Instinct Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. Aloha and bienvenidos to his party Hawaii and Richard Concepcion. Today's program is about Miss Latina Hawaii. This organization provides a scholarship to many young ladies and gives them the opportunity to represent the Latin community. Today's guest is Sherlyn Mojica-Farias. She is the current Miss Latina Hawaii 2018 and she's here to tell about her story, about her own personal experience throughout the competition, her platform, what you're doing for the community, and also her future plan. Bienvenida, welcome to his party Hawaii. Thank you so much for having me today. Hello. All right. Aloha. Aloha. Well, I want to say congratulations, job well done. I was there through the competition from the beginning to the end and it was a wonderful program. Thank you so much. It was so much fun. Yes. Well, a lot of people within the community want to get to know you. Yes, of course. So, can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your family, and your heritage? Yes, of course. So, my name is actually really long. It's Sherlyn Milagro Cuipo Cavalejua Mojica-Farias trying to be elementary learning. Milagro. How do you say the rest? Cuipo Cavalejua Mojica-Farias. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah. Trying to be elementary student, trying to learn all those letters in your name, it was very difficult. And I'm 18 years old and I graduated from Kalani High School Class of 2017 and I'm a chop-sweet mix. I have Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Filipino, Chinese, Caucasian and it's all the best of all those worlds. Oh my gosh. Tell me a little bit about your family. Yes. So, my mother's side of the family is Puerto Rican, Filipino, and then my father's side is the rest, the Hawaiian, Caucasian, Portuguese, everything else. Yeah, and both my families are very wonderful. They continue to support me and I really appreciate it.  We all, both sides love celebration. It's always amazing food and dancing and songs and it's always a lot of fun to be with them. I can see that. When you was going through the competition, I can hear everybody just screaming. I knew it was your family. That was my family right there in the front row. All right, so when you found out about this scholarship pageant, what motivated you to enter in this competition? Okay, I'm going to be honest. When I first heard about it, I doubted my ability to even join a pageant and to win one. And now I look back at it, I will do it all over again because it was such an amazing opportunity. And when I did get back to one of the board members of Miss Latina Hawaii, I told I was interested because a lot of the pros was way more than the cons of joining this amazing pageant.  But you know, take a lot of preparation and dedication. And many young ladies, they might want to participate sometime this year. They might want to know, you know, what do you do to get prepared for that? Can you tell me about your training and your preparation for the competition? Yes, of course. So we do this fun thing called mock interviews. It trains us for the actual interview with the judge panel.  And then we also done some walking practices, which I very, I enjoyed the most because I never could walk in heels before this. But look at me in six inch heels, I can do it now. And we also did a lot of physical training and it was a lot of fun. It was a great experience. All right. So don't be intimidated, right? Just come in and do it. Yeah, just come in and do it because you can do whatever you put your mind to. All right. You competed five different categories. Yes. One was lifestyle, swimwear, the tally. You had an evening wear, the private interview and the stage interview. Want to know which you went out of all those different categories was the most challenging to you and which one you liked the most and why? Okay. I believe that most challenging would be the on-stage question. I mean, at the top of your head, you have to come up with an amazing answer to answer the question, but also let the audience know who you are because the judges do get to know you, but the audience doesn't really get an interview with you. So this is the audience's chance to get to know who you are and what makes you you. And I think my favorite would definitely be the talent because it's your way to show everyone your strength and how like you're passionate, what you're passionate about. And I enjoy showing everyone my talent and yeah, that's my favorite answer. Well, let me ask you when they was asking you, do you still remember that question on the stage question? Yes, it was whether or not I felt that social media was a positive or negative impact. Yeah. I do. A lot of people get nervous and they can't remember anything. Oh, I remember. All right. So tell me, do you still remember your answer? I believe I do. My answer was I believe it was a negative impact because it takes away our value of spending time with our family and doing our hobbies and experiencing all of our memories with our family. That is true. Yeah, you're right. But you do dance, right? You're a dancer and you do different type of dance. Yes, I do. Can you tell me something about those different dance that you do? Yes. So at a young age, I started to learn Hulu when you come from a family of Hulu dancers, you kind of just go into it at a young age. And I've also danced, of course, Tahitian, which is my talent. And as I got more into my Polynesian culture, I joined Polynesian clubs at school where I got to learn Tongan, someone, and then I got my job at the Sarapan Lulu, which I've learned Maori, Hakka, and Pueba. Oh, wow. Yes. Yes. And they're all so beautiful. All right. We're going to show you a video or you perform a new talent during the day of the competition. Oh, yes. Exciting. Okay. Perfect. Let's watch it. Okay. All right.  I believe that anyone can do it, to be honest. That particular dance I made myself. And I believe I made it within two weeks. Of course, after that, you continue to critique it and everything. But I believe everyone can do it, to be honest. So that's why it was the best part of the category, the competition. Yes. Yes. It's my way to show my strength, which is being an entertainer. All right. Let's see if we can push a picture. When you were showing, you know, when you're somewhere and I'm showing you different clothes, you know, can we put a picture please? Now, we can talk about it real quick. Because in the competition, here it is. It's showing a different category. You have the evening wear and then we show you that you're doing Tahitian dance, which is a part of the talent and also you with the swimwear. And in the beginning, you had this special dance. It's called the Dance of Miss Latina. And tell me about that clothes that you was wearing. Yes, of course. So I basically wanted to make my own costume for this intro, because I thought it would be more like, more special to me. And when I went online to go see like different styles, I caught this picture of these people dancing. And it was so beautiful to me to have this skirt. It was high waisted with the flower on the side and the big flowers. We love our flowers. I had to put that in there. Well, you look great. It was perfect, perfect, perfect. Well, let me ask you, and I want to push this picture right here, because when you was going through the competition, we had Miss Latina Hawaii, which is one of the titles, and they have Miss Paradise Latina. And the NC calling for the first title, which was Miss Paradise Latina, and the winner, Stephanie Johnson, she was not able to be here with us. But in the picture, I seen you looking over her shoulder, you know, she's winning that title. What was going through your mind at that given time? I was honestly so proud of her. I mean, she has worked so hard. And it's not easy to do a pageant. And she did it with her all. And I believe that she deserved it because she is genuinely beautiful. And she really worked hard for that title. And she got it. She was kind of scared, like, well, it's only one title left. One title left, yeah. So many ladies, are you on the stage? You was losing any hopes? Honestly, I trusted that whoever was going to be the next Miss Latina Hawaii would be a great title holder. And I wasn't very scared of not being called because I would be proud of whoever it would be. But I was very excited to hopefully hear my name because you worked really hard for something like this. That's true. Well, we're going to show a quick video with the NC, which is my legal he finally called for the new Miss Latina Hawaii 2008. Okay. And then we can talk about