 Hi, I'm Jeffrey McGuire. Most people call me Jam, J-A-M. That's my initials. I am a partner in Open Strategy Partners and we're a company that offers strategy marketing and communications for technology organizations with a special focus around open source. The Drupal Association has asked me to make this little video to help give especially first-time attendees to DrupalCon a little more orientation about how to how to thrive and survive at a big open source tech conference. And so that's what I'm here to do today with you. I've brought in a few special guests from the Drupal community and they'll be contributing their part to this video. I'm going to try and run through a few simple points. What you shouldn't miss at DrupalCon, how to plan your time at DrupalCon, what to do and how to approach things like sessions and social activities at DrupalCon and I'd like to give you a few tips on how to pack your bags for DrupalCon. So let's get started. Tell us who you are and what you do with DrupalCon. So I work as an engineering manager right now at Accelerant, Accelerant Technologies, which is a completely distributed organization, primarily based in India, but also in US and other countries. I am quite used to engineering being called an engineering manager. Which kind of puts me in a mentor kind of role to all my peers. I help them out with various issues. They could be personal. They could be something related to organization or something related to a project they are working on. Hey, Jordana, why don't you introduce yourself? Tell us who you are and what you do. Sure thing. My name is Jordana Fung. I am from Suriname, a small country in South America, the northern coast, where we speak Dutch, which is kind of weird to the most people being in South America. I am a Drupal community member. I've been using Drupal for quite a while, but I've been active in the community for the last few years where I went to my first Drupal camp in Florida a few years ago, and since then I've been, I fell in love with the community again and decided I'm going to try to dedicate more time being active in the community, donating time and the issue queues and that kind of stuff. And this is kind of how I joined the CWG. I was approached by them and we spoke and now I'm a member of the CWG, which is the Drupal community working group. The Drupal community has a few working groups. You have the licensing working group, the technical working group, the security working group, and I am part of the community working group, which usually has to do with... We foster community health, so that has to do with engaging the community, growing the community adoption, but also has to deal with conflict resolution and Drupal Code of Conduct matters, that kind of stuff, fun stuff. That's not always the easiest or most comfortable job, so thank you very much for your contribution. That's really, really stepping up, taking on that kind of responsibility, so thank you for that. No, it's my pleasure. Tell us who you are and what you do. Okay, so I'm extraordinarily privileged to be the Drupal Association's community liaison, which means I get to make sure the Drupal Association better understands you, the community, and the people in it, and the things that matter to everyone, and also that we can make sure everyone in the community understands the Drupal Association and our mission and the things that we're trying to do to make the community and Drupal project work into the future. Please tell us who you are and what you do. My name is Patti. I come from Iceland. Some know me as Patti Sonja, and I run a Drupal agency in Germany with... Yeah. And you are one of the newest Drupal Association board members. Tell us about that. Yeah, since that's very exciting. Since January this year, I'm part of the board, and I'm really proud of representing Europeans and the European community inside of the Drupal Association, and I'm looking forward to all the tasks that are coming and all the work that we are working on at the moment. And what else do you do in Drupal land? Tell us about your company. So our company is a Drupal agency, so we do a lot of Drupal sites. We just counted it today. We have around 200 sites that we post and we maintain, and we always build a new site every month. And that's what I do, but also I'm just very active in the Drupal community and I'm organizing a lot of camps. I've organized a camp in Iceland here in Germany and doing splash awards, doing all kinds of business stuff here also with Drupal. Thank you. Yeah. DrupalCon is the largest regular gathering in the open source community around the Drupal CMS. And depending on whether it's in Europe or North America or another part of the world, it can draw anywhere from 400 to 4,000 people. If you're coming to DrupalCon North America, you can expect more like 3 or 4,000 of your best open source friends to be there. It's a great chance to meet people in person who you might only know as a screen name. You might have only seen in the issue queues. They might have helped you out on IRC. And now's your chance to get to spend time with them in the real world, in physical space. And I would contend that this is an essential part of community in open source in general. The chance to sit together, have a drink together, code together, work together, trade ideas is the glue that builds the community and the people, the fact that open source is thousands of very, very smart people who want to work together to solve hard problems. That's our killer app. It's not actually necessarily the code we produce. If we lost the code tomorrow, we would still have all these thousands of smart people who would want to solve hard problems together. And so coming to DrupalCon as well as coming to other open source events within the Drupal community and other communities, this is your chance to really dive in, know the faces behind the names