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SEAN MARCIA:Hi. My name is Sean Marcia.

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I am gonna be talking about saving the world

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with Ruby on Rails. And that's me on the Twitters.

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At seanmarcia. In case you're wondering,

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I'm an early adopter. That's how I was

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able to get my own name.

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I thought was funny.

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So I, I work at George Mason University as

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a software developer, and I'd like to thank[br]them

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for giving me this opportunity to be here[br]and

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do this kind of cool stuff. Thank all of

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you and thanks to my Ruby group for letting

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me practice this talk on them last week.

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So today I'm gonna be talking about the, the

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history of the project. Then I'm gonna talk[br]about

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the technology we use. And then I'm gonna[br]hopefully

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tell you how you guys can all get involved.

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So, but really, I'm just gonna tell you a

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story about bees. And my personal story with[br]bees

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began when I was about six years old, and

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for reference, that's me at six. Yeah. Looks[br]like

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an orange on a toothpick.

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But, but when I was six, my, my good

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friend and I, we were, we were out, we

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were wandering around, and we found a wild[br]beehive.

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And, if you know six year old boys, you

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can probably guess what we did next. We started

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throwing rocks at it.

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And, you know, my good friend, he just took

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off running, and I didn't know why, and it

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wasn't fun to throw rocks at the beehive without

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him. And it turns out that the bees stung

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him twenty, thirty times. And they didn't[br]sting me,

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so. I kind of feel I have this karmic

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debt to the bees for leaving me alone.

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And so, you know let's jump forward to today.

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And like I said, I'm a software developer[br]at

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George Mason University. I was wandering across[br]campus one

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day and I saw this guy was giving a

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talk. This is Herman Pria, and he was giving

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a talk about Amazonian stingerless bees, and[br]the honey

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they collect.

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And, you know, as a developer, I'm really[br]in

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it for the swag, and since he was giving

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honey samples of these bees, that's why I[br]went.

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And so, I was listening to his talk, and

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actually he told me what kind of animal that

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is and I don't remember right now. But I'll

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find out, because it's something interesting.

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But, so I was listening to his talk, and

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after the talk I went to, to talk to

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Herman and, turns out he's doing all this[br]really

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interesting stuff about bees. And you know,[br]bees are

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fascinating. If you don't know anything about[br]them, like,

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you know, there's 4,000 different varieties[br]of bees in

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North America. If you guys didn't know that.

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They're responsible for 90% of the wild, wild[br]plants,

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and they're crazy hard workers. You know,[br]one bee,

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in its lifetime, is gonna gather 1/12th of[br]a

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teaspoon of honey. And that's all it's gonna[br]do.

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But it's gonna visit like, 50,000 flowers[br]to do

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that.

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60-70% of all our food is because of bees.

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Like, from the pollination they do, or they[br]pollinate

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the food that our food eats.

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But, the really crappy thing is, the bees[br]are

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dying. And they're disappearing. And we don't[br]know why.

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And this is actually starting to become big[br]news

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and people are starting to cover it. Just[br]last

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fall, Time Magazine ran an article about,[br]you know,

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a world without bees and what the consequences[br]are

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if we don't start doing something, and, which[br]directly

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leads to what Herman is doing. He's researching[br]this

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thing called Colony Collapse Disorder.

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And if you're not familiar with Colony Collapse[br]Disorder,

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basically what it is, is like, beehives and[br]bee

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colonies will suddenly just collapse and disappear.[br]And for

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no rhyme or reason. And it's, it's serious.[br]Like,

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for managed beehives, like that's beehives[br]where there's like

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a beekeeper watching them, about 35% of them[br]have

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just died out and vanished.

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For wild bees, it's much, much worse. In some

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areas of the country, 90% of the wild bees

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are just gone. Like, Virginia, where I'm from,[br]it's

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about two-thirds. And it, like it's not just[br]our

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problem either. Like, it's happening in Europe.[br]Like, they're

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predicting in England, by 2018, all the bees[br]are

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gonna be gone. And that's, that's really serious.