it. Okay. I can hear your whole time farming, screaming. Oh, yes, that support system is amazing. So what was going through your mind at that given time when you was waiting and waiting and he finally called your name? All I could do was cry because I was just so proud of myself. And you know, everything that I've been through in my life, I've been through so much struggles and complications. And to know that I've come this far and that I've won something of such value, it was so important to me. And all I could do was just cry out of joy because I was so proud of myself and how far I've come. And that was your first competition? That was my first competition, which made it even more special to me. Oh, God, that's great. Yeah. All right, but we are about to take a quick break. Okay. And a great message to the community. And then we're going to come back and continue talking story. Okay, perfect. Okay. All the better to see you with my gear. What are you doing? Okay. Research says reading from birth accelerates the baby's brain development. And you're doing that now? Oh, yeah. This is the starting line. Push. This is over. Read aloud 15 minutes, every child, every parent, every day. Hello, everyone. I'm DeSoto Brown, the co-host of Human Humane Architecture, which is seen on Think Tech, Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. And with the show's host, Martin Desbang, we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live, but other aspects of our life, not only here in Hawaii, but internationally as well. So join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. on Think Tech, Hawaii. Welcome back to Manning, Hawaii. I'm here with the Miss Latina Hawaii 2018, Charlie Mojica-Farious, talking story. Thank you. All right. Now that you represent the Latin community, tell me some of your responsibilities. Yes. So some of my responsibilities are obviously getting involved in the Latin community. And one thing that we have done this beginning of January actually was this jam for Puerto Rico. It was amazing to see everyone come together and have fun, enjoy themselves, but then again raise money for our families in Puerto Rico. And we also do the single-day mile, of course, and the Hispanic festival, which is in October every year. And this Friday, actually, I'm going to Waipahu High School to do a presentation about being a Latina woman in Hawaii to the Spanish Honor Society. You also participated in the Marlott King Parade. Yes. Tell me about that. That was amazing to just see all the support that everyone has for the parade and to see everyone come together and make it happen. It was wonderful to be part of it. Wow. Well, I know you run for the Miss Latina Hawaii and you won the competition. You had to present a platform. Tell me about your platform. Yes, of course. So my platform is Care for Youth. Care is an acronym for community actions, raising encouragement. And when I had to think about a platform, the first thing that came to my mind was obviously homelessness. Because I've been a part of helping the homeless community since I was a young girl. And of course, I wanted to make that a huge level for me to talk about within my community because it really touches my heart when I get to go out there and change the lives of people, you know. And I've actually went towards helping the youth in particular because I thought, why not try and break the cycle once and for all? And I believe by breaking the cycle would be through the families and through the children. Because a lot of times, the cycle keeps going on to where a family is homeless and then the children become an unbreakable cycle, which is why I want to break it. And that's why I went on to making these care bags. I started years back actually as care packages, but I made them care bags now for the children who can reuse these bags and hopefully go to school with them. And in these bags, I put necessities, hygiene products and school supplies, of course, so that these children, you know, we can at least alleviate some of their issues that they have on their daily lives. And they can continue to just be children and to look forward to their goals and their ambition. And I also do a penny count with Project Hawaii. They have allowed me to go out and be a coordinator with schools to go and ask people to just give a single penny because it really goes a long way. One penny at a time. And it's amazing because what they do is they take these pennies and they use that money to buy necessities for our poverty-stricken or homeless children in Hawaii. And it's amazing I feel to do this campaign because I'm going into schools and I'm getting the youth themselves involved in helping their peers. And it's amazing, yeah. So you become an example for them to follow. Yes, exactly. Oh my goodness, that's a lot of work. A lot of work. So you say you work with an organization. What is the name of that organization once again? Project Hawaii. Project Hawaii. Yeah. And they concentrate on helping other homeless kids in Hawaii. Yes, homeless and poverty-stricken children. And they only do it right here in Hawaii or they do a different island in Hawaii? No, actually you can go on their website, Project Hawaii, and you can go and donate however much you would like to and it really stays in the city of Hawaii and it just helps all of our Kiki who have been through all these struggles. Do you have any other organization that you're working with? Well now it's just Project Hawaii, but also I'm going to distribute my care bags to different shelters. And right now I'm looking at Next Step Shelters to go and distribute my care bags to all the children who they are helping at the time. But you also work with the Children's American Network, right? Yes, that is our national platform. Yeah, tell me about that. Yes, of course. So being a part of the American, I mean excuse me, the American organization, we have this national platform which is Children's American Network. It's where everyone just pretty much donates a dollar at a time and is given to the sickly children and it's also given to medical research and it's an amazing way to get the community involved who want to help. And it is just an amazing organization to be a part of. So if you want any business or any person to help you out, we care how they can do that? Yes, so on all my social medias I have links to Children's American Network where you can go and donate if you would like to and also I have a care for youth page on Facebook where you can keep up to date with everything that we do or donate if you would like to or just keep in touch with everything, all our projects and everything. I just want to know how you're going to be able to accomplish all this because you work, you're going to support, you know, with your platform, you know they're homeless in Hawaii, kids are homeless in Hawaii and also you're going to help the Children's American Network. Are you going to manage all this? Honestly, it's a lot but it is going to be worth it. I know it and it's all time management. I have this huge planner of mine and I have a whiteboard in my room. I just love to time manage myself and just drop things down and check things off as I do them and I believe time management is the key. I want to know a little bit more about your job. What do you do every day? Yes, I'm an entertainer on the Star of Honolulu, Denehu's boat which is at Aloha Tower and I'm a performer there.  