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Episode 112: Fairy Dharawat
September 26, 2019 by Tara and Liam Leave a Comment
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Introducing Fairy Dharawat
Fairy Dharawat is a cat-loving lassie who writes and draws while diving headfirst into the wonderful world of comics, admiring their adventurous plot lines and intricate illustration. She's also gearing towards meditation and learning about the many joys it brings.
Website | Fairy Dharawat
Twitter | @Fairy_Dharawat
Instagram | @theradicaldoodler
LinkedIn | @fairy-dharawat
Preferred Pronouns | She/Her
Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I'm Liam Dempsey.
Tara: And I'm Tara Claeys. Today we're joined by Fairy Dharawat. Fairy is a cat-loving lassie who writes and draws while diving headfirst into the wonderful world of comics, admiring their adventurous plot lines and intricate illustration. She's also gearing towards meditation and learning about the many joys it brings. Welcome, Fairy. We're so glad you're here.
Fairy: Thank you. Thank you. I'm really happy to be here.
Liam: Fairy, we're delighted to have you on the show. Thanks for coming out into our hallway today. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself, please?
Fairy: I'm actually a writer. I've been a writer for more than six years. I like to write. Now I'm moving towards different kind of stuff to read like comics. I'm really trying to do new things, and that's the exciting part. I think right now, I'm trying to read different things. That's what I'm doing.
Tara: Would you tell us more about the comics that we talked about when we introduced you? I'm really curious to hear more about what type of comics and what you love about comics.
Fairy: I've always been more of a horror fan. I never knew there's an entire huge world of horror comics. Once I got to know that, that there is actually adult novels for people like me, I was hooked. So there is this comic illustrator called Junji Ito. He's Japanese. He is actually a manga artist. He draws and he writes intricate stuff, like so detailed, so layered.
So I was hooked onto his work. I was so into it that I finished all his work, all his horror manga comics in a span of three months. I know, three months may sound a long time, but I was doing a lot of other things. But I was so invested, and I really wanted to write more about comics, and how it really helped me to see things differently. Like reading is different. And reading comics is different because you consume the art as well. It's not just words. Those illustrations are a story. Every panel has a story, every panel goes ahead. And that's so fascinating.
Liam: That's interesting that you're deliberately – I don't want to say transitioning, but expanding – from reading books to consuming comic books. How did that happen? Did somebody share a comic book and said, "Hey, Fairy, check this out? Or did you pass it in the shop and say, "Oh, my gosh"? Tell us about that.
Fairy: I never started with Japanese manga artists and comics. It was always more DC. When it comes to Warner Brothers and DC, that was part of a childhood while growing up. In between, we just lost it. It wasn't before like all these Marvel and movies came. This is before that.
I mean, I was surrounded by nerds. Not geeks. There's a huge difference. So there were naughty boys, and they were so passionate about it. And like, "Okay, I am interested in these DC comic books." One guy actually, shared way too many comic books without me asking – and I do have it with me – but I know I found that motivation to go ahead. It was more action-oriented. If you know DC, it's beautiful art, but I wasn't really that much into it, but I had it. I mean, when you get stuff easily, I don't think you value it. So I had those comics with me.
I have a huge collection, enviable collection with me right now. I didn't have to do anything. It just came up. I just said to this fellow that, "Hey, this sounds interesting. I think it's good," and he just gave it to me like that. Then I just had it. And I was just clearing my system and I found this folder, like, "Let me have a look." It had so much comics.
Then I found because I like horror, I mean, I would always watch horror shorts or horror movies and I stumbled upon Junji Ito, and I saw his work. I finished that book in a considerably less time. Then I thought, "Hey, I have these comics. Let me check it out." So that's how then I went back to comics. So basically, that's how it just happened. Yes, I did meet people who were early into it and that just propelled me into that direction. I'm really happy to make that transition, honestly. And I think more people should really consider it not as children's things, thanks to these blockbuster movies.
Liam: I have two questions for you. One is, you started as a writer, and now as an illustrator as Tara read about you, have you started considering your own comic book line? Two, maybe a bigger question. Encouraging others to get into reading comic books, what would be the number one value or a big value of getting into comic books from a perspective of a writer or a reader who's not used to that? What would you say to people?
Fairy: I guess at first, I did attempt it. There is something on Comic-Con. Comic-Con is a global community for all comic nerds. We had it in Mumbai also. I did attend one of the workshops where I did make a superhero that makes everyone sleep.
Liam: Oh, I like that superhero. I think that made my life pretty regularly.
Fairy: It was basically about people being so overworked and they cannot rest. And there is this person who has a lot of problems, and whenever she gets problems people sleep. And this is the thing she's living in, which is a metropolis city, and people sleep when she complains. Now there's a bank robbery happen around, and no one can do anything. I don't know why. But no one can do anything. They just bring this person who goes on complaining about life, and everyone sleeps. And she just saves the day without really intending to save the day.
Tara: That is so creative. I absolutely love it. I can't wait to read it. Really brilliant. That's really, really great.
Fairy: It was funny. I illustrated this thing also and I should probably take care of my art. I mean, this happens a lot to all writers. I think every creative…not even creatives … everyone. Whatever things we like, we tend to not keep it with us in a proper way. We're just "huh we did this, okay." We need to take care of any kind of art we do.
What is creativity? It's something that you create from nothing. That is creativity. So even tech, I mean, why do we …I'm a newbie when it comes to technology, but whatever you create. — code is poetry, right? It's amazing. I love that line code is poetry. That is art. Art and creativity it just…Everything is art, I mean, even think about it in a way. It's a very long conversation on it, but it's just that we don't respect art and theater as we should be doing. Coming back to the second question, how do I make people read more? Just repeat the question again.
Liam: Yeah, absolutely. It was around what would you say to encourage readers or writers who read a lot to what would be a biggest takeaway or biggest value from transitioning into or exploring comic books from a readers perspective?
Fairy: Oh, that's such an enriching beautiful world. Right now, as a professional who works in a corporate job, my life is so restricted. When I read comics, it broaden horizons in totally different way. It a little wide to articulate it. But what I'm trying to say is when you watch a movie, it's there. It has a limitation. A movie has a limitation like a two-hour movie and you're done with it.
If it is a series, come on, you're going to binge-watch it for a day or two and then it's done. But when it's comics, it's different. It makes you think. I think that's the most beautiful part of it. It makes you think. And you do really have to consume that entire comic book. Like, you know, this happened. Because the last comic book that I read, that is DC comic called "Hush."
Honestly, I find reading comics a little more difficult than watching the movie. The "Hush" movie was just released in July. You can check it out. It's a good movie. But the comic book is so much better because it has written illustrations, which is very difficult to replicate that into a movie. I mean, those details are not possible, the production cost and all those things, generally, it shoots up the budget. So the makers generally simplify it. They cannot afford to bring the rich, layered illustrations on your screen.
That is one of the reasons I love comics. Because if you love art, I mean comics is way to go because the artists are crazy. I mean, that must be detailing, I'm awestruck. Because I love to draw and I do enjoy good stuff, so I know how difficult that is. And to see these people create masterpieces, wow, I'm blown away.
I think from a different perspective. I'm not saying this as a writer, but as a reader, perspective is very important that readers should change. You should change the kind of books you read to broaden your perspective. And why not comics? It's also easy and it's also difficult. As I said, I find reading comics and little difficult because I want to consume each small, tiny thing the artist has drawn and add it with that thought bubble that it command and the storyline. It's fun. It's interesting. I would really love everyone to read more comics.
Tara: I love hearing more about that. Thank you for sharing that. You are located in India, in Mumbai?
Fairy: Yes.
Tara: Can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you have become a writer and what's led you here to this occupation as a writer?
Fairy: I do not have actually a formal degree in writing. I just like to write. I graduated in the year 2009 when the recession hit big time globally. I didn't get a job as a writer. I just took a job as an HR consultant. I kept on writing because I really wanted to express myself and writing really help me. I really do not remember what exactly made me just continue apply in places as a writer, but I just got a job as a writer, as a journalist, which was in b2b magazine. Those people were amazing because they trained me on the job and groomed me to become a writer to research and write stories, which is how actually I started my career as a writer.
I think as long as I remember, I've always been a writer. I finished 10 years working in the corporate job. And out of that, six and a half years is I spent as a professional writer and getting paid for stuff that you write. It's a really good feeling.
Liam: What do you write professionally? What kind of content are you producing?
Fairy: If I have to really say, it's marketing stuff that goes into your spam folder.
Tara: That's a special skill. That's definitely not your goal.
Fairy: Not at all. So marketing stuff basically. I write stuff that makes people buy things. I write for lifestyle. I write for retail. I write branding communication. I write blogs. Anything that is online. So my forte has to be more into long-form writing that is essays. Because I've written so much marketing stuff like buy this, take this, it's too capitalistic. I think right now I can take decisions to write more or find it's pieces. I'm looking forward to writing more pieces in technology and how it affects humankind and more into experience-oriented lifestyle articles.
Tara: Is this how you've encountered WordPress is through your writing and how you use WordPress?
Fairy: Yes. I met some really good people who encouraged me to look at this platform. And I was like, "Really? No. Yes, I do like to talk, but on a platform? Are you kidding me? No." But then it was good support. I mean, people really believed in me that I have something to say. I took a dive. And since 2015, I've been associated with WordPress. I've been volunteering with WordPress to organize WordCamps, and it's been a really nice journey. I never knew that it's going to be such a long journey, honestly, because it just happened.
