she didn't even know what open access was until she came across the OpenCon application process and then got really interested especially after unfortunately she was rejected and started hosting these satellite events to help educate others in her community after she learned about it and those have steadily been growing in size and after participating in this meeting last week seeing the success of Rashaan's organization and Open Access to Paul and conducts an Open Access thing that she's planning to start Open Access Indonesia and there are now about a dozen similar national level organizations that are popping up around the world from Canada to Sudan to Tanzania to South Africa to India it's really interesting to see young people taking the lead in this way one of the other really interesting stories is Kirstie Whitaker who's right here in the middle of the picture just a few over from Rashaan she's an early career faculty member at the University of Cambridge and one of the founding organizers of OpenCon Cambridge which is both a satellite that happens at Cambridge in the UK each year since 2015 as well as a monthly meetup group so OpenCon can get together quite regularly and is attractive quite a community there in Cambridge and one of the wonderful people that has well actually this is the obligatory quote about sort of Kirstie's connection to the the OpenCon community and how it's sort of made her feel better connected within her institution and given her more confidence to advocate for Open locally and more broadly she's also collaborating now with Danielle who she met at OpenCon 2016 on the Agony Ant Style project that I mentioned earlier but one of the other people that sort of come out of this OpenCon Cambridge community is Karina Logan and we did a survey of the OpenCon community last year and clearly she's doing a lot too much for you all to read on the screen but she's not only got involved in the OpenCon Cambridge meeting she's also given lots and lots of talks which is most of the items here on the left-hand column but of particular interest I think to this group is she let opposition to Cambridge's signing an exploitative contract with Elsevier so it just so happened that the library sent out an email to faculty at Cambridge talking about sort of their negotiations with Elsevier and sort of renewing a big deal and it happened to arrive in Karina's inbox as she was at an OpenCon Cambridge event and so what Karina did was start conversations with colleagues and her department to essentially lend support to the library to walk away from their big deal contract with Elsevier unfortunately it did not end up working out but I really like this as a model for how we can use the OpenCon community to make inroads with early career researchers and early career faculty then get them to talk to their peers in their departments and sort of be the messenger for how big deals are exploitative and sort of having those conversations with faculty in a way that's much more difficult for librarians or others to have and then Karina's been super busy one of the other things that she did in conjunction with Laurent Gatso also from Cambridge and a couple of others has started a campaign called bullied into bad science and this stems from their feeling that you know they they sort of feel like they're being bullied by their you know PIs from you know this department officials that they need to publish and these high impact factor journals or to hide away their data or to publish on you know the least publishable amount of information and so they started this campaign to really raise awareness about how you know Open can be really helpful just improving how science and research are done and this is right now sort of in the form of a petition but they're figuring out how they can package it up and make it into a campaign that spreads to other institutions to raise awareness of this. Told you there were going to be number of stories this is the last big one so the person here raising her hand is really wonderful her name's Yijia Mina Actis and she is an early career government official in Argentina she actually works for their national science and technology ministry called Conacy and she's come to OpenCon a couple of years now and you know she talks a lot about how sort of being part of this community has given her the confidence to speak up and promote the issues that she considers of importance within the government of Argentina so advocating for stronger data sharing policies holding workshops helping to use sort of her platform as a policy maker in Argentina to drive Open Forward might be seeing this one coming that's not all she's doing she's working with cohort of alumni from Latin America and this year organized the first regional OpenCon event in Mexico City called OpenCon LaTam that convenes a community from across Latin America to have conversations about how open is playing out in the Latin American context so you know she's not only doing her work within the government but also more broadly in the region trying to push things forward and that group includes policymakers from Mexico and a number of other countries as well so I hope these examples are sort of illustrative of how we're trying to use this OpenCon community to create culture change at scale and in contact so these are just examples I've mentioned nine alumni so far there are 700 alumni now of OpenCon and more than 80 countries so that's just a teeny fraction of you know sort of the folks that that are out there perhaps more frighteningly those 700 alumni were chosen from 29,000 applicants that have applied in the last four years from more than 176 countries last year for this past year's meeting in November we received just north of 13,000 applications to attend that required more than 100 alumni to do thousands of hours of work to review we actually we looked at licensing college admission software because it was the closest use case to what we needed ended up building our own and open sourcing it so this I think is really indicative of the interest that's out there of sort of the scale that we're just beginning to reach and it's actually based on an even larger effort which is the sort of foundation of spark student program there we go which is the right to research coalition which spark launched in 2009 which is a coalition of about 100 student organizations from around the world that collectively represent about 7 million students in over 100 countries and so OpenCon really is a natural evolution of the work that we did launching the right to research coalition but again I think the the 7 million students that are represented by the members of this coalition again speaks to the depth of interest there is in this issue from within the next generation but that's all satellite events are also now where we see more than 90% of our participation so this is data from 2014 