[01:06.640 --> 01:10.100]  I hope you
[01:21.650 --> 01:24.070]  are applauding yourselves, because you all deserve it.
[01:24.950 --> 01:28.750]  I've been to a lot of HOPEs, and this was the best one.
[01:29.510 --> 01:31.350]  No doubt about it.
[01:31.930 --> 01:39.170]  And the reason it was the best one is because it's a milestone, it's a change, it's something brand new.
[01:39.170 --> 01:44.070]  And you guys set the tone and made this into a really awesome event.
[01:45.450 --> 01:47.570]  For many years, we were at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
[01:47.570 --> 01:48.470]  We all miss it.
[01:49.090 --> 01:52.850]  Unfortunately, it's rubble now, pretty much, on the way to being rubble.
[01:53.010 --> 01:55.270]  But this, this is the future.
[01:55.450 --> 01:56.270]  We have space.
[01:56.870 --> 01:58.230]  We have enthusiasm.
[01:58.970 --> 02:02.270]  We have all kinds of new people that are joining us for the first time.
[02:02.390 --> 02:04.510]  And now we show the world what we can do.
[02:05.850 --> 02:08.470]  We had less people here than we were planning for.
[02:08.670 --> 02:11.350]  And we did that intentionally because of the situation.
[02:12.110 --> 02:13.550]  It's not about making money.
[02:13.670 --> 02:14.490]  It's about making history.
[02:14.830 --> 02:16.190]  That's what we wanted to do with this event.
[02:16.430 --> 02:18.130]  And I think you all accomplished that.
[02:24.230 --> 02:26.330]  We're going to hear from a bunch of people up here.
[02:26.550 --> 02:28.190]  I want to thank all the volunteers.
[02:28.530 --> 02:32.790]  I want to thank St. John's and the people there who helped us so much.
[02:32.790 --> 02:34.490]  They're awesome to work with.
[02:34.650 --> 02:37.870]  And they made things really, really easy and pleasant.
[02:38.890 --> 02:42.070]  And it just was one of the best events I've ever attended.
[02:42.070 --> 02:43.050]  Not just a HOPE event.
[02:43.750 --> 02:56.190]  So, again, I can't thank all of you enough for making this such a pleasant and fairly problem-free event for all of us who have worked so hard for the last bunch of months.
[02:56.850 --> 03:05.650]  But I also want to thank all the volunteers, the hard workers here that you'll hear from in a moment that have been basically up for the last four or five days.
[03:06.710 --> 03:08.010]  So, I guess, Greg?
[03:08.650 --> 03:09.610]  We'll bring up Alex.
[03:10.410 --> 03:11.210]  Okay, Alex.
[03:11.590 --> 03:11.930]  Come on.
[03:21.270 --> 03:22.030]  Sorry about that.
[03:22.130 --> 03:22.650]  Oh, no worries.
[03:22.930 --> 03:23.430]  No worries.
[03:23.690 --> 03:24.070]  Yeah.
[03:43.780 --> 03:44.540]  There we go.
[03:45.860 --> 03:46.600]  All right.
[03:46.740 --> 03:47.460]  We are live.
[03:48.560 --> 03:49.160]  Let's see.
[03:49.300 --> 03:49.500]  Maybe.
[03:49.780 --> 03:50.300]  Hold on.
[03:51.540 --> 03:52.320]  All right.
[03:52.640 --> 03:55.140]  Let's talk about the HOPE NOC.
[03:56.740 --> 04:05.400]  So, as many of you know, the past of the Hotel Pennsylvania was challenging for a ton of reasons to build a network at.
[04:06.680 --> 04:08.120]  So, there were a lot of challenges.
[04:08.420 --> 04:11.260]  We had to, you know, run dark fiber to 111 8th Avenue.
[04:11.460 --> 04:13.580]  We had to cross-connect with Hurricane Electric and Equinix.
[04:13.760 --> 04:27.340]  We had to pull fiber between many floors of the Hotel Pennsylvania, get our own public IP addresses, autonomous system number for BGP, configure a bunch of things all in under a day with no budget and only volunteers.
[04:36.160 --> 04:44.520]  So, when we first started, you know, hearing about having an event at a university, obviously, the environment's a little bit different.
[04:44.520 --> 04:46.340]  It's not a single building.
[04:46.500 --> 04:47.520]  It's an entire campus.
[04:48.240 --> 04:51.800]  There's many unknown unknowns that we have to figure out in advance.
[04:52.460 --> 04:58.900]  But fortunately, to our surprise, I mean, it is a university after all, there is an IT team here.
[04:59.380 --> 05:05.160]  And we were able to interface with them and do a lot of prep work in advance, which was a huge advantage for us.
[05:06.000 --> 05:08.720]  The planning process actually started in 2019.
[05:09.040 --> 05:13.680]  We had an on-site visit here at St. John's so we could walk all the different venues.
[05:13.920 --> 05:20.220]  And at the time, we were expecting that, you know, hope would be at the normal level of attendees.
[05:20.220 --> 05:26.640]  And so we were looking at additional venues on campus, including the auditorium, cafeteria, gym, the fields.
[05:26.820 --> 05:32.060]  And we really wanted to make something special here at St. John's, which we were definitely able to do this time.
[05:32.060 --> 05:34.960]  But it was a much smaller venue, as you guys know.
[05:36.380 --> 05:43.600]  So then, you know, obviously, due to COVID conditions, hope ended up being completely virtual in 2020.
[05:47.400 --> 05:55.540]  With the conference back on for 2022, we actually had to go back and reevaluate the considerations that we had made and determine how to proceed.
[05:55.900 --> 05:59.140]  What would the attendance be like due to COVID?
[05:59.460 --> 06:01.580]  What buildings would we actually look to cover?
[06:01.900 --> 06:08.340]  Would we need to bring in our own connectivity like we did at Hotel Pennsylvania, get an AS, IP addresses, all of those things?
[06:08.880 --> 06:17.500]  And if we were going to go through that effort, would we attempt to stand up infrastructure ourselves and cover all of these locations on campus?
[06:17.900 --> 06:20.760]  And how would we get fiber between those locations?
[06:21.880 --> 06:23.720]  So there was just a lot of unknowns.
[06:24.540 --> 06:30.240]  We had a bunch of conversations with the IT team, and we decided, you know, they seem to have their stuff together.
[06:30.920 --> 06:44.320]  Let's try to leverage the physical infrastructure and some of the, you know, tools that they have in place to enable us to deliver service really across the entire campus, as opposed to just the buildings that we're in.
[06:44.660 --> 06:47.220]  But of course, what would that architecture look like?
[06:47.220 --> 06:57.100]  So we did an initial design where we split wireless and just some general server traffic on a single VLAN.
[06:57.320 --> 07:03.120]  And then we had a separate VLAN for the physical connectivity for all of the AV equipment.
[07:03.120 --> 07:04.980]  So that was completely independent.
[07:05.140 --> 07:08.400]  And we spanned that across the entirety of the campus.
[07:09.160 --> 07:22.300]  But we had a lot of considerations in this new architecture because not only did we need to address our requirements as a security conference, but we also had to be cognizant of what the university's concerns were.
[07:22.620 --> 07:26.020]  And so that planning process was very different because it wasn't just us.
[07:26.580 --> 07:30.920]  So we had recurring meetings with that IT team.
[07:31.120 --> 07:40.200]  We wanted to make sure that attendees would want to utilize the network that we put in place, as opposed to trying to jump onto the other networks that they have in place for the campus.
[07:41.540 --> 07:50.340]  We wanted to do things like enabling layer two isolation between attendees because we wanted to use internal IPs as opposed to public IPs.
[07:50.880 --> 07:54.640]  We were concerned about session overflow or overload attacks.
[07:54.860 --> 08:02.920]  And so we actually set up an overload NAT on their firewalls upstream to be able to NAT out of multiple public IP addresses.
[08:03.640 --> 08:12.300]  We had to address PCI concerns, concerns around the capture of the flag and how that would be isolated from the general conference network.
[08:12.780 --> 08:18.400]  And of course, ensuring that there was ample connectivity to the places that you all would be frequently spending time.
[08:19.060 --> 08:23.960]  And to our surprise, there are certain buildings that there's only one gig of connectivity to.
[08:24.220 --> 08:29.540]  And in the case of Little Theater, there was literally no physical connectivity into there.
[08:29.540 --> 08:36.140]  And so they actually had to punch a hole through the wall on the stage and pull fiber in for us.
[08:45.030 --> 08:46.810]  But what about the external connectivity?
[08:47.050 --> 08:48.910]  So this is a university after all.
[08:49.190 --> 08:52.090]  They actually have very solid external connectivity.
[08:52.090 --> 08:54.950]  They bring in 40 gigabits of Internet transit.
[08:54.950 --> 09:03.390]  And with their current utilization over the weekends, you had over 39 gigabits at your disposal to consume.
[09:03.850 --> 09:05.590]  So quite a bit of capacity.
[09:05.790 --> 09:15.770]  And on average, we're seeing about 200 megabits per second of connectivity over wireless, with the exception of Little Theater because we had some limited infrastructure from a wireless perspective in there.
[09:17.910 --> 09:24.990]  To our surprise, when we actually showed up on campus the day before, everything was already up from a wireless perspective.
[09:25.010 --> 09:32.170]  They had thrown a temporary DHCP server on the wireless network controller, and we were able to get connectivity right away.
[09:32.530 --> 09:33.890]  So that was a pleasant surprise.
[09:33.890 --> 09:39.270]  We didn't have to do a lot of things to set up wireless because we had already planned everything out, and they executed it to the T.
[09:40.090 --> 09:47.070]  All we had left to do was pull some wire from patches that they already had in place at the locations that we had identified.
[09:47.530 --> 09:51.070]  And we deployed a new DHCP and DNS server.