and really become more deeply engaged with all of this thing that we call open source software. Going to DrupalCon specifically, I want to give you a few tips about things that you shouldn't miss while you're at DrupalCon, how to plan your time at DrupalCon, how to behave while you're at DrupalCon, what to pack for DrupalCon and what you should do after DrupalCon. So let me touch on all of those points for a few minutes and you'll also be hearing from, as I said, some of my Drupal friends along the way. Well, DrupalCon will, like the name says, it's a conference but it's over the years I've realized it's much more than a conference of course it's still a conference and we meet people, we look at different sessions and you learn new things and everything but it has become kind of like my hanging around with all my Drupal friends. Ever since the first DrupalCon I was at in Los Angeles, it was like the way people introduced themselves, the kind of interactions I had with everyone, I didn't expect it and I was quite blown away that people were this friendly and this was, yeah, like I said, it was my first DrupalCon. I had not met most of the people I met there and it was quite blown away that they were so friendly and so welcoming. And how did the people compare between the sort of online personas that you'd interacted with and the people in in real life? Well, honestly, I was a little intimidated by a lot of people, I mean like from their online personas, you know, like you know the way they talk in online, the issue queues and everything and you know you would feel that wow, you know, it's like they're in a differently altogether and when I met them at DrupalCon, so like the funny thing is, you know, in many cases, I didn't even need them. I was just walking by and they recognized me and I was left shocked, you know, that oh, I mean like I'm not naming names here but you know, you like, you know, I never thought you would and like these are all, you know, like well-known contributors and I mean like never would have imagined that, you know, they would come and introduce themselves to me. Like, you know, so like when a few people did, you know, did come to me and said, you know, like hi and so and so, you know, and thank you for all the contributions that you've done, you know, you've done towards Drupal and I'm left speechless. Tell us in your mind what is DrupalCon? What's it for? DrupalCon is this amazing, huge conference, it's pretty big, a place where basically the whole Drupal community and others come together, discuss ideas, work on adoption and growing the community and becoming stronger and sharing ideas basically. What is a DrupalCon and what's it for? It's many things to many people and DrupalCon is one of the biggest Drupal events of the year and it draws people from lots of different backgrounds so you will have developers there, you will have site builders, you will have people who are actually making the Drupal websites, you will have people who are thinking well is Drupal for me, people who are assessing is this the right thing to do? You will have people who provide services that Drupal people might want hosting, development services, etc. They're all in a big melting pot together and that has great advantages because we get to hear the frustrations we all have together and we learn how to make things better because if you don't have things that need changing, we're going to get full of very quickly, we're always looking to improve and you only do that when you get people together and they get talking. What should other people know about DrupalCon? To me, what I figured out rather quickly, it's about meeting the community, it's about really stepping foot. I think that's one of the best things about the DrupalCon. The sessions are amazing, the sessions are great, you'll learn so much, but remember the sessions are also recorded, so I think the most you can get out of DrupalCon is kind of mingling, meeting people, going to the sprints, the contribution sprints, going to the bofs. If there's something you want to work on, there's probably going to be a bof or a session or a sprint somewhere where they're going to be tackling it, which is great. DrupalCon is a place where we all meet at the same place. The whole community, regardless of where you're a developer, project manager, you're doing documentation, you're a client, everybody just comes together at this one event. That's the most important thing about DrupalCon is that this is the place where we all meet. What should other people know about DrupalCon? What should people know when they're going to their first DrupalCon? I can tell you that even if you don't think you have contributed to Drupal, and I measure these things differently, I'm pretty sure that you have contributed, even if you don't know it, even if you don't think that you have contributed to Drupal, you are very welcome in the community. I honestly can't think of anyone who would feel hesitant to converse with you, listen to what you have to say and learn things from you. I don't think there are any people like that in the community. If it's your first DrupalCon, there is a first time attendees social event on Monday afternoon, and that leads right into the Exhibitor Hall opening, which is slightly later on Monday where you get to see all of the exhibitors and the sponsors and their tables and there's usually food and drinks to be had there, and it's a really good way to start your DrupalCon. If you go to the new attendees social, that is the place where you can also meet people who are there to welcome into the community and show you what we're all about. If it's your first DrupalCon, there is a first-timers attending, like a little get-together, go there. That's where I met my DrupalCon buddy is what I call him. We were both first-time DrupalCon in Dublin, it was the first time attending, but we've been in