It's not as scary or it's not as shaky, I promise. And it's just beautiful, you know, to show our culture and share our culture with tourists or anyone from around the world to meet new people and to get to hear about their experiences and everything that they've been through. It's a lot of fun. I want to know what your parents think right now. Wow, she is the current Miss Latina Y 2018. Are they still in shock or are they kind of like finally they realize okay she is the winner of what we had to support her and do all these great things that she had to do? Yes, of course. So my parents are so proud of me because they know that you know everything that I've been through in my life it has done its hardest to put me down and to bring me back but I just continue to push forward. It's my motivation. You know everything I've been through it may have been negative at the time but now I look at it as a positive because now I can use that as my motivation to push forward and to challenge myself all the time and I think that my parents are very proud of how far I've come and I think they are realizing that I'm finally a winner but take a while, right? Yes, she is the winner. Yes, but of course for every family I feel like you will always feel that your girl is the winner no matter what you know. That's true. So let's talk about your future plans. Yes, so after this after Miss Latina Hawaii we are going on to Miss Hawaii which is a part of the Miss American Organization excuse me and I honestly want to go to Miss Hawaii and I want to share my platform and I want to hopefully go to Miss America and share it nationwide because it is not only something that is happening here in Hawaii it is happening all around the world and I want to make that difference and I want to get more people involved in our projects and later on I would definitely want to become a neonatal nurse. It's been a dream of mine for a very long time and witnessing a lot of premature babies in my family has driven me to want to help those babies that go into NICU and hopefully save their lives. So that's part of your scholarship program you'll be able to go back to school, right? Yes, all the scholarships I can definitely go to school and pursue my career ambition. That is great, that is wonderful. I want to know a little bit more about more in detail you know about the competition you know what would you tell your lady who want to be part of this competition or want to enter this year what are your recommendations? I would honestly encourage everyone to do it. I mean it's almost a lifetime thing and it is an amazing experience. I've learned so much about myself and as I said I doubted my ability to win a you know win a pageant and here I am and I believe if you put your mind to it you can definitely accomplish anything and you honestly are given so much opportunities that you may not have get anywhere else and I say go for it take that risk challenge yourself because I rather you say you tried your hardest or you did that rather than I wish I did you know it's it's amazing to go through all this and I encourage everyone to do it. When I was watching the program Maleko the NC said that something that you wanted to do is to interview the President of United States. Tell me about that, why? Okay so if I ever get the opportunity I would definitely go write a lot of questions down of course because I won't have so much things I mean I really want to understand his morals his values his reasons for I mean everyone has a reason for everything that they do you know and I feel maybe we're not giving him a chance to express himself or maybe we're giving him too much of a chance to express himself and I honestly just want to know you know what drove him to be a president at first and what he really thinks making America great again is to him because I feel like we all have different meanings of that and I definitely want to know get to know him and his reasons for everything that he's doing. What are your opinion about the immigration? What are your opinion about this immigration law? Oh I honestly think that America is an amazing country you know you're given freedoms you're given opportunities and people come here and they've been coming here for years you know and I feel like trying to send them back is just it's horrible I mean they're here they're obviously they're if they're not doing anything wrong I mean there's no reason to send them back I mean they're taxpayers probably and they come and they give to our community they work they're part of who we are and I feel like sending them away is not a great thing to do when they're all they've done is trying to get a better life for themselves. That is true. Well any final thoughts? I want to thank you for having me and of course everyone out there I just want to tell you to go for go for everything that you ever want to do because if you are given so many opportunities in your life and I say go for it challenge yourself and be the best that you can be. Once again I want to say congratulations thank you to comment to Hispanic Hawaii and tell you story about how you become the Miss Latina Hawaii. All right I want to say thank you so much for watching Hispanic Hawaii don't forget you can rewatch this program at themetechhawai.com and many of the programs. Aloha, gracias, hasta luego. Thank you so much.


internal revenues of his IRS tax news spear phishing targets tax pros and other businesses Honestly, the worlds are crazy place these days.   I mean, it's like wait a second Might it be that these dudes actually do know what stuff is, but like maybe don't care IRS tax tip 2022-100 June 30th 2022 tax pros take their responsibilities to protect client data seriously. No in common identity theft schemes There's a link to that here like spear phishing is one way they can do that spear phishing scams can target specific Individuals or specific groups so oftentimes when we think about spear phishing We think about those of mass emails that go out Which we might not think is much of a threat because they're not very Sophisticated looking and therefore we can identify them quite clearly But there are other tactics that can be used for spear phishing Such as more targeted spear phishing at an individual or a group making that first email Look a lot more real and if you put your mind in the mind of the scammer here And you think about these different methods They might be using when they use the mass method and they're shooting out these unsophisticated Looking emails that might actually be by design Because their scamming process might include something like Giving them money through say through say a gift card or something like that And so if that's going to be your end target that you have to actually get someone to give you money through a gift card Then you probably want your email almost to be Unsophisticated going out to a whole bunch of people and the people that are responding to it Are probably those that are are less knowledgeable about this stuff more naive about this stuff And more likely to go through the whole process and basically Give money through like a gift card, which would usually trigger a lot of people to say hey This doesn't look quite right. Uh, so then of course if they're targeting more specific individuals like tax professionals Then they're going to use a different design because clearly they're looking for the identity Of the tax pros are trying to get access to the software or something like that Possibly access to the computer. There could be a bigger target there Because now of course that information could be much more valuable now that we have like all these You know tax credits that are going out and stuff So so so so we still have we ought to be quite aware of that Obviously, they might come after tax pros acting like a client which would take a lot more targeted kind of responses and possibly more than one email Then just a mass email that would go out there But then if you have your mind in the mind of the scammer that the payoff might be worthwhile because Then you could get access to a whole bunch of people social securities and file fraudulent returns or whatever spearfishing scams affect all types of businesses and organizations Including small businesses with a client database like pros firms tax pros So thereafter the the clients information just leave us leave the poor tax professionals alone We're always stressed out worried about the taxes already for crying out la Thieves use spearfishing to steal computer system credentials So spearfishing scams target tax pros to steal their account credentials or installed malicious software So if they can steal the credentials or put the malicious software, they might get access to the actual tax software And that's where you got you know the sensitive data or possibly file a tax return remotely Which would be not good possibly more likely on like online software rather than desktop But maybe both in the case thieves can steal client data and the tax preparer's identity to file fraudulent tax returns for refund So that's the goal refunds are going to be Quite more valuable these days for low income individuals because of the increase on things like refundable credits So some common types of spearfishing emails include emails They claim to be from a tax preparation application provider that have the irs logo reference Legitimate irs programs or e services and use subject lines like action required your account has now been put on hold now Usually these these emails You can kind of pick them out because the irs usually kind of corresponds by mail Not so much on the email the the fact that the irs is changing and trying to modernize a little bit Although they're doing it quite slowly Which I think is actually a good thing as long as they can do it well And and have a good systemized process