[09:51.390 --> 09:54.610]  So we at least played some role in the network topology.
[09:57.490 --> 10:00.110]  But did you actually utilize the bandwidth that we provided?
[10:00.410 --> 10:01.910]  So the answer is no.
[10:02.170 --> 10:03.550]  It was actually quite weak.
[10:04.330 --> 10:12.370]  So there was only 891 devices on the network, and we had no attendee servers in the knock-knock.
[10:12.850 --> 10:14.990]  But we did have the capability available.
[10:15.150 --> 10:19.850]  In fact, we brought some servers along just in case somebody wanted to spend something up and didn't have one.
[10:20.510 --> 10:24.710]  As of noon today, our peak was around 600 megabits per second.
[10:25.950 --> 10:33.230]  But comparing our utilization, which is this graph, to the entirety of the campus, it was actually a fraction.
[10:35.250 --> 10:38.050]  Some of the cool network use cases that we had.
[10:38.250 --> 10:47.910]  So for the defensive computing talk, we actually configured a man-in-the-middle attack on sports.yahoo.com on the main conference network.
[10:48.590 --> 10:59.070]  We also changed the default DNS servers for DHCP from Google DNS to our own DNS server, which enabled us to do that hijack.
[10:59.070 --> 11:03.070]  And not a lot of you actually noticed or cared to change your DNS servers.
[11:03.250 --> 11:04.390]  So I'm a little disappointed.
[11:06.610 --> 11:11.330]  Some of the things that we were able to identify in terms of the top queries.
[11:12.710 --> 11:19.090]  We also saw some interesting protocols on the network, including Telnet and Redis.
[11:19.250 --> 11:20.590]  What the heck are you guys doing?
[11:24.200 --> 11:26.260]  I didn't even know Telnet was still a thing.
[11:26.460 --> 11:26.740]  Come on.
[11:26.820 --> 11:27.880]  It's 2022, people.
[11:29.840 --> 11:33.280]  We set up a quote-unquote more secure wireless network.
[11:33.280 --> 11:46.040]  So we leveraged Fortinet's Fortisasi offering to extend IPsec and VXLAN from their Ashburn data center to a new local wireless network called Why Believe I Can Fi in D'Angelo.
[11:46.040 --> 11:48.880]  So if you saw that network, that's what that was.
[11:49.680 --> 11:53.160]  And I just wanted to give a shout-out to our sponsors.
[11:53.440 --> 11:57.760]  So obviously St. John's University, their IT team was outstanding in this process.
[11:57.760 --> 11:59.500]  We really couldn't have done this without them.
[12:00.180 --> 12:05.640]  You know, even covering the consolidated footprint that we had would have been challenging getting over to Little Theatre.
[12:05.640 --> 12:17.020]  And obviously the volunteers of the HOPE NOC team, Fortinet, which is my employer, definitely couldn't have done it without them giving me the time to focus on this.
[12:17.220 --> 12:19.980]  And Excelex, who provided some of the infrastructure as well.
[12:20.240 --> 12:21.360]  So thank you very much.
[12:36.890 --> 12:37.450]  Okay.
[12:38.090 --> 12:42.850]  So I'm going to be really quick in comparison talking about just tickets and registration.
[12:43.490 --> 12:50.550]  So the system that sent all of you tickets this past Monday was actually written about two weekends ago.
[12:50.710 --> 12:54.330]  It's a pile of Python and Bash code, but it seems to work pretty well.
[12:54.750 --> 13:02.170]  Despite some battles with Gmail spam filtering, just about all of you seem to have actually gotten a barcode.
[13:02.950 --> 13:10.750]  Probably thanks to COVID, we did see a few less people actually showing up at the door compared to having bought tickets compared with other years.
[13:10.750 --> 13:14.110]  We still had over 900 of you here this weekend.
[13:14.370 --> 13:18.370]  And at peak times, we actually were checking in 160 of you an hour.
[13:18.670 --> 13:24.370]  We don't think we ever saw a line over eight people, just in terms of things coming in and being fairly smooth.
[13:25.050 --> 13:27.450]  So I
[13:32.030 --> 13:40.990]  want to give a shout out to the people that made that happen, which is our volunteers who helped the staff, helped get people scanned in, and helped get your badge as quickly as possible.
[13:40.990 --> 13:45.910]  I also wanted to give a special thank you to the team from Operation Hammond.
[13:46.370 --> 13:48.750]  Not that Hammond, it's a different Hammond.
[13:49.310 --> 13:59.010]  Who worked with us throughout the weekend, doing COVID-19 vaccination checks, getting you wristbands, and again, getting you into the conference as quickly and safely as possible.
[13:59.330 --> 13:59.690]  Thank you.
[14:07.700 --> 14:09.600]  Give me a sec here, we'll get connected.
[14:11.320 --> 14:17.220]  So we're inviting only a fraction of some of the key folks that were involved in the event here.
[14:17.320 --> 14:18.480]  We have a couple of remote folks.
[14:18.580 --> 14:21.580]  Could we pull up on Zoom and just for a moment say hi to Aesthetics and Tara?
[14:21.820 --> 14:22.480]  Would that be okay?
[14:23.150 --> 14:24.260]  Let's see if we can do that.
[14:25.290 --> 14:26.030]  There they are.
[14:26.100 --> 14:26.360]  Hi.
[14:27.510 --> 14:27.910]  Hello.
[14:30.680 --> 14:31.080]  Hi.
[14:31.080 --> 14:31.120]  Hi.
[14:33.030 --> 14:35.500]  So Tara served as a press liaison.
[14:36.060 --> 14:41.820]  Aesthetics did a whole lot of work within the infrastructure side, website, matrix, a lot of coordination.
[14:42.200 --> 14:43.460]  What I'm going to do...
[14:43.460 --> 14:45.820]  Let's see if this will...
[14:45.820 --> 14:47.080]  I think...
[14:47.080 --> 14:47.580]  Oh, okay.
[14:47.740 --> 14:48.140]  HDMI.
[14:48.980 --> 14:49.760]  Bear with me a sec.
[14:49.880 --> 14:50.220]  Where'd it go?
[14:54.810 --> 14:56.110]  Continue to bear with me a sec.
[14:57.750 --> 14:58.370]  There we go.
[15:03.140 --> 15:04.120]  Am I still not...
[15:08.560 --> 15:09.500]  Are you not getting slides?
[15:11.620 --> 15:14.120]  This worked in rehearsal perfectly fine.
[15:15.140 --> 15:15.760]  Yeah, yeah.
[15:16.020 --> 15:16.540]  Oh, you know what?
[15:16.680 --> 15:17.180]  Okay, wait a minute.
[15:22.500 --> 15:23.140]  There it is.
[15:23.540 --> 15:25.240]  No, it was...
[15:25.820 --> 15:26.720]  I blame Apple.
[15:28.180 --> 15:29.040]  I do too.
[15:29.280 --> 15:29.540]  Okay.
[15:30.300 --> 15:30.700]  Okay.
[15:31.160 --> 15:32.740]  So there's so many thanks.
[15:32.940 --> 15:35.980]  And we did our best to remember everyone, but we're not going to remember everyone.
[15:35.980 --> 15:38.220]  So the first thing is volunteers.
[15:38.880 --> 15:39.640]  We're all volunteers.
[15:40.240 --> 15:41.200]  Hundreds of volunteers.
[15:41.220 --> 15:53.440]  If you volunteered, by the way, for some number of hours, didn't get a shirt, stop by the 2600 store that's going to be open until at least, I think, 7:30 or so, and get your nice green volunteer shirt.
[15:53.700 --> 15:55.300]  This is a volunteer-driven conference.
[15:55.300 --> 16:01.640]  We know it's not a free conference, but it's a relatively inexpensive conference that we try to have at relatively inexpensive venues.
[16:01.880 --> 16:04.000]  So thanks to everyone who volunteered.
[16:04.380 --> 16:07.680]  And if you didn't yet volunteer, there's still opportunity.
[16:07.880 --> 16:10.060]  We'll talk about that in a few minutes.
[16:10.060 --> 16:10.540]  Thanks.
[16:10.540 --> 16:11.580]  Thanks to all the volunteers.
[16:14.780 --> 16:15.400]  All right.
[16:16.680 --> 16:17.200]  And we'll...
[16:17.200 --> 16:18.140]  I'm sorry.
[16:18.300 --> 16:20.280]  Are our Operation Hammond folks in the house?
[16:21.200 --> 16:21.920]  Yeah, please.
[16:22.080 --> 16:22.280]  Come on.
[16:22.340 --> 16:22.660]  Come on up.
[16:34.640 --> 16:44.940]  So, contrary to past events that I've been part of, we had a pretty solid plan for safety and wellness and security and related things.
[16:45.060 --> 16:48.160]  And we talked about this during opening ceremonies, so I'm not going to repeat it.
[16:48.360 --> 16:51.620]  And a key component of that plan was Operation Hammond.
[16:52.020 --> 16:56.380]  Operation Hammond is an organization which has a separate existence.
[16:56.420 --> 16:59.600]  They exist year-round, unlike HOPE, which we spin up every couple of years.
[17:00.080 --> 17:01.560]  And they were here for you.
[17:01.700 --> 17:04.960]  They were here to provide a variety of services.
[17:04.960 --> 17:07.040]  We talked about this again at opening ceremony.
[17:07.300 --> 17:09.520]  And luckily, we didn't have to provide too many of those.
[17:09.600 --> 17:11.100]  Do you want to make any remarks at all?
[17:11.380 --> 17:11.600]  Sure.
[17:12.200 --> 17:15.380]  Yeah, let me give you the microphone after part of our slides as well.
[17:15.520 --> 17:15.840]  Okay.