Liam: How did you go from hearing about WordPress as a writer and "Okay, I guess I can maybe put it there" to getting involved with the community the point where you're actually involved organizing WordCamps? Are you involved with the organization of WordCamp Mumbai?
Fairy: Yes, I am as well. I'm handling the writing bit. So whatever you're going to see on the website is me. I think good people are really important. One of the reason I like WordPress community is because people are very helpful, and they really make you feel at home. They really do so.
I have one of my best friends who is a solid supporter and who keep saying that you can do this, and it's okay to make mistakes. I have never heard that anywhere that, yes, you can make mistakes. And when you have a community who gives you permission, I hate to say the word permission, but yeah, we have the subconsciously that we cannot make mistakes. But when there is a community where you can make mistakes, I think that the way you can grow is limitless. So I think that really attracted me a lot. And that's the reason I've been associated for the longest time.
Liam: Yeah, that's a great observation. I don't think I've heard the WordPress community described in that way but that's entirely accurate. So thank you so much for sharing that. That's wonderful. I'm going to put that in my little pocket of how I described the WordPress community.
Fairy: Thank you. Thank you. That's lovely.
Tara: I love that too. I just saw something recently, maybe we spoke to somebody, it's just very top of mind for me that breaking things is a good way to learn. And that's a very much a sort of programmer approach to things is that you have to break it and break it apart in order to learn more about it. So that is embraced for sure. And maybe that translates into making mistakes and moving forward. I love that about WordPress, and I hadn't thought about that before either.
What are some of your challenges that you face working with WordPress or in your community there, or with whatever part of your daily life? What challenges do you find that you face that you can share with us?
Fairy: When it comes to WordPress, I would love to be more technically sound. I really struggle with technology. Before this, I really struggled. The first time, Tara, when you sent me the video link I was really struggling, "Okay, how do you use Zoom?" I know, so embarrassing? So yeah, I would love to be more technologically sound. And that's why I'm having all my friends who are very techie. Like all my friends are techie, so I hope that rubs on me as well and I'm more technologically sound.
One of my friends suggested that I learn code, and I honestly do not know if I'll be able to do that. But I would love to be more technology-oriented. I've use the word so many times. But that's one of the weakness I want to work on.
Challenges as a writer, I think for a writer to write anything they really need to know a subject inside out. If you don't know that, I don't think you can justify writing about it. So I don't think it's kind of a struggle, but it really limits on how much you can do. I would love to write about technology and artificial intelligence. But for me to be a subject matter expert, I have to put in a lot of work. At this point, I'm not sure if I'm the right person because I'm not surrounded by that kind of talent who can guide me to write something that I want. So I had to really be mindful in how I learn about something. As a writer, it always brings new challenges.
So if you're thinking about writing one topic, you need to know it inside out. You need to know right people to ask questions. You need to know which way you want to go, how you want to go because when you write, it's there. You're putting something from nothing. You're putting it into something tangible, which people might read, and it is so important that it is well thought out and well-articulated. And you back by it, because people might say that this is not right, but you have to say, no, you have given you 100%. So there is that skill, basically. The research part needs to be very, very thorough. I think for a writer, that's one of the things that really is a challenging part.
Tara: Fairy, we love talking to people from other parts of the world. Most of the people that we have on the podcast are based in the United States like we are. So it's I love seeing what's happening especially I've seen in India a great community of women using WordPress, and it seems like it's a very connected group. You speak English so well. I wanted to ask you a little bit about sort of your worldwide community and using your language versus using English, talking about even in your comics, I'm just curious to know how you interact internationally from India with the WordPress community and in general.
Fairy: I have really started reaching out. I didn't because it took a lot of work for me to be this person, to be outgoing and all. And in one way is WordPress is really important facilitator. I write in English. I think in English. So I think speaking in English is natural. I mean, if you can believe that because I studied in English language. But of course, it has strong influence of Hindi, which is Indian language.
We have a lot of influences on language. I mean, I can talk a lot about languages. If you have a specific question, trust me. Because language is beautiful, I love languages. And that's one of the reason I became a writer because it's where you can just do anything. You can express yourself in different languages. And because I studied in English, I thought of this will be the language. And since we were children, we knew that to be successful, you need to know the global language. And English is prevalent. Like everyone where we attend, speaks in English. Even our community currently, we mostly do speak in English. So I don't think language was ever a barrier for us.
Tara: We ask all of our guests about advice. And if there's any advice that you have received, that you would like to share with us that's really been impactful in your life.
Fairy: It's to reach out people like me because I have always been very anxious to try and I would not reach out to people. So I'm not only part of WordPress community, but also different communities. The reason that was, because, in college, I was told that I should reach out to people like me. Because when I do that, you build confidence. And when you build confidence, you make things happen.
So it was second year of my college and my professor said that, that you have potential, and you should try it. Because there are not many people like me, they said, there are people like you. Don't think that you're alone and reach out to people like you. I think that was truly a game-changer.
I subconsciously started trying to at least meet people who were like me – people who have some shred of creative ability. Even if they're not working in a creative field, they are working in accounting department or something else, but I find some spark in it, which I thought they're like me, and it truly helps. It really helps to be seen. I think to be seen for what you are I think that's very important. So reach out to people like you, they are people like you. Just reach out to them and you'll find them.
Liam: It sounds like when you say "like you" that's a pretty open-ended funnel, right?
Fairy: Yeah.
Liam: Fairy, anybody who's creative, there could be a lot of differences between you and that person. So I like that. It's almost in a sense it's…I'm kind of almost hearing that as reach out to anybody. Not in a blind kind of way, but appreciate that connections are practically everywhere if we want them to be.
Fairy: True. True.
Liam: I'm going to ask you another question, and it's a question around success. We ask this of all of our guests. I'm very excited to hear your answer. So the question is, how would you define success? It can be a mixture of personal definition, maybe a professional definition? Or Fairy, maybe for you it's a mixture of both.
Fairy: Professionally, I'm a writer, and writers truly need to be pampered. So for me, as a good writer, I want emails. I want DMs telling me…I'm really active on Twitter. Twitter is amazing because you can reach out to just about anyone, just with 280 characters. I don't think people are utilizing it at its total potential. They should. So when you are really open about stuff that you are passionate about, people reach out to you.
I have reach out to so many people, and they have reached out to me. So when I put out something and they say that this is good, it really resonated with me, whoa, that's success for me. So whenever I create something and I get feedback, yes, that's really makes my day. That is success for me. It is work-related. It's writing. It's work-related.
When it comes to personal, good health, compassion and being content – being satisfied. We think we want to be happy, but we can't always be happy, right? It will be too exhausting, honestly. So I would like to be more content. That's my definition of success.
Tara: That's a good one. It's very thorough. I'd like to ask you a little bit about the feedback. When we seek out feedback now with social media, we get answers right away. We can get validated on social media, or you can feel the opposite sometimes if you're going to see how many people liked your tweet or didn't comment at all. Do you find a balance with that? Do you pay a lot of attention? Do you take it personally? How do you deal with sort of the lack of feedback to on social media, especially?
Fairy: It is a double-edged sword. I only trained myself to only focus on the positives but how can I ignore negative comments, right? So you really need to build your filter. Someone said something, is it adding value? If I imbibe what they're saying, is it going to make anything better? For example, if someone said that what I posted…I wrote an essay, and they said the essay is shit, I'm going to say like, "Okay, why?" And if they're not giving me any reason, then I don't think I need to pay attention to that comment.
Negative feedback also means to be productive. And I think you need to build a filter where you can realize which critique is important, and which needs to be thrown into the garbage. That's how I try to function.
Tara: Yeah, that's good. You make it sound very easy. Is it easy? You find it easy?
Fairy: No, it is not. But it's good hope to work on it. Also, if you're in the profession of writing, it's good to have a writer buddy who gives you a perspective on what is right and which feedback to focus on and whatnot. But when it comes to Twitter, people don't give you an explanation, and that's why it's better to focus only on the positives and not negative one. I block people right away if I find them trolling. So I don't have that much patience or threshold. So that helps a lot. Just block if anyone is disagreeing you just for the heck of it. Yeah, so that helps.
Tara: That's good advice and I appreciate you sharing that with us. I wish we could get even more from you. But we are, unfortunately, out of time already. It's gone by so fast. I know it's late there where you are so you're probably ready to go to sleep. But your energy is great. And we really love chatting with you today. Fairy, can you tell us and those who are listening where they can find you online on Twitter and wherever else?
Fairy: Yes. I tend to change my handle name a lot because it's just a quirky habit I enjoy. But my name is Fairy Dharawat, and you can just find me there right away. If you want to know what my handle name is it's @hibernatingbear because I need to go out more often. I'm not going out. Bears are really cute. I love bears.
Liam: I love it. I love it. And where can people see your illustrations or your comics? Do you post those?
Fairy: Yes. I have my Instagram and there again it's Fairy Dharawat. It's a page. I call myself @theradicaldoodler because it's radical.
Tara: I can't wait to see this – the superhero that puts people to sleep. I love it that idea.
Fairy: I would love to do it again then.
Tara: Thanks for joining us so much. Hope to meet you in person sometime.
Fairy: Would love to. It was nice. Thank you. Thank you.
Liam: Thanks, Fairy.
Fairy: Thank you. Bye-bye
Tara: Bye.
Liam: Bye for now.