through 2016 I don't yet have our full summation of this past year's efforts so this these numbers are actually quite a bit higher than what you see here but in our first three years we've had more than 4,000 participants at satellite events that are locally hosted we've had 70 events across 32 countries and 13 languages and this is sort of a breakdown of where that's happened the countries that are highlighted in orange are countries where we've gotten an application from and the little pens that are dropped are locations where we've had satellite events over the last three three years from 2014 to 2016 again does not have our 2017 data yet but just to give you a sense of the growth the last year that we have data for in 2016 we had more than 2,200 participants at those events which again means that more than 90% of the in-person participation open-con events are at these locally hosted satellite events so just as importantly I want to talk for a moment about sort of the second part of this overarching mission for open-con grading culture change not just at scale but in context and to quote Claire Coulter one of our 2017 alumni again she had this wonderful quote in her sort of reflection on the meeting talking about how we must offer to amplify the voices of others rather than speaking for them and that's something that we've really learned to pay much more attention to over the last few years of hosting open-con there's always been this ambition to have it be globally inclusive but making it meaningfully so is something that we've we've had to learn often through making mistakes and so we've I think gotten to a good point where you know we are meaningfully including sort of the breadth of participation and event and for example the planning so this is data on the regional breakdown of our organizing committee where it's you know fairly evenly distributed across geographic regions as well as balanced by gender which we feel is really important because this is the group that's sort of programming the thing and if this has just North Americans and Europeans that then it's not going to look like what it needs to and then this is data from this year's attendee list as well as the speakers that we actually released in the opening session of the meeting and so one of the sort of practices that we've taken on board is being immediately transparent about both who's in the room how we funded them to get in the room how we're prioritizing of money and who's on stage at the conference and so we did much better this year than we have in the past about a third of the participants at this year's event were from North America about a third were from Europe and a full third were from Africa Latin America and Asia with about 62 countries total being represented across about 180 participants more importantly actually than that is the speakers were actually biased towards Latin America Asia and Africa as a proportion of speakers to participants so fully half of those on stage were from Africa Latin America and and Asia with the other half being from North America and Europe one of the new initiatives that we launched this past year that we feel is really important in this sort of ambition to be globally you know global community that's also you know equitable and inclusive as we've released a report on sort of our efforts related to diversity equity and inclusion sort of what we've learned oftentimes the hard way as well as sort of suggestions we would have for other conference organizers other communities and working to make their spaces more equitable and inclusive and it's mainly focused on conference planning at the moment but hopefully you know we would like to expand it more so it's sort of you know about two thirds learnings and suggestions and then the final third is is data on how we're doing so we've released data on you know things like the gender breakdown of the participant pool of the speakers of the organizing committee the regional breakdown of those three different types as well as the data that underlies it including things like how we've spent our general scholarship funds and I think the thing that we've learned is we've made mistakes here right like I don't have that much time to go into it but like we've made really bad mistakes like we in 2015 I think we of our keynotes we had two two women and five men the program was balanced across you know gender balanced across all the different types of speakers but we were paying attention to the additional visibility that you get as a keynote and somebody called us out on that and now we pay much more attention to those things you know for regional balance as well used to be much much much heavier towards North America and you're up with you know the first year the majority being North America and that's something that we've continued to to improve over time but the sort of lesson that we've learned and that we're I think hopefully trying to push out to the the wider community is that transparency is really important because it creates accountability people can look at you know how you're spending your money who's on stage who's involved in organizing committee who's involved in the organizing committee and that accountability leads to change because if people are paying attention if you have to pay attention to it as sort of a community organizer if the community is paying attention then I think you know people will program conferences in a different way and so this report is you know an effort to try to sort of use the series of change to make the open community more diverse equitable and inclusive and I really have to recognize that the efforts of Lorraine on our team who drafted the report and has really been central to evolving our thinking in this area as well as our organizing committee so you know I think if we're going to actually embark on this project of culture change really the place to start is with the next generation right it's much more difficult to convince you know more senior faculty that are sort of set in their ways that they need to do something different it's not that it's not important but it's just more difficult it's much easier to reach you know the next generation that's just learning how to you know conduct research that's just forming their habits about how they create and share their educational materials about how they share their data and you know I think I hope these examples that I've provided speak to sort of the energy and engagement that's there with the next generation and this might seem like a new idea but this is something that's been going on in the open community for actually a long time some of you may know but most of you probably don't that actually International Open Access Week has its roots in the student community Open Access Week grew out of the national day for action for open access which started in the U.S. in 2007 as a partnership between