[17:15.980 --> 17:18.160]  Yeah, we'll keep thanking Operation Hammond.
[17:18.240 --> 17:19.160]  But go ahead, please.
[17:19.360 --> 17:19.440]  Please.
[17:20.600 --> 17:20.900]  All right.
[17:21.020 --> 17:27.240]  For those of you that were lucky enough to not catch my spiel at some point during this weekend, unfortunately for you, that luck ends now.
[17:27.600 --> 17:35.200]  So, Operation Hammond is a non-profit that provides first aid services and a lot of sarcastic commentary at conventions year-round.
[17:35.500 --> 17:39.720]  So, we're a new face at HOPE, but we are incredibly excited to be here.
[17:39.720 --> 17:42.140]  You have all welcomed us with open arms.
[17:42.300 --> 17:44.900]  As our tagline goes, nerds helping nerds in times of need.
[17:45.180 --> 17:48.040]  We're so excited to welcome the Nerds of HOPE into that fold.
[17:48.360 --> 17:55.220]  In particular, we want to thank Greg for giving us the opportunity to be here and thank all of the St. John's staff for helping this event run super smoothly.
[17:55.220 --> 17:58.340]  And we're super, super excited to see you again in 2024.
[17:59.000 --> 17:59.500]  Outstanding.
[17:59.720 --> 17:59.980]  Thank you.
[18:03.210 --> 18:04.910]  I forgot you got slides.
[18:04.970 --> 18:06.330]  Let's go ahead and do your slides now.
[18:07.810 --> 18:08.790]  We'll take a second.
[18:08.790 --> 18:13.330]  We'll take a second to switch over slides here for our safety team lead.
[18:51.670 --> 18:52.170]  Okay.
[18:52.730 --> 18:53.390]  Hi, everybody.
[18:53.690 --> 18:54.630]  I'm Andrew Strutt.
[18:54.710 --> 18:55.250]  I'm the rodent.
[18:55.370 --> 18:58.550]  I volunteer here for security services and safety services.
[18:59.090 --> 19:02.490]  I've got a quick presentation here, which will also circle back to Hammond here.
[19:02.490 --> 19:10.790]  Also, we have our cohort for Genevieve here to help with security services and safety for many years with HOPE.
[19:11.030 --> 19:14.710]  So, I think we're the last of the old school people that made it here this year.
[19:15.330 --> 19:15.650]  Yeah.
[19:15.930 --> 19:18.290]  And it's been a heck of a trip just to get here.
[19:18.450 --> 19:18.610]  Right.
[19:18.810 --> 19:22.750]  So, but big thanks to the original old school crew for Roadie, Kush, all those guys.
[19:23.090 --> 19:23.490]  Absolutely.
[19:23.710 --> 19:30.730]  So, for our team, we do want to thank the core team from 2600, Emmanuel, Greg, Mitch, Kyle, Dante, and all the other core staff members.
[19:30.870 --> 19:32.030]  We really appreciate your support.
[19:33.150 --> 19:36.430]  Myself, Genevieve, Roadie, Kush, Big Frank, all the rest of the team.
[19:36.550 --> 19:42.770]  Tom, Delchi, Michael, Ump, Lexicon, Stop A, John A, and Jerry.
[19:42.970 --> 19:43.710]  I think that's everyone.
[19:43.910 --> 19:45.190]  So, really good work from everyone.
[19:45.750 --> 19:49.770]  We've had a pretty relatively simple con in retrospect.
[19:49.830 --> 19:55.370]  So, we really appreciate everyone being who you are and working with us and everyone.
[19:55.490 --> 20:00.170]  We just wanted to stay out of your way, keep people safe, and make sure that everyone is having a great time.
[20:00.170 --> 20:08.410]  So, this is our rundown and our transparency reports to understand what we did for you guys and so on in cooperation with all the staff and Hammond.
[20:08.550 --> 20:15.290]  So, it's kind of a joke, but seriously, we did take over 9,000 Q&A questions regarding directions and so on.
[20:15.750 --> 20:19.590]  We did have a small collection of lost and found, which we still have.
[20:19.810 --> 20:23.030]  A Bank of America debit card and a Greece Bank debit card.
[20:23.350 --> 20:29.030]  So, the name BDA means anything to you and your financial life and you seem to be missing that card.
[20:29.470 --> 20:30.690]  We need to have a talk.
[20:31.190 --> 20:39.170]  We also have a sweater and so on, but we've returned a phone, a wallet, more credit cards, cables, glasses, a power bank and so on.
[20:39.190 --> 20:40.630]  So, we're happy about that.
[20:41.030 --> 20:43.350]  I actually did find four people lost in the elevator.
[20:44.230 --> 20:45.890]  I expected that at the pen.
[20:46.030 --> 20:53.130]  I didn't expect it here, but it was a very quick resolution after I went with the elevator up and down and then I realized they did not know where to get off.
[20:54.390 --> 20:55.870]  So, I helped them with that.
[20:56.030 --> 20:57.290]  So, I feel good about that.
[20:57.490 --> 21:03.070]  That's one thing I'm thankful for this time around and a lot of us are thankful for, that the elevators here function.
[21:10.470 --> 21:11.950]  And really, we all know what to do.
[21:12.070 --> 21:13.990]  We've been doing this pandemic stuff for so long.
[21:14.190 --> 21:21.530]  So, but there was, we did tally up the polite reminders that we gave people, but generally everyone was super cooperative and we really appreciate that.
[21:21.690 --> 21:23.770]  We're all concerned for everyone's health and safety and happiness.
[21:24.770 --> 21:25.790]  So, thank you.
[21:25.790 --> 21:29.870]  There was three VAX checks, but we sorted that out very quickly.
[21:30.510 --> 21:33.890]  And then we had two cleanups, you know, usually clean up on aisle three.
[21:34.070 --> 21:35.330]  We got to sort with that kind of stuff.
[21:35.850 --> 21:41.350]  And then other venue policy reminders, just because we're guests here and so on, they have some different rules and so on.
[21:41.430 --> 21:43.830]  But other than that, it was zero emergencies.
[21:44.190 --> 21:48.370]  I did hear of a Band-Aid Plus issue, something like that.
[21:48.610 --> 21:50.130]  Band-Aid Plus Plus, thank you very much.
[21:50.170 --> 21:51.470]  Band-Aid Plus Plus, thank you.
[21:51.630 --> 21:51.790]  Yep.
[21:52.410 --> 21:55.430]  And there was one code of conduct things, which we do appreciate.
[21:55.430 --> 21:57.610]  I appreciate you guys being up to speed and all that.
[21:57.870 --> 22:01.030]  So, with that being said, I'll hand it over to General Hammond.
[22:01.270 --> 22:01.870]  General Hammond?
[22:01.990 --> 22:03.470]  No, that's the wrong one.
[22:04.310 --> 22:05.310]  Is it this one?
[22:05.950 --> 22:06.670]  Is it...
[22:07.410 --> 22:09.050]  This one makes sense to me.
[22:09.330 --> 22:12.070]  Like, I was like, this has got to be the Hammond, right?
[22:12.070 --> 22:16.090]  But actually, it's these fine people.
[22:16.770 --> 22:18.910]  So, this General Hammond.
[22:25.420 --> 22:31.160]  And then I'll turn it back over to Ducky and Keith and the rest of the Operation Hammond team, which we're very thankful for.
[22:31.960 --> 22:34.220]  And I like their uniforms, so...
[22:35.780 --> 22:48.300]  I was gonna say you've already heard from me once, but at some point or another, all of you should have interfaced with me and my team at some point for vax checks, or for band-aids, or for masks, or for earplugs, or just to come and talk and have some sarcastic commentary.
[22:48.300 --> 22:56.560]  And so, I just want to call out Keith, Kit, myself, Christine, or Ducky, and then a couple other of our members which have already left, Ellie, Madison, and Lisa.
[22:56.700 --> 23:10.180]  We're really excited to be here, like I already said, and really excited to welcome you into the arms of Operation Hammond nerds, as well as hope that you continue to welcome us into your coven of hope nerds.
[23:18.910 --> 23:36.070]  And last but least, I do want to give some special thanks and mentions to the 2600 IRC network, Facebook 2600 network, all attendees, and 2600 enterprise staff, the SJU staff, security, logistics, and services, and I do want to say a special thank you to Honeypot and my daughter Squirrel.
[23:45.460 --> 23:46.600]  And we'll switch back.
[23:47.640 --> 23:50.120]  All right, this might be the last time that we switch here.
[23:53.160 --> 23:55.020]  So, continuing on...
[24:01.970 --> 24:02.490]  Momentarily...
[24:03.510 --> 24:04.030]  Yes...
[24:06.190 --> 24:06.710]  Yes...
[24:07.290 --> 24:07.810]  Yes...
[24:07.810 --> 24:08.150]  Yes...
[24:08.150 --> 24:09.350]  All right, thank you, Apple.
[24:10.430 --> 24:12.210]  And Microsoft, all of you.
[24:12.690 --> 24:15.570]  The audio-video team is a little busy right now.
[24:15.730 --> 24:18.310]  They're starting to decommission the little theater.
[24:18.470 --> 24:19.870]  They'll be working on decommissioning here.
[24:19.970 --> 24:21.050]  We'll tell you about how you can help.
[24:21.050 --> 24:26.230]  I'm going to keep prefacing or alluding to a future invitation to volunteer.
[24:27.030 --> 24:29.190]  So, audio-video, again, all volunteers.
[24:30.230 --> 24:32.610]  And there's three sort of major components.
[24:33.050 --> 24:39.650]  There's the lights, there's the sound, and then there's the video, which is stuff like this, and also the streams that are going out.
[24:39.750 --> 24:42.610]  And as you can imagine, each one of those has a little bit else going on.
[24:42.610 --> 24:48.230]  And the folks that are doing this at the HOPE conferences are extremely experienced.