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Asia, same, same situation. India, India,[br]it's particularly scary,

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because in India, 90% of the pollination of[br]honey

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comes from a wild bee that they can't domesticate,

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and as, like, as we know, it hits these

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wild bees harder. So if those bees get hit,

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India's gonna be devastated.

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And so, you know, some of the, some of

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the theories about what's causing Colony Collapse[br]Disorder, maybe

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it's pesticides. Maybe it's these two variety[br]of mites

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that the bees for some reason can't, can't[br]clean

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from themselves. Could be disease. Genetic[br]factors. Like, we

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just don't know. And it could be a combination

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of any of these.

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I have one of my own theories up there

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that, unfortunately, isn't gaining any traction[br]in the beekeeping

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community. But, I'll let you guys try and[br]figure

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out which one it is.

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And so, hearing all this from Herman, it's[br]like,

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hey, what can I do to help? And, and,

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you know, Herman didn't, doesn't have any[br]technical skills,

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and, and so, but he told me, hey, I

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already have some beehives at George Mason,[br]and it

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turns out they're up on top of a parking

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garage, like.

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And so up, five stories up, you can see

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the top of another building nearby, and Herman[br]said,

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you know, he would love insight into these[br]things.

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Like, the hive temperature, because bees keep[br]the temperature

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in the hive constant, year round. Doesn't[br]matter if

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it's the middle of summer or middle of winter.

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And, actually just in the last, last couple[br]of

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years, they found out that, you know, when[br]they

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pull these combs out of the beehive, and there's

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the little holes in them, they always assume[br]that

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the bees hadn't gotten around to filling them[br]with

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honey.

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But what they've learned is there's a special[br]drone

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bee that breaks its wings off and crawls into

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those holes and just vibrates all day long[br]to

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generate heat. I guess that's a life.

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But, so, and he also wanted hive weight, just

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sort of to see the weight of the hive

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changing over time. And then he wanted the[br]outside

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humidity and temperature just kind of as control,[br]cause,

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like, perhaps there'd be a week of really[br]bad

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weather, and so, like, that's why the weight[br]wouldn't

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go up. They'd be eating their stores.

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And so, I was like, OK, so it, again,

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looking at, at the situation, well, you know,[br]the,

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immediately, you know, we see there's some[br]issues with

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this. You know, like, it's open to the elements.

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We don't have any power. Our budget was really

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small. And we needed something that was really[br]easy

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to repair and maintain because most of the[br]people

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aren't very technical.

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And so the first thing we handled was the

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no power, like this was the low-hanging fruit,[br]and

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we did that simply by, by some solar panels,

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a deep cell battery, and we had some off-grid

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power. And we found that our solar panels[br]and

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battery could power our system for about seven[br]to

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nine days, when there wasn't any sun. And[br]so

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as long as we had sun at least once

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a week, we were, we were good to go.

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So the next thing was we had a limited

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budget. And I, I think we started with less

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than $200 or about $200, and this is how

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things broke down, and, and why, you know,[br]we

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used Raspberry Pis cause we got the first[br]three

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free. Got a bunch of Raspberry Pi devices.[br]You

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know, some SD cards, cables, like, who doesn't[br]have

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a bunch of cables in their closet.

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And you see the solar setup there was about

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$140. That was about the bulk of our initial

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costs. And you know, what I brought to the

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table was this MacGiver-like ability to figure[br]out solutions

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to problems. And, you know, like in the, an

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example of that is, when we built out, when

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we put in our first temperature probe, we[br]needed

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to protect that probe somehow. And so, which[br]led

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me to, you know, to quickly come up with

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a solution.

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I ran to Student Health services, asked them[br]if

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I could get some condoms from them to cover

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the probe, and they didn't even flinch. They[br]handed

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over a bunch of condoms.

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But it really made me realize that these,[br]these

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people in Campus Health Services have seen[br]everything, because

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when I walked in there, I was kind of

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dirty, cause I was outside working, and I[br]was

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carrying duct tape and rope. And, and they[br]didn't

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even flinch. They just handed over a handful[br]of

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condoms, so.

