AsyncAPI Let's talk about contributing, 20 Oct 2022

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Learn how to contribute to AsyncAPI Initiative as a designer
https://github.com/asyncapi/community/issues/495

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Hello, everyone Hi um I'm your host for today, I'm hey, it's my name and yeah. Welcome to another live stream of. Let's talk about contributing, um so I'm gonna, say hashtag, October, first, so I hope we have an amazing session today and with me, I have a very very oh, let me say, an important guest um with me and yeah so before I introduce what I have with me today and What's. The title of today's live stream is, um firstly, I.

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I want to inform you guys that the sapi conference is fast approaching and yeah in two weeks time. We'll have the second pie conference and yeah, so we we also I need if you, if you want to volunteer for this. For this event, in whatever ways um please feel free to join the slack channel. uh We have a new um channel on slack called conference 2022 or just indicate or signify you're interested in volunteering and yeah. You can also do that in whatever Channel you find yourself on the stock Channel yeah.

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So that's that I'm looking forward to seeing you guys at the conference- and yes, so today with me. uh Okay, let me say the title of today's live stream is actually how to start contributing to a single pi as a designer. So I was like, oh what's the best way to actually like make this thing fun. If not, let's have a contributor that is also a designer after Singapore Then I, then we then I reach out to her and she was like yeah. Why not?

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Let's do this, and now today, with me, I have an amazing person. I love the contributor and an awesome designer called Maya on call with me today, so I'm breaking out of state now and yep, hey Maya,.

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Hi, how are you doing.

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I'm saying I know about you.

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Yeah I'm doing grades also, um thank you so much for joining this call. I really appreciate. um So before we probably get started. um Would you love to introduce yourself.

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Yes, okay, so my name is Aisha magadine, but I love to be called Maya designer.

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Have a design contribute to our eating API.

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Yeah, so everyone meets Maya, um Maya I would love to I I love to go by I love to call her um Maya the open source designer so Maya's found a way in the contribution to open source, and here she is Artistic API, um so so Maya before before we get started going in depth about today's um session or today's live stream. um Would you love to tell us how you actually started doing design.

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Thank you, so I started designing this year wow earlier this year, yeah and I fell in love with design because I love the uh user experience Parts the fact that you have to understand the users before designing an interface or designing products for them. So that makes me fall in love with our design and the research path. So.

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Awesome so you started designing this year. That's that's great, but it actually looks like it's been designing for a while.

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No like for real, you know, I've seen your contributions of saying W interact with the community and all I could say is someone that has so much more experience than a year.

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That's awesome, um um Maya, so I want to tell us how you actually had about open source because to be honest, I'm curious right, so I've, I, barely say designers. You know contributing to open source, and here you are um so. How do you first say about open source.

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Okay, so I love um open source seriously. There are a lot of opportunities for design dance out there, but I think many designers or most designers do not know about this, and probably that is why we are not watching open source but I love. The fact that even Asin API, like is a lovely Community, I love everybody there and it's so fun and I like it.

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Yeah, that's also but see it like. How did you find out about open source.

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Okay, so um this year, I guess I wanted to join the technical uh writer for the um Google season of dogs yeah, but I wasn't selected, probably because I don't have the knowledge. So um then I reached out to Ace that how do I get started as an officer designer and uh yes at Eastern API.

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So it told me about what I'm supposed to do, but then I just don't understand what open source is all about, so I didn't join them so this year, sorry, this month again or probably last month, I reached out to Ace. He had to tell me more about it.

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You know you try this best explained everything to me and I was like Oh Maya. It's time. It's time you join open source like we have. We have to do this this month this year, so I joined.

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That was, that was an awesome. That was that that's that's an awesome Journey like to be honest, so you you actually uh we're interested in Google in Google system of Docs.

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Was that's stunning because I I had no idea? Are you actually like interested in Google season of dogs? So you stumbled upon open source via your interest in Google Assistant of dogs and.

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So you never knew um open source also like includes designers, not just technical writers and not just um developers right so and yeah. You've you've done a couple of designs for async API. What what was the experience like so far.

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Okay, sorry I didn't get that part because the network was breaking.

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Yeah so um I said, you've done a couple of contributions, right design contributions to async API. So what was the experience like so far.