the Drupal community a while, so it was nice to meet somebody else and that kind of have to find their way around, so that's also something very interesting to do. DrupalCon Tuesday kicks off at 8 a.m. with the tradition that we call the pre-note. It comes before Dries's opening keynote. The pre-note is a little bit silly, a little bit of information and a lot of open source and Drupal culture. I encourage you to come along Tuesday 8 in the morning if it's the only day of the year that you get up that early. It's worth it and frankly it'll get you a better seat for the Dries note at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, which you should also definitely attend. The Dries note is the keynote address of Dries Bertach, the Drupal project's lead. You get a chance to get a picture of what he's thinking about the state of Drupal and where he thinks the project is heading next. So if you come to your first DrupalCon, I think the most important is to be there for the pre-note and the Dries note. But the pre-note is actually very special and this was, I was lucky to be there in Amsterdam and that was something special for me, just to see like these people come together and have a lot of fun at 8 o'clock in the morning and then comes more serious part which is then Dries just telling us about the future and how he is thinking about the project going and right. So Tuesday morning kicking off the official DrupalCon program. 8 o'clock is the pre-note and if you get there, not only is it about community and Drupal and open source values, it's also generally fun and you'll get a good seat for the Dries note as well, which is which is also valuable. Yeah so that is like this is just a lot of fun and I would just recommend for everybody who is coming for the first time and especially also to understand that you know I've been doing, I've been participating in the pre-note for the last two years and I was actually surprised that I could just raise my hand and say I cannot join and that is also maybe important for everybody who's doing this for the first time. Whatever they're doing tell everybody that you're willing to help or you're willing to do something or you want to participate and I can promise you that community is just going to open up their arms and allow you to come and help and do whatever and they're going to help you. Everybody's going to help you to get it. Right and that's not just DrupalCon, right? That's everything. That's in just generally in the Drupal community. So since my first DrupalCon I've made it a point to never miss the pre-note. So I think pre-note captures the whole the message of the community in a very beautiful manner so try and make it. That's the second thing I would say. Thank you. So thank you for persisting with it for such a long time. Make sure that during the whole week you save some time and energy in the evenings for the DrupalCon social events. There are a number of parties organized at any given DrupalCon. There might be semi-official sightseeing tours or some Drupal companies who are organizing social events along the way but Thursday night at DrupalCon is a very important tradition. The Drupal Trivia night it's very competitive, it's very fun and even if you're new to Drupal or new to DrupalCon you can make a contribution. Teams who have first-time Drupal attendees get bonus points so Thursday evening Trivia night kind of a must-do it's really really fun. So how are you going to prepare and plan for your time at DrupalCon? You should really consider your situation, your needs and your skill sets and make a plan accordingly. Obviously there are a lot of sessions that's a big part of the conference. There are multiple tracks across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ranging from very very technical topics to business oriented topics and more or less everything in between. Make a plan, look through the schedule now and decide what you're going to go to. If you log into the DrupalCon website you can build your own schedule by clicking sessions and then you can see what you've gotten yourself in for and how many time conflicts you've got there. I have discovered on many occasions that the three sessions that I really wanted to see are all at the same time. Luckily the Drupal Association has all of the sessions recorded and we can catch up with those afterwards online. There is a smartphone app for DrupalCon. It definitely works on iOS and integrates with the calendar there. I believe it has the same functionality for Android. That has been very helpful to me at times. When you are at DrupalCon you're also going to get a paper plan and you could just put X's on what you want to see and take notes on about things there too. So my top tips to prepare for DrupalCon is definitely to look at the schedule before you go there because there's so much going on at the same time. If you haven't figured it out before where you want to go then you are a little bit lost when you get to the con. I would also, if you are interested in a particular topic, for example if you're interested in decoupled Drupal, then look at the sessions that are about that and mark them. On the website you can actually mark what you want to see and you get your schedule prepared. What I also think that there are certain people within the Drupal community who are actually maintainers, core maintainers that also have sessions and that's also very interesting topics that they normally speak about. So I would mark them as I must see at DrupalCon. Depending on your profession, are you a coder, are you a marketer, are you a designer, are you something else, there's going to be a selection of these sessions to see, but they are not the only thing that DrupalCon is about. Don't neglect to check out the birds of a feather, affectionately known as boff sessions. Those are spontaneously planned at the event and there are discussions