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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
them

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for giving me this opportunity to be here
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
about

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the technology we use. And then I'm gonna
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
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
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
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
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
at

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George Mason University. I was wandering across
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
the honey

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they collect.

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And, you know, as a developer, I'm really
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
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
really

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interesting stuff about bees. And you know,
bees are

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

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you know, there's 4,000 different varieties
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
plants,

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

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

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

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But it's gonna visit like, 50,000 flowers
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
pollinate

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the food that our food eats.

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But, the really crappy thing is, the bees
are

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

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And this is actually starting to become big
news

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and people are starting to cover it. Just
last

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fall, Time Magazine ran an article about,
you know,

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a world without bees and what the consequences
are

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

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

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thing called Colony Collapse Disorder.

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

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basically what it is, is like, beehives and
bee

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colonies will suddenly just collapse and disappear.
And for

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

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for managed beehives, like that's beehives
where there's like

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a beekeeper watching them, about 35% of them
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,
it's

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

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

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predicting in England, by 2018, all the bees
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,
it's particularly scary,

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because in India, 90% of the pollination of
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
Disorder, maybe

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it's pesticides. Maybe it's these two variety
of mites

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that the bees for some reason can't, can't
clean

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from themselves. Could be disease. Genetic
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
in the beekeeping

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

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out which one it is.

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And so, hearing all this from Herman, it's
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
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,
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
said,

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you know, he would love insight into these
things.

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Like, the hive temperature, because bees keep
the temperature

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in the hive constant, year round. Doesn't
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
of

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years, they found out that, you know, when
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
that

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the bees hadn't gotten around to filling them
with

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honey.

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But what they've learned is there's a special
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
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
outside

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humidity and temperature just kind of as control,
cause,

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

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weather, and so, like, that's why the weight
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,
the,

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immediately, you know, we see there's some
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
easy

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to repair and maintain because most of the
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,
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
and

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battery could power our system for about seven
to

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nine days, when there wasn't any sun. And
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,
we

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used Raspberry Pis cause we got the first
three

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free. Got a bunch of Raspberry Pi devices.
You

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know, some SD cards, cables, like, who doesn't
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
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
needed

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to protect that probe somehow. And so, which
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
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
handed

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over a bunch of condoms.

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But it really made me realize that these,
these

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people in Campus Health Services have seen
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
was

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

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even flinch. They just handed over a handful
of

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condoms, so.

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So, like, this wasn't perfect. But we had
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
Tweets

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from the beehive. And so our, our initial
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
things,

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forget testing. Because, if you, because if
you forget

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testing, you can get results like this. It's
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
like

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

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

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is Tweeting us. And people are asking us,
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
these

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Tweeting and reTweets and people getting in
on the

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joke suddenly, suddenly was our on Gundam
style, just

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

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really made things happen fast. And it brought
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
that

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teaches honey, honey bee education to, to
students and

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

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know we were raising bees at George Mason.
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
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,
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
be about

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a thousand dollars per student. And we, we
raised

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twelve thousand dollars, which was amazing,
so we could

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have a class of twelve. And the, actually
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,
also was like, another

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big social media raising awareness for us,
and so

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suddenly, suddenly again, you know, people
are becoming aware,

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and bees just become crazy popular at, at
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,
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,
and, the

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really amazing thing about the, you know,
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
is

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

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

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entire computer. And so I invite you to come

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up after and look at it and play with

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it. And if you want to come later, one

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of the evenings, I'm probably gonna be hacking
on

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it and playing with it, and so I invite

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you to seek me out later.

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But if you are gonna work with Raspberry Pis,

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some advice I'd give you is to, is to

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backup your card often. Like, take an image
of

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it and don't, don't go the traditional dev-ops
route,

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where you know you're gonna install everything
on there.

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Cause if you've ever had to wait for, like,

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Nokogiri to compile on your computer, Nokogiri
compiling on

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a Raspberry Pi is about sixty times as long.

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So it's better just to have an image and

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then, you know, copy that image. And, and
buy

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a couple, because they're cheap. They're $30
computers that

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are full computers.

