Chris Kelly

an old system that's still running AMX encoder decoders with still Extron though as the base control.

And so there's just a lot more aspects to it and where all they're sending signal and things like that.

But yeah, doing it in one of our simpler spaces and just kind of doing a mock-up with Python, that's an interesting way to look at trying to get it started with fewer things in it.

Well, and I will acknowledge that a big help in learning more of those things has been my connections through HEPMA.

You know, that's how I first learned about, you know, James and then finding you guys podcast and I'm in the Slack group.

And again, still fairly new to all the things, but just looking for ways to get involved in networking and finding people to talk to and,

That was how, oh, a little over a year ago, I saw that there was a vacancy for the advisory board chair with HEPMA and just started talking with the board and jumped in.

And there was not a lot going on with that position beforehand.

So I've kind of crafted it within the vision that we had and

Now it's something that's happening almost weekly and getting good connections with people from, you know, all of Hema's major sponsors and just getting more and more involved in the community and learning about more people and finding out different things that way.

I will say that

I mean, I would not consider myself an extrovert by any means.

College helped me gain my, you know, a part of going to school for counseling is you have to not only go in and be the counselor for people, but you have to go and get counseling as well.

And then you have to record yourself doing those things and, you know, seeing how you interact and

Yeah, sometimes it's not the social skills that you have, but it's what you gain by going through a program and learning those things that you know might definitely would not have been a strong before that so Gaining those things.

It's sort of like your, your gen eds or anything else like it may not be the class that you wanted in college, but you're still gaining critical thinking you're gaining social skills, you're gaining all the things from spaces that might not have been your focus

Yeah, so I am available on LinkedIn as the primary place to reach out to me, as well as the HEPMA community, just advisory at HEPMA.org is my email address there, but

super active community there on HEPMA.

So I would encourage anyone, if you're not a member there, go become one.

It's free, always will be.