and have everybody understand Can also lead to people now all these changes that are happening be more subject to Uh following victim to these kind of emails that look more real because these because the iris is trying to change Trying to modernize and possibly trying to get into the world of email as opposed to the snail mail So they're they're moving into like the prior century almost so it's good for them. They're pushing forward Once someone has clicked the malicious link the scam email will send them a fake website Which prompts the victim to enter their credentials. So then they they're going to want their credentials. Obviously, that's not good So if they do this these can use this information to file fraudulent returns by using the stolen credentials Other spear phishing emails may pose as potential new clients use malicious links or attachments That will download malware into the victim's computer to steal information So this is probably could be more sophisticated because you could have multiple emails That someone as in correspondence with you building trust with them as a client or potential client And then they send you the malicious Software and so on so if someone suspects an email is phishing attempt They shouldn't respond click any links in the email or open any attachments Tax pros can use these tips to help protect client data or is attacking the poor the poor tax professional it's just Somewhat where's the security summit that needs to come along and deal with these people just like the justice league would Anyways, sorry for the outburst Tax pros can use these tips to help protect client data use separate personal business email accounts Protect email accounts with strong passwords and two-factor Authentification install an anti phishing tool bar to help identify known phishing sites Use security software products with anti phishing tools Use security software to help protect system from malware and scam emails for viruses Never open or download attachments from unknown centers including potential clients We request additional information to help verify their identity or call them to confirm the email is from them So you might want to have actual verbal discussion with them We're giving them a little bit more verification Before you know that way send password protect protected and encrypted documents only Don't respond to suspicious or unknown emails if the phishing email is irs related Save the email as a file attach that file to to an email and send phishing irs.gov Will the phishing irs.gov solve your problem probably not but you're trying to report The fact that these people are doing it they can build up their database And so you're doing you're doing your part by doing that It's not going to help you probably individually, but you're doing what you're doing your part man That's what i'm talking about any case there's that email here There's a link to this some of this link stuff. I think there's a few links up top There weren't many links in this one But there was at least one link and they'll have there'll be a link to this in the description


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In Southeast Asia, most rice fields use up to 3 times more water than the amount needed and suffer 5-10% lower yields and reduced milling output and quality from an even maturing, all because most rice fields are not properly leveled. A well-leveled rice field is crucial before planting your crop. It leads to even crop growth and ripening, uniform water coverage, which means savings in irrigation water and fewer weed problems, all leading to a healthier crop, maximum yield, and even better grain quality. Traditionally, most farmers in Asia use draft animals and two-wheel tractors that drag harrows and leveling boards across the flooded fields to level their land. An ideal way of leveling rice fields is through laser leveling. Laser leveling for rice is slowly emerging in some Southeast Asian countries, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos PDR. With laser leveling, a laser transmitter placed at the side of the field sends a laser beam to a laser receiver, which is attached to a leveling bucket drawn by a tractor. The control panel or box mounted on the tractor interprets the signal from the receiver and opens or closes the hydraulic valve, which raises or lowers the bucket. The bucket then drags and drops soil across the field to make it even. The laser receiver signals the adjustments of the leveling bucket accordingly to ensure that the height distance between the soil and the laser signal stays the same, making the soil as leveled as possible. Laser leveling can be done in dry fields, thus saving valuable water for growing the crop. Farmers can do laser leveling during the dry season or when the crop has not grown yet. The International Rice Research Institute, with support from Trimble Company, introduced laser leveling for rice in Vietnam in 2003 by providing equipment and training to the Bac Lieu seed center and Nong Lam University. The Bac Lieu seed center has a network of farmers who grow seeds. For laser leveling of these areas, farmers pay 50% of the cost, while the government covers the remaining 50%. Since their fields were laser leveled, farmers from Yadai district of Bac Lieu have been enjoying many benefits. Mr. Dang Van Khan observed that households that got their fields laser leveled now have better livelihoods and are able to buy the things they need, such as pump equipment, TV sets and motorcycles. Such is the case of Mr. Pham An Lax family, whose lives have changed quite a bit from simply earning a few additional Vietnamese dong per hectare. Farmers in An Giang province are also now experiencing similar benefits of laser leveling. Nguyen Van Hans and Nguyen Thi Diep's field was the first field laser leveled in An Giang in 2006. It took only two days to level their 4-hectare field using laser leveling, while leveling 0.3 hectare using a buffalo used to take them 3-4 days. With a well-leveled field, they now use a drum seeder for direct seeding. Before it took them 30-person days to manually weed their unleveled 4-hectare field. Now that they use a drum seeder that plants seeds neatly in rows, weeding takes only four days using a row weeder. With their leveled land, fertilizer is spread evenly, resulting in less lodging. Golden applesnails, which used to hide in uneven spots, can no longer do so. They have reduced their fuel for pumping water from 20-30 liters of diesel to only 7 liters for all 4 hectares. They saved even more water from adopting alternate wetting and drying, which allows them to alternately flood their field at times and let it stay dry for a few days. Tran Van Dai, a farmer who is part of the one-must-do 5-reductions program in Anjong, is also reaping the rewards of a well-leveled field as he applies the best practices taught in the program. Nguyen Loiduc, a progressive farmer from Triton District, Anjong, borrowed the laser-leveling equipment from Nong Lam University, bought his own tractor and laser-leveled all of his 150-hectare rice field over the last three years. Seed production, he says, has higher value. Since then, his yield has increased by 0.7 ton per hectare and his income by 30%. In the future, he plans to build more mechanical flatbed dryers and seed-processing equipment. Dr. Van Nguyen, eerie post-harvest consultant, estimates that, in Vietnam, about 300 hectares of rice fields have been laser-leveled, with more than 200 hectares in the Mekong Delta. Now, with an urgent need to ease the labor shortage, by using agricultural machinery such as combined harvesters, laser-leveling is being reintroduced in neighboring Cambodia. In November 2011, the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium and the Eerie Asian Development Bank Post-Harvest Project organized a laser-leveling demonstration at the Don Bosco School in Batambang Province. Almost 100 extension workers, farmers and students attended the event. The goal is to increase rice production and the Royal Government has just put in place a new policy to improve rice production and also to export mill rice on our own. We have to have what we call appropriate farm management techniques that will range from land preparation to harvesting the crop. For the policy to be successfully implemented, farmers will have to come back to the technology like laser land-leveling, as it is one of the many options or solutions to achieve that goal. With combined efforts from national partners and a renewed vigor to promote the technology, farmers in Southeast Asia will benefit from laser-leveling and the many advantages it brings.


