>> Announcer: Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE covering Red Hat Summit 2019. Brought to you by Red Hat. >> Welcome back to our coverage here on theCUBE of Red Hat Summit 2019. We're live in Boston right now, and I'm joined by a couple of award winning professionals. And we're looking forward to hearing what their story is because it's fascinating on both fronts. And also by DeLisa Alexander who has a great job title at Red Hat. Chief People Officer. I love that title. DeLisa, thanks for joining us. >> Thanks for having us. >> Also with us, Limor Fried who is the and founder and lead engineer of Adafruit and Saloni Garg who is an undgergrad student, third year student, at the LNM Institute of Technology. And that's in Jaipur, India. So Saloni, glad to have you with us. And Limor, a pleasure as well. >> Thank you. >> And you're all lit up. You've got things going on there, right? >> I'm glowing, we're gonna get all into that. >> We'll get into that later. First, let's talk about the award that, they're two women in open-source are our winners this year. On the community side, Limor won, on the academic side, Saloni won, so talk about the awards if you would, DeLisa. The process and really what you're trying to do with recognizing these kinds of achievements. >> Well, this is our fifth year for the Women in Open-Source Award. So after this period of time, I can tell you what we wanna do is make an impact by really fostering more diverse communities, particularly gender diverse in open-source. And so that's the whole goal. Five years into it, what we've discovered is that when you really focus on diversity and inclusion within a community, you actually can make an impact. And the thing that's so exciting this year is that our award winners are really evidence of that. >> So talk about the two categories then if you would please. You have community on one side, academics on the other. It appears to be pretty clear cut what you're hoping to achieve there by recognizing an active contributor, and then somebody who is in the wings and waiting for their moment. But go ahead and fill in a little bit about, >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Limor and Saloni too about, why are they here. >> Limor: Why am I here? >> Yes, well, really what we're trying to do is create role models for women and girls who would like to participate in technology but perhaps are not sure that that's the way that they can go. And they don't see people that are like them, so there's less a tendency to join into this type of community. So with the community award winner, we're looking at the professional who's been contributing to open-source for a period of time. And with our academic winner, we're looking to score more people who are in university to think about it. And, of course, the big idea is you'll all be looking at these women as people that will inspire you to potentially do more things with open-source and more things with technology. We've been hearing for many, many years that we definitely need to have more gender diversity in tech in general and in open-source. And Red Hat is kind of uniquely situated to focus on the open-source community, and so with our role as the open-source leader, we really feel like we need to make that commitment and to be able to foster that. >> Well, it makes perfect sense. Obviously. Great perfect sense. Saloni, if you would, let's talk first about your work. You've been involved in open-source for quite some time. I know you have a lot of really interesting projects that you're working on right now. We'll get to that in a bit, but just talk about, I guess, the attraction for you in terms of open-source and really kind of where that came from originally through your interest in stem education. >> Okay, so when I first came to college, I was really influenced to contribute to open-source by my seniors. They have already selected in programs like Google Summer of Code Outreach channel, so they actually felt empowered by open-source. So they encouraged me to join it too. I tried open-source, and I feel really, like, I'm a part of something bigger than myself. And I was helped greatly by my seniors, so I feel it's my duty to give it back to my juniors and to help them when they need it so that they can do wonders, yeah. >> Great. And Limor, for you, I know you founded the company. 100% female owned. You've got-- >> Yeah, 100% me. >> Yeah, right. 