 Thank you, Andy. Can we get another round of applause to table? I mean, I have to try and like take that and do it more and then pass it on to Alicja, which is Amazing, so yeah, I'm Marco Calichia I am the former community manager site round which has not stopped me to contribute back into this community And it's thanks to people like table Thanks to all of you guys who keep this community going keep it strong keep contributing back into it volunteering doing the most that you can to make it the community it is I mean I I've I've come from a corporate background. I joined the WordPress community community in October last year and I was thrown into the word camp Milano one week after joining site ground So you could just imagine being thrown into the deep end of the pool and be like here's work camp and I was like Okay, so where do I start like how do I get to know people? I am a sponsor of a hosting company, but you know, who do I meet? What do I talk about do I sell because I was the community manager slash enterprise? So what do I do? Can I just ask you guys how many of you this is the first word camp? second word camp third fifth 10 More than 10 Jesus, so I'm like a newbie. This is why I went to work camp Milano London, I spoke at London work camp us work camp Athens, which is awesome I I recommend everyone to go to work camp Athens Biased I grew up in Athens alone Italian, but it was it was really cool And then I went to a few other WordPress related events loop comp press nomics And now I'm here in front of you standing in front of you. So I've been through maybe six or seven so I what I'm gonna do today is I Want to share some of my knowledge that I've gained through people that I've met of how to make the most out of work I'm so what I mean by how to make the most so how to engage in work camp So how to start and where to go during the work camp and what to do after the work camps so The best practice or what I've learned is to research well online So you have the schedule which is always posted a few weeks before the event sometimes a few days depends of like, you know The contributors the the organizing team how much time they have Creating the whole website and then there's also other channels that I will go into later But the best thing to do is to start looking at the schedule. I know that here they have a booklet And they've also introduced something called the tribe meetup, which is super awesome So you have like a quick meetup with a round table with people to talk to about things that you're really interested in So this is a good way to Create a list of things that you want to meet see so let's say right now You want to be at an inspiring talk, but there's also other tracks going on So you want to try and find out what fits best your schedule or your interest and the people that you want to meet The second thing is the attendees So who are the people that you want to meet in this case? I obviously you all want to meet me because I'm super cool I'm kidding you all want to meet the people that are contributing the organizers of people that you want to get involved With so let's say for instance. I want to start contributing back to the Italian community I'm already you know meeting a lot with the with the guys who are doing the work at Milano the work I'm Torino. We're going to try and do the work camp Rome in In December so these are the people that I want to try and meet up with because I want to contribute back into that community The next thing that you want to do is look into the accommodation location and transport So for instance at work camp Europe I did not have a place to stay until a week before I got here and I did not even think of it and I was actually Luca fracasci Who's who's based here in Paris and you know, I was trying to find an accommodation I was like where should I go and he's like Why don't you just go into the slack channel and put work camp Europe and then try and ask the people there and then Patricia was like Oh Marco, we have a person who backed out and you know, we can fit you So that's awesome because Patricia, you know, she organizes the work camp Geneva was part of the work at Milano And I'm actually staying with all the work at Milano and Torino people So obviously that worked really really nice for me then the location So the closest places you want to stay to all the work camps in case of transportation and how to get around That's also super important and then the transport. So you want to research of how to get around the places obviously Paris is huge You know, Sunday, we're all close by here So you want to try and stay around here and find your way around from the parties from the after parties from the WP engine party The go daddy party whichever of the party that you want to do or if you want to go on to your own parties do that During the work camp. So the next step is be active I would say, you know try don't stick to the people that you just want to meet Try and talk to everyone. So everyone here is super cool You know, I've met table today today the past few days, which is really awesome. You know, we're talking the same track I've met all the other people Alice. I met Wendy before so I've met a lot of people that you know I was not imagining to meet I wanted to try and stick more to the talent community because I want to give back But at the end of the day you end up meeting people that you share so much interest with like for mine For example, you know, my interest now is traveling I'm going off to Asia next week for three weeks and I'm also a big investor in blockchain and Cryptocurrency so I had like a two-hour chat with four people who are like doing all these interest talks about cryptocurrency So you end up getting into like different talks with different people that you've never met So be active. You know, you get so much information just by talking to anyone. Don't be shy Don't sit back. Don't don't close yourself. This is an open community. This is not a Corporate event. Everyone is here to contribute back to this place. So just talk to people Attend side events. The best thing you could do is go to all the parties that you can there's so many going on even today They after party don't miss it out. Don't think it's like, oh, I'm tired after all day today I'm tired too, but you know, it's it's good. We all have to go to party and meet people Not for the drinking for the talking obviously, but you want to make sure that you you try and attend all the events And try and see what people are Interested in doing and try and get together and trying to meet up like tabo said or organize your next events The next thing you want to do is connect the best way to connect and I never used to use this is Twitter and Slack So the WordPress community is really huge on slack. I think it's slack's biggest channel is WordPress So there you can find everyone I mean even when I was trying to like connect with people that I use usually linked in or emails I just go and slack type their name and they're there So it's even a good way to just connect with people that you want to try and talk to about Contributing or organizing your next event. You'll find them on Slack Twitter be super active on Twitter So like, you know, take pictures and post and share and ask It's it's a really cool thing to do and the other thing that you want to do is is try and contribute Back into the WordPress work. So I'm part of the polyglots team and this is where you know, I get a lot of Interesting ideas from from the people so like Laura Oskako she she and as well as better across God She's a really good friend of mine. I actually live in Bulgaria So it's it's good to be a part of of a group that you want to contribute back into So what a what a I think what is a key thing that we all should be doing is Applying to be an organizer a speaker or a volunteer or contributor to an event These events, you know, they're they're expensive. They're giving us a lot of opportunities to do things for really cheap I mean, it's 20 years to be here to do something that no other event gives us I mean, I've been to Salesforce Samsung Sony events event rights events I used to work in those that space and I never had the chance to be part of the organizer group the media group The volunteer group the speaker group that group this group. It's just not possible. It's you know, you have to it There's different agencies whereas here. We are the agency. We're part of we are what makes WordPress We are what makes these work camps happen. So get back, you know, apply to be a volunteer apply to be a speaker I've been already accepted in London and Serbia and Sorry in Belgrade and here so people are willing to have interesting people share knowledge and share everything and obviously in order to Create your own work camp. They they would like you to have pre Volunteered or pre-organized another work camp. So make sure if you're wanting to do like Tabo said you want to do a Meet-up or you want to organize your own work camp and in your city be it's I don't know Litch and it's a leaf next Just come to this event. I mean, it's very easy to get here now with low-cost flights We we can travel anywhere. So, you know, make sure that you you come back you give you apply for everything And what is the next step plan your work camp? So like like Tabo said, he's doing it in Harare I'm gonna try and do more in Italy. So I'm gonna, you know Rome is the next one coming up but yeah, I would say try and get together with your groups and Create a work camp because it's always good to to to share this knowledge of an open-source community There is it's minimal of how many there are in this world It's and I think there needs to be more because this is really an awesome an awesome event in an awesome community That's pretty much it from from my end. I mean, thank you for having me here Thank you guys for accepting me to be a speaker once again And I hope you're you guys are enjoying the event and I'll see you all tonight