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Q: C# Get all records from Web API where pagination is implemented My requirement is accessing a third party Web API, which has total of 120 records (just an example - it can be more). The Api has pagination implemented which returns default 50 records based on page number. By passing {Page} in parameters, we can get other 50 records for that page number:
Example :
https://www.thirdpartapi.com/users?Page=1

https://www.thirdpartapi.com/users?Page=2

This is the response from API -
{
 "total" : 120,
 "users" : [
     {
        "id" : "abc123",
        "firstName" : "First1",
        "lastName" : "Last1"
     },
     {
        "id" : "abc124",
        "firstName" : "First2",
        "lastName" : "Last2"
     },
     ...... 50 users
  ]
}

I want to get all 120 users records from the Web API.
this is my Response model:
public class ApiResponse
{
     public int total { get; set; }
     public List<Users> users { get; set; }
     public ApiResponse()
     {
         users = new List<Users>();
     }
}

public class Users
{
     public string id { get; set; }
     public string firstName { get; set; }
     public string lastName{ get; set; }
}

I am making a recursive call to the WebAPI to get all the 120 records:
List<Users> = (List<Users>)CallApi();

private List<Users> CallApi(int? pageNumber = 1)
{
    var response = webmanager.RestApi("https://www.thirdpartapi.com/users?Page={pageNumber}");

    ApiResponse data = (ApiResponse)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(response, typeOf(ApiResponse));

    if(data.users.Count > 0)
    {
        data.users.AddRange((IEnumberable<Users>)CallApi(pageNumber + 1));
        return data.users;
    }
    else
        return data.users;
 }

I am able to get all the Users (120). But is this an optimal way to call an API? Please suggest a better solution.

A: Since its a third party API, calling the API multiple times is the only option. Just a minor suggestion would be to keep track of the count of records fetched and check if it's greater than the total count. Here you could avoid the 4th API call if you do so.