100% you. >> It's my fault. >> Right. Well, I wasn't going to blame you. I'll credit you instead. >> Yeah, that's our big thing. We wanna change. Get blame to get credit. >> Right. It's all about credit. >> More positive. >> So 100 employees? Is that right? >> 100, 150, yep. >> Okay, talk a little bit about kind of the origin, the genesis of the company and where that came from and then your connection on the open-source side. >> Well, I, yeah, so I grew up actually in Boston. So I've lived here a very long time. >> You said like a block from here. Two blocks. >> I used to live, actually, yes, in South Station nearby. I used to live by the Griffin Book line, and so Wilson has a very strong open-source community, you know. Ephesoft is here. And, yeah, that's kind of the origins of a lot of this free software and open-source software community. And when I went to school, I ended up going to MIT, and the open-source software and open-source technology is kind of part of, like, the genetics there. There's actually this thinking that you wouldn't do it. It's kind of by default. People write code, you open-source, you release it. There's a culture of collaboration. Scientists, engineers, students, researchers. All working together and sharing code. And when I was in school, so I had to take Thesis. I really didn't wanna do it, and so instead, I started building, like, MP3 players and video games. Taking all the engineering that I was studying and, like, not doing the work I was supposed to be doing. But instead, I was having fun and building cool electronic parts, and I would publish these projects online. I had, like, a MediaLab webs page, and I would publish, you know, here's all the chips and the schematics and the layout. And people sort of started coming up with the idea of open-source hardware. Let's take the philosophy of open-source software where we release the source code. But, in here, you release CAD files, firmware, layouts, 3D models. And so I did that, and I was publishing here's how you make this, like, Lite-Brite toy for Burning Man or an MP3 player or a cell phone jammer. All these fun projects, and people would end up contacting me and saying, hey, these are really cool projects. I would like to build this project myself, but unlike software where you just, like, type in, like, make, config, and compile and all that. You actually have to buy parts, you have to get these physical things. And so they said, you know, could you sell me a kit, like a box, where we'd get it and take it home and be able to build it. And I was totally like, no, I'm busy. I have to, like, not write this thesis. >> That's not what I do. >> But eventually, I did write the thesis. And then I was really stuck because I'm like, now what do I do? So I ended up selling kits. So I sold the synthesizer kits and such, and I did an art fellowship and stuff. And then, eventually, I was kind of like, this is, I was doing, you know, it's, you kind of fall into business by accident because if you knew what you were getting into, you wouldn't do it in my opinion. So I ended up sort of developing that, and that was 13 years ago. And now we have 4,000 products in the store, you know. >> 4,000 products? >> Yeah, I know. Ridiculous, right? That's a lot. >> Yeah, who's doing that inventory, right? >> Well, we have a pretty intense inventory system that I'd love to talk to you about, but it's kind of boring. >> I'll bet you do. Now, I was reading something about an circuit playground express. >> Yes. >> Is that right? So is that what this is all about is-- >> Yes! I knew you'd ask, and that's why I wore this. >> So it's a, kind of, an exploratory circuit board of-- >> Yeah! It's open-source, open-source hardware, open-source software and firmware. And we had a lot of parents and teachers and educators and camp counselors come to us and say, we wanna teach physical computing. We wanna teach coding but with physical hardware because, you know, we all, all the tier coders, right? No, I don't know. But, eventually, you're like, I'm typing on the screen. And you want to take that and you wanna make it physical. You wanna bring it out into the world where there's a wearable or a cosplay or assistive technology, or you wanna make video games, that are, like, physical video games. And the problem that teachers had were the classrooms, a lot of these classrooms, they don't have a lot of money. So they said it has to be very low-cost. It has to be durable because these kids are, like, chewing on it and stuff, which is fun. And it also has to work on any computer, even extremely old computers. 'Cause a lot of these schools, they only have a budget every seven years to buy laptops. And so this actually becomes a very difficult technological problem. How do you design something that's $20 but can teach physical computing to anybody? From kids who are not even good at typing all the way to college students who wanna implement fast 48 transforms, and so we designed this hardware. It's open-source, and it's cool 'cause people are, like, remixing it and making improvements to it. It's open-source circuit playground, and I'm wearing it. And it's glowing, and I don't know. It's fun! It's got LEDs and sensors. And you can just alligator clip to it and make projects, and we've got schools from around the world learning how to code. And I think it's a much more fun experience than just typing at a computer. >> Absolutely. Yeah, Solani, on your side of the fence, so I obviously, in your education years if you will, not that we ever stop learning, but formally right now. But you're involved, among the many projects that you've been involved with, a smart vehicle. >> Yeah, I'm working on it. >> Project, right? So tell us a little bit about that and how open-source has come into play with what you're looking at in terms of, I assume, traffic and congestion and flows and those kinds