Hi Alice and Phyllis can you please say something that means sure we can hear you this is Alex. Can you hear me? We can feel it here. Great. Perfect. So yeah, please, please go ahead. Thank you. Hi everyone. Sorry for the slight delay and I'm so glad to have you in the room. We saw there are a few people in there and I hope you enjoy our presentation. I'm Alex and I'm a lead program strategist of the Wikimedia Foundation, and I'm coming to you from Uruguay where we are having thunderstorms in the middle of the night. And over to you Phyllis. Hello everybody. My name is Felix Mati and I am a senior program officer with the campaigns team and community growth at the Wikimedia Foundation. I am coming from, I'm coming to you from Singapore, so I'm right here in Singapore. And we're so glad to be able to share some lessons that we have from the organizer lab which was an experimental program we ran this last year. We're both on the campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation and we've been asking ourselves like what is the thing that is most useful for us to do beyond one on one advising and writing like documentation and supporting specific projects. And this last year we tried something which was a class. We called it the organizer lab. And we wanted to share with you some lessons from that. So I'm going to let Felix start a little bit with the background on the lab and then we'll talk a little bit more about the specifics and at the end, we'd like you to give us some feedback. I'm going to find my way into that late so that you can also leave stuff in the chat or you can talk in the room. Yeah, thank you very much, Alex. And thank you for everybody joining our session today. We're very excited, like Alex said, to share some of the early lessons from this project. Just to give you a little bit of a background and to add to what Alex said. Over the years, the campaigns team has been supporting movement organizers in organizing campaigns across the movement and we have been doing this on a one on one basis. It's been very difficult over the years. So we were thinking of an opportunity to scale and an opportunity to train people to move from being local organizers to global organizers that could organize campaigns within the movement and the organizer lab was the thing that came to mind. Now, I think somewhere around last year, around this time, you would have heard an announcement for the organizer lab. So we run the fair situation of the project. It was a beta vision, most likely an opportunity to experiment and to learn and we did that successfully from last year to mid of this year and we are here to share the results of what we've learned. Next slide, Alex. So why did we run the organizer lab. We were the time where we wanted to do very, we wanted to do more with little. The team had been doing, like I did serial training people and coaching people and providing documentation that help people run campaigns one on one. And we thought it was opportune as at the time when the movement strategy was also prioritizing the list of things to do and I think these were the two things that sort of like a spadas and motivated us to really think outside of box and to do something that would help the organization in the movement. So we based the organizer lab solely on this to prioritize areas which was investing skills and leadership development and identify topics for everyone. As you may have noticed over the years, topic for impact organizing has become a thing you would have heard of the gender organizing you would have heard of activities like the gender gap you would have also heard of activities like which is for human rights and these are all targeted at certain political areas that were of global concern. And so for us, it was very right that the movement strategy was moving in that direction and we pivoted on these two to actually create the organizer lab. Next slide. So the kinds of people that we were looking out for for the organizer lab where people that were local organizers people that had experienced in organizing some kind of event, who wanted to organize beyond just their local balance and wanted to do something beyond the shores of their countries. And so we looked out for medium experience organizers, and they were the main target for our first cohort. We did also bring in some newbie organizers who had had some level of experiencing and and also experiencing around organizing and also some level of understanding of how the Wikimedia ecosystem work based on like the editing background and also being in the movement for a while. So these are the mixture of people that we actually took in the course. The hopes was that we would be able to up skill this people to be able to organize campaigns that reached the masses within the Wikimedia movement. So we took these people in into a program that was 10 week and it was very intensive. It was I think it was week on week and now that was one of the things that we got from people that was very packed, right, but it was packed because there was a lot to share also with these people. And so we run a 10 week intensive course with them focused on climate and sustainability for the first situation. And there were five live sessions that happened in these live sessions were sessions that we actually brought subject matter experts to speak to the cohort participants to learn beyond just the content that we're reading but also have practical sense of what was being taught through the course and the documents that we're reading. We also had this organizer lab hinged on what we all know how to do best as Wikimedia which was peer to peer counseling and support. We pivoted the program format around this so that people will still have that similar experience within the organizer lab and so there was that peer to peer learning, paired with diet feedback. So people being able to give feedback to their own colleagues in the course and then we also being able to interact and give feedback on how they were doing in the course was very important and that's one of the formats that we adopted for this. In the first iteration of this we run this in only English. We did so because at the time this was what our capacity could take, but we have been thinking about opportunities to have skills and I think we'll talk more about this as we go forward so next slide. I think this Alex like Alex over to you. So as we've been observing throughout my campaign organizing experience there are a few particular sets of skills that organize when we did one on one mentoring with organizers to say run campaigns or do a partnership. We often had to work with it to kind of hone and refine and kind of teach in these one on one settings and we wanted to make this into something that anyone could learn from and really benefit from. And these three kind of broad areas of work are identifying topics to impact designing creative audience based events and campaigns and making the best use of what the community movement has to offer in order to run these activities I'll go into a little bit more detail with those things included but just think now and your experience as say organizers and local affiliates or communities. You often have the people who are very good at running local events and they're learning a lot of things they're learning how to edit they're learning how to teach editing they know how to run events. Right, but the folks who really kind of scale up and provide the meta organizing experience that the more experienced folks who tend to run big campaigns like the international wiki loves campaigns. They're often working across context and to do this, you have to have like a broader sense of what's possible within the movement and also exposure to the things you can work. And so we broke down these three skill areas into units that had particular skills on units one and two. So focus on learning what the wiki movement means by knowledge gaps and topics for impact so we have these wonderful research from the family wiki media foundation research team on how to describe knowledge gaps, based on all of the different attempts to do that over the years, but also we examine the movement strategy, what exactly it was in focus and unit two we dig deeper into specific knowledge frameworks around climate change sustainability and the cycle of the course. And the tools that we can use like pet scanning or wiki data query circuits that kind of stuff. The next big segment of the course was focused on identifying the right participants and making sure that they got the right kind of that by being creative responding to them. And you'll learn a little bit more from that when we share some some of the experiences from organizers and course. We focused on creativity because something we've been hearing and something we've been observing across grantees and partners in the movement is that like edit the phones are not enough. We need to meet our audiences with something else. And we find that the folks who do create a different activities are really thinking about who is their audience. And this is the audience need, and then unit five focus on what have people done before in the movement for audiences like this. And so we use these three units to really give people time and space to creatively reflect on like, who do I actually want to contribute to a community of projects. What does that look like, and how can I be creative and open for them to do this work. The last unit was basically focused on some right so the final assignment for the course is writing a rapid grant or something similar to a rapid brain. That requires you to do all of the other things you do for grant making and community movement. But we also talk about team building, finding the right measurement tools, and really being ready to to communicate your activity to the rest of the movement when you do communicate about it say apply for a grant or ask people to join you, they will understand what's involved. You might be asking, like, why did we start with climate and