between like-minded peers about really anything under the sun and there are some that are very serious about technical planning and legal issues and what have you and there are some that are very, very fun. In the past there have been buffs to exchange chocolates, for example, which you know, which is a pretty popular one. Look on the board for a thing called birds of a feather because the birds of a feather sessions, the buffs, you might hear people call them, are far more impromptu sets of conversations that happen. One, they're not recorded, so the only way you'll get to see that content is by actually going to that buff and two, they are usually full of the most interesting people. What should people who are coming to their first DrupalCon, what should they know? Check out the buffs, the birds of a feather. There are some great ones and I never paid, I didn't pay that much attention to them the first time around. When you go to sessions, it's really great. People really love it. If you tweet, if you share to social media, if you give compliments or quote things that you're excited about, that's a great way to promote the con and at the event there will be hashtags and all the information you need to share that so that people who weren't able to attend can follow along with what's going on. People in open source, so DrupalCon is also kind of a giant show and tell. I have figured out a new way to solve a problem and I'm very excited about it and I want to tell you about that and I want to make sure that you are enabled to solve the problem in the same way. It's a real open source story and most everyone who's giving sessions feels the same way about it and so questions are very, very welcome. Most sessions you should wait till the end to ask questions, but questions are very, very welcome. When you go to a session, it's a great opportunity to meet people. Another really important reason, as I said, is community building at a DrupalCon. Sit down with people at a lunch table, at a session with you don't know. Introduce yourself, ask them what they do in Drupal and before you know it, hours of conversation could have already gone past. The sessions are always online. You can of course, that's a very standard thing everyone says. You can always go see the sessions, but the whole point of going to a conference like DrupalCon is to meet people, so do that. Don't be afraid to walk up to people, meet them, talk, ask questions. It's about networking, it's about meeting people as well. I think that's a very good takeaway there. Be very open to communicate. Don't feel shy, don't feel that you would not have anything to contribute. And even if you feel that you're not going to contribute, don't feel awkward that you won't stand in a group of people who are discussing your favorite topic. Be bold, be friendly. I would say walk around or just look in rooms. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to walk into something, think this is not for me and walk out. No one's going to be offended. Use your time as you think it suits you. Speak with people. If you find yourself in the wrong session, if you thought that a topic was going to be perfect for you and really exciting and interesting and two minutes in, ten minutes in, it's not doing it for you or it's not solving the problem that you have, it is absolutely okay to quietly stand up and leave the room in open source land that's called boating with your feet. And no one's going to be upset and that's never a problem because your time is precious. You have potentially traveled a long way to be there and spent a considerable amount of money. Make sure that you're getting the most out of your time. Respect your own time too. Visit the exhibitors area Monday for the opening reception and during the week the sponsors who've paid to be there and who make DrupalCon possible would love to talk with you about what they do and it ranges from agencies to hosting providers to tool people who sell products and tools and a lot of other things. There are always games, snacks, coffee and so on. It's a great place to organize, to meet people, to have conversations and check out what the exhibitors have on offer. Contribution is the heart of open source. None of our open source software would exist without people who had freely given of their code to turn it into the tools that we're using to make a living and hopefully to make the world a better place. Contribution is for everyone. You don't have to be a hardcore, old-time coder to contribute. Contribution means making Drupal better, making open source software better, making the world better. Can you write a documentation? Can you take a screenshot? Can you file a bug report? Can you organize an event? All of these things are contribution and at DrupalCon there are contribution sprints running the whole time. A lot of it is focused on code of course and if you are involved in a particular kind of development or particular specialty you can probably find other people who are interested and help out and work together to make the software better. But there's a lot of other ways to contribute at the contribution sprints and especially on Friday there is a new contributor sprint where it is mentored contribution. They will help you get your system set up, help you find appropriate issues for you to fix and real live patches will be committed during those contribution sprints and that's always a really fun thing to see. Go to the boss, go to the sprint, sign up for a sprint even if you've never done it before. I'm also a sprint mentor. We'll walk you through everything. There are different things you can do. It's called the contribution sprints not the the coding sprint. So there's documentation you can help with testing, screenshots, there's everything you know you could think of. So that's also very a very great way of jumping into the community if you