[24:48.450 --> 24:55.970]  They spend countless hours preparing, and then countless hours sitting at the control booth during the event.
[24:55.970 --> 24:58.510]  So they did a fantastic job of all of that.
[24:58.650 --> 25:03.230]  And I think we should all agree that if you look around, these are visually stunning.
[25:03.610 --> 25:07.190]  The stream quality has been extremely high and reliable.
[25:07.470 --> 25:09.510]  The sound quality has been quite good.
[25:09.510 --> 25:14.890]  If you were in the performances, you know how this room was thumping and jumping last night and Friday night.
[25:14.890 --> 25:17.970]  So let's give a big hand to the audio-video volunteers.
[25:27.000 --> 25:29.260]  And I have special call-outs on the slide.
[25:29.260 --> 25:37.700]  The company that's doing the streaming setup, the huge array of laptops that you see in the back of our three track rooms, that's Sonos.
[25:37.860 --> 25:38.760]  Thanks very much to them.
[25:38.860 --> 25:40.120]  They put in really long hours.
[25:40.240 --> 25:47.020]  They came in kind of at the last moment and really brought their A-team and their top game.
[25:47.020 --> 25:53.260]  And also, we want to send a special thank-out, special call-out to MAGFest.
[25:53.320 --> 25:56.560]  MAGFest was who made the introduction to the Sonos group.
[25:56.740 --> 25:58.200]  So that's been fantastic.
[25:58.200 --> 26:04.840]  And maybe an extra special thanks for all the streaming, the streaming quality, the video production quality, and the professionalism of this group, the Sonos group.
[26:12.340 --> 26:12.920]  All right.
[26:13.260 --> 26:14.760]  Let's spend just a moment.
[26:14.860 --> 26:17.800]  You've seen this through the interstitials, but we'll mention it verbally here.
[26:17.800 --> 26:19.300]  We had a sponsor.
[26:19.420 --> 26:20.360]  The sponsor was Crest.
[26:20.360 --> 26:23.700]  Crest had very good visibility in the vendor area.
[26:23.800 --> 26:25.440]  I think they had a lot of good discussions.
[26:25.440 --> 26:31.880]  Thank you to Crest for their sponsorship, their engagement, their collegiality, and their mission.
[26:32.200 --> 26:39.360]  And then we had a whole page full of different vendors and groups that have helped support it.
[26:39.500 --> 26:41.680]  And we also like to thank them.
[26:41.680 --> 26:45.980]  That's been a wonderful joy to have them part of the family.
[26:46.480 --> 26:48.000]  And we hope that they'll be back.
[26:48.140 --> 26:51.800]  And we hope that you had some good conversations with them in the vendor area.
[26:52.460 --> 26:59.240]  What we're going to do now is we'll spend a moment and I think our team will stay on stage here or maybe take a seat.
[26:59.240 --> 27:04.600]  But we have a very special visit from a visiting dignitary I'd like to introduce.
[27:05.280 --> 27:08.360]  And we'll fire up another laptop actually.
[27:09.080 --> 27:12.700]  And I think that you'll enjoy what he has to say.
[27:28.780 --> 27:31.460]  Pass the mic, pass the mic, pass the mic, pass the mic.
[27:32.820 --> 27:34.080]  Is that working?
[27:34.740 --> 27:35.800]  Can I stop shaking?
[27:36.020 --> 27:36.670]  It's getting there.
[27:37.930 --> 27:38.190]  Good.
[27:38.500 --> 27:39.060]  Thank you, Brad.
[27:39.320 --> 27:39.690]  Thank you.
[27:39.960 --> 27:41.430]  Plug it in, plug it in, yeah.
[27:41.580 --> 27:41.880]  Do it.
[27:42.100 --> 27:43.190]  That's the other side, I think.
[27:43.360 --> 27:44.140]  It's the wrong side.
[27:44.380 --> 27:44.560]  Yeah.
[27:44.930 --> 27:48.560]  This is VGA so...
[27:48.560 --> 27:49.960]  Can we smash this laptop, please?
[27:50.820 --> 27:51.640]  Put it in there.
[27:52.020 --> 27:52.540]  Put it in there, yeah.
[27:53.080 --> 27:53.930]  Triple click it.
[27:55.080 --> 27:55.880]  Okay, wonderful.
[27:55.880 --> 27:56.080]  Wonderful.
[27:56.710 --> 27:57.340]  Oh, wonderful.
[27:57.560 --> 27:57.950]  It's working.
[27:58.480 --> 28:04.450]  Thank you very much for welcoming me, for hosting me in your country.
[28:04.930 --> 28:06.450]  Why is the remote not working?
[28:06.560 --> 28:07.020]  No, it is working.
[28:07.140 --> 28:07.260]  Hello.
[28:09.460 --> 28:09.950]  Yes.
[28:10.580 --> 28:14.960]  People of the world, reactionaries, I'm very happy to be here.
[28:15.100 --> 28:15.600]  Class war.
[28:16.120 --> 28:16.860]  Just do it.
[28:17.930 --> 28:21.220]  My name is Nikita Perestek-Krusov.
[28:21.380 --> 28:25.780]  I am the ambassador of the little country of Soviet, Unter Zegersdorf.
[28:25.960 --> 28:29.450]  I came here on a ship.
[28:30.140 --> 28:32.800]  I was in this container for six weeks.
[28:33.740 --> 28:39.860]  So I hope you appreciate me being here because it was actually kind of comfy and I could isolate.
[28:40.140 --> 28:42.740]  It was like a very good way of getting away from people.
[28:43.380 --> 28:44.950]  So you can give me your COVID.
[28:45.100 --> 28:47.280]  I give you my smallpox later on.
[28:48.200 --> 28:55.340]  But I'm very happy to say that we are the only country in the world with zero COVID.
[28:55.690 --> 28:56.540]  Just like that.
[28:57.710 --> 29:03.760]  And I'm actually tasked of bringing it back because we want to analyze it and possibly weaponize it or something like that.
[29:03.820 --> 29:04.100]  We'll see.
[29:05.450 --> 29:05.880]  Hackers.
[29:06.580 --> 29:07.690]  Hackers, hackers, hackers.
[29:07.860 --> 29:08.640]  You are my friends.
[29:08.640 --> 29:10.190]  Net working class.
[29:10.500 --> 29:12.080]  That is what you are.
[29:12.460 --> 29:13.900]  Some of you are liberals.
[29:15.380 --> 29:17.220]  Some of you are anarchists.
[29:17.980 --> 29:22.280]  But you remember, most anarchists are just stupid libertarians.
[29:24.240 --> 29:25.720]  So, let's go on.
[29:25.950 --> 29:27.740]  I spit on you, by the way, libertarians.
[29:27.880 --> 29:28.460]  I spit on you.
[29:29.220 --> 29:29.740]  No.
[29:30.000 --> 29:34.400]  You have a wrong impression of our Soviet culture.
[29:34.600 --> 29:35.980]  This is not how it is.
[29:36.170 --> 29:37.640]  This is not how it was.
[29:37.900 --> 29:39.240]  It's more likely so.
[29:39.580 --> 29:41.690]  But also, it's a little bit tricky.
[29:41.690 --> 29:45.140]  So, let me first say brief words.
[29:45.260 --> 29:46.670]  It's a world of laughter.
[29:46.820 --> 29:48.360]  It is a world of tears.
[29:48.760 --> 29:50.240]  It is a world of hopes.
[29:50.500 --> 29:51.720]  And a world of fears.
[29:51.720 --> 29:54.520]  There is so much that we share.
[29:55.060 --> 29:56.950]  That it's time we are aware.
[29:57.430 --> 30:01.300]  It's a small world after all.
[30:01.820 --> 30:02.000]  Yes.
[30:02.620 --> 30:10.600]  I possibly, possibly infringed a million copyrights.
[30:10.740 --> 30:13.100]  But I am very glad doing it.
[30:13.100 --> 30:20.400]  The Communist Party of Soviet Unterzegersdorf celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.
[30:20.580 --> 30:22.060]  That's why I am here.
[30:22.430 --> 30:23.670]  This is our border.
[30:24.450 --> 30:27.500]  And this is a pile of gravel that we call home.
[30:30.370 --> 30:32.080]  Here is the world.
[30:32.450 --> 30:34.300]  Some of you are knowledgeable.
[30:34.600 --> 30:35.540]  Some of you don't.
[30:35.640 --> 30:38.380]  I mean, I am not sure how many flat earths are in here.
[30:38.380 --> 30:40.560]  But there is the world.
[30:40.670 --> 30:41.340]  It's a globe.
[30:41.560 --> 30:42.500]  And there is Europe.
[30:42.960 --> 30:44.020]  There is the world.
[30:44.220 --> 30:45.640]  And in the world is Europe.
[30:45.690 --> 30:46.380]  It's unbelievable.
[30:46.740 --> 30:49.320]  And in the Europe, there is a country called Austria.
[30:50.900 --> 30:51.380]  Österreich.
[30:51.720 --> 30:52.710]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[30:52.780 --> 30:55.280]  And in Austria, there is Lower Austria.
[30:55.690 --> 31:00.300]  And in Lower Austria, there is my country, Soviet Unterzegersdorf.
[31:00.300 --> 31:03.740]  Up there is the testing facility according to SALT 2 treaty.
[31:04.000 --> 31:05.840]  We have the agricultural sector.
[31:05.960 --> 31:06.640]  We have the core.
[31:07.020 --> 31:07.640]  We have the woods.
[31:07.840 --> 31:09.100]  And it's all on the map.
[31:09.380 --> 31:09.500]  Okay?
[31:09.710 --> 31:09.820]  Good.
[31:10.480 --> 31:12.670]  So, this is the party headquarter.