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In Tanzania, mapping of water points showed that nationally, less than half the existing rural water points were working—of water points that were less than two years old, a quarter had already stopped functioning. British charity WaterAid sets up workshops in poor countries like Tanzania and India to train mechanics in order to have a local fix for these problems. The mechanic position offers employment opportunities for women, fixes pumps for an average of 100 rupees (roughly $2.00), and repaired more than 1,100 pumps in the first 14 months.
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Access Code is a nonprofit in New York that gives young adults, particularly those from minority groups, instruction and resources to learn coding. This education promotes greater access to lucrative careers in the world of technology.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/open-education-for-a-global-economy
An Irish-based company, ALISON, provides free, high-quality e-courses to people around the globe in order to help close the gap between education and workplace skills. Particularly focused on providing access to areas where more traditional forms of education and job training are difficult to get, this approach is helping to change lives and the economy for the better.
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The prison system is designed to fail - and it does. On the positive side, there are programs all over the country that recognize that helping prisoners remake their lives is both humane and cost-effective.
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Bangladesh has often struggled maintaining safety in the workplace. But a new effort ensures that Bangladeshi workers are trained about how to better follow security and safety restrictions to create a safer working environment.

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Imagine one of the biggest hip-hop outings in history taking shape this summer. It would be dubbed the Triple Threat Tour and feature multiplatinum acts Ja Rule, Jay-Z and P. Diddy. To top it off, each would bring with him his musical family. Representing with Ja Rule would be Ashanti and the rest of Murder Inc. Jay would "Roc the Mic" with his boys Beanie Sigel, Cam'ron and Memphis Bleek. And Diddy and his Bad Boy crew would do their thing. Keep imagining; although it was almost a reality, the tour has been called off.
Last week, while promoting her debut LP in New York, Ashanti let the cat out of the bag that the three factions were set to roll out starting June 12. Moments later, Ja had a bubble-bursting refutation.
"I hate to put the cat back in the bag, but that ain't going down no more as of about 15 to 20 minutes ago," a perturbed Rule said less than half an hour later. "We'll be making a new tour. Scheduling and routing a new cast for you guys shortly.
"It's f–ed up," he continued, venting his disappointment. "People… they don't want to go on no tour. I'm not going to say no names."
Tuesday night at the Urban Aid 2 benefit concert where all three families performed, giving a preview of what could have been, Rule's Murder Inc. CEO, Irv Gotti, spilled the beans about exactly who caused the tour's collapse.
"Jay pulled out," Gotti said. "It's as simple as that. We was going to do the tour, we signed off, and Jay decided he wanted to fall back and make an album, which is cool. Jay is like my brother, so I'm not mad at him or anything like that, but the tour was going to happen and everything was set. But I respect his decision and I ride with him."
On Tuesday, Ja reiterated that the tour was dead, but he was also optimistic about going on tour this summer despite the setback. "Me and Mary [J. Blige], we sparked some new options," he said. "But if not, I'm fully ready to go out on a Murder Inc. tour and do my own thing."
The Queens MC was confident that he and his crew could pack them on their own, especially since he had just found out that labelmate Ashanti had the #1 album in the country (see "Ashanti Beats Tweet To Debut At #1 On Albums Chart").
"This is why I'm fully ready to go out on my own thing," he added, noting Ashanti's mammoth first-week album sales. "503,000 y'all, holla!"
Jay-Z was unavailable for comment. P. Diddy declined to give a statement on the matter.


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Canada's S-211 bill will not eliminate child labour slavery in the supply chains of Canada, says human rights activist
Canada's Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act or Bill (S-211) will be the most racist law in recent Canadian history, because almost all workers and children exploited in the supply chains of Canada are not white, says human rights activist, journalist, and political consultant Fernando Morales-de la Cruz.
Recently, Canada's Bill S-211, the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, came back from the standing committee unchanged.
Bill S-211 has already passed through the Senate, and on June 1, 2022, it passed its second reading in the House of Commons.
The bill is now at the report stage in the House of Commons.
Morales-de la Cruz said that Bill S-211 remains a flawed and meaningless piece of legislation.
"The bill is nonetheless expected to pass into law as early as next week, with multi-party support."
Canada's Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act or Bill S-211 will be the most racist law in recent Canadian history, because almost all workers and children exploited in the supply chains of Canada are not white, said Morales-de la Cruz.
Morales-de la Cruz recently urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who committed at the G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany last year, to eliminate forced labour and child labour in the supply chains of Canada.
"Of course, Canada also has state obligations to respect, protect and defend human rights and children's rights. Bill S-211 which is being promoted as a legal initiative 'against forced labour and child labour' was created to protect the exploiters not the exploited," he said.
"Some 74 years after signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and nearly 33 years after ratifying the Convention on Rights of the Child, even the coffee, tea, and chocolate at the Canadian parliament is produced by slave or child labour.
"The Canadian parliament is about to pass a modern slavery bill that will not eliminate slavery, and will protect the companies that use child labour in their Canadian supply chains to reduce costs and increase profits."
It's fair to say that Bill S-211 will tickle the exploiters, but it will not tackle forced labour or child labour in the supply chains of Canada. This is absolutely unacceptable and extremely cruel, Morales-de la Cruz said.
"Considering the commitment by Prime Minister Trudeau at the G7 meeting, I trust that the representatives of his government in the Canadian parliament will draft a real anti-slavery and anti-child labour bill that will protect the rights of the poor in the supply chains of Canada, exploited to reduce costs and increase profits."
Morales-de la Cruz also alleged that Canadian investors like the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan profit from the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of African children by investing in corporations that use minors in their supply chains to reduce costs and increase profits.
According to World Vision Canada, about 4.3 million children work in forced labour, including debt bondage, slavery and commercial sexual exploitation. Over 1 200 companies operating in Canada are known to be importing goods at a high risk of being produced by a child or through forced labour.
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This committee was elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting held on 26 April 2018 and will meet monthly (excluding August and December) to pray together and to manage the day to day responsibilities of the church. We also discuss on a monthly basis aspects of our spiritual journey together.
We meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 19:15, please do remember us in your prayers.
The following people make up the Parochial Church Council of St. Catherine's Church for 2018/19.


Our story began in about 1945, after twenty years of existence of the Muscadet Sèvre et Maine appellation. Jo Landron's father, Pierre, and his brother, Julien, progressively made winegrowing the main activity of the small family farm holding.
The return to soil preparation and tilling methods in the 1990s, and then the elimination of all chemical pesticides, in 1999, better highlighted the differences between the estate's three main soil and bedrock types or 'terroirs', and gave the wines grown in particular locations of the vineyard a clear identity.
We employ organic winegrowing practices which forbid any use of chemicals, with ancient winemaking methods in which wines are left on their lees. For this, grapes are harvested by hand in whole bunches.
Our approach to viticulture is the result of an ongoing philosophical journey. In 1979, the younger generation (that of Jo Landron) breathed new life into the family wine holding, which was expanded with new plots.
"For me, Muscadet must faithfully express its terroir with a distinctive mineral character. The richness and originality of our vineyard lies in its diverse geological make-up and micro climate. Only by preparing the soil and treating the vines respectfully through organic methods can we produce wines that fully express this character."
Our wines are available from trusted distributors all over France.
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We employ organic winegrowing methods which forbid the use of all chemicals. We believe that Muscadet must truly reflect its terroir and show distinctive minerality.
Domaines Landron put people at the centre of their concerns. Every member of the team plays a role in shaping and enhancing our vision.
Over the years and vintages, the balanced approach that we seek in our winemaking has filtered through into our approach to managing people at our estates.