haven't already. Try to make it to the sprints too. At every DrupalCon there is a mentored sprint for first-time sprinters and there's a lot of movement on the onboarding and tooling now getting much much faster so that people can have you know a really satisfying contribution experience. So I think first-timers if you can possibly make time to go on Friday to the mentored newcomers sprint. Yeah this mentored sprints if you've not had a prior like you know a previous contribution experience the mentored sprints would help you in some of the best practices surrounding the contribution. And the Drupal community is very very passionate about welcoming new people about welcoming new contributors and guiding them to successful contribution whatever that may be and that's not just code of course as you pointed out. When you've gone home from DrupalCon and you're back at work and you wish DrupalCon was still going on there's a few things that you should do you should really follow up with the people you met make sure the conversations that you started keep going make sure that the contribution that you maybe dipped your toes into becomes a part of your life you should share with people a great contribution is sharing with people what you've got out of DrupalCon so write a blog post write some more tweets take the Drupal Association survey about how they can make DrupalCon better and frankly start planning the session that you're going to submit to your next local DrupalCamp or the next DrupalCon so that you can come and be one of the presenters and and be right in the heart of the community. So I think my last point was how to pack for DrupalCon right now especially if we're talking about a DrupalCon in North America in the United States there are a few tiny cultural and architectural issues that catch some people out as well as some general tips about how to survive a conference day right a conference day can be very very long if you want to get up and see a keynote speaker at nine o'clock and you want to go to several sessions and you want to do some contribution and you're going to be at above and you're going to then quickly maybe put your bag down and go to a social activity the days could be very long and they could be really dehydrating I really try and take a reusable water bottle with me and most DrupalCons have had water fountains and dispensers where you can refill those without using too many disposable plastic bottles that's how I do that but actually drinking enough in North America the buildings are at times crazy way over air conditioned so that'll dehydrate you too but my tip about American air conditioning is even in New Orleans when it was crazy hot and humid outside the conference center was freezing cold and I had a wool cardigan I had a jacket that I brought with me every time just to survive the American air conditioning so if you're not used to that pack a sweatshirt pack a sweater drink a lot of water because that those two things will really knock you out if you're not careful wear comfortable shoes that you can walk around in all day you're going to be on your feet a lot if you are the sort of person who needs to keep their energy up bring some snacks whatever your snack of choice is pack a couple snacks in your bag to get you through those low moments in the day my low moment is mid-afternoon and that's when you'll see me having uh you know hopefully a coffee and a piece of fruit but um might be something less good for me to get me through too don't bring your biggest heaviest computer if you have a choice bring just enough technology to get you through the day if you don't think you're going to need a whole computer maybe just bring a tablet maybe just bring your phone maybe just bring a notepad whatever level of technology you're comfortable with bringing keep your bag as light as possible I have shoulder problems from carrying around too many shoulder bags over the years I always think about that too bring plug adapters if you're not from the US bring adapters and bring a multi-plug sometimes there are international multi-plugs you know power strips places to plug in multiple devices but if you're in a space where there are limited plugs and you can plug in a power strip and help a few other people out in the community um it's kind of contribution but it's sure nice you know to uh to to enable other people to charge their devices as well um and when you get home every evening before you go to bed at night make sure you charge all your stuff or otherwise you're gonna you know you're gonna be caught out the next day I'm a real fan of paper business cards um and I find them incredibly practical uh bring along your business cards and um collect business cards from people you're talking with if you don't believe in wasting that paper of course you can collect and organize your contacts anyway you want to I find them a really helpful tool um to track all of the people that I'm going to want to follow up with after Drupalcon one last point on packing don't overpack your suitcases if you can leave a little room you should do so Drupalcon usually offers a wealth of t-shirts interesting swag contests where you can win uh different things if they're drones if they're uh vr goggles leave some space in your bag for all of the t-shirts that you're going to be bringing home what really sticks out in your mind about your first Drupalcon when you went to Dublin um the amazing people I met uh it was amazing to to put a face where you've always seen names online so this is that was pretty great um how welcoming everybody was it was it was wonderful I thought I thought it was amazing um like I said I fell in love with the community again um it it was it was amazing to see all of this dedication um everybody was so welcoming and warm and willing to share their ideas and their thoughts and be like oh if you need help this is my name you can