 So who's seen me in my underwear on the outside before hey You had a chance in Austin, Texas and in in Wellington at this point. So yeah, who knows when that'll happen again So Drupal Association Director at large election starts next week I can't figure out because this time zone is confusing Monday or Tuesday somehow Tuesday March 9th, okay Tuesday for Australians Please go read the candidates page. I think there are 24 candidates. There are a lot of good ideas There are a lot of diverse backgrounds And I think it's important that you find someone who believes in things and want things that you do Alex and Annie are Alex come on down Alex and Annie are two of those people who are kindly I'm offering to to work for us and I Do believe that Alex would be happy and I'm sure I knew would be happy as well to do a sort of a meet the candidates tomorrow Did we did we find a time to do that? Yeah? You got to be more organized than that. No, they don't these guys represent our part of the world If that's important to you vote for them if that's not important to you vote for anyone Just please vote. Okay Yeah, absolutely And we'd love to see you tomorrow and tell you why we actually want to be on the DA. What is director at large? Okay, our numbers have dwindled that happens someone pointed out to me You know, you've probably noticed I forget to do things when I do these kind of talk things I forgot to tell you who I am Probably doesn't matter now though, right My name's Donna Benjamin just in case you were still wondering but apologies for not telling you who I am what's much more important is That and We have some names and You have to be here to win. Oh drumroll. Yes. Come on. Come on and Jamie Schmidt Are you here? No You've left already congratulations Very good. Okay. I'm done with this Peter. Thank you for the late breaking news Okay, we're done with that one. The presenters are still here in the room massively Thank you by the way for all of your work, but I have one task left for you Please add your slides Upload them to the website or put a link in your description somewhere Apparently those instructions if you go to your session Make more sense than I'm making right now, but please either upload your slides or put a link to your slides wherever they may live There and then tweet or something tell the world, but basically present as it's up to you Please share your slides in whatever way shape or form you can not quite that one I know we've got a different slide for the recording thing Okay, so a few people have been asking about Will the you know will slides be shared were their recordings, etc So in theory. Yes, every single session was recorded. I say in theory Because I don't actually believe this until it's done and they're online and I can tell you about it But I will tell you about it once it's done We'll probably send out an email thinking you're being wonderful and telling you important bits of news like that But in theory, yes, they have all been recorded just in case presenters see a four mentioned slide that one About sharing your thing, right? Okay done next Next I have a task for you Also on the website on every session is a feedback page or a feedback button thing click that and please share your thoughts on the sessions This is really valuable to people who have put quite a lot of time and effort into preparing Slides for of what they know and sharing with you Brian has a Right now. No, actually just do it by tomorrow perhaps No, just do it as as soon as you can a good point deadlines are helpful So please share that information as quickly as you can while it's still fresh in your mind and and really and Handle up speakers how valuable you find it to actually get some feedback to know that people heard you and see Some of them. Thanks Maybe maybe it's just me. I don't know. All right next one the important stuff so Huge amount of time energy effort blood sweat tears alcohol no chocolate Goes into doing this kind of thing No Yeah, you can you can hand them to me and tell me Yes, Jess One of our track chairs. Thank you. Oh, maybe I can do that list. This will work. I think Uh Ham Come on up David Peterson. I think I saw you sneak off David has departed. Unfortunately. He's already left Murray Murray, I'm sorry. That's my fault You can talk to me about it later The the four people standing here and and also Chris have been our content team So that these are our track chairs and Chris was our content lead So they read every single session that was submitted and made some very very hard decisions about what would go into the program So those of you who have spoken Thank these guys for saying yep vote of confidence in you and those of you who submitted because I know some of you are here But weren't selected. It was really tough We it's one of the things why that has made this conference so amazing is how generous everybody was about wanting to share their knowledge I wish we had more days more time slots to be able to give everyone a go Sometimes hard decisions are made but these guys made it happen. So thank you And then we have the volunteers who turned up to just help make it actually happen on the day Alexa, are you still here? No Somewhere here. He's possibly out in the hallway tracks still in the coders lounge. Well, he misses out right now But we will catch up with him later Kathy Yes, Matt go get her. Thank you and Matt who also just ran out Matt Matt Kathy Kim Horton Kim Kim Kim Kim's possibly in the coders lounge still as well Rob Come on up Rob and Nancy. Are you still here? Nancy it was a