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Herbert Smith Freehills and Linklaters advise on the purchase and sale of the largest portfolio of grid parity photovoltaic systems in Italy
16 February 2021 | Milan/London
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Herbert Smith Freehills and Linklaters have advised A2A and Octopus Renewables respectively on the signing of a binding agreement for the purchase and sale of a portfolio consisting of 17 photovoltaic plants with a total rated power of 173 MW.
The asset is the largest merchant portfolio of plants in Italy, without GSE incentives, of which 9 are located in Lazio and 8 in Sardinia. Given the size of the portfolio, the operation is unprecedented in Italy.
The plants will ensure an increase of the installed capacity which will be able to produce at full capacity about 420 GWh/y of green energy, equivalent to the annual consumption of 200,000 residential customers, avoiding the emission of 2.5 million tons of CO2 overall (along the entire life cycle of the plants). The size of the individual plants and the used connection solutions to create the conditions for the use, in the near future, of technologies such as storage and hydrogen.
A2A was advised by Herbert Smith Freehills, with a team led by Milan corporate partner Lorenzo Parola and London corporate partner Sarah Pollock, alongside associates Andrea Coluzzi and Eliza Eaton. Milan-based senior associate Andrea Leonforte advised on administrative law and partner Francesca Morra advised on aspects relating to foreign direct investments. The wider team included of counsel Simone Egidi (banking law), and associates Giacomo Gavotti and Giulia Musmeci and Dr. Vanessa Nobile. Alessandra Ferrari and Lorenzo Ottaviani led the A2A legal team. IMI-Intesa Sanpaolo, KPMG and KB Development acted, respectively, as financial, tax and technical consultants to the seller.
Linklaters acted for Octopus Renewables, an operator specialised in the management of investments in the renewable energy sector and is part of the group headed by Octopus Investments Ltd. The Linklaters team was led by partner Giorgio Fantacchiotti and included managing associate Laura Belardinelli, associate Walter Campagna and trainee Marco Buffon (corporate law); managing associate Alessandro Gemmo and associates Elisa Volontè and Najwa Hamidallah (administrative law); and counsel Tessa Lee, managing associates Lucia Ciocarlan and Benedetta Marino and associates Mattia di Maggio and Guido Parisi (project contracts and banking law). The aspects relating to foreign direct investments were advised by partner Lucio D'Amario and managing associate Giorgio Valoti. Rothschild & Co and EY acted, respectively, as the seller's financial and tax advisers while Moroni & Partners managed the technical profiles of the transaction.
If you have any questions, or would like to know how this might affect your business, phone, or email these key contacts.
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The Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is a computer processor (CPU) created by Intel Corporation in 2009 that has 48 distinct physical cores that communicate through architecture similar to that of a cloud computer data center. Cores are a part of the processor that carry out instructions of code that allow the computer to run. The SCC was a product of a project started by Intel to research multi-core processors and parallel processing (doing multiple calculations at once). Additionally Intel wanted to experiment with incorporating the designs and architecture of huge cloud computer data centers (Cloud computing) into a single processing chip. They took the aspect of cloud computing in which there are many remote servers that communicate with each other and applied it to a microprocessor. It was a new concept that Intel wanted to experiment with. The name "Single-chip Cloud Computer" originated from this concept.
The SCC is currently still being used for research purposes. It currently can run a simple Linux operating system on the chip, but cannot boot Windows. Some applications of the SCC are web servers, data informatics, bioinformatics, and financial analytics.
Intel developed this new chip architecture based on huge cloud data centers, the cores are separated across the chip but are able to directly communicate with each other. The chip contains 48 P54C Pentium cores connected with a 4×6 2D-mesh. This mesh is a group of 24 tiles set up in four rows and six columns. Each tile contained two cores and a 16 KB (8 per core) message passing buffer (MPB) shared by the two cores, essentially a router. This router allows each core to communicate with each other. Previously cores had to send information back to the main memory and there it would be re-routed to other cores. The SCC contains 1.3 billion 45 nanometers (nm) long transistors that can amplify signals or act as a switch and turn core pairs on and off. These transistors use anywhere from 25 to 125 watts of power depending on the processing demand. For comparison the Intel i7 processor uses 156 watts of power. Four DDR3 memory controllers are on each chip, connected to the 2D-mesh as well. These controllers are capable of addressing 64 GB of random-access memory. The DDR3 memory is used to help each tile communicate with the others, without them the chip would not be functional. These controllers also work with the transistors to control when certain tiles are turned on and off to save power when not in use. When proper coding is implemented all of these pieces are put together you get a functional processor that is fast, powerful, and energy efficient with a framework resembling a network of cloud computers.
In processor mode cores are on and executing code from the system memory and programmed I/O (inputs and outputs) through the system which is connected to the system board FPGA. Loading memory and configuring the processor for bootstrapping (sustaining after the initial load) is currently done by software running on the SCC's management console that's embedded in the chip.
Cores are turned off. Only the routers, transistors and RAM controllers are on and they are sending and receiving large packets of data. Additionally there is no memory map.
Intel plans to share this technology with other companies such as HP, Yahoo, and Microsoft to have multiple companies researching the SCC to more efficiently and quickly advance the technology. They hope to make the SCC scalable to 100+ cores. One way they hope to achieve this is by having each chip be able to communicate with another chip, and they could put two chips together to get double the cores. They hope to improve the parallel programming productivity and power management to take advantage of the chip's architecture and large number of cores. Additionally they plan to experiment more with this architecture and similar chip architectures to develop a many-core scalable processors that maximizes the processing power of the cores while being power efficient.
^ Ng, Jason. "Intel Demonstrates 48-Core "Single-Chip Cloud Computer"". Daily Tech. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
^ a b Corley, Anne-Marie. "Intel Lifts the Hood on its "Single-Chip Cloud Computer"". IEEE Spectrum. IEEE. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
^ a b "Intel Labs Announces Single-chip Cloud Computing Experimental Chip". YouTube. Intel. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
^ a b Pichel, Juan; Rivera, Francisco (2013). "Sparse matrix–vector multiplication on the Single-Chip Cloud Computer many-core processor". Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 73 (12): 1539–1550. doi:10.1016/j.jpdc.2013.07.017. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
^ a b c Nerurkar, Nishad; Mhatre, Aniket. "Overview of the Intel Single Chip Cloud-Computer" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2014.
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How many ways an axe could actually be thrown at a target and still stick? Bad Axe Throwing teaches people how to throw axes. Our talented coaches love trying out new axe throwing trick shots. We have one coach in particular who's taken to perfecting those shots.
Coach Josh at our Kitchener location is what some might call the pro at the axe hand flips and single hand juggling.
Check out his trilogy of the juggle.
Josh clearly know how to handle an axe, but how about letting the floor handle it for him?
The Cool hand action isn't the only trilogy of throw Coach Josh has got up his sleeve. Check out these spread shots.
But hey, that throw didn't have those axes not too far away from each other you might say. Well how about two axes, two targets, two bullseyes?!
Is that still not far enough you say? Well don't worry, Coach Josh can up the ante a bit with almost two killshots across 4 targets!
We've seen some good progression of shots getting farther away, but how about we see how it goes close up? Here's the 1-inch throw.
Just because he can nail a shot from up close doesn't mean he can't hit that shot from far away either!
With such an awesome array of throws, what else could he do? Well I'll tell you what, you should definitely be careful who you show off to.
Hope you enjoyed this showcase of neat trick shots across the board. How many tricks can you do?
If you'd like to practice some cool tricks or just wanting to have some fun, all you have to do is book your event at a Bad Axe near you.