[31:13.640 --> 31:15.930]  It's very shiny and new.
[31:16.140 --> 31:17.480]  Let's talk about diplomacy.
[31:17.480 --> 31:19.960]  So, first of all, f*ck Gorbachev.
[31:20.080 --> 31:22.380]  This is like, this did not end well.
[31:22.600 --> 31:22.690]  Okay?
[31:23.460 --> 31:24.690]  F*ck that guy as well.
[31:24.820 --> 31:25.580]  F*ck him Putin.
[31:25.760 --> 31:25.860]  Yeah?
[31:26.500 --> 31:27.360]  What is this?
[31:29.880 --> 31:32.340]  This is neo-Sarist bullshit.
[31:32.740 --> 31:32.860]  Yeah?
[31:32.980 --> 31:36.000]  And he's like, he's like, oh, Soviet Union.
[31:36.340 --> 31:37.340]  F*ck that shit.
[31:37.340 --> 31:37.640]  No.
[31:37.820 --> 31:38.500]  It is not true.
[31:38.500 --> 31:42.760]  I'm even wearing blue and yellow underwear for the purpose.
[31:43.000 --> 31:43.080]  Okay?
[31:43.540 --> 31:46.580]  So, we are also unhappy with Cuba.
[31:46.760 --> 31:47.480]  What is Cuba?
[31:47.600 --> 31:50.480]  This is like, they got totally Obama-ized.
[31:51.410 --> 31:55.400]  North Korea is for little girls of whatever gender they prefer.
[31:55.580 --> 31:56.040]  What is this?
[31:56.780 --> 32:00.520]  China is a puppy on the wrong dog.
[32:00.720 --> 32:01.060]  Really.
[32:01.240 --> 32:03.430]  It is like, it's all the worst things together.
[32:03.670 --> 32:03.690]  Yeah?
[32:03.690 --> 32:06.000]  And Venezuela doesn't exist.
[32:06.360 --> 32:07.240]  It is just like, it's a fake.
[32:07.670 --> 32:07.740]  Yeah.
[32:08.210 --> 32:10.640]  So, Soviet-Unta-Zegestov exists.
[32:10.880 --> 32:12.620]  It is real motherf*ckers.
[32:12.800 --> 32:12.930]  Yes.
[32:13.190 --> 32:15.670]  So, it is a tragic reality.
[32:15.900 --> 32:20.260]  I might remind you, there are people out there who doesn't have all the wealth you have.
[32:20.380 --> 32:23.580]  And all the fiber or whatever shit you put in your walls.
[32:23.740 --> 32:23.930]  Okay.
[32:24.170 --> 32:26.060]  So, fill our problems.
[32:26.360 --> 32:27.460]  Don't silence us.
[32:27.640 --> 32:27.720]  Yeah?
[32:27.720 --> 32:29.980]  So, that's whatever.
[32:30.220 --> 32:34.600]  Lack of resources, lack of inhabitants, lack of space, and lack of disk space.
[32:34.840 --> 32:36.580]  That is what we are fighting.
[32:36.800 --> 32:36.880]  Yeah?
[32:37.300 --> 32:39.880]  So, this is our server room.
[32:40.020 --> 32:40.140]  Yeah?
[32:40.280 --> 32:45.520]  We just built it, but there is not really a lot of server in it, but a server man.
[32:45.820 --> 32:46.360]  That guy.
[32:46.820 --> 32:50.320]  So, we have the server man, but no servers.
[32:50.620 --> 32:51.000]  Tragic.
[32:51.000 --> 32:52.100]  We have one blogger.
[32:52.300 --> 32:53.240]  We have one blogger.
[32:53.580 --> 32:54.280]  That guy.
[32:54.520 --> 32:55.040]  Look at that.
[32:55.280 --> 32:56.340]  How does...
[32:57.040 --> 33:01.840]  So, and on the other side of Unter-Zegestov, Soviet Unter-Zegestov, there is U.S.
[33:01.980 --> 33:02.900]  Ober-Zegestov.
[33:03.020 --> 33:03.210]  Yeah?
[33:03.620 --> 33:05.620]  They are constantly nagging us.
[33:05.710 --> 33:07.080]  I mean, they are not really U.S.
[33:07.220 --> 33:07.500]  something.
[33:07.640 --> 33:09.690]  They are just, they called themselves U.S.
[33:09.780 --> 33:15.300]  Ober-Zegestov, so they could get like, I don't know, like international aid or something like that.
[33:15.380 --> 33:15.710]  I don't know.
[33:15.710 --> 33:21.880]  So, the problem is in the early 90s, they got a couple of tractors and they tried to invade our country.
[33:22.080 --> 33:22.080]  Yeah?
[33:22.400 --> 33:25.120]  For example, that guy is a f*cking farmer from U.S.
[33:25.210 --> 33:26.060]  Ober-Zegestov, yeah?
[33:26.280 --> 33:38.260]  And then they put up like this like fake wall there and then they bombarded us with Western culture like Slipknot and trash metal fence.
[33:38.260 --> 33:42.430]  And they killed our last chickens to write Slayer on the wall.
[33:43.040 --> 33:44.240]  I mean, what is this?
[33:44.400 --> 33:44.500]  Yeah?
[33:44.500 --> 33:46.320]  And then the f*cking North Koreans.
[33:46.540 --> 33:48.190]  You cannot trust the North Koreans.
[33:48.320 --> 33:48.710]  Look at that.
[33:48.930 --> 33:50.060]  That is their embassy, yeah?
[33:50.220 --> 33:52.450]  In their embassy, they made a hole to the back.
[33:52.580 --> 33:53.540]  You see the green stuff?
[33:53.690 --> 33:54.950]  That's our nuclear stuff.
[33:55.100 --> 33:57.670]  And they stole our nuclear stuff and put it in there.
[33:57.800 --> 34:01.860]  And now they are trying to build an atomic bomb with the f*cking break magazine.
[34:03.820 --> 34:05.340]  A f*cking pre-patties.
[34:05.520 --> 34:06.040]  Look at this.
[34:06.480 --> 34:06.560]  Yeah.
[34:07.480 --> 34:07.880]  Anyhow.
[34:08.220 --> 34:10.160]  So, and this is the problems that we have to...
[34:10.160 --> 34:11.100]  But I love the USA.
[34:11.430 --> 34:13.020]  So, I love the USA.
[34:13.300 --> 34:15.860]  We even built you a f*cking embassy.
[34:16.100 --> 34:17.640]  But you never moved in.
[34:17.760 --> 34:19.540]  Why did you not move in in the embassy?
[34:19.540 --> 34:21.220]  We built you with our sweat.
[34:22.480 --> 34:23.400]  I don't know.
[34:23.900 --> 34:24.560]  I don't know.
[34:24.700 --> 34:29.820]  But it's like there's a long-term vision, there are target market needs, competitive advantage, and there is a promise.
[34:29.820 --> 34:30.360]  So, let's go.
[34:30.520 --> 34:30.700]  Okay.
[34:30.820 --> 34:33.800]  There's service economy, knowledge economy, information economy, digital economy.
[34:34.280 --> 34:34.980]  All this stuff.
[34:35.100 --> 34:35.220]  Whatever.
[34:35.500 --> 34:35.640]  Yeah.
[34:35.680 --> 34:36.680]  I mean everything.
[34:36.880 --> 34:37.140]  Corn.
[34:37.340 --> 34:38.140]  That's your thing.
[34:38.360 --> 34:38.430]  Yeah.
[34:38.720 --> 34:38.880]  Good.
[34:38.980 --> 34:39.340]  Freedom.
[34:39.720 --> 34:40.720]  Freedom is a problem.
[34:40.880 --> 34:42.340]  It's a problem with David Hasselhoff.
[34:42.450 --> 34:43.500]  It's a problem with that freedom.
[34:43.680 --> 34:44.480]  It's a... Freedom.
[34:44.660 --> 34:46.000]  You're selling freedom all the time.
[34:46.100 --> 34:46.840]  It's no freedom.
[34:47.200 --> 34:48.460]  Freedom does not exist.
[34:48.760 --> 34:50.640]  Freedom is a traitor of a word.
[34:50.640 --> 34:51.280]  I tell you.
[34:51.280 --> 34:54.500]  It is a traitor of a word because it just doesn't... It means nothing.
[34:54.680 --> 34:55.260]  It means nothing.
[34:55.380 --> 34:56.800]  It means hot coffee to go.
[34:57.100 --> 34:57.900]  Is this freedom?
[34:58.100 --> 34:58.780]  It is not.
[34:58.950 --> 34:59.740]  Is this freedom?
[35:00.060 --> 35:00.450]  No.
[35:00.800 --> 35:00.960]  No.
[35:01.140 --> 35:01.660]  It is not.
[35:03.220 --> 35:05.460]  Freedom is... Freedom from bullshit.
[35:05.800 --> 35:07.480]  And this is what we promise.
[35:07.640 --> 35:10.160]  We promise freedom from bullshit exclamation.
[35:11.180 --> 35:13.640]  Plus exclamation, plus exclamation mark.
[35:13.950 --> 35:14.140]  Okay.
[35:14.400 --> 35:18.260]  Your freedom of economy is freedom to use and exploit other people.
[35:18.540 --> 35:20.120]  There is a symbol for that here.
[35:20.120 --> 35:21.900]  They are technical stuff, whatever, yeah.
[35:22.100 --> 35:23.430]  Let's talk about movies.
[35:23.720 --> 35:25.340]  You have like Free Willy 2.
[35:25.660 --> 35:26.640]  What is this shit?
[35:26.880 --> 35:34.000]  And Indecent Proposal, and Slacker, and The Waltons, and Matt Damon, or what's his name?
[35:34.100 --> 35:34.700]  I don't know, yeah?