find me on IRC or in Slack and I thought it was just amazing now you've never been to a North American Drupalcon before what what questions do you have about going to Drupalcon Nashville so I was wondering in your opinion for example I've been to the the European one is there a big difference in how in in your in yeah in your perception of it how it's run or how it's how big it is maybe well Drupalcon in the US is usually about twice as big as Drupalcon in Europe so three or four thousand people have been showing up to Drupalcon in the US and that scale of the thing is is really really exciting and um you know everything is actually bigger the session rooms are are often bigger the exhibitors area is is really huge so there's the there's just the number of friends that you have to say hello to you know it is is is bigger um some people say that the European Drupalcons are geekier and more focused on the technology and more sort of closer to our community roots while the American Drupalcons are more focused on the commercial aspects so a little more selling a little more more people in suits you know um so that's that's certainly a different feeling and for me the the there's um there's something there's something just a little bit different in the air and I've always enjoyed both of them and yeah so actually it would be great to get your impressions when you've uh when you've come you know when you've come back from this one and what you thought was different uh frankly the weirdest difference that I can tell you the the US Drupalcons um have been in warm places and if you're not used to how Americans treat their buildings I'm just saying no matter how hot it is outside bring a sweater when you come to Drupalcon for the day because the American air conditioning has almost killed me on a couple of occasions that is a thing here in the US um the AC they blast the ACs but that is that is also a good tip a good tip what what was your first Drupalcon my first Drupalcon was in London uh of Croydon uh which was wonderful it was a it was a really great Drupalcon I think one of the things that I really I was really glad I did is I went up and said hey I'd like to volunteer and help uh because what it meant was even though I know very little I got to meet people because I was almost forced to meet people and speak with people which is a big deal and it's kind of the point of an open source community isn't it well the community is absolutely the big the big word that um Drupalcon is nothing without the people who make it happen and that's more than just writing the code that's the people who who write documentation that's the people who make events happen that's the people who help other people understand things because it matters because that's how we make a system and an organization that's easy for new people like selves to understand it yeah without without people working together it's not going to happen that's what makes Drupal special so I heard that you have not yet been to a Drupalcon in the United States is that true this is true yeah because I've always been to European Drupalcons ever since London I've been to every European Drupalcon but I've never been to one in the Europe in in North America so what is it that you as a first time attendee want to know about uh Drupalcon North America well I think I want to see how people interact differently because I'm I'm sure people do I think that would be uh fascinating for me especially in my new role is to see how things work differently see what type of people turn up to the event and I've seen the ticket sales obviously but I want to see and spend time with people and chat to them absolutely if you see me in the corridor stop me and speak and say hi because I want to learn about you uh because I'm very used to people in in Europe I was in Vienna last last September I know people that I don't know as many people in North America in the community I absolutely want to get to know you so stop me and say hello you might regret that but all right Hussein Abbas thank you so much for taking the time to share your wisdom and experience with us and I'm really looking forward to seeing you at Drupalcon soon bye thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me about this Jordana and I'm really really looking forward to seeing you in Nashville in person again thank you it was my pleasure I can't wait to see you I can't wait to see everyone Rachel thank you so much for taking the time to to talk with me and I'm really looking forward to seeing you uh at Drupalcon really soon I'm looking forward to it it's going to be great I'm it's going to be a huge event and I've got to get to meet some really amazing people and some great friends and congratulations on your new job it sounds really perfect for you and and and for the Drupal Association as well it's good fun lots of hard work but it's good fun all right hey take care thank you later buddy thank you so much for taking the time to share some of your experience with us and I'm really looking forward to seeing you at Drupalcon really really soon yeah see you in a few days great bye so I hope you found this video interesting I will be doing a newcomers welcome session on Tuesday right after the Dries note as well and I would be really really happy to meet you in person if you've got any questions for me that's the perfect time to ask me and you can also reach out to me at Horn Cologne on Twitter for example um pretty easy to find online so thanks for watching I hope you got something out of it and I'm really looking forward to meeting you at Drupalcon thinking back to your first Drupalcon in Los Angeles what do you wish you had known ahead of time how would you how would you have prepared differently for the very first one if you could go back and do it again now it's it's it was such a wonderful experience I don't know what would have improved that