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National Health Council Conference Focuses on Good Practices for Patient Engagement in Research
The pharmaceutical industry, the Food and Drug Administration, and disease advocacy organizations like Celiac Disease Foundation (CDF) are all seeking meaningful patient engagement in the drug research and development process. There is considerable evidence that when patients are active participants in disease research, the drug development process is not only more cost and time efficient, but also more profound. Unfortunately, best practices on how to incorporate meaningful patient engagement are lacking, compelling virtually every entity involved to reinvent the wheel when a new drug is proposed. All parties, but especially the patient community seeking life-improving advances, suffer as a result.
On June 15, 2017, Talia Machlouf, Director of Advocacy and Research for Celiac Disease Foundation attended the National Health Council (NHC) Conference: Sponsor-Patient Interactions: Establishing Consensus on Good Practices for Patient Engagement in Drug Development in Washington, D.C., in partnership with the Genetic Alliance and Food and Drug Law Institute. The purpose of the Conference was to talk through sponsor-patient interactions as part of achieving meaningful patient engagement in drug development with a goal of establishing recommendations to inform company and disease advocacy organization policy.
The Conference included a multi-stakeholder expert panel, as well as breakout sessions, where attendees discussed the purpose of patient engagement in the research and drug development process. Each breakout group included representatives from industry and disease advocacy organizations. Consensus quickly grew around the principal that building trust and transparency between pharmaceutical companies and disease advocacy organizations is a prerequisite to any successful patient engagement strategy. Other areas of common agreement developed around the need to establish clear protocols and paths of engagement in both industry and disease advocacy organizations. This Conference was exceptionally timely as Celiac Disease Foundation continues to expand its Patient Advocacy Program and iCureCeliac® patient registry, both of which seek to foster improved patient engagement at every stage of the drug research process.
In joining forces with organizations like the National Health Council and The Genetic Alliance, Celiac Disease Foundation continues to work to improve the quality of life and prognosis of celiac disease patients and their families.
About the National Health Council
Founded in 1920, the National Health Council (NHC) is the only organization that brings together all segments of the health community to provide a united voice for the more than 133 million people with chronic diseases and disabilities and their family caregivers. Made up of more than 100 diverse national health-related organizations and businesses, the NHC's core membership includes the nation's leading patient advocacy organizations, which control its governance and policy-making process. Other members include professional and membership associations; nonprofit organizations with an interest in health; and representatives from the pharmaceutical, generic drug, health insurance, device, biotechnology, and communications industries.
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How EV SSL Certificates Build Online Consumer Trust & Protect Your Brand
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
In the world of online transactions, those words by Warren Buffett are especially true.
A company's brand represents trust and a promise to do right by its customers. It allows consumers to quickly make purchases without questioning whether they can trust the receiver.
Scammers understand this, and the internet provides a perfect opportunity to take advantage of trusted names. Through phishing, nefarious actors use copycat sites to capture personal and financial data from unsuspecting customers. Man-in-the-middle attacks take this enterprise a step further by intercepting data intended for legitimate companies and stealing it for financial gain.
As more daily services move online, consumers are increasingly educating themselves on ways to stay safe online. One of the ways they accomplish this is by identifying online trust signals like EV SSL certificates. It's up to legitimate companies to display these trust signals so that customers can engage and transact with them comfortably.
EV SSL certificates are a way to enhance your trusted status in the online world
We're living in an online world of insecure comms where anyone's listening
Online communications are vulnerable to eavesdropping third parties with nefarious intent.
Picture the following scenario. You're an employee at a multinational firm. Every week, you send updates on top secret product developments from your office in NYC to headquarters in LA. You ask questions by shooting tiny slips of paper through a giant glass tube that travels across the continental U.S.A.
Across this crystal clear transmission tube, your competitors watch these secret missives go by. Eventually, an employee of one of these competitors has an idea. Why not drill a hole in the tube, read the message, and then send it back on its way, patching up the hole so both parties are none the wiser? There you have it. Your multinational firm is now the victim of a real-world man-in-the-middle attack.
But wait. Another competitor thinks up an even better idea. Why wait for either party to send a message? Why not build an offshoot of that pipeline and request information the competition's dying to know? Since the NYC team thinks they're communicating securely, they'll answer the questions assuming they're talking to a trusted colleague. In essence, they become victims of a physical phishing attack.
Man-in-the-middle and phishing attacks operate in a similar style online, instead that team in NYC (aka "the client device") is actually transmitting personal information and credit card data. HQ in LA, which is supposedly sending back solutions, is the networking equivalent of your "server".
Now, imagine if there were a bit more security supporting that cross-country, translucent tube. Instead of shooting messages into the ether, companies would first authenticate the end user by calling ahead to let them know a package was en route. And if that message happened to be intercepted, the message would be in a cryptic code impossible to break without the right key.
In essence, this is what Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides for businesses and consumers who want to securely exchange information on the internet today.
SSL certificates are today's arbiters of online trust, but there are levels to their effectiveness
Different SSL certificates offer different degrees of authentication. (Pexels)
At minimum, consumers expect websites to provide encrypted communication transfers.
Of course, it's easy for anyone to claim they use proper encryption standards. As a result, SSL certificates are issued to a company's server by Certificate Authorities like Symantec or GeoTrust. When a customer tries to connect to the site, their browser ensures there's an encrypted SSL link by matching a public key with the server's private key. Information can flow right past a hacker without being compromised.
But there are two massive misconceptions about SSL certificates that are worth addressing.
Encryption is the same thing as authentication
All SSL certificates are created equal
There's a big difference between encryption and authentication
Imagine developing an iron-clad secret code of communication with someone, using it to share your most private info, and then learning that the person on the other end isn't who you thought they were.
Technically, your encryption was flawless. No one who intercepted the messages ever deciphered them. But your information has still been compromised because you failed to authenticate the "trusted" person who held the key on the other end.
In the online world, this is an extremely important distinction to understand. Even if a website offers encrypted services, they may not be a trusted party to begin with. It's important to know who's on the other end, which brings us to our next point.
There are different types of SSL certificates
There are three types of SSL certificate, and each certificate comes with varying degrees of authentication:
Domain Validation (DV) Certificate
Organization Validation (OV) Certificate
Extended Validation (EV) Certificate
What's the difference between a DV, OV, and EV certificate and which one does my business need?
Leading companies like Symantec and Apple use EV certificates that display their company name directly in the browser.
The short answer: The difference is authentication, and if you're a business interested in cultivating iron-clad trust online, you should invest in an EV certificate. But of course, it's important to understand the difference between these three.