[35:34.800 --> 35:36.280]  So, it's crazy.
[35:36.460 --> 35:37.740]  It's all completely crazy.
[35:37.900 --> 35:39.760]  Let's talk about technological innovation.
[35:40.140 --> 35:41.500]  That is our solution.
[35:41.520 --> 35:42.820]  It's called HyperHaggle.
[35:42.950 --> 35:45.020]  It's our computer, and it's wood-driven.
[35:45.340 --> 35:46.580]  We have one prototype.
[35:46.880 --> 35:52.040]  You heat it, you heat it with timber, timber, timber, timber, and then you can do wonderful things.
[35:52.220 --> 35:57.800]  For example, you can reverse-engineer MS-DOS 3.3, and that's actually fine.
[35:57.960 --> 36:00.720]  And beyond the imperialistic ASCII standard.
[36:01.380 --> 36:01.950]  Really.
[36:02.320 --> 36:03.360]  American standard?
[36:03.700 --> 36:04.200]  F*ck you!
[36:04.400 --> 36:04.620]  Really.
[36:04.780 --> 36:05.200]  Let's go on.
[36:05.400 --> 36:07.160]  That guy is heating the computer.
[36:07.300 --> 36:08.260]  It's heating the computer.
[36:08.430 --> 36:09.320]  It's heating the computer.
[36:09.500 --> 36:11.340]  And then we train it.
[36:11.500 --> 36:18.520]  We train the computer by letting it play Tetris again and again and again and again.
[36:18.520 --> 36:24.600]  It is artificial intelligence, but we are aiming for artificial insurrection.
[36:24.930 --> 36:26.240]  That's what we are planning.
[36:26.240 --> 36:31.980]  So, we extracted the essence of the United States in 25 images.
[36:32.220 --> 36:39.520]  And I want you to react to the image so we can fine-tune our artificial insurrection by saying yay or nay.
[36:39.880 --> 36:40.100]  Okay?
[36:40.360 --> 36:41.120]  So, let's start.
[36:50.660 --> 36:53.260]  What?
[36:53.560 --> 36:54.960]  What?
[36:56.340 --> 36:57.740]  What?
[37:06.600 --> 37:09.400]  I am...
[37:26.960 --> 37:28.680]  And that's it, that's it.
[37:29.040 --> 37:29.600]  Enough.
[37:29.920 --> 37:35.080]  So, thank you, relax, don't do it, we, when you want to.
[37:36.760 --> 37:39.500]  You know, then you want to come.
[37:39.680 --> 37:42.600]  Okay, so, but this is only the start.
[37:42.780 --> 37:43.480]  This is only the start.
[37:43.840 --> 37:49.920]  We, as Soviet Unitserkers, can help you, and we want to reach out to you.
[37:50.260 --> 37:55.780]  Together with you, we want to build a new future, and we want to build with your help.
[37:56.040 --> 38:03.480]  So, that means, now, also, as a splendid way of symbolizing our unity here, I want to sing a song with you.
[38:03.480 --> 38:09.780]  So, prepare, there is no MIDI file or anything going on, not even YouTube.
[38:10.080 --> 38:12.060]  We do it together, we sing it, yeah?
[38:12.500 --> 38:12.640]  Si!
[38:12.640 --> 38:20.080]  I see trees of green, red roses too.
[38:20.460 --> 38:25.900]  I see them bloom for me and you.
[38:26.280 --> 38:33.220]  And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
[38:36.620 --> 38:41.600]  Come on, come on, come on, please!
[38:42.340 --> 38:48.100]  I see the dark sacred night.
[38:48.880 --> 38:55.480]  And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
[38:55.480 --> 38:57.020]  Come on, come on, come on, please!
[38:57.080 --> 38:57.520]  Ah, nothing.
[38:58.600 --> 38:59.280]  Ah, shit!
[38:59.620 --> 39:00.900]  Ah, no, no, no, I have to hit the ground.
[39:02.380 --> 39:03.540]  Ah, forget it!
[39:03.660 --> 39:04.600]  This didn't work!
[39:06.020 --> 39:09.540]  This... I'm stopping the diplomatic relationships right here.
[39:11.540 --> 39:19.920]  Really, please do not forget, in the interest of the Soviet Republic's working people, don't open any attachments from unknown senders in Outlook Express, Mr. Lenin.
[39:19.920 --> 39:20.520]  Thank you so much.
[39:20.620 --> 39:20.820]  Bye-bye.
[39:25.150 --> 39:25.750]  Thank you.
[39:25.950 --> 39:26.530]  Thank you.
[39:35.320 --> 39:36.640]  A visiting dignitary.
[39:54.150 --> 39:56.610]  I think this is really the last time we're going to do this.
[40:05.510 --> 40:06.090]  All right.
[40:10.640 --> 40:13.000]  Supplemental apple dongle in effect.
[40:14.060 --> 40:15.740]  Well, thanks to our visiting dignitary.
[40:16.300 --> 40:19.860]  What we're going to do next is just do some of the highlights, as I said.
[40:19.860 --> 40:23.100]  We're thanking volunteers, we're thanking committees, things like this.
[40:23.240 --> 40:28.740]  We're also talking a little bit about how we did it, so you can see behind the curtain and maybe want to get even more involved next time.
[40:28.900 --> 40:32.460]  So the first thing, I think I'll talk about this, and Mitch will talk about workshops.
[40:32.680 --> 40:35.100]  So we had somewhat over 70 talks.
[40:35.220 --> 40:36.880]  We had three simultaneous tracks.
[40:36.880 --> 40:45.080]  We had some virtual talks, which were interesting, and I think they all went pretty well, including Cory Doctorow, who we just saw prior to our closing ceremony.
[40:45.260 --> 40:46.220]  So talks were fantastic.
[40:46.220 --> 40:51.140]  Thanks very much to the speakers and the panelists and everyone that made that happen.
[40:51.320 --> 40:56.420]  And thanks also to the program committee that selected the talks and interacted with the speakers.
[40:56.680 --> 40:58.460]  Let's have Mitch talk a little bit about workshops.
[40:58.820 --> 41:00.040]  You can come up here or go there.
[41:04.190 --> 41:06.290]  Yeah, we had 31 workshops.
[41:06.770 --> 41:08.910]  Four were canceled, unfortunately, because of COVID.
[41:09.670 --> 41:18.050]  But there were large varieties, anything from about Wi-Fi to digital wellness, keeping things in balance.
[41:18.050 --> 41:19.350]  That was the last workshop.
[41:19.350 --> 41:26.010]  And about 155 people now know how to solder.
[41:27.010 --> 41:28.110]  I'm not in Europe anymore.
[41:28.350 --> 41:30.610]  No, 155 people now know how to solder.
[41:30.890 --> 41:32.070]  That didn't before.
[41:34.910 --> 41:40.350]  And for the people who gave permission, you will be on the Internet forever soldering on my Flickr.
[41:40.550 --> 41:41.790]  So thanks, everyone.
[41:46.410 --> 41:48.630]  That's Mitch, our lead workshop coordinator.
[41:48.630 --> 41:50.670]  And again, we also had a committee.
[41:50.850 --> 41:53.670]  I didn't see if DJ Spock wanted to come up on the stage.
[41:53.710 --> 41:55.690]  I think he wants to be quiet.
[41:55.730 --> 41:56.910]  So I'll speak for him.
[41:57.070 --> 41:59.290]  So we had some tremendous performers.
[41:59.670 --> 42:03.770]  Mostly they were later in the evening, but there were a few that were a little bit earlier in the day.
[42:03.930 --> 42:07.290]  Thanks to all the performances, performers that we had part of it.
[42:07.450 --> 42:08.410]  Hope you all enjoyed it.
[42:08.550 --> 42:14.950]  We do intend to keep doing performances at the HOPE conferences, and we always appreciate recommendations.
[42:14.950 --> 42:23.490]  And for the most part, the performers are people that are either doing this as a very serious hobby or an interest, or potentially doing it as a living or a supplement.
[42:23.690 --> 42:29.490]  So please do consider following them and buying their stuff and seeing what they're doing.
[42:30.590 --> 42:33.870]  Also, a particular shout-out to Cameron Glass.
[42:34.170 --> 42:40.250]  Cameron composed and performed the musical interludes that you heard between all the talks.
[42:40.250 --> 42:42.190]  Let's give a special applause to all of that.
[42:50.100 --> 42:54.400]  Cameron Glass, also known as Dent Glass, one of the performers last night, right here in this room.
[42:55.660 --> 42:59.600]  Even more cool stuff, and I think I've left things out, but I tried to include what we could.
[42:59.700 --> 43:05.760]  We had Hacker Films, thanks to Lexicon for putting that together, the Rolling Stream.
[43:06.060 --> 43:15.920]  Thanks to the hardware hacking area, the different people that did things like lockpicking, soldering instructions, just a lot of really cool random stuff happening in there with people sharing their knowledge, sharing their time.
[43:16.300 --> 43:19.860]  We had some village activity, and that was spectacular.
[43:20.200 --> 43:21.280]  We had a bunch of radio.
[43:21.400 --> 43:25.060]  You know, we came in saying, oh, wow, we can't put an antenna on the roof.
[43:25.380 --> 43:25.860]  Oh, thank you.
[43:31.510 --> 43:35.610]  We said, oh, wow, we wanted to put an antenna on the roof like we did at Hotel Penn.
[43:35.790 --> 43:36.550]  Does anyone remember that?
[43:36.670 --> 43:38.630]  Who climbed out on the roof at Hotel Penn?
[43:38.630 --> 43:40.770]  All right, thanks very much.
[43:41.290 --> 43:46.590]  So, sometimes it was allowed and escorted, sometimes not so much.
[43:47.230 --> 43:51.750]  But anyway, we wanted to put it up here, but there were some logistics in the way, so we didn't end up doing that.