of things. >> Yeah. So what we're working on is, basically, we'll be fitting cameras and Raspberry Pis on buses, college buses. And then they'll detect, like, they'll detect lane detection and traffic signal violation and will report the assigned people. If there's any breakage of law or any breakage of traffic signals, so that's what, basically, we are working on and how open-source comes into the play is that we actually knew nothing about OpenCV and all the technology that is before all this. So I looked up some open-source projects that had already the lump sum of all this, and I got to learn a lot about how things actually work on the code-based side. So that's how open-source actually helped me to make this project. >> And, ultimately, who do you report to on that? Or how is that data gonna become actionable or, I assume it can be. >> Yeah. >> At some point, right? I mean, who's your partner in that? Or who is the agency or the body that, you know, can most benefit from that? >> Yeah, so, currently, this is an academy project, and a classmate of mine has been working with me. And we are working on a faculty member. And so, basically, we have decided to expand this project and to use it as a government project. And we, authorities we'll be reporting to whenever there's a signal or law breakage is that the traffic police department will be notifying them in case of any signal breakage. >> So if there's an uptick in speeding or red light running in Jaipur, we know who to blame. >> Yeah. >> Right? >> Shouldn't have run a report. >> It's, Solani, why'd you do that to them, right? All right, ladies, if you would. And I'm gonna end with DeLisa, but I'd like to hear your thoughts about each other. Just about, as you look at the role of women in tech and the diversity that Red Hat is trying to encourage, Limor, what have you seen in Solani here over the last day, day and a half, that maybe you think will leave a lasting impression on you? >> I love Solani's energy and her passion, and I can just, she's has this emanated strength. I can just tell that nothing stops her from achieving what she wants. Like, she wants to, like, do this Raspberry Pi traffic camera. She's just gonna figure out what it takes to solve that problem. She's gonna use open-source software, hardware, whatever it takes. And she's just gonna achieve her goal. I totally sense that from her from the last few days we've been together. >> That's great. >> Thank you. >> Yeah! >> All right. Solani, your turn. For Limor. >> What I have done is just a fraction of what she has been doing. She's, like, inspiration. I look up to her, and I, also, I mean, I hope I start my own company someday. And she's really a role model and an inspiration for me. So yeah. >> Yeah, I think you've got a pretty good mentor there in that respect. And then, DeLisa, when you see young ladies like this who are, you know, their achievements are so impressive in their respects. What does that say to you about Red Hat, the direction of the program, and then the impact on young women that you're having? >> Well, the program has gotten so much more participation. So many people, 8,000 people actually voted to select our winners. And all of our finalists were so impressive. We have major contributors to open-source, and so, along with our finalists, our winners are people who are just role models. And I am just so impressed with them, and I think that every year, we're learning something different from each of the winners. And so, as they round down into a community, the things that they'll be able to mentor people on will just be exponentially increasing. And so it's really exciting. >> Fantastic. Well, thank you all. The three of you, the ladies. Congratulations on your recognition, your accomplishments. Well done. Safe travels back to New York and back to India as well, and I would look forward to hearing more about what you're up to down the road. I think this is not the last we're gonna hear from the two of you. >> Thank you for having us. >> And thank you for calling me a young lady. >> Absolutely. I mean, look at the source. Open-source, you might say. That was awful. All right, back with more Red Hat Summit 2019. We're live here on theCUBE in Boston. (gentle music)

>> Announcer: Live from Orlando, Florida it's theCUBE! Covering Microsoft Ignite, brought to you by Cohesity. >> Hello, and happy taco Tuesday CUBE viewers! You are watching theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft's Ignite here in Orlando, Florida. I'm your host Rebecca Knight, along with Stu Miniman. We're joined by Scott Hanselman, he is the partner program manager at Microsoft. Thank you so much for coming on theCUBE! >> Absolutely, my pleasure! >> Rebecca: And happy taco Tuesday to you! Will code for tacos. >> Will code for tacos. >> I'm digging it, I'm digging it >> I'm a very inexpensive coder. >> So you are the partner program manager, but you're really the people's programmer at Microsoft. Satya Nadella up on the main stage yesterday, talking about programming for everyone, empowering ordinary citizen developers, and you yourself were on the main stage this morning, "App Development