a student organization called Students for Free Culture and Spark and International Open Access Week grew out of that effort the following year and has enjoyed robust student participation since and even things like the White House Directive that were passed in 2013 had you know significant amounts of student involvement for example the National Association of Graduate Professional Students in the U.S. has been very active in lobbying for open on Capitol Hill and actually in the I'm not sure how many of you were deeply involved with that 2013 White House Director but one of the precipitating events that sort of helped nudge that along was in 2012 a group of open access advocates launched a We the People petition on the White House website this was before became an absolute farce it was actually kind of useful with the idea being you had to get 25,000 signatures on a petition in 30 days and the Obama administration was committed to respond we ended up getting I think over 40 or 50,000 responses which is great but we sort of wanted to also publish an op-ed in the Washington Post calling attention to the fact that this this petition had reached the threshold and we were paying attention that the community was looking at the administration and expecting them to respond and there were a group of open access sort of leading open access advocates that were shopping this thing but the Washington Post wasn't interested it's not that interesting to hear open access advocates talk about how great open access is but when the National Association of Graduate Professional Students along with the American Medical Student Association submitted an op-ed to the Washington Post it was accepted immediately and published in the print edition within a week and we know it's circulated within the White House so that's just one example again of how the next generation's been involved in some of the efforts that you're already aware of just might not have been been visible so before I offer a couple closing thoughts as you might imagine open costs a fairly resource intensive thing to pull off so I just have to thank all the institutions that make it possible some of which are represented in this room we've had a couple dozen universities and university libraries sponsored travel scholarships for folks to attend again including some of you in this room we also have a great group of supporting sponsors and other individuals that have given a higher level and then finally two organizations without whom you know with without whom OpenCon wouldn't have been possible are PLOS who sponsored the webcast from the beginning and these OpenCon satellite events that I've mentioned a few times now grew out of this webcast that's been enabled by PLOS and then finally the Mott's Plon Society that's been underwriting and sort of the biggest single supporter of the conference from the the very beginning of this at the meeting this past year so sort of in conclusion the final point if you take nothing else away is that if you sort of want return on investment in the open space you should be investing in people you know a lot of the stories that I've illustrated these you know it cost us you know about $1,200 to bring Rishan to the first OpenCon you know it cost us you know a couple thousand for some of the others others were self-funded we just waived their travel fees or put them up in the hotel but you know they're having this experience getting connected with the community and I think probably most importantly overcoming imposter syndrome is what has sort of allowed them to blossom into these advocates and you know sort of if you can nudge one person in the right way they can go back into their community and have you know huge impact either their institution nationally you know as I was thinking about metaphors right I think it's in some ways sort of like nuclear fission right like if you tweak the right person it sort of sends them off and then they you know engage a number of others and it creates this chain reaction that's really really powerful if you can get it started in the right way and so you know I think sometimes a challenge for open kindness that people thinking about it is just a conference but it's really sort of bringing a very select group of people together in a very intentional way to sort of change you know how they're behaving to sort of change their behavior and send them back to their local communities to have these kinds of impacts and just sort of close I've only talked about nine people so far I haven't talked about people like you know Osman who started Open Sudan who's working with the government of Sudan to get open policies instituted at universities there I haven't talked about Heidi Lane who's an open kind satellite event host that's helping lead the boycott of Elsevier in Finland that's happened I haven't talked about Diego Gomez who you might might be a familiar name to some of you but who's a graduate student in Colombia who's being prosecuted for sharing an article online and this case has gotten a huge amount of visibility and he's been an outspoken open access advocate folks like Daniel Hayat from Pakistan Daniel actually works in the prime minister's office of Pakistan and is using his sort of perch there to promote open educational resources through the government and many many others so again this is just sort of a small sample of all the impact that's that's out there I think we have about eight minutes for questions but if you think of any questions this is where to to find me online we haven't announced the dates and locations location of OpenCon 2018 but we will be doing that in the next couple of months and would certainly encourage you to consider sponsoring a representative to attend or sponsoring the community one of the things that we're going to be a little bit more transparent about this year is that we really need to establish a firm financial base for OpenCon as you might imagine with all the applications with all the community satellite events it's a fairly resource instance of operation and one that luckily we've been able to sustain each year based on annual sponsorships from the organizations that I mentioned but there's so many opportunities that we have now that we just can't pursue because it's hard to hire like FTEs right on annual sponsorship funds so if you know this is something that resonates with you we'll be sending more information about the sort of opportunities to sponsor the community in the coming months and then finally increasingly hosting local OpenCon satellite events on campus that's another action that that you can take and sort of bring OpenCon to campus so we already have a question yes out of time but if you have any questions happy to stick around in the front or outside and thank you so much and I hope some of you will get involved in OpenCon next year we'd love to have your institutions represent