sustainability, what was this, why, why would you run a thing on this course. We're looking for a topic, a topic for impact that was global nature, and we've been seeing, especially global south communities were really responding to the with the first human rights campaign and I think the number of activities and events that have been happening throughout the last couple of years and in you'll see in the conferences on seconds on this and these topics. We wanted to focus on that. We knew it was a topic of a lot of complexity, people were not running very diverse events around it, and we didn't want to kind of intervene on the topic for impact that had to develop the community because we wanted it if we're going to do other topics for a long time, we want to make sure there is a just story process. And so, all of these things kind of made the chance to focus on climate sustainability possible. So I'll hand it over to Felix to talk a little bit more about the outcomes and and what what the course like the participant. So yeah, we've talked enough about like why we wanted to do this. I think it's very important to also share what actually happened out of this and I think for for us we were just testing out something and piloting to see the best impact that it could create. And to be honest with you, we were overwhelmed with the numbers that we got when the call for applications was opened. We had over 140 applicants apply for the course of which we accepted only 37 out of the 143 that applied. A majority of them were Nigerians. It is needful to say that our focus region for the first cohort was actually Sub-Saharan Africa. And we chose Sub-Saharan Africa because we could see the appetite and the readiness for organizers within the region that wanted to scale up to do beyond what they were currently doing in on the continent of Africa. So we targeted Sub-Saharan Africa and overwhelmingly we had a lot of applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa. But we did also have participation or applicants coming in from other regions like Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Asia as well as Latin America. 37 people were accepted, four dropped on the way because of several issues, personal issues. We had 21 graduate from the program and then four completed a majority of content from the program. These people, the four additional people that completed the majority of the content in the program did not graduate at the time that graduation was happening. But these were people that also completed a course after the math. And so, yeah, very excited to share these stats with you. For me, the most exciting thing about the Organizer Lab is the fact that after the program, some few applied for a grant which was also attached to the program and those that were selected for the grant or awarded the grant run programs within the group. And some run programs that people that are working for human rights, others run programs that were solely created from scratch in their communities. And from what we are seeing, six months after the course, Organizers who completed the course are running events that produce more edits than folks without the training. And we have reports that Organizers are using their skills for capacity building across regional and local activities. We also have seen Organizers actually adopt certain aspects of the course in training their own communities and training other people within the Wikimedia movement, which was something that we actually hope. So it's been great, a journey so far. It's also been a journey full of lessons and opportunities to actually revitalize whatever we are building here and to make sure that we're doing something good for the movement going forward. Next slide. Next slide please. So at this point, we're going to share a few testimonies or a few videos with you about some community folks that actually engage in the course of what participants of the program and how this is affecting all how they're using this within their local Wikipedia spaces. Alex, I'm going to hand over to you to introduce the videos. Cool. So our first video is a series of four short videos from Paula in Uruguay. And she was, so as you said, we had, we've had a new government, some certain Africa was likely to be the main part of our homework, but we made sure to include kind of fair balance representation across those other regions as well. And so Paula was one of our participants that was selected from the Latin group. And so here. Hi, everyone. My name is Paula. I'm the community engagement program manager of Wikimedia, the Uruguay. I applied for the organizer lab because climate change is one of the topics we work on and I had never let the organization of activities around that topic before. Hi, everyone. My name is Paula. I'm the Let me get some extra homework. Community engagement program manager. Things during the course. I learned strategies for selecting a topic within climate change, which has many edges. I learned how to do it within a framework that will give it consistency and validation. And I learned a way to think about what audience I want to reach and based based on that define what activities to carry out. This is the sample. Can you hear the video as a group to select a specific theme for the Wiki for Human Rights campaign in Uruguay. We chose to work on the right to clean water in the middle of the campaign due to a drought of more than three years and how it was managed more than half of the population of the country was left without access to drinking water. One of the lessons that the organizers lab left me with was being able to address the issue of climate change without feeling sadness or anxiety. I really like this experience because I was able to learn about what volunteers from other regions of the world are doing, particularly in Africa. And I feel like I was part of a community within the Wikimedia movement of a global community. And I got the feeling that the work we were doing was important, that it matters. So I'm really grateful with the organizers lab team, especially Euphemia, Alex and Felix, and I recommend it. So if you're interested in taking this course, this organizer lab, just do it. So bye. I hope you are having fun in Wikimedia. And I wanted to highlight to, as Paul talked about, she spent a lot of time thinking about the audience that they had in the context of Uruguay and especially in this moment where there's like a painful drought happening so much so that we didn't have fresh water in our pipes. And in this part of the world, she was able to kind of define and think and change her perspective on how Wikimedia could be part of that change. And part of it was building this really wonderful persona as a demonstration tool. She said I can share this as part of our learning materials. And so if you have a slide that you can see like one of the learning outcomes, one of the assignments is to better understand the audience that you're going to address a local environment topic. The next person to speak is Romeo and he'll tell you a little bit more about what he gave from the post. My name is Romeo and I am the team leader of the Wikimedia community user group in South Sudan. I think one of the newest countries in the world. And so I have been actively involved in promoting knowledge sharing and of course committing engagement through Wikimedia projects in my country in South Sudan, engaging different stakeholders, the academia, institutions, and of course, non-governmental and government institutions. Why did I apply for this course? So I applied for the organizer lab because I saw the immense potential of organizing content campaigns to be able to bridge knowledge gaps in my community. So I wanted to enhance also my skills and learn effective strategies to create impact campaigns that would attract new contributors, partners and of course, also supporters to the Wikimedia movement. So looking at Wikimedia community South Sudan being very new in the country. So I think I also wanted to be able to be able to attract different types of people. But of course, all these deserve skills. And this looked like a very viable opportunity for me to be able to share my skills and of course also learn really a lot from which I did. So which takes me to the next question, which is about like, what did I learn and how am I applying all that I learned in my community? So during the organizer lab, I gained valuable insights, more especially into designing successful campaigns, you know, focused on climate change and sustainability related topics. Now, I learned about, you know, campaign organizing best practices, you know, what you should do before getting into the campaign. And you know, how you also build connections with fellow organizers globally, we're able to connect with the different people. So of course, that art of being able to build partnerships and of course, also build connections was something really I learned a lot, which has helped me up to now. And also being able to develop project proposals, which of course is something that we are able to be tasked to do at the end. So just having that skill to be able to, you know, develop proposals that meaningful, you know, we had a lot of support to be able to do that. And with support from mentors, they were able to allow us and help us so much to be able to develop such kind of proposals. So I've been able to apply these learnings by successfully organizing the campaign that raised awareness about climate issues in South Sudan. And of course, encouraged also active participation from our community members. Now, we are facing a very huge situation in my country, especially as far as climate change is concerned. I think South Sudan has first one of probably the largest flood cases that we have seen though, of course, there are a lot of countries right now in Africa facing it. But we have got almost half of the country in the upper north of South Sudan that has really, really suffered a lot with immense numbers of people being displaced. And of