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It was the experience like so far.

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Me as designer I did uh it's an API was the speaker card for the uh online conference that is going to be happening on November 3rd of this year and I felt so happy like for the first time, I'm doing something that almost everybody is going to use like it's all about Twitter or LinkedIn. I was like whoa Maya did this.

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It was really fun. It was really really hot and also yeah.

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That's that's. That's definitely. um You know, let me just say, as a as a code contributor to open source right. We also have these awesome feeling right right once your pull request gets merged and you're like all over the hair, like you are like the best, the best contributor in the world. You keep telling your friends, oh God, my protocols got mad like you can't just get over the feelings right. Is that the same way, you feel also.

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I felt I felt more than that like I felt super super happy.

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Yeah because I I think I saw I saw um one of your tweets on Twitter right and you're like I. Did this and I was like? You know.

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That's that is that is that is interesting.

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Maya, um so I I can see you're you're having um a really nice experience so far right so, and I I also like I, have one more thing right, because I know the fact that uh designers in open source isn't as as big as how um you know, technical writing or developing his in open source right and I say one of the one of the barriers that I know so far like, in my honest opinion, is actually GitHub right, um like you know, formula with GitHub and how it works like.

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How is that going so far for you as a designer, you know, emitting yourself in a different environment.

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Okay, so for the gtop I would thank Lucas for that, like he has been helping helping help. You never get.

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Tired, oh really shout out to my boy Lucas.

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I'll be like like how do I, how do I do this request? Am I supposed to do something? I, don't even know, I, don't even know what to do. What am I supposed to do. Just like calm down. Okay, you do this, you can do this yeah and another thing about the uh g-top stuff. Is that I think it was designed like it's not for everybody, probably just for this, uh for developers and probably technical writers, so because, even as a designer like they have uh private, the platform does not feel welcoming to me.

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I, don't feel like I want to use this platform because I don't know just somehow to me, like it's all, just cold and cold I, don't even understand, but thank God. Thank you. Lucas.

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Oh really so, basically um saved you um around our Guitar Works yeah. That's that's that's! That is awesome. That is awesome, oh because, based on what I see right, do you at some point um because I say because I can say from um some of your GitHub discussions or build up issues? I can see you will actually creating issues right anyway, um submitting um Tracy design prototypes and, at some point I think I saw something like your pull request got merged.

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Much that, like yeah, what do you say.

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I said: did you did you submit a request.

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Yeah, can you hear me.

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Yes, I can but I didn't get your last question a problem. Yeah.

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I said: did you submit a pull request.

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My pull request, yeah I, was explaining that I said Lucas helped with that. Did this 50 minutes video for me to watch oh and I kept watching like five times so good. That's not what it's all about. So I was able to create the full request. Then black government I was happy.

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Awesome so it's you know, it's not. It sounds kind of um I, don't know what to say, because I'm like you're a designer right so I'm, actually coming from the point of a of a novice, sir right so you're a designer you, you create some design, some design stuff on on on figma or whatever design tools you're using right. So how does that end up being a pro request right, do you do you write some code? Do you convert? Do you convert your designs to code or I'm kind of lost? To be honest,.

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No, no, no I didn't do any code. I don't even know how it's good I, don't even understand that part. So all I did was that once I'm done with my designs, I get to uh the top.

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Then, uh for example, when I did the speaker cards, he he showed me how to do it like how to create the requests and I. Under the uh g-top platform, I went to async API websites, then I created a folder for speaker cards, then I had to add all of my files by downloading them on figment and I added it to the uh g-top, the speaker cards on YouTube and that's all wow.

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That was that is amazing, that that would be an amazing experience. To be honest, thank you. You gotta, you got your request, match yeah I, know, I, know that feeling I love, that feeling and to be honest, Your Design, is out there on social media. You know on Twitter on LinkedIn, about about the speakers and I'm like yeah Maya, actually did this I'll I'll as a friend as the feeling got down as it's as a feeling reduced, or you still have that feeling everything every time you say what you did.

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I'm telling you I have the feeling all day, all night I wonder Deposit. They gave us like I hope this is.

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Awesome, like that's, that is awesome. So how do you think? How do you think open source is contributing to your career so far,.