for All", why is this such a priority for Microsoft at this point in time? >> Well there's the priority for Microsoft, and then I'll also speak selfishly as a priority for me, because when we talk about inclusion, what does that really mean? Well it is the opposite of exclusion. So when we mean inclusion, we need to mean everyone, we need to include everyone. So what can we do to make technology, to make programming possible, to make everyone enabled, whether that be something like drag and drop, and PowerApps, and the Power platform, all the way down to doing things like we did in the keynote this morning with C# on a tiny micro-controller, and the entire spectrum in between, whether it be citizen programmers in Excel using Power BI to go and do machine learning, or the silly things that we did in the keynote with rock, paper scissors that we might be able to talk about. All of that means including everyone and if the site isn't accessible, if Visual Studio as a tool isn't accessible, if you're training your AI in a non-ethical way, you are consciously excluding people. So back to what Satya thinks is why can't everyone do this? SatyaSacha thinks is why can't everyone do this? Why are we as programmers having any gate keeping, or you know, "You can't do that you're not a programmer, "you know, I'm a programmer, you can't have that." >> So what does the future look like, >> Rebecca: So what does the future look like, if everyone knows how to do it? I mean, do some imagining, visioning right now about if everyone does know how to do this, or at least can learn the building blocks for it, what does technology look like? >> Well hopefully it will be ethical, and it'll be democratized so that everyone can do it. I think that the things that are interesting, or innovative today will become commoditized tomorrow, like, something as simple as a webcam detecting your face, and putting a square around it and then you move around, and the square, we were like, "Oh my God, that was amazing!" And now it's just a library that you can download. What is amazing and interesting today, like AR and VR, where it's like, "Oh wow, I've never seen augmented reality work like that!" My eight-year-old will be able to do it in five years, and they'll be older than eight. >> So Scott, one of the big takeaways I had from the app dev keynote that you did this morning was in the past it was trying to get everybody on the same page, let's move them to our stack, let's move them to our cloud, let's move them on this programming language, and you really talked about how the example of Chipotle is different parts of the organization will write in a different language, and there needs to be, it's almost, you know, that service bus that you have between all of these environments, because we've spent, a lot of us, I know in my career I've spent decades trying to help break down those silos, and get everybody to work together, but we're never going to have everybody doing the same jobs, so we need to meet them where they are, they need to allow them to use the tools, the languages, the platforms that they want, but they need to all be able to work together, and this is not the Microsoft that I grew up with that is now an enabler of that environment. The word we keep coming back to is trust at the keynote. I know there's some awesome, cool new stuff about .net which is a piece of it, but it's all of the things together. >> Right, you know I was teaching a class at Mesa Community College down in San Diego a couple of days ago and they were trying, they were all people who wanted jobs, just community college people, I went to community college and it's like, I just want to know how to get a job, what is the thing that I can do? What language should I learn? And that's a tough question. They wonder, do I learn Java, do I learn C#? And someone had a really funny analogy, and I'll share it with you. They said, well you know English is the language, right? Why don't the other languages just give up? They said, you know, Finland, they're not going to win, right? Their language didn't win, so they should just give up, and they should all speak English, and I said, What an awful thing! They like their language! I'm not going to go to people who do Haskell, or Rust, or Scala, or F#, and say, you should give up! You're not going to win because C won, or Java won, or C# won. So instead, why don't we focus on standards where we can inter-operate, where we can accept that the reality is a hybrid cloud things like Azure Arc that allows us to connect multiple clouds, multi-vendor clouds together. That is all encompassing the concept of inclusion, including everyone means including every language, and as many standards as you can. So it might sound a little bit like a Tower of Babel, but we do have standards and the standards are HTTP, REST, JSON, JavaScript. It may not be the web we deserve, but it's the web that we have, so we'll use those building block technologies, and then let people do their own thing. >> So speaking of the keynote this morning, one of the cool things you were doing was talking about the rock, paper, scissors game, and how it's