course, so many people also as well being able to suffer issues around drought and hunger because of the floods. So this looked like really an opportunity for me to do that. And I organized the Wiki for Human Rights campaign, which went on very successfully and we can see the results being very amazingly. We got, I think, the first time we were able to get up to 72 articles that we worked on, which is a very huge rise before I got the skills that were, I think, a former article were around 16 or something in the campaign that we did before. But now a very huge rise, meaning some of the skills I learned from the organizer lab were able to add an effect on also the campaign that I did. What unique lesson did I learn and I would like to share with the audience? One unique lesson that I would like to share actually is the power of collaboration. So through the organizer lab, I realized that involving various stakeholders, which includes of course volunteers, local organizations and experts can significantly actually amplify the impact of a campaign. So collaborative efforts not only bring like diverse perspectives, but they also create a very strong sense of community ownership is something that I've vividly been able to see via the campaigns that I've done. Like right now, even though the Wiki for Human Rights were able to engage the academia were able to engage different people. But long ago, I used to just think that, you know, all Wikimedia programs can just end up by getting participants and probably implementing it and go. But by the organizer lab were able to learn the immense power of collaborations, which actually helped a lot for me to be able to do something. So what changes has this experience made to you as a volunteer? Me as a volunteer actually, in my Wikimedia journey, this experience has been very transformative for my volunteer Wikimedia journey. You know, it has not only like equipped me with practical skills to be able to organize effective campaigns, but also expanded my network of like-minded peers around the world right now.  I know so many people that actually I was able to know from this campaign, so I was able to network with a lot of people. So the knowledge I also gained and the connections I met have energized me personally to be able to take on more leadership roles within our Wikimedia community user group. And of course, also within Africa, I'm so excited that I was selected to be able to be among us, the people who will be organizing the Wikivibrants campaign this year. Amazing. So meaning the energy that I actually have right now to be able to take on a couple of roles really, really did something that I built up, like I said, an esteem, you know, a personal Wikimedia esteem. I can call it the Wikia esteem, you know, within this and I'm super excited that this is going to help improve my community, which it's already doing. And of course, we'll continue making a meaningful impact for my community and South Sudan via these skills. Otherwise, thank you so much. And last but not least, we have. Sorry, the videos were a little bit too big in the slides. Hi, everyone. I'm Bukola James. I'm a non-practicing librarian and a satisfied contents campaign organizer, as well as the community coordinator for Code for Africa Wikimedia and Residence Initiative. My involvement with Wikipedia span from being a satisfied trainer for the reading Wikipedia in the classroom to found in the Wikipedia for Global Scholars State University. And I also currently serve as an advisor to the Wikipedia plus education user group, as well as the regional licensing officer for Sub-Saharan Africa on the next connecting. I enrolled in the organizers lab to deepen my graphs on designing topics of impact and particularly those addressing climate change and sustainability gaps. I was further motivated by the program as it promises to help organizers like me connect with campaign runners globally and also providing the opportunity to assess a special fund to support impactful. Projects. My key takeaway will be that the lab taught me the intricacies of crafting campaigns addressing topics of impact like climate and sustainability issues. It also connected me with a global community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about organizing around these crucial topics. Now, apart from the network that it has created for me, it also provided me with mentorship, mentorship on learning on wiki and off wiki skills. And this led to the birth of the wiki climate campus on Nigeria 2023 projects, which is a collective project of different campaign organizers to engage Nigerian students in open climate movements and building sustainable wiki media fan club communities in Nigeria. But beyond techniques and strategies, a good lesson stood out and which is collaboration is power. So by partnering with other organizers and mentors from across the world, we amplified our collective impacts, which is a testament to the idea that together we shared objective. We can forge ahead in tackling the mammoth challenges of climate change and sustainability and other topics of impact. And on a personal note, the organizers lab has revolutionized my journey with wiki media beyond the technical skills. It introduced me to a global network of peers and mentors with the resources supports and funding opportunities provided. I feel empowered to take on bigger projects and initiative. The lab has positioned me to situate my projects within global and regional campaigns in 2023, making my contribution more aligned with product sustainability objective. Thank you. So, if you want to learn more about the projects that were funded from the course and some of the graduates, you can be happy. I have a post that's dating the slide back and I shared the slide back in the in the chat. And it's available online. No, no, make sure it's circulated initially as well. And Felix, did you want to comment a little bit more about the blog. Oh, yeah. So I mean, in this blog, we basically are talking about the cohort, the make of the cohort, what participants viewed as most useful from the core from their course, and also highlighting the grantees. And those that were selected to receive grants to run their programs. And so I'd suggest to you or encourage you to read this blog to learn more about their projects and to learn about the impact that this program created. Next slide. Yeah, I think this is you, Alex. Yeah, so we decided that the first cohort was pretty promising. And we still, we were still learning a lot about how we teach and share this content and so really run a second cohort of the course. This time it's going to have two different topics. It's not gender and climate, plus each other but gender or climate change or both. We know the movement's interest in the gender gap has always been a topic for impact focus. And we think that the lab can be applied to any topic for impact. So what we're going to be doing is we're going to be changing the course just a little bit, not too much. You saw the outline of the course earlier and I can go back to it if we want during the Q&A session. But we're going to be modifying the course so that the first couple of sections, the first three units can actually, so we're still going to teach it in a cohort of about 40 to 50 people. So we're going to accept more people in the course of the cycle. We, our idea is we want those chapters, those units to be self-taught content on the Wikilearn platform, something that someone can pick up and teach themselves. By adding the gender, we want to figure out how to teach other topics for impact besides climate. Climate's one that I happen to have developed some expertise on, so I kind of knew how to fit it into the content as we were developing it. But we really want to be able to allow different parts of the movement to highlight different topics for impact and be able to offer the keywords of the organizer lab or at least some parts of the material. And additionally, we're going to try pilot the translation functions on the Wikilearn platform and teach a dual language cohort together. So we're going to, yeah, so the, we're hoping to, or we're not hoping, we're planning on introducing a Spanish language track in addition to English. The choice for Spanish is both a combination of, we know that gender and climate are important topics in Latin America, and there's a growing community around it, but also all of our instructors this cycle speak Spanish to me being the least, the least strong presenter of Spanish but other two are fluid. And so we know we can support the learners in those, in that language. Yeah, so yay to adding one more topical area, gender, and also yay to adding a new language to the course. We're very excited to add gender as a topical area for the program also very much excited about adding Spanish. Our target is still going to be English and Spanish and also focus on SSA regions, but Spanish from Spain from, I would say just anybody who speaks Spanish is invited to apply for this course basically so yeah we're very excited as you can see. I'm smiling a lot because I'm very excited about this addition. So, so yeah, in this particular round, which we're about to launch, like Alex said, we were opening it up to have more people because we have the capacity to take in more people this year. And we are hoping that right after Wikimedia in the week of 23 to 25, we can actually open out a call for applications. And so please keep watching our meta pages for updates and we will be sending an email to that effect on Wikimedia for those who want to participate in the course and follow procedures in those announcements to sign up for the course. If for some reason you're unable to do something and you really want our feedback you could send an email to campaigns at Wikimedia.org, or you can ping me, and I will answer you directly. So I think this brings us to the end of our presentation in the next session like Alex did mention in the beginning, we'd like to workshop or have a workshop thingy thing with