All three certificates offer secure, encrypted connections, but they offer varying degrees of authentication.
A domain validation certificate only authenticates that someone owns a specific domain name. Today, it's become the bare minimum for online security. Even non-business websites like personal blogs are expected to carry this certificate to be considered legitimate places on the web. But for enterprises where trust is crucial, like online shopping or financial services, this level of authentication won't do. Just because there's an identified person behind a domain, doesn't mean they're the person with whom you're trying to transact.
In other words, while your communication is encrypted from bad actors in general, it may still be travelling to one bad actor in particular. Think of it like securing your house with a state-of-the-art security system that a burglar builds. While the system will keep most bad guys out, it's still totally accessible to the bad guys who built it.
An organization validation certificate proves that there's an actual organization behind that domain name. To obtain an OV certificate, it's not enough to say that John Smith in Portland, Oregon owns the domain, "moneytransfersworldwide". You need proof of a valid business to back it up. And to satisfy the Certificate Authority you'd need to provide proof of your business's existence, confirm its local presence, undergo telephone and domain verification, and participate on a verification call.
Generally speaking, this has become the bare minimum for large organizations in online commerce, software as a service, and financial services. But trust is absolute, and if there's an additional way to show your customers you care about obtaining their trust, it pays to pursue it.
An extended validation certificate takes the authentication process a step further. In addition to the due diligence conducted for the OV certificate, you also must provide a physical address.
While some browsers identify sites with EV certificates by making their URL green, this isn't always the case. For instance, Google Chrome doesn't change the color of the address bar. What it does do is include the full name of your parent company in the address bar to provide an added visual signal that you are who you say you are. While scammers can forge DV certificates by adding their certificate to a browser's trusted certificates list, it is impossible to do the same with an EV certificate, providing your customers added protection.
EV Certificates Protect Customers From Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks rely on social engineering tactics that can fool even the most web savvy consumers
A phishing attack can cost a small business tens of thousands of dollars and a medium to large business millions. They target customers where they feel the most comfortable - their email and cell phones - and redirect them to seemingly legitimate sites to capture valuable personal information. These scams have serious repercussions on customer trust and consumers' level of comfort using online services.
Consequently, consumers navigate the online world with caution. The undeniable convenience of e-payments, mobile banking, online shopping, and more means that using the internet for daily services is here to stay. But that doesn't mean consumers aren't wary, and that fear is slowing down growth.
According to research by Paysafe, half of consumers say fear of fraud prevents them from moving to frictionless payments, otherwise known as paying through apps. Horror stories about identity theft and online auctions for stolen credit card numbers have consumers still hesitant to fully embrace online shopping as recently as 2018.
Think phishing scams only work on the internet illiterate? Think again. Phishing scams rely on clever social engineering tactics designed to lower a person's defences over time and convince them to click on a link thinking it's from a colleague. According to researchers, almost anyone can fall victim to an aggressive form of phishing called "spear phishing" which uses intense targeting to convince users to click. Indeed, some of the most headline-making hacks like the one that hit Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta, were due to phishing.
The last thing your company wants is hesitant, fear-driven online engagement. So how can you help customers feel comfortable engaging and transacting with your brand online?
You can do this by offering clear trust signals like a visual indicator that they are communicating with the right enterprise.
EV SSL Certificates Generate Revenue Through Increased Conversions
One of the main reasons for cart abandonment is a lack of trust indicators or card security.
Cart abandonment is a huge challenge for e-retailers. On average, e-commerce stores lose 75 percent of their sales due to shopping cart abandonment. Imagine investing countless dollars into PPC campaigns, social media marketing, and blogging only to lose your customers because they can't be sure their data is safe?
Lack of trust indicators or card security is a leading cause of cart abandonment (Pexels)
Consumers continuously educate themselves about how to transact safely online, and they keep their eyes peeled for trust signals to help them separate the good players from the bad. According to PwC's Consumer Intelligence Series report, 88 percent of consumers reported that their willingness to share personal data like contact information and credit card numbers is tied to how much they trust the company in question. Moreover, 87 percent of consumers will look for alternatives if they're not confident in a company's ability to protect their data.
Today, consumers recognize padlocks in the browser and understand that it represents third-party verification. But as cybersecurity tactics become more sophisticated so too do cyber schemes. Rather than viewing the early iteration of security certificates - domain validation certificates - as a threat to cybercrime, hackers saw them as a way to lull customers into a false sense of security. Since DV SSLs only verify that a person owns a domain, not that the domain belongs to a legally registered business, scammers quickly caught on to the fact that they could use DV SSLs to trick customers into handing over their data.
On the other hand, the enhanced version of SSLs, extended validation SSLs, require a series of verifications that would be difficult for a scammer to pass. As consumers continue expanding their awareness of online authentication, chances are they'll grow increasingly resistant to shopping through sites without enhanced authentication.
How do the leading EV SSL providers compare?
When you're ready to snag an EV certificate, it pays to go with a trusted provider whose specifications meet your organization's needs.
Great customer service, but a long validation process
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Extensive support from the recent acquisition of Symantec's web security business
Strong reputation built on expert, speedy validations
Excellent enterprise solutions
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There's been some controversy generated over my use of the terminology of "Organic" and "Non-Organic" Open Source. Asa Dotzler noted that it wasn't Mozilla's original intent to "make a distinction between how Mozilla does open source and how others do open source". Nessance complained that he didn't like the term "Non-Organic", because it was "raw and vague – is it alien, poison, silicon-based?" and suggested instead the term "Synthetic Open Source", referencing a paper by Siobhán O'Mahony, " What makes a project open source? Migrating from organic to synthetic communities". Nessance referenced a series of questions and answers by Stephen O' Grady from Red Monk, where he claimed the distinction between the two doesn't matter. (Although given that Sun is a paying customer of Red Monk, Stephen admits that this might have influenced his thinking and so he might be "brainwashed" :-).
So let's take some of these issues in reverse order. Does the distinction matter? After all, if the distinction doesn't matter, then there's no reason to create or define specialized terminology to describe the difference. Certainly, Brian Aker, a senior technologist from MySQL, thinks it does, as do folks like me and Amanda McPherson and Mike Dolan; but does it really? Are we just saying that because we want to take a cheap shot at Sun?
Well, to answer that, let's go back and ask the question, "Why is Open Source a good thing in the first place?" It's gotten to the point where people just assume that it's a good thing, because everybody says it is. But if we go back to first principals maybe it will become much clearer why this dinction is so important.
