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Just community, heck of whatever and try to think that energy transformation sounds interesting.

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How do you get into that? I want to help.

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Here I'm going to show you an example on how you can do that.

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Okay, thank you.

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So this is a short talk, which is more of a community-oriented thing, although there's not a few technical bits in it.

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So my name is Kim Takan, I'm a self-employed book and source consultant now.

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And it's champagne in a corner.

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So yeah, this is about how I got involved in the energy domain.

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So I have some mixed technical background.

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Actually before I start, I'd like to do a quick and then I'm a survey.

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Can you please raise your hand if you're not currently working in the energy sector.

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If you're not working for energy company.

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Yes, I'd like to have a third of the audience, so this may be for you.

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So this is also for people already in the energy sector.

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How to bring in more people and how to make the community grow in general.

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So I studied electronics, like mixed-ignore electronics and power electronics at the university,

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but then I worked a lot more into the embedded software world.

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So it kind of related to electronics, but more and more on the software side.

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And then I worked in dedicated myself to open source world for seven years at Colour Breiner,

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worked on Colour CI, which is a Linux Foundation project for testing Linux kernel.

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And two years ago I decided to go freelance.

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I still do some kernel stuff and some of the other pure software world activities if you want.

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But one of my goals was to transition to the energy sector.

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This is something I really wanted to do when I was a student.

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And then we really got the opportunity to work on.

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I wanted to do energy and open source.

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And I got the open source box decked a few on.

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Now moving more into the energy world.

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So it was a big turn for me, in my career, a few months.

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It started two years ago.

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I came to Phels Dample to the energy bedroom.

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So maybe this is a familiar place to you, a daily room that used to be the big meeting point for a Friday night.

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Before Phels Dample.

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So I wrote a lot of blog posts.

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That was kind of me doing my homework, basically.

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So I learned about what I wrote a blog post about the energy bedroom.

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But also he made me think about all the different actors in the ecosystem, all the different projects,

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all the different companies.

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So yeah, there's my personal website. You can check more blog posts if you want.

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So none of the day basically, if you come in from a software world, you might think, okay, it's electrical grids, energy, this could be dangerous.

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It's dangerous if you have batteries.

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It's dangerous if you have high voltage lines.

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But this is fine.

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You can work in energy world without having a lab without having access to dangerous stuff.

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So it's basically software as usual.

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That's my biggest takeaway.

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As an individual, they've brought up with a laptop or an individual in your company.

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If you're doing pure software, you don't really want to manage this stuff.

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You can still contribute to a lot of things.

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So the energy sector is really a big sector. There's lots of things, you know, from,

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I guess some of these topics, I guess, we've just talked about them.

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So battery technology, of course, sort of from Casting.

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It's a big fan of those here as well.

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And so I had to find my space there.

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So there's something everybody has to do.

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Like, where do you want to go basically?

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And I guess it depends on lots of factors.

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Mostly, like in circumstances I would say.

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So eventually, I've got myself involved in digital substations.

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So substation, some of you may already know this.

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Substation is basically a onto call it a glorified transformer.

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So it's like taking different volumes.

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But from the incoming voltage between our lower voltage to higher voltage for transmission.

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And then to lower voltage again, before distribution.

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Also it has lots of security features.

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So it needs to be used to control a circuit breakers.

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If there's a problem.

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And a lot of this has been done.

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Well, it's always been done historically in hardware,

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with lots of hardware equipment to detect when there's a fault on the line.

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And actually a circuit breaker, for example.

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Now there's a big effort to move this logic into software.

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So that's what's called digital substations.

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And one of that in exclamation projects.

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I've been involved with now is C path.

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So that's to provide the basic operating system to run in digital substation.

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Another very important thing in this area is the ICT and the ICT-61 and 50,

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which describes how a digital substation should work.

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So all protocols, the ways to communicate between all the different parts of their substation.

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So on detail of these diagram here, it's just to give you a quick idea.

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Also this is a short talk.

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So I don't have to mention it.

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Yeah, key thing here is real time.

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So something we can't see here is PTP.

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This is precision time protocol.

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And everything has to be done really real time in accurate real time.

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If you want to know where there's a fault, every millisecond, something can burn.

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Basically you have to really write really quickly.

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And that's one of the main challenges here.

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So as I've worked on this, coming from the outside world if you want.

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What struck me was that there were lots of missing bits in it.

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If you wanted to have a full stack to run on your own machine.

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Like if you don't have an actual substation where you can deploy it.

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It seems to me like some tools were available,

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some tools were available in source.

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And there was lots of other things that were missing to actually be able to contribute or try

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in the software yourself without being in the industry already.

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So in blue here you have the things that already exist.

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There's the C-Path project which provides like basically a high provider to run virtual machines and containers.

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That's where the logic will be to do the safety functions.

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And you have compass which is a tool for configuring.

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It's just all substations.

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That's also an explanation project.

