 Hello everyone, this is Avik, this side I'm the program manager for open printing and along with me I have Till Kampita, he's a project lead for open printing. I'm Till Kampita and I'm leading for open printing. Welcome to this lightning talk about how to be a welcoming community or how to be collaborative, how to welcome new members in the group. So today for the next few minutes we are going to talk about that topic. So before moving forward let me just present my PPT. Okay, so as I said the topic is establish a friendly welcoming and collaborative project culture. So the first thing is you need to understand who is a new contributor or what is the mindset of a new contributor. So a new contributor is somebody who is in a learning curve who is still adapting to the changes you know or who is adapting to the project jargon or everything is new to that particular contributor. So all the jargon that you are using for your org is new to that person and initially that person will be hesitant to ask so it requires a lot of hand holding. So to be a good mentor or a good community mentor you first need to feel like a student or as a new contributor first. As a welcoming community you if that person is in touch with you then you are the face of the org. So the veteran member is the face of the org, the leader, a communicator, a technical guide. So somebody who projects the goals of the org to the new member. So the veteran member is the primary face of the org. You need to keep that in mind. You first need to be a gardener. So train the basics to the new member, guide on the initials, handle till the path is steep, give them issues to work on, give them some initial assignments, give them some you know to start off maybe you can just give them some changes in the documentation. Recognize their achievements and make them feel the ownership. So you first need to nurture your saplings if you want to see them grow into a big tree. Best practices what you can follow is you can have meetups, you can approach your community members, ask them what problems they are facing. Keep the technicality simple. Initial things should be simple. Do not add on complexity. Your communication should always be good. You need to understand that that person is in a learning curve. That person is shy. That person is hesitant to ask. So break that ice. Be always be available whenever they need you. Otherwise they will not be comfortable. So these are the few of the best practices you can follow. So to be a good gardener you know you need to follow this and you need to keep this in mind. Good gardeners create good contributors and good contributors build great communities. This should be the motto of any or if they want to be a welcoming group. So that's it about today's talk. So if you can get in touch with us in our email IDs mentioned in the screen we'll be very happy to you know collaborate or discuss further. So if you have any questions do let us know. Thank you.