[43:51.790 --> 43:55.150]  But we had radio anyway, so thanks to the groups that made that happen.
[43:55.710 --> 43:58.090]  As I said, villages, lockpicking, a bunch of other cool stuff.
[43:58.170 --> 44:00.490]  Does anyone want to call out something that I forgot about?
[44:00.870 --> 44:01.590]  Cool stuff?
[44:10.030 --> 44:10.710]  Thank you.
[44:12.850 --> 44:17.170]  This whole mess would not have happened without Greg.
[44:17.350 --> 44:22.530]  He was working tirelessly for weeks and weeks and weeks before this with very little sleep.
[44:22.770 --> 44:23.830]  So, thank you very much.
[44:31.240 --> 44:32.200]  Thank you.
[44:32.420 --> 44:36.300]  Well, I said we weren't going to name names and you threw off my whole chi there.
[44:37.660 --> 44:38.720]  Thank you very much.
[44:38.720 --> 44:40.300]  And it's a pleasure and an honor.
[44:40.460 --> 44:40.960]  And this...
[44:40.960 --> 44:43.340]  I'm going to talk a little bit about how to volunteer and stuff like that.
[44:43.380 --> 44:46.400]  This is a meritocracy, and I told a few people this during the conference.
[44:46.800 --> 44:53.560]  I showed up for my first Hackers on Planet Earth for H2K, so that was the year 2000, a while ago, 22 years ago.
[44:54.380 --> 45:01.660]  And they needed some volunteers, and I operated a camera, helped out a little bit with AV, helped a little more after that, and eventually got, you know, sort of deeper and deeper.
[45:01.880 --> 45:03.440]  And it's all so rewarding.
[45:03.600 --> 45:08.380]  Whether it was a small volunteer activity, being a speaker, I was a speaker as well.
[45:08.720 --> 45:10.300]  Or getting even more involved.
[45:10.480 --> 45:11.880]  Just tremendously rewarding.
[45:12.060 --> 45:13.820]  And he reached some really, really excellent people.
[45:14.000 --> 45:14.920]  Developed a lot of trust.
[45:15.080 --> 45:16.300]  Developed a fantastic relationship.
[45:16.660 --> 45:22.360]  And there's around 6,000 emails involved in this process per year, at least.
[45:22.620 --> 45:25.960]  I'd like to send a real shout-out to the InfoDesk.
[45:26.160 --> 45:31.800]  InfoDesk was led by Liz, but staffed by a number of people that rotated.
[45:31.800 --> 45:34.680]  This was the first... these were the first faces you saw.
[45:34.700 --> 45:36.900]  If you didn't know about the Proof of Vax entry.
[45:36.900 --> 45:39.760]  If not, they were the first faces you saw when you came in the main entry.
[45:39.860 --> 45:41.500]  So thanks very much for the InfoDesk.
[45:50.060 --> 45:51.840]  And I saw... did I... I saw Stefan.
[45:52.140 --> 45:53.200]  Is that Stefan on Zoom?
[45:53.900 --> 45:54.480]  It is.
[45:54.600 --> 45:54.680]  Okay.
[45:54.770 --> 45:55.790]  Did I see aesthetics, though?
[45:56.540 --> 45:57.460]  Just his name.
[45:57.640 --> 45:58.040]  Just his name.
[45:58.120 --> 45:59.060]  Okay, so he's...
[45:59.060 --> 45:59.480]  I am here.
[45:59.820 --> 46:00.250]  Oh, thank you.
[46:00.440 --> 46:03.380]  You'd prefer to remain video-less for now, anyway.
[46:03.380 --> 46:07.620]  Yeah, I wanted to call you out with this group, because you did so much coordination from afar.
[46:08.020 --> 46:18.790]  But there's a huge team that puts together the website, the infrastructure of the website, the matrix chat, that little bot that you communicated with to get your registration code accepted.
[46:18.940 --> 46:22.120]  That's, you know, it's a non-trivial activity to get something like that working.
[46:22.400 --> 46:24.020]  We had the InfoBeamer.
[46:24.210 --> 46:25.980]  Thanks to Kyle for wrangling that.
[46:25.980 --> 46:29.980]  And thanks to the different partners that provide that infrastructure.
[46:31.100 --> 46:33.340]  And we had software called PreTalks.
[46:33.580 --> 46:34.860]  Someone named Colin set that up.
[46:34.920 --> 46:38.440]  That's where you get the live schedule with all the cool ability to, you know, click through.
[46:38.460 --> 46:39.820]  And it's sort of all hyperlinked.
[46:41.350 --> 46:42.940]  And even more stuff.
[46:43.060 --> 46:48.790]  So we do spin up a pretty significant amount of sort of, you know, online infrastructure for this show.
[46:48.900 --> 46:54.820]  So thanks very much to all that team, including aesthetics, including everyone that I just mentioned, and probably some people that I didn't mention.
[47:03.480 --> 47:12.880]  A special call-out, so part of, as you can imagine, part of what the website team does is, you know, figure out the website and, you know, the labels and the icons and the graphics.
[47:13.120 --> 47:18.540]  And we had a, really a solo act, Stefan, who's with us here on the Zoom from North Macedonia.
[47:18.660 --> 47:19.300]  Is that right?
[47:19.800 --> 47:20.740]  Do I remember correctly?
[47:22.200 --> 47:23.820]  Yes, that's absolutely correct.
[47:23.820 --> 47:26.900]  Yeah, so from afar, so not here today.
[47:27.360 --> 47:31.120]  And we put in, this is in the website as well.
[47:31.200 --> 47:33.840]  So we put in a little bit of information about how to reach Stefan.
[47:34.100 --> 47:41.280]  So all of the visual image, the little movie that we saw, the opening, the t-shirt design, all of this stuff was done by Stefan.
[47:41.440 --> 47:43.220]  So thanks very much, Stefan, for doing this.
[47:49.900 --> 47:50.800]  Thank you all.
[47:50.980 --> 47:54.200]  Just one, I have to give a huge shout-out to Kyle.
[47:54.440 --> 47:56.420]  Kyle, the t-shirts look amazing.
[47:57.420 --> 47:58.120]  Thank you.
[48:07.440 --> 48:09.320]  I'm happy to finally see you, Stefan.
[48:09.640 --> 48:10.940]  I've never seen you before.
[48:11.740 --> 48:13.300]  Well, here we are.
[48:14.080 --> 48:15.740]  Yep, very modern.
[48:20.620 --> 48:22.360]  Yep, it's a modern virtual team.
[48:22.540 --> 48:23.380]  We have a hybrid event.
[48:23.520 --> 48:27.140]  And I guess we didn't say explicitly, or Adam just mentioned a little bit.
[48:27.260 --> 48:33.080]  But thanks so much for all the people that are not here, but bought a ticket, or even you didn't buy a ticket, but you're watching online.
[48:33.260 --> 48:35.380]  The virtual attendees contributed greatly to Matrix.
[48:35.720 --> 48:37.000]  We had virtual speakers.
[48:37.260 --> 48:43.460]  We spun up a little bit, maybe not as much as we would have liked, but a little bit of virtual infrastructure to support them.
[48:43.460 --> 48:47.580]  So thanks to the folks that joined us virtually, and to all the people that made that happen.
[48:55.270 --> 48:56.790]  And we're almost at the end here.
[48:57.370 --> 48:58.990]  A special call-out to logistics.
[48:59.250 --> 49:00.910]  Kyle is the main logistics lead.
[49:00.930 --> 49:02.070]  All kinds of things.
[49:02.670 --> 49:08.850]  When things needed to be moved, when things broke, when things needed to be bought, we went to Kyle for solutions.
[49:09.510 --> 49:13.470]  Often with multiple problems at the same time, which he handled with grace and capability.
[49:14.130 --> 49:15.590]  So fantastic job there.
[49:22.010 --> 49:24.730]  We had some members of the press who showed up.
[49:24.870 --> 49:26.450]  We've had some media coverage.
[49:26.630 --> 49:29.450]  I think there will hopefully be some more media coverage over the next few days.
[49:29.630 --> 49:31.870]  So thanks to the press that covered this event.
[49:32.010 --> 49:34.350]  And thanks also to the media relations team.
[49:34.510 --> 49:38.010]  And Tara is the lead of that team and is joining us remotely.
[49:41.920 --> 49:42.720]  Thank you.
[49:42.940 --> 49:43.500]  Thank you.
[49:43.640 --> 49:44.700]  Thanks to everybody.
[49:44.700 --> 49:48.300]  I just want to say that everybody was just absolutely great.
[49:48.560 --> 50:00.540]  Our volunteers, our presenters, workshop leaders, core team, St. John's University, sponsors, vendors, everybody who collaborated with us to make A New HOPE just a great event this year.
[50:00.760 --> 50:01.460]  So thank you.
[50:01.860 --> 50:02.880]  Thank you very much.
[50:07.980 --> 50:08.480]  All right.
[50:08.640 --> 50:12.340]  And we've already thanked St. John's once or twice or three times.
[50:12.340 --> 50:13.160]  Let's thank them again.
[50:13.400 --> 50:17.540]  So St. John's University, we've had a relationship, and Kyle told the story of this.
[50:17.540 --> 50:18.960]  Do you want to tell the story, actually?
[50:19.140 --> 50:19.740]  Which story?
[50:19.860 --> 50:24.440]  Well, the story of how we first had students that showed up, and then we sort of deepened the relationship over time.
[50:24.580 --> 50:24.860]  Okay.
[50:24.960 --> 50:25.360]  Real quick.
[50:26.720 --> 50:37.580]  We developed a relationship by providing student tickets and accommodating these huge numbers of young people that wanted to come to Hotel Pennsylvania.