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And you have Ansible configuration that comes with C-Path.

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So you can deploy your application.

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So that's already the end available.

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The only way to install it right now is if you have some dedicated server.

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And you install it on the server because this is what you normally have in a substation.

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So something I worked on as a proof of concept was to have this in the virtual stack.

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So like a net nested virtual machines basically.

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So that was the first step and then I realized okay.

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Now the I-C standard you can only have access to.

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It's not an open standard so you need to pay to access to it.

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There are some implementations of it.

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But it basically all in hardware manufacturers use their own proprietary implementation.

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So there isn't some effort right now.

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Now I'll skip there.

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There's a seam implementation that it comes with caveats.

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So there's several people including me included.

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Want to work on implementing the I-C-6150.

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At least some parts of the standard in a rest library as well as some middleware.

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So this is something that's happening now.

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I can see a lot of people there interested in this.

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And then having some hardware models.

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So instead of having a real sensor and a real circuit breaker.

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You can have some models that will receive or send these messages.

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So that's some old values and groups.

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These are things, messages to communicate with the hardware.

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So basically the lesson learned here is coming from the outside.

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There's lots of things that you can see that people in the industry don't see it.

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So that's a great way of getting involved as well.

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So it could be in documentation.

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It could be in testing.

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It could be also just to fill in the gaps from a substance point of view.

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So I call it a handling experience because I had to learn a lot of things from scratch.

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It's a bit like learning a new language if you want.

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So actually there's a lot of terms like Watson, IED,

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that's intelligent, electronic, electric device.

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You hear this term a lot at the beginning.

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Sometimes I felt like it was ahead of the game because some people are quite in the energy sector.

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Some people are quite far away from the open source world in a way.

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So a lot of people were astonished to know that I've contributed to the alien experience.

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I have like thousands of people contributed to them.

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It seemed like something from another planet which was quite interesting to see the difference of culture.

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And so it's really important to hear basically to listen to him just talking.

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I spent a lot of time listening to all, you know,

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to learn all the different types of cultures and that's really interesting experience as well.

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Yeah, to bridge the cultural one gap if you want.

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So that's kind of what I was saying.

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So there's a lot of people in the energy sector that come from a hardware background.

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And you don't have the same natural inclination for using unique healths,

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for example, you know, there's a lot of tools that are still based using based on Windows, for example.

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So however, I found it to be really a welcoming and open-minded ecosystem.

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So don't be afraid to get in touch with people.

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I found some open source communities, sometimes a bit more put it to size.

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I would say because they've been fighting against things to bring open source there.

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So they're always very specific about things.

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And that's good in a way.

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Sometimes you might feel a bit difficult to join some open source communities.

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In the energy world, I haven't found that to be an issue at all.

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And people are really welcoming.

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So that's great.

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There's a lot more physics in math.

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I mean, that's usually very well.

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Of course you have cryptography and software engineering.

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But I found there's a lot of physics and science everywhere.

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So that's interesting as well.

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It's a bit more refreshing in the way of you.

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So, and the last thing is, of course it's a century old industry.

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And electricity has been around for a long time.

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And now it's becoming a lot more complex.

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But the software history is relatively recent.

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So that's one of my takeaways from this.

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And I think that's basically where it makes sense as a contributor to join in.

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If you have some past experience in software, you can help bring this.

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So I feel that was basically the close loop with my first question.

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If you're in this room, and you're not yet in energy sector,

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I guess it was being interested in energy in open source software.

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So yes, you can.

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I think part in this actually.

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I hope you can.

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Like everybody will have a different journey.

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So the way I did it was to become freelance and had some fallback options as well.

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I could still work on operating system work and stuff like that.

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So everybody would have a different way to do this.

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It could be convincing your management.

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Lots of different ways to do this.

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But if you're really interested in this, I think there's definitely a good way forward.

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And there's a need for new people as well.

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It's good for refreshing fully industry to have people coming from different backgrounds.

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And it's a big industry.

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So we won't move very fast.

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Don't worry.

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If it takes time.

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I found.

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Something's move fast.

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But the industry has a whole move slowly.

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So yeah, big thank you for the positive organizers.

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Because that really helped me actually.

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When I joined the this.

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Devroom 2 years ago that really opened the door to me to be able to join the energy.

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The energy sector from an open source point of view.

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So just naming it.

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And then.

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And you as well.

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And I mean, you need teachers.

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My coach.

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And also yeah, my younger self when I was 20 years ago when I was a student.

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I think that's really important to like sometimes.

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Take a step back and think about what you really want to do.

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So that's kind of what I did here.

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I guess I was a different person from now.

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So think that on the person.

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Okay.

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I think we still have a couple of minutes.

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Three minutes.

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Three.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So the question is whether I have I'm starting.

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Well, I've completely transitioned and I'm making money for myself.

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So yeah, I have some contracts, but not in the energy sector yet.

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So.

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