late addition to our volunteer lineup and ran around taking some fantastic photographs. Ah Kim. Excellent. Here you are Thank you. All right, so I think that that's it Nancy Pete and Peter Pete Peter also possibly Peter Sarah's gonna get Peter. Excellent. All right, cool. So I think that's everyone Nancy is not here Peter is coming Rob's here Kim's here Matt is here Rick now three more Ricky Marin and Angus Ricky Marin and Angus Come on up. So these three didn't do that much in the past two days But did a huge amount in the lead-up Ricky was doing our theming and site building Angus did our content strategy and kept telling me things that I should be saying to people on the twitters and writing in Mailchimp and all that sort of stuff and Marin has done all of our gorgeous gorgeous design And the three of them have put in time. Thank you to Susan Cowan from WeaveWeb. So huge. Thanks to these guys. I think that's my list. So thank you and One more. Thank you from me to Linux Australia for an amazing amount of support and on that note I'm gonna give Linux Australia the stage for a moment. This is Sarah. She's the secretary Half of Linux Australia. We wanted to thank three very special people Donna Chris doesn't come in but a lot of time and effort Goes into organizing these things. We're all good so volunteers are the lifeblood of Linux Australia and These three have done an amazing job getting it all together for you guys So if you've had lots and lots of fun and you've learned a lot, please do stand up and thank Peter, Chris and Donna and I'll pass you back to Donna Thanks Sarah. It you know it takes a village right or a community. So thank you all there's one more Thank you, but I think it's a nice segue into what's gonna happen next so Thank you all. I now release you from your humiliation But we are very grateful aren't we all give them a round of applause as they release Brian Gilbert. Please come up to the stage This work has been on has been going for some time, but we'll conclude tomorrow So Brian is Brian Gilbert from reality loop is hosting our contribution sprints tomorrow I'm gonna give him a little bit of time to say what's happening But the key details are here tomorrow from 10 a.m So I assume a lot of you will be first-time sprinters. So from Awesome So I'll be starting off with a presentation just to give you some context about an environment setup if you don't already have that set up and so on and then we'll be Trying our best to help find issues that you can work on and having mentors to help support you in that It's on a whole other level Awesome. Thanks Brian. Yeah, it's it's in this building on level five We'll be taking the lifts which are just around there. There's not stairs to go to go up there It's probably other stairs, but there's lifts here. So if you're coming along tomorrow, it'll be on level five Who's had a good time who wants to do this again be it a backstory if you'll If you'll forgive me is this has now been going on for some years I think the first Drupal South happened in New Zealand in 2008 And we had our first Drupal down under in Brisbane in 2011 or something. Yeah, and we've kind of had this fairly informal process of just handing the baton over To someone who would run it next time little did they know what they were getting themselves into So what we've gotten to a point now where there's a certain level of logistics and planning that is kind of required to pull This off. It's grown to a point where it Needs a little bit more structure around it and also a little bit more transparency rather than just hey Do you want to do it? Yeah, okay and passing the baton So what has happened is the people who've been involved in running Drupal South and Drupal Gov and Drupal Down Under over the past What and I can't do the maths. What's that eight years? Five, I don't know many many. That's a good word over many years have formed a Committee a bit like what Linux Australia does with the Linux Conf a you we now have the ghosts of Drupal South and Down Under past Or Drupal South past and we we are going to Communicate some criteria on what you really need to know To run an event like this and ask for some proposals. We've got three possible contenders Location for the next Drupal South, which is pretty awesome, right? Three people go here. I want to do this So that's cool So we're going to give them some guidelines on the kind of stuff that they probably need to have in place We're going to put out a timeline to say get the bids in and then a timeline to say to make a decision and the people Who've organized it in the past will make a decision based on an open kind of transparent criteria How does that sound? So I can't tell you where but it will be happening if you if that's just too much uncertainty for you though We do have another big Drupal event planned for our part of the world real soon and on this I'm going to hand over to Well, you saw that slide right? That's where you'll go for info so There's another Drupal event which runs in Australia every year now Apparently and it's called Drupal Gov and we run it in Canberra and it's it's basically Drupal for the public sector It's a great event. It's sold out the last two years Last year we had a hundred and eighty people Adam alone ran that one well done Adam and I have I have already activated the Drupal Gov emergency beacon for this year and The Drupal Gov team is assembling as we speak so there will be an event We don't have a venue or a date yet, but expect to see that in Canberra and it's it's a lot of fun as well So do come along