 Okay, so good afternoon, good evening, and good morning to everyone around the world. Today, our session will be focused on a new strategy or a new approach in terms of using it to be able to help get on board, help most new developers to be get on boarded onto the Wikimedia Technical Community session as a whole. My name is Joris Darlenton-Quachy and I am the Community Lead for the African Wikimedia Technical Community. So I'll be taking you through this session, which wouldn't last long. Although we are starting a bit late, so I'm just going to try my best for us to be able to also complete this session on time. So first of all, we would like to get to know what is on boarded. So what on boarded is basically a process of integrating new developers into a community or an organization in order to be able to also help this organization to collaborate with new people and help them to be able to resolve certain issues or taxes that needs technical attention within the community organization or institution. Okay, so the importance of onboarding new developers, all the reason why we need to be able to onboard new developers is to be able to help them be like available assets by their team and also be able to also help them to reach their full potential. Also onboarding, onboarding this onboarding process is a good process that can be able to also help developers to be able to speed up in terms of the learning process or having the knowledge and required information in order to be able to also help them in terms of having the knowledge of the organization and how they can be able to bring new ideas and share new ideas and help them to be able to automate certain taxes within the organization. That becomes a bit difficult for the organization or the institution to be able to progress now. During the process of onboarding sometimes it's quite challenging, it's quite exhaustive and there are a whole lot of issues that do go through the process of onboarding new developers. However, if there is a good strategy that has been implemented it makes it much more easier to also onboard people onto the SDR organization at large. Sometimes it becomes very difficult due to timing that is also needed in order to be able to also onboard new developers aside that sometimes information or supports that is currently needed for these new developers or new technical contributors to be able to go through them and know how best to contribute to the organization or institution becomes a bit difficult. Sometimes it becomes very difficult for them to be able to have the general knowledge, have the better understanding of how the organization operates and I believe that if these kind of information are much more open to them it makes it much more easier for them to be onboarded onto such institutions organizations and help these initiatives grow at large. So what is Wikicafe? Wikicafe is basically an approach that we've implemented in order to be able to also help new developers and come out with principles to support community collaboration and learning as well. Then with this place it wouldn't be much more like a conference or a workshop but it would be much more of like a community or a social event whereby experienced developers get to meet the new developers, interact with them, try to find out the problems or situations that they do encounter through the agenda, then provide some form of guidance or assistance and advice to them to be able to also help them learn from the RPS and learn and get much more involved within the projects that the organization or Wikimedia Foundation normally do work on or collaborate on. So one of the benefits of Wikicafe is to increase productivity. Since most new developers normally do find it a bit difficult to be able to also contribute to the Wikimedia technical infrastructure with the Wikimedia technical space and this Wikicafe initiative has been developed or initiated. I do feel that it will increase productivity in a sense that is to make it much more easier than helping people who are searching for people who are looking for much more information or better understanding of how to contribute to events at large who know how best to be able to contribute to these projects at large without struggling or going through the necessities used that experienced developers did go through before learning from their mistakes in order to avoid them and it also helps to help us to be able to reduce and improve intention. Then in terms of team culture too it will strengthen the team culture in a sense that we will definitely be able to have diverse contributors within the technical space from different ethnicities and groups around the world which will make it much more easier and much more open and diverse as well and it will also get developers much more engaged in a sense that there will be much more collaborative and much more effectiveness within the community the technical community at large. So how to set up a Wikicafe that's one of the initiatives that I'm trying to come up with and with a Wikicafe before you set up a Wikicafe you definitely need to find an educator space an open area right that makes it much more easier and much more welcoming for contributors who are new within the technical space to feel free and express yourself and know how best to be able to collaborate with others. I should be a welcoming environment as I said earlier and I should also encourage participation from new contributors who do seek the ways and means in order to be able to contribute to the Wikimedia technical space whilst they do have the skill right and also try to promote Wikicafe to new developers that know how best to be able to also involve them within these organizations or Wikimedia athletes and communities in order to be able to also support them and help them eradicate their issues but out waiting for the foundation to be able to resolve such issues. Okay so when running a successful Wikicafe in order to be able to measure your metrics in order to be able to know how successful the event or how successful the program went first you have to be well prepared and prepared in a sense that you have to have the right documentation from the system management aspect to the whole the room management aspect to how to be able to coordinate the event and also how to make sure that most of the problems that will be expected within the community or will be expected within the events can be solutions will be much more available to be able to eradicate such issues at large then it should also be open to feedback in terms of having a feedback form or a feedback platform whereby people can be able to also share their feedback and help you to be able to also prepare and improve upon your Wikicafe initiatives at large and as a leader of Wikicafe so you should be open to learning new ideas and new initiatives from people and learning how to be able to also incorporate their suggestions or feedbacks into your future events or your future projects at large. So with the FAQ if there are any questions online I think you can be able to also feel free and ask your questions online if there are any questions too we can be able to also move on okay so but my questions that I already do have is what if I don't have the time to be able to set up a wiki cafe what can you be able to do that's why there is a team there if you do have a team it makes it much more easier even if you are not around your team can be able to also help you to be able to set up a wiki cafe and what if my team is much more remote yes organizing a remote session or remote events not all events are much more in person sometimes organizing a remote event makes it much more easier for people who do come from long distances can be able to also join these kind of sessions then take one or two educative feedbacks or let me say learn a lot from these kind of remote sessions at large and what if my team too is new to open source right as once it's open to it's new to open source it makes it much more easier in a sense that you also being able to also train people from diverse background makes it easier in terms of you starting from the bottom and growing up with them and it makes it easier for you to be able to also retain them within the community okay so with the breakout session what we were supposed to basically do is to be able to also discuss how wiki cafe can be used in your teams write solutions on a google jam board then selects one lead to present your solution okay so once the breakout section taxes is done then we can be able to also share that with me via email then we will know how best to be able to improve upon our sessions thank you