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So Raspberry Pis have these GPIO pins on them,

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which is general purpose input output, and
it's the

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same kind of thing you have, if you've ever

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opened up a desktop computer and look, looked
at

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how your hard drive plugs into the motherboard.

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It's the same kind of thing. And there's these

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pins, and to reference, this is with one of

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the sensors plugged into one of my Pis. You

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plug it in and you may see some tutorials

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online if you're gonna do some of the stuff

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that says, that says solder the wires right
to

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your Pi. Don't do that. Because if your, if

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your Pi breaks or you don't know, it's easy

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just to swap it out, take the Pi, throw

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it away and plug it into the new one.

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Or, I guess maybe not throw it away, cause

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it might not be broke.

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And so if you're gonna be working with Pis,

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these are the three gems I'd recommend checking
out.

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There's the gpio gem, you know. pi_piper and
wiringpi-ruby.

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You know, I'm not gonna suggest which is best

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of the three, cause they're all amazing and
it's,

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I guess it's my own, Sophie's choice.

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But, so, as to saving the world with Ruby

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and Rails, I lied. I'm actually using Ruby
and

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Sinatra. So I guess if you want to get

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up and leave now, feel free.

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So I, I went with the dashing gem. Originally

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I was using, for creating a dashboard, I was

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using the dashing Rails, but I, I realized,
I

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don't need all the, the complexity that Rails
brings

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to the table. Especially since we wanted the
solution

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that was simple for other beekeepers elsewhere
to look

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at and to use. And, you know, we don't

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want to have to explain controllers and spitting
out

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JSON and all these kind of, all this kind

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of stuff that they just, they don't need.

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And so, and so using, working with dashing
is

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as simple as gem install dashing, and then
dashing

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new. Much like using Rails. And if you are

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interesting in more about dashing, I suggest
going to

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RubyNation where Carl, Derante and Chris Mar?
are giving

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a talk on it, cause their talk is phenomenal.

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But after doing this, you have a dashboard
that

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you can't see too well. But you can see

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there's, we're using the green and the gold
cause

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that's George Mason's colors. But we have
our internal

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temperature, external temperature, internal
humidity and outside humidity.

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And if the numbers seem low for the temperature,

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that's cause we're using Celsius. We're, I
guess, cause,

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we're not all on the imperial system. And
that's

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the weight in kilograms. And, and what this
is,

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is it's a, it's, it's being wirelessly served.
So

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you walk up to the beehive, open up your

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laptop, connect to the beehive, and then navigate
to

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beehive dot local and then this pops up and

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you can see the current statistics in the
hive.

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And how did we do this? And we did

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this simply with a series of chron jobs. And,

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if you're unfamiliar with how chron works,
you, you,

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the first one is running at zero and twelve

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hours, so midnight, noon. Second one's running
at midnight,

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six AM, noon, six PM, and, and so forth.

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And, and that's it. Like, three, three simple
scripts

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and it's gathering all our information.

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And this is an example of one of our

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scripts. So making a little, little, an instance
of

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our sensor, defining a couple of directories
and, if

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you see, directories are in the public, the
public

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folder, and the reason, again is just to sort

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of keep it simple. If one of the researchers

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wants to, to get access to the CSE file

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when they're logged onto beehive dot local,
they just

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type in inhumid dot csv and it downloads to

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their computer or their tablet or whatever
they're using.

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and it's as simple as just writing the humidity

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and the temperature into two different CSV
files and

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that's it. And same thing for the outside.
And

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so you're probably thinking well, it's hard
to get

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it up on the dashboard. And, but, it's not.

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Dashing makes this simple. Every thousand
seconds I'm, I'm

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opening up the, the CSV file and then sending

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it to the dashboard.

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And it's as simple as that. It's, you know.

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Nothing too complicated.

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And this is the, the Python code, but I'm

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not gonna explain. It was, came with the scale,

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so I didn't bother redoing it in Ruby. But

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now that our scale's having issues I'm going
to

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work on a new solution with a RubyGem.