Consider the Apache web server; it was able to completely dominate the web server market, easily besting all of its proprietary competitors, including the super-deep-pocketed Microsoft. Why? It won because a large number of volunteers were able to collaborate together to create a very fully featured product, using a "stone soup" model where each developer "scratched their own itch". Many, if not most, of these volunteers were compensated by their employers for their work. Since their employers were not in the web server business, but instead needed a web server as means (a critical means, to be sure) to pursue their business, there was no economic reason not to let their engineers contribute their improvements back to the Apache project. Indeed, it was cheaper to let their engineers work on Apache collaboratively than it was to purchase a product that would be less suited for their needs. In other words, it was a collective "build vs. buy" decision, with the twist that because a large number of companies were involved in the collaboration, it was far, far cheaper than the traditional "build" option. This is a powerful model, and the fact that Sun originally asked Roy Felding from the Apache Foundation to assist in forming the Solaris community indicates that at least some people in Sun appreciated why this was so important.
There are other benefits of having code released under the Open Source license, such as the ability for others to see the implementation details of your operating system — but in truth, Sun had already made the Source Code for Solaris available for a nominal fee years before. And, of course, there are plenty of arguments over the exact licensing terms that should be used, such as GPLv2, GPLv3, CDDL, the CPL, MPL, etc., but sometimes those arguments can be a distraction from the central issue. While the legal issues that arise from the choice of license are important, at the end of the day, the most crucial issue is the development community. It is the strength and the diversity of the development community which is the best indicator for the health and the well-being of an Open Source project.
But what about end-users, I hear people cry? End users are important, to the extent that they provide ego-strokes to the developers, and to the extent that they provide testing and bug reports to the developers, and to the extent that they provide an economic justification to companies who employ open source developers to continue to do so. But ultimately, the effects of end-users on an open source project is only in a very indirect way.
Moreover, if you ask commercial end users what they value about Open Source, a survey by Computer Economics indicated that the number one reason why customers valued open source was "reduced dependence on software vendors", which end users valued 2 to 1 over "lower total cost of ownership". (Which is why Sun Salescritters who were sending around TCO analysis comparing 24×7 phone support form Red Hat with Support-by-email from Sun totally missed the point.) What's important to commercial end users is that they be able to avoid the effects of vendor lock-in, which implies that if all of the developers are employed by one vendor, it doesn't provide the value the end users were looking for.
This is why whether a project's developers are dominated by employees from a single company is so important. The license under which the code is released is merely just the outward trappings of an open source project. What's really critical is the extent to which the development costs are shared across a vast global community of developers who have many different means of support. This saves costs to the companies who are using a product being developed in such a fashion; it gives choice to customers about whether they can get their support from company A or company B; programmers who don't like the way things are going at one company have an easier time changing jobs while still working on the same project; it's a win-win-win scenario.
In contrast, if a project decides to release its code under an open source license, but nearly all the developers remain employed by a single company, it doesn't really change the dynamic compared to when the project was previously under a closed-source license. It is a necessary but not sufficient step towards attracting outside contributors, and eventually migrating towards having a true open source development community. But if those further steps are not taken, the hopes that users will think that some project is "cool" because it is under an open-source license will ultimately be in vain. The "Generation Y"/Millennial Generation in particular are very sensitive indeed to Astroturfing-style marketing tactics.
Ok, so this is why the distinction matters. Given that it does, what terms shall we use? I still like "Organic" vs "Non-organic". While it may not have been intended by the Mozilla Foundation, the description in their web page, "only a small percentage of whom are actual employees [of the Mozilla Foundation]", is very much what I and others have been trying to describe. And while I originally used the description "Projects which have an Open Source Development Community" vs "Projects with an Open Source License but which are dominated by employees from a single company", I think we can all agree these are very awkward. We need a better shorthand.
When Brian Aker from MySQL suggested "Organic" vs "Non-Organic" Open Source, and I think those terms work well. If some folks think that "Non-Organic" is somehow pejorative (hey, at least we didn't say "genetically modified Open Source" :-), I suppose we could use Synthetic Open Source. I'm not really convinced that is any much more appetizing, myself, however.
So what would be better terms to use? Please give me some suggestions, and maybe we can come up with a better set of words that everyone is happy with.
If there is a team of developers whose career is based upon their expertise in Apache, MySQL, Linux, Solaris, or any other Open Source technology, then those developers are sure of their ability to work in their chosen field whilst that software is in active use.
Thanks for your detailed response on my blog, Ted. Good points, well made, of course.
Is it more appropriate, then, to see OpenSolaris as a fix to the previous closed-source situation?
Although "in truth, Sun had already made the Source Code for Solaris available for a nominal fee years before", the principle for the typical customer (or sysadmin) that I met, was that the code (and some of the relevant bug reports, etc) were hidden away as Sun's "secret sauce" and not for commoners to access.
If we plot a graph of open-source awareness, with Linux, *BSD towards the far left, and Microsoft, Oracle, etc on the far right, then are Sun, who started out quite far to the left and later moved towards the right, now moving back towards the left again?
Is that a more useful model to view the current climate, perhaps?
How about communal vs. centrist.
How about "Marketplace" vs "Castle", reminiscent of Eric Raymond's years-old essay?
I think the distinction being discussed here is of interest mainly to theorists. If a piece of open source software is useful to me I use it and contribute anything that comes from my usage of it. I don't care if it was created organically or not. Really why would I? Given a choice of two packages I'll take the one that best fits my needs. If they are identical in terms of functionality and fit for my purpose (a rare case) I'll probably go with the one that seems to treat its non-development contributors the best as that will probably be the experience I will have. Again I still don't care about the organic question.
Some of the views above are heavily developer-centric. In my experience the contributions of the users are very important: use cases, finding bugs (often much harder than fixing them), platform testing, scalability testing, comparisons with alternatives, localizations etc. In fact these contributions outweigh (in terms of # of contributions) the contributions of the coders. The fact is you can do the coding behind closed doors (most small open source projects do it this way anyway) or in the open, but you CANNOT harden the software behind closed doors. You have to let the software out early and often to find out the functional and non-functional defects in the design and implementation. Sure there are a few high-profile examples where a distributed group of developers working to an existing spec (HTTP, Servlet or Unix kernel) have created things of great utility. If those developers were the only ones to ever use those creations open source would still be firmly in the hobby category.
I don't have much of an opinion on the terminology. When you look at many 'organic' projects what you are dealing with in reality is a 'committee' of core-developers or administrators that are the gatekeepers. This committee decides amongst itself what direction the project goes in, what contributions to accept, and how to prioritize the backlog of features. In some cases that committee does not pay attention to the needs of its community.
Maybe 'Managed' or 'Directed' is a better term than 'Non-Organic'. From the perspective of a CIO trying to manage their company's usage of open source 'organic' is not necessarily a good thing, whereas 'managed' maybe sounds a little more comforting.
I think I have an even more accurate description. How about dependent or independent?


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