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So, like, this wasn't perfect. But we had[br]a

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start. And I plugged in Twitter so we could

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get, you know, social media going, and some[br]Tweets

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from the beehive. And so our, our initial[br]results

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were, we had a Tweeting beehive. In the picture

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you can't really see, and it's Tweeting hey,[br]it's

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78 degrees in the hive. And the little picture

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of the bee yard.

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And, and we're going. And one of the interesting

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things is once you're out on social media,[br]people,

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I guess, they assume you know a lot about

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bees and they start contacting you. And one[br]of

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the people to contact us, send us a direct

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message, was just like, hey, how do I get

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my dog to stop eating bees?

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You'd think eating the bees would probably[br]be enough

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of a lesson. But, but you know, I, I,

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I Googled, and it turns out lots of dogs

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like to eat bees, and you know, little dogs,

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medium-sized dogs. And even big dogs.

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So, so before I go any further, who's, who's

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familiar with this acronym?

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OK. Some of the people here. This is something

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started by Bryan Liles. Maybe five, six years[br]ago.

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It means test all the fudging time. I always

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get stuck up on the f. But you know,

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no, no offense to Bryan, but he's wrong.

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Really, what it should mean is try awesome[br]things,

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forget testing. Because, if you, because if[br]you forget

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testing, you can get results like this. It's[br]currently

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501 degrees in the hive.

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And you think, oh, why is that valuable? Well,

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it turns out that people, people find stuff[br]like

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this amusing. And suddenly, and, and you can't[br]read

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this, but suddenly we're getting reTweeted.[br]City of Fairfax

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is Tweeting us. And people are asking us,[br]are

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we raising fire bees? It, it, is the hive

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on fire? Are things OK?

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And, and, it's kind of amazing. Like, all[br]these

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Tweeting and reTweets and people getting in[br]on the

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joke suddenly, suddenly was our on Gundam[br]style, just

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making, make everyone aware what we're doing.[br]And it

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really made things happen fast. And it brought[br]us

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into the attention of the SweetVirginia foundation.

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And what they are is they're a non-profit[br]that

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teaches honey, honey bee education to, to[br]students and

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adults. And, and they wanted to help. They[br]didn't

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know we were raising bees at George Mason.[br]And

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so they, they said, well, what can we do?

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We can offer you space. And Herman wanted[br]to,

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to, to have a class of researchers, and we

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didn't have the equipment which was, you know,[br]one

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of the biggest issues.

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And so, so what we did, is we started

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a crowd funding campaign, because it's gonna[br]be about

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a thousand dollars per student. And we, we[br]raised

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twelve thousand dollars, which was amazing,[br]so we could

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have a class of twelve. And the, actually[br]there

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was a waiting list of over a hundred students

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trying to take part in this research.

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But, so we had twelve, and then this, this

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kickstarter campaign, sorry, Indiegogo campaign,[br]also was like, another

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big social media raising awareness for us,[br]and so

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suddenly, suddenly again, you know, people[br]are becoming aware,

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and bees just become crazy popular at, at[br]George

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Mason University.

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And so the, the, one of the Fraternities is

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starting a Bee Global campaign. The magazine,[br]the alumni

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magazine is all about bees. And this is the

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president of George Mason with Herman, there,[br]and, the

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really amazing thing about the, you know,[br]the president

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getting involved is suddenly we have a budget.

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And so now, now, which leads us into the

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technology and the interesting stuff.

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So, for anyone working with Raspberry Pi or[br]is

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unfamiliar with the Raspberry Pi, that's what[br]this is.

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It's a credit-card sized computer. Like, this[br]is an

0:12:13.650,0:12:16.590
entire computer. And so I invite you to come

0:12:16.600,0:12:18.860
up after and look at it and play with

0:12:18.860,0:12:20.400
it. And if you want to come later, one

0:12:20.400,0:12:22.790
of the evenings, I'm probably gonna be hacking[br]on

0:12:22.790,0:12:23.670
it and playing with it, and so I invite

0:12:23.680,0:12:25.730
you to seek me out later.