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And the other thing we used is we used

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Passenger. Just as for our server. We used
a

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couple LInux packagages for our, basically
creating our wireless

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access point. And the, a wireless, and DHCP
server.

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And that was it.

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This is simple. And I think it's so simple

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that anyone here can do it. Anyone who's been

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doing Ruby on Rails for at least, least a

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week, maybe two, like there's nothing to it.
And

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I want you all here to go out and

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do stuff like this.

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Because I think we're all amazing, and we,
we

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sometimes, we sometimes get this sense in
our head

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that, you know, we, we have all these problems

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and we're living in this kind of ivory tower

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that isn't really representative of, you know,
the rest

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of the, rest of the country. Like, we're kind

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of the silk on valet mindset. It's like oh,

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I gotta get my queuing speed down from point

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six milliseconds to point five eight milliseconds,
or I

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have to, I have to get my tests to

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run faster. Make DHH happy.

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Or, you know, we have all these issues, but

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you know the vast majority of people, like
I

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work in the, in a university, and I see

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every day people emailing spreadsheets back
and forth. They

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email text files back and forth. And like
all

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these solutions that are just horrible. And
really educators

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they need our help. And they need us to

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get involved in projects like this.

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And it's super easy to get involved in these

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kind of things. Like, I, I'm involved in three

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projects right now and all of them I got

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involved with just by going to see a Professor

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talk and then after his talk or her talk

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I, you know, I just asked them questions.

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Cause, you know, professors, professors have
bigger egos than

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we do, as, as developers. They love to talk

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about themselves. They do. And they love to
talk

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about their research. Like even more than
we like

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to talk about our code.

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And so I know, I know you're thinking Sean

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you dirty Canadian socialist, you know, like.
Why, why

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should I do this, you know? I don't want

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to give my time for free. And I guess

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like the simplest reason is, is I run a

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Ruby meetup group, and one of the first questions

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I'm, I'm generally asked my new people is,
you

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know, how can I get involved in opensource?
Like,

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like, cause, it, opensource seems like this,
this goal

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that you want. But you just don't know how

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to get to, if you're new.

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And And, you know, doing projects that like,
projects

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like this, it really is a, is an easy

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gateway into opensource, and to, and to, you
know,

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getting opensource credentials on your, on
your resume and

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on your github. Because, you know, like it
or

00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:05.560
not, when we do apply for jobs, they do

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look at what we do in the opensource community.

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And can't really see this, but this is one

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of the, the extra benefits of, of doing a

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project like this, is, is all the puns. And

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it's like, you know, you can't really see
these

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but I gave this talk last week and every

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one of these are bee puns, like, hey, buzz

00:20:31.600 --> 00:20:33.970
off pal! You know. Sean has a tendency to

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wax on, and, what's the buzz about, and ooh

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it's gonna be sweet. It's the bee's knees!

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And so, so if this is the kind of

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thing that interests you and, and you might
want

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to go out and get involved in, I'd really

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like you to check out Ruby for Good, and

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it's a conference we're gonna be putting on
in

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the Washington, DC area. The first to third
of

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August. We're gonna be staying in the Dorms
at

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the University. We're gonna hack on opensource
social good

00:21:03.060 --> 00:21:04.800
projects.

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It's gonna be 72 people. We're aiming for
$200

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or less, and that's all inclusive of your
lodging,

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your food, everything. You just have to get
their.

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You're welcome to come a day early for no

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extra cost and we're gonna probably do something
fun

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the day before. Maybe go do a nighttime tour

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of the DC monuments or something. Not quite
sure.

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And, and also maybe to make it more appealing

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for your work, we're gonna hold, we're gonna
have

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some training sessions on the second day.
We have

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one of the guys from the RSpec core team

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coming out, gonna give a workshop on RSpec.
We

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have a guy giving a workshop on Angular. And

00:21:37.560 --> 00:21:40.440
another one of the JSON API committers doing
a

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workshop on creating APIs.

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And that's my talk in a nutshell. Thank you

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so much for your time and are there any

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questions?