This is okay, sound-wise. Can you hear me? Seems a little bit. Okay. So, for those who don't
know those rooms are super loud upfront, because the acoustics were made for time before
we had electronics and microphones and such. So anything you say back there is really loud
upfront and really amplifies in both directions. This is going to be super short and
sweet. I've been asked to introduce myself. I'm Richie, first step for like a decade or
two. I've run this for like 10 years now. The step room. Yeah. So, welcome. This is the ninth
monitoring and observability step room in a row. It is by now one of the most longest
running. Yeah. You're here. Transparency notice over the years, because people left, people
did things, whatever. As of right now, Grafana is the only like everyone who organized
a specific deaf room, works at Grafana, for one reason or another. You will see that this
is not reflected in the in the talk selection that we are very, very deliberate about keeping
this completely fair open source without any corporate influence. There is usually themes
and for the third year in a row. For the third year in a row, the theme is not the new and
the exciting. It is much more about making all of this technology actually able to use
for people and actually valuable, instead of just showing everyone, oh, there is the new
big thing. Yeah. Stickers. There is a sticker swap table here. Feel free to take or leave
whatever you want. Sticker wise. The only hard rule is, don't put any stickers on anything
you will be. Like your laptop, your forehead, we don't care, but not on anything you will
be, because speaking a step, some volunteers will have to scrape that sticker off or else
you will be well noticed and they will be not super nice to us. They hate stickers. We
like stickers. So, a little bit of etiquette. If you find trash as you leave, as you enter, as
you do anything, congratulations, this is now your trash, you own it. And there is where
you collect your trash. Because anything which you don't pick up, it's basically going to
be Carl and Fabian, because I'm not going to be here in a few minutes, who are going to pick
everything up and clean everything up. So, please do the my favor and just take any trash
you, you find even if it's not your own. Also, on etiquette, if any of you, and I mean,
I realize that the morning after heavy beer drinking, so not everyone is hearing this,
but if you have more of a question than a comment, we will absolutely, 100% have more of
a shut up than you actually getting to speak. If you want to have a little bit of a lightning
talk yourself, please submit to the CFP. It's highly disrespectful to the speaker to
basically the speaker is stunned and then someone is like, yeah, everything you just said is wrong,
and this is my grandstanding, don't. Along the same lines, speakers do all of this for free and
we try to maximize the Q&A. And this means that as you enter and as you leave, you have to be
really quiet. So, this means no chitchatting, no anything as you enter or leave, because as we
can't run the Q&A upfront here, because again, it is super, super loud and the speakers can't hear
anything, if you bang the chairs or anything, and again, if need be, we will remind everyone loudly
that they please need to be quiet. If there's anything code of conduct, find anyone with a blue
shirt for the intensive purposes of this deaf room or for the intensive purposes of all of
the first them anyone with a yellow shirt or jacket, and we will take care of it.
And that's it, thank you, and have fun today.