[50:37.960 --> 50:44.940]  And, of course, that in and of itself, making sure they had a good time, was something we were really focused on, making sure it went well.
[50:44.940 --> 50:46.420]  And we continued that relationship.
[50:46.680 --> 50:54.260]  And then, coincidentally, when we had been doing a lot of our site surveys, looking for convention centers, looking for hotels, looking for other options, St. John's came up.
[50:54.400 --> 50:56.020]  And it came up a couple times.
[50:56.020 --> 51:00.460]  So we started looking into what the capacities, what the practicalities of it would entail.
[51:00.460 --> 51:10.100]  And then I would kind of follow up with our contact, who was a student advisor and coordinating that.
[51:10.220 --> 51:17.920]  And I was getting ready for the event, saying, hey, actually, we're going to be on the campus that your students are from.
[51:17.920 --> 51:20.620]  So, yeah, we're coming to your place this time.
[51:20.620 --> 51:23.940]  And it was really sort of funny, but they were really into it.
[51:23.940 --> 51:26.920]  And we were able to bring in a lot of students.
[51:27.080 --> 51:33.080]  But it was based on, like, I think, six years and them having attended HOPE, I think, twice as a group.
[51:33.400 --> 51:34.840]  Once or twice, for sure.
[51:35.100 --> 51:40.020]  And then circumstances changed, and now they're accommodating us.
[51:40.060 --> 51:44.740]  So I think it's pretty full circle and amazing how things worked out.
[51:44.740 --> 52:07.140]  And I just really want to thank their department, department leads, and Denise, and everybody involved with bringing in younger people and everyone acting like the adults I know they are, so that those people can enjoy themselves and create the kind of future we're all interested in.
[52:07.780 --> 52:08.340]  So...
[52:16.040 --> 52:18.300]  And we called out a few of the teams there.
[52:18.420 --> 52:20.420]  I think everyone would agree that it's just been fantastic.
[52:20.420 --> 52:21.000]  We had...
[52:21.000 --> 52:22.460]  I didn't mention Chartwells, actually.
[52:22.540 --> 52:25.360]  We had Starbucks and the concessionary stand.
[52:25.400 --> 52:27.260]  We had conference services.
[52:27.440 --> 52:29.040]  That's really helped with the interface.
[52:29.260 --> 52:30.680]  You know, it helped us set this whole thing up.
[52:31.600 --> 52:34.700]  Fantastic presence and really a very, very helpful public safety group.
[52:34.800 --> 52:41.800]  A lot of you interacted with them getting in and out of the garage, getting in and out of the buildings, and they were just kind, accommodating, enthusiastic.
[52:42.200 --> 52:43.220]  You couldn't ask for better.
[52:43.820 --> 52:45.620]  A number of us stayed in the dorms.
[52:45.660 --> 52:47.920]  The housing office was on the ball.
[52:48.020 --> 52:48.840]  They took care of things.
[52:48.840 --> 52:53.680]  Those beds are a little noisy, you might have noticed, but comfortable.
[52:54.140 --> 53:00.000]  And for the sleep deprived, which I think is just about all of us, we didn't notice for very long.
[53:01.120 --> 53:02.060]  Just fell right asleep.
[53:02.440 --> 53:04.240]  Yeah, the IT group is also...
[53:04.240 --> 53:14.840]  We heard about networking, the classroom technology support, all those projectors in the classrooms, the fact that we didn't have to bring in a bunch of our own gear for this.
[53:14.840 --> 53:15.640]  This was all appreciated.
[53:15.880 --> 53:17.980]  So St. John's provided a lot.
[53:18.200 --> 53:19.280]  They worked with us a lot.
[53:19.440 --> 53:20.880]  Very collegial and professional.
[53:21.160 --> 53:25.100]  So St. John's was a fantastic option for this year.
[53:25.660 --> 53:30.280]  So, as I said, we're going to invite people to do two things.
[53:31.000 --> 53:38.040]  One is to enjoy fairly soon the band, and I'll tell you about the band in a moment.
[53:38.180 --> 53:44.660]  But the other is to hang around a little bit into the evening, and we do need some people to return tomorrow morning to help with the cleanup.
[53:44.800 --> 53:49.620]  And I know some of you heard me say this today, but just to summarize, we have all this stuff, right?
[53:49.620 --> 53:54.240]  This room was a shell, and now it's, you know, a theater-like experience.
[53:54.340 --> 53:57.120]  So all this stuff has to come down, be packed up, be put away.
[53:57.240 --> 54:00.580]  By the way, we do not need to stack the chairs, so you don't need to worry about that.
[54:00.620 --> 54:03.860]  But we have a bunch of tables around the space.
[54:04.020 --> 54:05.820]  We have to take down our signage.
[54:05.980 --> 54:12.300]  We have to collect the network switches, things like this, pack up the various trucks that are going out.
[54:12.420 --> 54:16.660]  And this is fairly labor-intensive, not entirely heavy work, but involves some heavy work.
[54:16.660 --> 54:25.020]  So we'd love it if you could stick around, anyone that's available, after the band finishes or as the band is going out.
[54:25.200 --> 54:28.720]  So that is an invitation to become a volunteer.
[54:28.720 --> 54:30.720]  And this is the first sip of the Kool-Aid.
[54:30.820 --> 54:32.800]  After that, who knows?
[54:34.320 --> 54:37.040]  Don't pull down random networks switches if you don't want to.
[54:37.440 --> 54:45.600]  Yeah, we have a comment from one of the team here that says, don't just grab anything that looks like it could be unplugged and assume that it's a good idea to unplug it and move it somewhere else.
[54:46.800 --> 54:51.640]  We'll have some coordination going on in the different rooms with the different departments.
[54:51.720 --> 54:55.760]  Network, AV, some of the 2600 gear.
[54:57.400 --> 54:59.320]  So we're just about at the end.
[54:59.400 --> 55:01.940]  What I'm going to do is play a pretty short video.
[55:02.280 --> 55:05.040]  This is the band, which is standing by, I think.
[55:05.240 --> 55:12.960]  And so what we envision here is something a little bit like a recessional and a little bit like a block party and very much like a celebration.
[55:13.160 --> 55:19.320]  And that is to have the band Blocko from the Block start playing here for a few minutes.
[55:19.380 --> 55:26.220]  And they'll eventually wind their way through the building and end up outside by the, you know, by the plaza where the 2600 van is.
[55:26.420 --> 55:27.400]  So stick around.
[55:27.580 --> 55:28.940]  I think they'll be on for about an hour.
[55:28.940 --> 55:30.080]  Enjoy that.
[55:30.260 --> 55:32.940]  Help cleaning up if you'd like as well in between.
[55:33.560 --> 55:34.720]  And thanks for having them.
[55:35.040 --> 55:35.340]  Go ahead.
[55:36.580 --> 55:37.880]  So I just wanted to say...
[55:40.300 --> 55:42.060]  We want to hear your stories.
[55:42.060 --> 55:45.140]  So please email us feedback at hope.net.
[55:45.300 --> 55:48.320]  Tell us what kind of time you had.
[55:48.680 --> 55:51.120]  Highlights, lowlights, ideas, suggestions.
[55:51.660 --> 55:53.060]  Feedback at hope.net.
[55:53.480 --> 55:55.560]  That's how we decide what we're going to do in the future.
[55:56.100 --> 56:02.000]  Also, as part of the cleanup, you know those lawn signs outside that say A New HOPE with the arrow?
[56:02.160 --> 56:02.620]  You see those?
[56:03.740 --> 56:04.960]  They're yours if you want them.
[56:06.360 --> 56:12.080]  So just go out there all over campus and yank them up and take them home and enjoy the souvenirs.
[56:13.280 --> 56:16.820]  And also, how many of you have never been to Queens before?
[56:17.580 --> 56:18.500]  Oh, my God.
[56:19.080 --> 56:20.300]  You see how many people there were?
[56:20.840 --> 56:22.520]  Most of you have never been to Queens.
[56:22.520 --> 56:25.740]  This is the most diverse borough in the country.
[56:26.080 --> 56:27.420]  Please enjoy it.
[56:27.500 --> 56:27.840]  Go out.
[56:27.960 --> 56:28.980]  Find some amazing food.
[56:29.100 --> 56:29.860]  Go to Chinatown.
[56:30.000 --> 56:31.540]  It's only like a mile away.
[56:32.380 --> 56:33.320]  And wow.
[56:33.520 --> 56:34.160]  Welcome to Queens.
[56:34.660 --> 56:36.140]  It's one of the most awesome places.
[56:36.260 --> 56:38.180]  I grew up here and I think a bunch of us did.
[56:38.580 --> 56:39.140]  Thank you.
[57:25.440 --> 57:26.020]  All right.
[57:26.140 --> 57:28.200]  So that is coming up momentarily.
[57:29.020 --> 57:32.180]  And we'll go back to yonder here.
[57:33.120 --> 57:34.060]  Click this.
[57:37.480 --> 57:40.200]  And then two last things.
[57:40.420 --> 57:45.360]  We'll play the outro, the video that Stefan made that we used during the opening ceremony.
[57:45.540 --> 57:46.840]  This is just a huge thank you.
[57:46.920 --> 57:50.660]  This couldn't have happened without people believing in the event.
[57:50.840 --> 57:51.720]  Buying your tickets.
[57:51.900 --> 57:52.940]  Submitting your talk proposal.
[57:53.120 --> 57:54.160]  Watching the live stream.
[57:54.500 --> 57:54.980]  Participating.
[57:55.100 --> 57:56.020]  Bringing your best game.
[57:56.020 --> 57:59.400]  And we were excellent to one another.
[57:59.700 --> 58:00.660]  All of us.
[58:10.370 --> 58:14.470]  We're going to try to play Stefan's video one more time.
[58:14.690 --> 58:16.630]  And then the band will begin.