0:12:25.730,0:12:28.280
But if you are gonna work with Raspberry Pis,

0:12:28.280,0:12:31.080
some advice I'd give you is to, is to

0:12:31.080,0:12:33.900
backup your card often. Like, take an image[br]of

0:12:33.920,0:12:36.450
it and don't, don't go the traditional dev-ops[br]route,

0:12:36.450,0:12:38.460
where you know you're gonna install everything[br]on there.

0:12:38.460,0:12:40.120
Cause if you've ever had to wait for, like,

0:12:40.120,0:12:44.420
Nokogiri to compile on your computer, Nokogiri[br]compiling on

0:12:44.420,0:12:47.610
a Raspberry Pi is about sixty times as long.

0:12:47.610,0:12:48.810
So it's better just to have an image and

0:12:48.820,0:12:52.070
then, you know, copy that image. And, and[br]buy

0:12:52.070,0:12:54.889
a couple, because they're cheap. They're $30[br]computers that

0:12:54.889,0:12:57.461
are full computers.

0:12:57.461,0:13:00.090
So Raspberry Pis have these GPIO pins on them,

0:13:00.090,0:13:02.749
which is general purpose input output, and[br]it's the

0:13:02.760,0:13:04.741
same kind of thing you have, if you've ever

0:13:04.760,0:13:07.180
opened up a desktop computer and look, looked[br]at

0:13:07.180,0:13:09.970
how your hard drive plugs into the motherboard.

0:13:09.970,0:13:11.440
It's the same kind of thing. And there's these

0:13:11.440,0:13:14.509
pins, and to reference, this is with one of

0:13:14.509,0:13:18.341
the sensors plugged into one of my Pis. You

0:13:18.341,0:13:20.840
plug it in and you may see some tutorials

0:13:20.860,0:13:22.589
online if you're gonna do some of the stuff

0:13:22.589,0:13:26.390
that says, that says solder the wires right[br]to

0:13:26.390,0:13:28.971
your Pi. Don't do that. Because if your, if

0:13:28.980,0:13:31.420
your Pi breaks or you don't know, it's easy

0:13:31.420,0:13:33.579
just to swap it out, take the Pi, throw

0:13:33.580,0:13:35.841
it away and plug it into the new one.

0:13:35.841,0:13:37.790
Or, I guess maybe not throw it away, cause

0:13:37.790,0:13:39.550
it might not be broke.

0:13:39.550,0:13:41.080
And so if you're gonna be working with Pis,

0:13:41.080,0:13:43.489
these are the three gems I'd recommend checking[br]out.

0:13:43.520,0:13:48.101
There's the gpio gem, you know. pi_piper and[br]wiringpi-ruby.

0:13:48.101,0:13:50.480
You know, I'm not gonna suggest which is best

0:13:50.480,0:13:52.160
of the three, cause they're all amazing and[br]it's,

0:13:52.160,0:13:54.950
I guess it's my own, Sophie's choice.

0:13:54.950,0:13:57.340
But, so, as to saving the world with Ruby

0:13:57.340,0:14:02.019
and Rails, I lied. I'm actually using Ruby[br]and

0:14:02.020,0:14:05.101
Sinatra. So I guess if you want to get

0:14:05.101,0:14:10.678
up and leave now, feel free.

0:14:10.680,0:14:13.280
So I, I went with the dashing gem. Originally

0:14:13.280,0:14:15.560
I was using, for creating a dashboard, I was

0:14:15.560,0:14:18.310
using the dashing Rails, but I, I realized,[br]I

0:14:18.320,0:14:21.899
don't need all the, the complexity that Rails[br]brings

0:14:21.900,0:14:23.981
to the table. Especially since we wanted the[br]solution

0:14:23.981,0:14:27.490
that was simple for other beekeepers elsewhere[br]to look

0:14:27.490,0:14:28.970
at and to use. And, you know, we don't

0:14:28.970,0:14:31.559
want to have to explain controllers and spitting[br]out

0:14:31.580,0:14:33.020
JSON and all these kind of, all this kind

0:14:33.020,0:14:35.511
of stuff that they just, they don't need.