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um Is really helping me trust me, like I've, made amazing set of people like people. I would actually go to any time that oh I need your help and they are always ready to help. Somebody like you, like new cars, like Missy, like everybody in the community seriously open sources is where everybody just have to be like. Okay, you have to be open to Corrections too right, because.

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Of scary, it's scary actually, for somebody like me, I'm so emotional, that if you say something that is so bad to me, I might cry, but then I have to culture myself, I'm ready for this, and it's so fun trust me I, really love it.

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Great so I I have I have was, as you were saying, this I think I kept having this and like playing all over my mind and I was saying: oh, you know, I just have to ask you, um you know um so from the typical corporate environment right. So if you, if you're a designer and you design something and I I I'm a developer on your team in which I have to like Implement Your Design right.

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So when I when I Implement, you know I didn't I, don't even know this, this um stuff that goes on on Twitter, uh what a design versus what I got right. So in a corporate environment you know, you'd have to like do some Pixel Perfect um implementation of whatever design you provided for them for the developer right. So, like and I said like this is open source right. You know, we don't have you know whatever manager. You know people are doing these based on.

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Let me just say that put on sharing to like contribute, just like yourself right so in a scenario whereby you actually designed um a particular user interface for a second API right and a contributor that is a contributor that is an engineer or a developer, trying to like Implement Your Design didn't actually implement it to your taste. How would you agree about that.

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Okay, I feel kind of bad like okay. This is not what I designed. So why did you do it like this, but then, as I said, the fact that it is an open source environment and everybody we have. uh We are staying in the different times when we are using in different time zone. It's just for me to talk to the person and explain to him or her, and it refuse what he did is way better. Then it's fine I'm after that, it's good.

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Yo, uh to be honest and I think yeah we have at a cdpi. We have an amazing community of of reviewers right.

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So, if you, if so I, believe as a designer, if you design something um your design, gets reviewed by people like Missy, Alejandra, magic Lucas, so the if, if I myself as a developer and I'm, trying to like Implement your design and I, wasn't designing or I wasn't implementing what you actually designed so I believe folks like that, would actually you know try to like comment or review whatever implementation, I'm doing, yeah I'm, saying, hey, hey, see, you're, not doing it according to how Maya actually designed it right.

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So I have like tried to like make sure I made whatever it is a design and that that's one of the things about this community. We you get a lot of reviews like on whatever it is you're doing.

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So uh I have so another question: uh Maya is actually. How do you think we can? We can you know, bridge the gap between open source and designers, so your designer right so and I believe you have more knowledge on how the ecosystem of design works right other than high and I'll second, so at the sick API. So one of our goals is also to like make sure it is.

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One of our goals is to make sure we are accumulated accessible to all types of contributors right, which also includes designers and I can say like, even because generally, the the barrier between designers and open source is currently. Oh boy is currently not favoring right and we are trying also to also make sure we Bridge, we bring it closer right. So how do you think we can? We can start doing that? How do we think we can law designers to to start contributing more to to open source and to reset API.

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Okay, so I think the first thing we need to do is to create more awareness like it's not actually our faults. Somebody like me, I, don't even know uh open source uh for everybody, I didn't know, I didn't know, I just saw developers and all that technique. So um people I didn't know that as a designer to open source, so I think we should create more awareness, like somebody like me, I'll, be able to tell my dad designers that we've seen that.

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Okay, even if you finish your boot camp and you're thinking of what to do the best way to get on board, is to start with open source. Yeah, create awareness.

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So, when you say create awareness, are you saying it starts? You know using our social media undos to preach about open source and how open source can be beneficial to to designers.

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Yeah we can start from there too. Yes, it's nice.

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Okay, great, that's, that's I! Think! That's one way to go about it and yeah I will definitely like me personally. I think that is one thing I I want to do is to just bring more designers into open source and async API in general, so I I think that's that's what I'll do so. What what and so one thing I also want to ask, is based based on your experience so far right what what idea like? What? What advice? Would you give um any designer that is looking for to like their joint open source.

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Yeah, can you hear me.

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Hello: okay, so what uh advice can I give designers I want to mention to open source right.