you. Basically just talking about some of these question areas that we put on here and hearing your point of view so we can make the second iteration even way better for you. Over to you Alex. I have a few broad questions. We'll be watching both the etherpad or we invite the facilitators in the room to pass around the mic. We want to hear from you. I'm going to be taking notes in the etherpad. But what kinds of topics for impact would you like to see training a focus on throughout the movement. If we do topic focus training for the lab is we think talking to people who are working on similar topics that you learn more than if people are working on very different ones. Do these skills sound interesting. Do you want them shared. If you had access to this content as kind of self content or something you could deploy in your community but you use it. But also just do you have any questions about the lab. Is there anything we can clarify. So I'm watching the chat on event. Yeah. But if the facilitator room could check if there's any questions of room to that would be great. Yeah, so any question for the speakers. Yeah, one question from the room already. Hi. Yes, Mike. Take us in here. I had to drop out of the organizer lab because of the mostly the time zone issue. The mandatory meetings are all at 5am in New Zealand times. Probably more inconvenient, especially for the ECAP region. Since most people live in the ECAP region, I'm hoping that there'll be a future iteration of this that's actually not in a European or American time zone for a change. Client change obviously is a pretty big issue here too. It's nice to see the move towards self talk content though that's going to help things a lot. Yeah, so this next cycle is still going to be an intensive like we did the last time and because we're still like refining into keeping the content. But as I said, the first three units will be moved to self talk content as a level on wiki learning where people can take it. And then our idea, our theory is that we will be able to offer more cycles of the organizer lab that are more kind of equitable and diverse and rotating around globe and around topics. In the future where we don't have to have someone like participating first for two, three months, which is a lot of time. Essentially, if you're a media volunteer, but rather you can take the self talk content and then join us for a month where we workshop and are creative on ideas. I know this has taken a while. Online writing online learning content is kind of it's complicated and making sure it's translatable and kind of flexible at an international level. This has been kind of interesting. We're learning a lot about how to do this. But yes, by the way, that we would offer it. Again, Spanish and English doesn't isn't as inclusive for that part. So I'm also acknowledging they haven't made that that effort yet. Does that answer the question. Yeah, moving to the next question from the room now. Hi there. My name is Izzy. I'm from the United States. Thank you so much for the presentation. I was wondering if you could clarify the level of experience or just the amount of time sort of on average the attendees for the last cycle were for their involvement in the movement before joining the organizer lab. Yeah, so we weren't targeting people. So there was a floor there was a minimum required amount of skill which is you run at least one community event, and you have at least, I can't remember how many at it so it was a certain number of edits. We use this floor to screen out people who hadn't yet experimented within the movement, like the kinds of things that we know other parts of movement can train on right like running your first is something that like other groups are very good at training like art and feminism, for instance. So we weren't focused on that. And then we, what we did is we kind of looked at the distribution of participants that could be in the course and we tried to make kind of an equitable balance focus with the most of the covert being in that medium experience range, which is they run more than one or three or something more often more than five events. And they, they've been around movement for several years, but we weren't targeting folks like you might who has many years of organizing, even though we did have a handful of people in the cohort who like that because we did want to see, like, who benefit the most. And Felix based on kind of what you've seen so far. I think that the medium experience people were the folks who seemed the most benefit from curriculum to right. Yeah, so we did see some new is actually like Romeo really upscale themselves but most of the people that benefited a lot with the medium experience editors, those that are done some local events and we're keenly interested in upscaling themselves to do something more global. Any other question from the room. No. I mean, also feel free to help us answer some of the questions that we have on here on the ETH. Or just feel free to speak in the room. Eight minutes left. So any other questions, comments? Any thoughts? If not, probably I can give it back to speakers if there is any wrap up. Okay, so I think when you're in a room like this and there's no comments is either you did well or it was terrible. It's almost been like for me so it could be that I was terrible. But yeah, if there isn't any more questions in the room. I like to say thank you for making the time to join the organizer lab. No, before we wrap up Alex, do you have any last words on anything that people should know for the second iteration V2. I might see a thing or two so just passing it to you now. Yeah, just that, you know, we were still testing this. And our goal is really to have something scalable and reusable and as we saw throughout through folks like Romeo and Pola and tochi and their their handful other folks who reported that they like reuse some of the teaching material for the course so the idea is we really want to open source kind of open access as much of this as possible for people to reuse. The only reason we haven't published as like shoes here in the venture course yet is that we're, we're learning how to to kind of refine my content and some of the things didn't work as well as we thought they would like one of the assignments just was not very good. The first time. And so, yep, that that's why we'll hopefully be publishing stuff in about six to eight months will you'll start seeing some of the self taught content. Yeah, to also wrap up, I'd like to say that some of the things that we presented especially the stats, as you would see was not very extensive. This is because we're still evaluating the first situation of the courts of the course that actually happened. So we will be given an extensive feedback in months to come. There would be a publication on Dave, explaining the impact of the course. And so we are very much excited and keenly looking forward to that. And we are encouraging you to ask questions. If you have feedback for us, reach us at campaigns. We can campaigns at Wikimedia.org. Please feel free to also apply for the cost cost to test if you are a staff of an affiliate. It could be an opportunity to see how we run this course. People from your communities to join us. We're very, very excited as you can. I am very excited actually to run this course again and I can't wait for us to open the calls for people to join. And so yeah, thank you all for joining us in the room. Very excited for some of the questions that came in, but also very much excited for the questions that will come. So please feel free to engage. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. So before we leave, there is one more comment from the room. Nice. Hello, everyone. My name is Alana. And I also work on campaigns and the foundation, but more from the software tooling side. So since this is wrapping up, I thought I just quickly plug. If anyone's free at lunchtime, we're going to have a meet up in room 310 to talk about the software side. So what's working for you. What is really not working for you that you would like improved. We really want to hear from all of you. So join us in 310 at 1315, if you would like to be part of that. Thank you. Yeah, and that reminds me and I thank you so much for speaking up in the room. So our team works closely with the learners team. We are the campaigns program team and they are the campaigns product team. A lot of the work they do was actually influenced by research that was done by Alex Stinson, my colleague right here, the organizers. Organize this research and also some sort of internal research that came up. This team is actually working closely with us to build tools that help organizers to do their work more effectively in the movement. I think last year they launched the event registration tool, which is a tool that is live that you can test for registration purposes in your events. I think currently we're using ad hoc ways people are registering for events on Google forms and event bright and stuff like that we want to have our own wiki kind of registration so that tool was built and I think it's live you can test it out and I think this time around they're looking at doing something more on event discovery so please join them please please do join them to listen to what they have for you and I will be there actually to help share more on what they're doing. I think it's amazing that the foundation is now beginning to develop a lot for the organizers and supporting the organizing movement. In the past it's been just some volunteer developers building tools to help organizers but this time around we have a whole team for that. Yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed that and we're going to have a reflection on the wiki for human rights campaign in about seven hours, six hours as well, which is the more programmatic side of this training. I'm not spreading the topics from back before doing. It's the one topic for any support. So if you join us later, we'll also be sharing them. So see you then.