0:14:35.511,0:14:38.030
And so, and so using, working with dashing[br]is

0:14:38.030,0:14:40.850
as simple as gem install dashing, and then[br]dashing

0:14:40.850,0:14:43.999
new. Much like using Rails. And if you are

0:14:44.000,0:14:45.831
interesting in more about dashing, I suggest[br]going to

0:14:45.840,0:14:48.770
RubyNation where Carl, Derante and Chris Mar?[br]are giving

0:14:48.770,0:14:52.830
a talk on it, cause their talk is phenomenal.

0:14:52.840,0:14:55.040
But after doing this, you have a dashboard[br]that

0:14:55.060,0:14:57.170
you can't see too well. But you can see

0:14:57.170,0:14:59.460
there's, we're using the green and the gold[br]cause

0:14:59.460,0:15:02.460
that's George Mason's colors. But we have[br]our internal

0:15:02.460,0:15:07.300
temperature, external temperature, internal[br]humidity and outside humidity.

0:15:07.300,0:15:10.160
And if the numbers seem low for the temperature,

0:15:10.160,0:15:13.980
that's cause we're using Celsius. We're, I[br]guess, cause,

0:15:13.980,0:15:16.670
we're not all on the imperial system. And[br]that's

0:15:16.670,0:15:20.610
the weight in kilograms. And, and what this[br]is,

0:15:20.610,0:15:25.549
is it's a, it's, it's being wirelessly served.[br]So

0:15:25.549,0:15:28.952
you walk up to the beehive, open up your

0:15:28.980,0:15:31.980
laptop, connect to the beehive, and then navigate[br]to

0:15:31.980,0:15:34.340
beehive dot local and then this pops up and

0:15:34.340,0:15:38.559
you can see the current statistics in the[br]hive.

0:15:38.560,0:15:39.991
And how did we do this? And we did

0:15:40.000,0:15:45.040
this simply with a series of chron jobs. And,

0:15:45.040,0:15:48.449
if you're unfamiliar with how chron works,[br]you, you,

0:15:48.449,0:15:50.341
the first one is running at zero and twelve

0:15:50.341,0:15:53.429
hours, so midnight, noon. Second one's running[br]at midnight,

0:15:53.429,0:15:57.060
six AM, noon, six PM, and, and so forth.

0:15:57.080,0:16:00.890
And, and that's it. Like, three, three simple[br]scripts

0:16:00.890,0:16:04.331
and it's gathering all our information.

0:16:04.340,0:16:05.480
And this is an example of one of our

0:16:05.480,0:16:09.500
scripts. So making a little, little, an instance[br]of

0:16:09.500,0:16:14.080
our sensor, defining a couple of directories[br]and, if

0:16:14.080,0:16:16.871
you see, directories are in the public, the[br]public

0:16:16.880,0:16:19.040
folder, and the reason, again is just to sort

0:16:19.040,0:16:20.940
of keep it simple. If one of the researchers

0:16:20.940,0:16:24.470
wants to, to get access to the CSE file

0:16:24.470,0:16:26.420
when they're logged onto beehive dot local,[br]they just

0:16:26.420,0:16:29.310
type in inhumid dot csv and it downloads to

0:16:29.310,0:16:32.509
their computer or their tablet or whatever[br]they're using.

0:16:32.509,0:16:35.391
and it's as simple as just writing the humidity

0:16:35.400,0:16:39.179
and the temperature into two different CSV[br]files and

0:16:39.180,0:16:43.541
that's it. And same thing for the outside.[br]And

0:16:43.560,0:16:45.029
so you're probably thinking well, it's hard[br]to get

0:16:45.029,0:16:47.551
it up on the dashboard. And, but, it's not.

0:16:47.560,0:16:50.970
Dashing makes this simple. Every thousand[br]seconds I'm, I'm

0:16:50.970,0:16:54.639
opening up the, the CSV file and then sending

0:16:54.640,0:16:56.431
it to the dashboard.

0:16:56.440,0:17:01.070
And it's as simple as that. It's, you know.