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Thank you that okay, like being in open cells, is not just all about. When you create the pull request you get married immediately. You have to understand that this is an open source. We have different people with different ideologies, individual differences, you just have to understand other people and the patients like okay. If you send a message to someone and don't reply on time, you just have to be patient and trust me find your way.

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Okay, awesome, that's that's a wonderful! That's! A wonderful um advice, so open source requires a lot of patience right. So if you, if you're, not patient um I, don't think open sources for you. Oh yeah! Definitely!

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So what are you? What are some issues? You're? Actually working on now artistic API, as as? Oh, some, pending issues you have currently.

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Okay, so um I I want to work on the use cases, the open source- oh sorry, 18, AP, High East cases and to design um and interface, which shows like case studies from other um other companies like we have this plane. Okay, we have the document already so I'm to implement that by creating a user interface that shows that okay, we have other companies like how other companies use their sorry. Our users use the companies to you know and I have another one API website, I think those are the two pending uh designs.

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I have for now.

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I'm, sorry, when you say when you say, is it API website? Are you saying a particular part of the website or you you're, trying to like redesign your website or something.

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Okay, okay website and I was like what she's trying to get inside your website. Oh no, that can't be true.

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No! No! No! No! No! That's sorry.

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Yeah definitely I'm actually looking forward to you know, saying your next designs on how um so I think an example. I think I'll actually be working closer to you. Also on the on the use cases. um I think um cash also would be there. So I can't wait to see your design contributions, Maya um yeah, so that's that's. That is amazing.

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So, do you have any anything, you'd love to hide or any questions.

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You have a very shy persons if I have any questions. Yeah.

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No, no okay, so I the fact that I I've learned Maya today Maya is very very shy. You're gonna say a camera is not available.

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Okay, how's that now.

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Yes, so why should those dark? So that's, that's! um That's everything about Maya and how she started. um You know contributing to music API as a designer, so if you're a designer out there or or that's interested in contributing to open source, so I believe it should give physical Pi a shot right. So we have a lot of design issues um that you can pick from and we have amazing community members that are that are always there to like help. You contribute and definitely um in the next.

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So this this live stream, isn't just about you know October 1st right so even after the Oktoberfest, which is um a week from now we'll stick continue to like Host this. This live stream um and yeah I'll be hosting a lot of people and yeah. Sometimes within um some workshops you know, writing codes on the call and contributing from the course so a lot of interesting things to like discuss. uh Yes, so um are you sharing this? Are you sharing the links now Maya.

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Yeah so um chats.

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Yeah so I just shared your Guitar bundle on the call so feel free to no can you can you share your Twitter handle? Also that's the focus. I want to reach out to you via Twitter, okay or we could we could. We could also drop some a follow.

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So uh Maya, so do you do you? Plan to you know, contribute to open source for a couple of for a while or like what was a long time. So your contribution to open source.

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Okay, I'm in for full-time, like pricing, API, really interesting, yeah.

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I'm pretty sure you should just change, uh maybe your your username to um designer.

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Yes, so um I'm pretty sure I don't have any questions to ask you again: Maya and yeah I'm, also like looking forward to like or seeing you on how to contribute um live stream some other time. Maybe this time you would eventually be. You know, designing some things and opening the pre-request and yeah some review on the call right. That would make much more fun, but I will save that for some other days, um so I think for now. That's everything I have day and yeah see you next time, Maya bye, Maya. Thank you.

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Yeah, so that's that's Maya, so I just brought in Maya Maya is an open source designer, like I love, to call it that right. So she started you. You just heard a story about how she started doing different sauce and how she started dining in general right and how amazing the community is right. So we are also looking for designers. So if you designer and you're looking for experience, so I can say like open source is the best.

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It's your best bet right and also- and if you, if you are fortunate enough to like stumble at the city bi, then I promise you. That would be your best experience, because we have amazing community of people here at the SQL that are willing to help you so and also one before before, I go. I would love to remind you folks about the escape by conference, which is in two weeks right. So if you will I can I can't wait to like see you guys there, and we are also looking for volunteers once more gay.

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So if you're interested in volunteering, please feel free to reach out to also to the community. On slack so yeah I'm, your host for today, Ace um see you guys next time, bye.