expanding. Tell our viewers a little bit more about the new elements to rock, paper, scissors. >> So folks named Sam Kass, a gentleman named Sam Kass many, many years ago on the internet, when the internet was much simpler web pages, created a game called Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock, and a lot of people will know that from a popular TV show on CBS, and they'll give credit to that show, in fact it was Sam Kass and Karen Bryla who created that, and we sent them a note and said, "Hey can I write a game about this?" And we basically built a Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock game in the cloud containerized at scale with multiple languages, and then we also put it on a tiny device, and what's fun about the game from a complexity perspective is that rock, paper, scissors is easy. There's only three rules, right? Paper covers rock, which makes no sense, but when you have five, it's hard! Spock shoots the Rock with his phaser, and then the lizard poisons Spock, and the paper disproves, and it gets really hard and complicated, but it's also super fun and nerdy. So we went and created a containerized app where we had all different bots, we had node, Python, Java, C#, and PHP, and then you can say, I'm going to pick Spock and .net, or node and paper, and have them fight, and then we added in some AI, and some machine learning, and some custom vision such that if you sign in with Twitter in this game, it will learn your patterns, and try to defeat you using your patterns and then, clicking on your choices and fun, snd then, clicking on your choices and fun, because we all want to go, "Rock, Paper, Scissors shoot!" So we made a custom vision model that would go, and detect your hand or whatever that is saying, this is Spock and then it would select it and play the game. So it was just great fun, and it was a lot more fun than a lot of the corporate demos that you see these days. >> All right Scott, you're doing a lot of different things at the show here. We said there's just a barrage of different announcements that were made. Love if you could share some of the things that might have flown under the radar. You know, Arc, everyone's talking about, but some cool things or things that you're geeking out on that you'd want to share with others? >> Two of the things that I'm most excited, one is an announcement that's specific to Ignite, and one's a community thing, the announcement is that .net Core 3.1 is coming. .net Core 3 has been a long time coming as we have began to mature, and create a cross platform open source .net runtime, but .net Core 3.1 LTS Long Term Support means that that's a version of .net core that you can put on a system for three years and be supported. Because a lot of people are saying, "All this open source is moving so fast! "I just upgraded to this, "and I don't want to upgrade to that". LTS releases are going to happen every November in the odd numbered years. So that means 2019, 2021, 2023, there's going to be a version of .net you can count on for three years, and then if you want to follow that train, the safe train, you can do that. In the even numbered years we're going to come out with a version of .net that will push the envelope, maybe introduce a new version of C#, it'll do something interesting and new, then we tighten the screws and then the following year that becomes a long term support version of .net. >> A question for you on that. One of the challenges I hear from customers is, when you talk about hybrid cloud, they're starting to get pulled apart a little bit, because in the public cloud, if I'm running Azure, I'm always on the latest version, but in my data center, often as you said, I want longer term support, I'm not ready to be able to take that CICD push all of the time, so it feels like I live, maybe call it bimodal if you want, but I'm being pulled with the am I always on the latest, getting the latest security, and it's all tested by them? Or am I on my own there? How do you help customers with that, when Microsoft's developing things, how do you live in both of those worlds or pull them together? >> Well, we're really just working on this idea of side-by-side, whether it be different versions of Visual Studio that are side-by-side, the stable one that your company is paying for, and then the preview version that you can go have side-by-side, or whether you could have .net Core 3, 3.1, or the next version, a preview version, and a safe version side-by-side. We want to enable people to experiment without fear of us messing up their machine, which is really, really important. >> One of the other things you were talking about is a cool community announcement. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? >> So this is a really cool product from a very, very small company out of Oregon, from a company called Wilderness Labs, and Wilderness Labs makes a micro-controller, not a micro-processor, not a raspberry pie, it doesn't run Linux, what it runs is .net, so we're actually playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock on this device. We've wired it all up, this is a screen from our friends at Adafruit, and I can write .net, so somehow if someone is working at, I don't know, the IT department at Little Debbie Snack Cakes, and they're making WinForms applications, they're suddenly now an IOT developer, 'cause they can go and write C# code, and control a device like this. And when you have a micro-controller, this will run for weeks on a battery, not hours. You go and 3D print a case, make this really tiny, it could become a sensor, it could become an IOT device, or one of thousands of devices that could check crops, check humidity, moisture wetness, whatever you want, and we're going to enable all kinds of things. This is just a commodity device here, this screen, it's not special. The actual device, this is the development version, size of my finger, it could be even smaller if we wanted to make it that way, and these are our friends at Wilderness Labs. and they had a successful Kickstarter, and I just wanted to give them a shout out, and I just wanted to give them a shoutout, I don't have any relationship with them, I just think they're great. >> Very cool, very cool. So you are a busy guy, and as Stu said, you're in a lot of different things within Microsoft, and yet you still have time to teach at community college. I'm interested in your perspective of why you do that? Why do you think it's so important to democratize learning about how to do this stuff? >> I am very fortunate and I think that we people, who have achieved some amount of success in our space, need to recognize that luck played a factor in that. That privilege played a factor in that. But, why can't we be the luck for somebody else, the luck can be as simple as a warm introduction. I believe very strongly in what I call the transitive value of friendship, so if we're friends, and you're friends, then the hypotenuse can be friends as well. A warm intro, a LinkedIn, a note that like, "Hey, I met this person, you should talk to them!" Non-transactional networking is really important. So I can go to a community college, and talk to a person that maybe wanted to quit, and give a speech and give them, I don't know, a week, three months, six months, more whatever, chutzpah, moxie, something that will keep them to finish their degree and then succeed, then I'm going to put good karma out into the world. >> Paying it forward. >> Exactly. >> So Scott, you mentioned that when people ask for advice, it's not about what language they do, is to, you know, is to,q you know, we talk in general about intellectual curiosity of course is good, being part of a community is a great way to participate, and Microsoft has a phenomenal one, any other tips you'd give for our listeners out there today? >> The fundamentals will never go out of style, and rather than thinking about learning how to code, why not think about learning how to think, and learning about systems thinking. One of my friends, Kishau Rogers, talked about systems thinking, I've hade her on my podcast a number of times, and we were giving a presentation at Black Girls Code, and I was talking to a fifteen-year-old young woman, and we were giving a presentation. It was clear that her mom wanted her to be there, and she's like, "Why are we here?" And I said, "All right, let's talk about programming "everybody, we're talking about programming. "My toaster is broken and the toast is not working. "What do you think is wrong?" Big, long, awkward pause and someone says, "Well is the power on?" I was like, "Well, I plugged a light in, "and nothing came on" and they were like, "Well is the fuse blown?" and then one little girl said "Well did the neighbors have power?", And I said, "You're debugging, we are debugging right?" This is the thing, you're a systems thinker, I don't know what's going on with the computer when my dad calls, I'm just figuring it out like, "Oh, I'm so happy, you work for Microsoft, "you're able to figure it out." >> Rebecca: He has his own IT guy now in you! >> Yeah, I don't know, I unplug the router, right? But that ability to think about things in the context of a larger system. I want toast, power is out in the neighborhood, drawing that line, that makes you a programmer, the language is secondary. >> Finally, the YouTube videos. Tell our viewers a little bit about those. you can go to D-O-T.net, so dot.net, the word dot, you can go to d-o-t.net, so dot.net, the word dot, slash videos and we went, and we made a 100 YouTube videos on everything from C# 101, .net, all the way up to database access, and putting things in the cloud. A very gentle, "Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood" on-ramp. A lot of things, if you've ever seen that cartoon that says, "Want to draw an owl? "Well draw two circles, "and then draw the rest of the fricking owl." A lot of tutorials feel like that, and we don't want to do that, you know. We've got to have an on-ramp before we get on the freeway. So we've made those at dot.net/videos. >> Excellent, well that's a great plug! Thank you so much for coming on the show, Scott. >> Absolutely my pleasure! >> I'm Rebecca Knight, for Stu Miniman., stay tuned for more of theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite. (upbeat music)