0:17:01.070,0:17:03.340
Nothing too complicated.

0:17:03.340,0:17:05.280
And this is the, the Python code, but I'm

0:17:05.280,0:17:08.220
not gonna explain. It was, came with the scale,

0:17:08.220,0:17:10.888
so I didn't bother redoing it in Ruby. But

0:17:10.888,0:17:13.701
now that our scale's having issues I'm going[br]to

0:17:13.701,0:17:17.800
work on a new solution with a RubyGem.

0:17:17.800,0:17:19.210
And the other thing we used is we used

0:17:19.210,0:17:21.869
Passenger. Just as for our server. We used[br]a

0:17:21.900,0:17:24.900
couple LInux packagages for our, basically[br]creating our wireless

0:17:24.900,0:17:31.510
access point. And the, a wireless, and DHCP[br]server.

0:17:31.510,0:17:33.260
And that was it.

0:17:33.260,0:17:35.400
This is simple. And I think it's so simple

0:17:35.400,0:17:37.880
that anyone here can do it. Anyone who's been

0:17:37.880,0:17:40.029
doing Ruby on Rails for at least, least a

0:17:40.029,0:17:43.882
week, maybe two, like there's nothing to it.[br]And

0:17:43.882,0:17:46.450
I want you all here to go out and

0:17:46.450,0:17:51.310
do stuff like this.

0:17:51.320,0:17:54.210
Because I think we're all amazing, and we,[br]we

0:17:54.240,0:17:58.700
sometimes, we sometimes get this sense in[br]our head

0:17:58.700,0:18:01.460
that, you know, we, we have all these problems

0:18:01.460,0:18:04.370
and we're living in this kind of ivory tower

0:18:04.370,0:18:08.090
that isn't really representative of, you know,[br]the rest

0:18:08.090,0:18:10.519
of the, rest of the country. Like, we're kind

0:18:10.540,0:18:12.290
of the silk on valet mindset. It's like oh,

0:18:12.290,0:18:14.251
I gotta get my queuing speed down from point

0:18:14.260,0:18:17.230
six milliseconds to point five eight milliseconds,[br]or I

0:18:17.230,0:18:19.230
have to, I have to get my tests to

0:18:19.240,0:18:21.700
run faster. Make DHH happy.

0:18:21.700,0:18:24.890
Or, you know, we have all these issues, but

0:18:24.890,0:18:27.460
you know the vast majority of people, like[br]I

0:18:27.460,0:18:30.299
work in the, in a university, and I see

0:18:30.300,0:18:33.141
every day people emailing spreadsheets back[br]and forth. They

0:18:33.141,0:18:35.870
email text files back and forth. And like[br]all

0:18:35.870,0:18:39.670
these solutions that are just horrible. And[br]really educators

0:18:39.670,0:18:41.750
they need our help. And they need us to

0:18:41.760,0:18:45.200
get involved in projects like this.

0:18:45.200,0:18:47.490
And it's super easy to get involved in these

0:18:47.490,0:18:49.730
kind of things. Like, I, I'm involved in three

0:18:49.740,0:18:51.750
projects right now and all of them I got

0:18:51.750,0:18:54.380
involved with just by going to see a Professor

0:18:54.380,0:18:57.759
talk and then after his talk or her talk

0:18:57.760,0:19:00.520
I, you know, I just asked them questions.

0:19:00.520,0:19:03.111
Cause, you know, professors, professors have[br]bigger egos than

0:19:03.120,0:19:05.890
we do, as, as developers. They love to talk

0:19:05.890,0:19:09.040
about themselves. They do. And they love to[br]talk

0:19:09.040,0:19:10.630
about their research. Like even more than[br]we like

0:19:10.640,0:19:12.210
to talk about our code.

0:19:12.210,0:19:15.360
And so I know, I know you're thinking Sean

0:19:15.360,0:19:19.550
you dirty Canadian socialist, you know, like.[br]Why, why

0:19:19.560,0:19:22.820
should I do this, you know? I don't want

0:19:22.820,0:19:24.760
to give my time for free. And I guess

0:19:24.760,0:19:27.940
like the simplest reason is, is I run a

0:19:27.940,0:19:30.300
Ruby meetup group, and one of the first questions

0:19:30.320,0:19:33.320
I'm, I'm generally asked my new people is,[br]you

0:19:33.320,0:19:36.090
know, how can I get involved in opensource?[br]Like,

0:19:36.090,0:19:40.590
like, cause, it, opensource seems like this,[br]this goal

0:19:40.590,0:19:43.210
that you want. But you just don't know how

0:19:43.210,0:19:47.610
to get to, if you're new.

0:19:47.640,0:19:49.870
And And, you know, doing projects that like,[br]projects

0:19:49.880,0:19:52.069
like this, it really is a, is an easy

0:19:52.069,0:19:57.001
gateway into opensource, and to, and to, you[br]know,

0:19:57.001,0:20:01.059
getting opensource credentials on your, on[br]your resume and

0:20:01.060,0:20:03.680
on your github. Because, you know, like it[br]or

0:20:03.680,0:20:05.560
not, when we do apply for jobs, they do

0:20:05.560,0:20:10.740
look at what we do in the opensource community.

0:20:10.740,0:20:16.940
And can't really see this, but this is one

0:20:16.940,0:20:19.330
of the, the extra benefits of, of doing a

0:20:19.330,0:20:24.720
project like this, is, is all the puns. And

0:20:24.740,0:20:26.860
it's like, you know, you can't really see[br]these

0:20:26.860,0:20:29.430
but I gave this talk last week and every

0:20:29.430,0:20:31.600
one of these are bee puns, like, hey, buzz

0:20:31.600,0:20:33.970
off pal! You know. Sean has a tendency to

0:20:33.970,0:20:37.080
wax on, and, what's the buzz about, and ooh

0:20:37.080,0:20:40.990
it's gonna be sweet. It's the bee's knees!

0:20:41.000,0:20:42.980
And so, so if this is the kind of

0:20:42.980,0:20:46.190
thing that interests you and, and you might[br]want

0:20:46.190,0:20:48.690
to go out and get involved in, I'd really

0:20:48.700,0:20:52.130
like you to check out Ruby for Good, and

0:20:52.130,0:20:54.040
it's a conference we're gonna be putting on[br]in

0:20:54.040,0:20:57.840
the Washington, DC area. The first to third[br]of

0:20:57.840,0:20:59.360
August. We're gonna be staying in the Dorms[br]at

0:20:59.360,0:21:03.060
the University. We're gonna hack on opensource[br]social good

0:21:03.060,0:21:04.800
projects.

0:21:04.800,0:21:08.330
It's gonna be 72 people. We're aiming for[br]$200

0:21:08.340,0:21:11.690
or less, and that's all inclusive of your[br]lodging,

0:21:11.690,0:21:14.000
your food, everything. You just have to get[br]their.

0:21:14.000,0:21:16.170
You're welcome to come a day early for no

0:21:16.180,0:21:18.250
extra cost and we're gonna probably do something[br]fun

0:21:18.250,0:21:20.820
the day before. Maybe go do a nighttime tour

0:21:20.820,0:21:24.490
of the DC monuments or something. Not quite[br]sure.

0:21:24.500,0:21:26.490
And, and also maybe to make it more appealing

0:21:26.490,0:21:28.029
for your work, we're gonna hold, we're gonna[br]have

0:21:28.040,0:21:30.400
some training sessions on the second day.[br]We have

0:21:30.400,0:21:31.900
one of the guys from the RSpec core team

0:21:31.900,0:21:35.421
coming out, gonna give a workshop on RSpec.[br]We

0:21:35.421,0:21:37.560
have a guy giving a workshop on Angular. And

0:21:37.560,0:21:40.440
another one of the JSON API committers doing[br]a

0:21:40.440,0:21:43.340
workshop on creating APIs.

0:21:43.340,0:21:47.560
And that's my talk in a nutshell. Thank you

0:21:47.560,0:21:49.180
so much for your time and are there any

0:21:49.180,0:22:00.000
questions?