💡 In simple words: Before people really join WikiDeal, we plan a friendly online meeting called a webinar. We say hello, answer questions and make sure everyone understands the project. People who give money or want to help build WikiDeal would come to one of these meetings. People who only take the small monthly subscription do not have to.

🎯 In 20 seconds (expert summary): Proposed design for WikiDeal onboarding webinars, offered as a basis for discussion. A general welcome webinar for everyone comes first (needs diagnosis, first contact, building a relational link), followed by specialized sessions grouped in families: understanding the funding model, becoming an active content contributor (developer, lawyer, researcher, marketer, policy maker), project mandates, and open calls. Registration would use an email address and/or a WikiDeal username, with three automatic emails (immediate confirmation, reminder 24 hours before, reminder 1 hour before); the technical tool is being selected. Envisaged principle: the integration webinar takes place together with the donation, at the latest within three months, with one possible three month extension. Subscription-only users would be exempt. Sessions would be recorded where possible. For now, the link is obtained by writing to info@wikideal.net.

Integration Webinar

This page describes how the WikiDeal welcome and integration webinars are envisaged. Everything below is an initial hypothesis, offered as a working basis for discussion, not a final rule.

Purpose: a warm and simple welcome

The webinars are intended to be mainly introductory: we answer your questions and check together that you are well prepared for what you want to do on WikiDeal.

The main session is the general welcome webinar, which everyone would attend. Its goals:

a diagnosis of your needs (what you want to do, what you already know);
a first contact and mutual introduction;
getting to know the project and the people behind it;
building an emotional and relational link, so that WikiDeal is not an anonymous platform but a community of real people.

After this first step, a second step is envisaged: specialized webinars, chosen according to the needs identified.

Families of specialized webinars

The needs diagnosis could partly happen upstream, for example through a short form filled in before the welcome webinar. Based on it, participants would be directed to one or several families of specialized webinars:

Understanding the funding: how the WikiDeal funding model works, what a donation means and what supporters receive.
Becoming an active content contributor, by profile: developer, lawyer, researcher, marketer or policy maker.
Project mandates: for people who make a donation or take a subscription AND want to give a mandate to deploy a specific project.
Open calls: how to take part in the open calls.

Registration and reminders

The intended registration flow is simple:

Choose a date and time slot among the options offered. Both individual appointments and collective sessions are envisaged.
Register with your email address and/or your WikiDeal username.

Once registered, three automatic emails are planned:

an immediate confirmation when you register;
a reminder 24 hours before the webinar;
a reminder 1 hour before the webinar.

Each of these emails would confirm that the meeting takes place, with whom, and the proposed theme.

This is the intended way of working: the technical tool that will support registrations and reminders is currently being selected.

The three month principle

An important principle is being considered: the integration webinar takes place together with the donation, and at the latest within three months after placing funds. If it is genuinely difficult to find a date, a single extension of three more months could be granted.

The goal is not to filter people. It is to verify that everyone has properly understood what they are doing when they make a donation or become an actor of the project, and to give them a real person to talk to.

Who would be exempt

People who ONLY take a subscription would not have to attend a webinar.

However, anyone who wants to contribute to content, become an actor of the project or take part in its governance would first attend the introductory welcome webinar described above.

Recording

In line with the transparency orientation of the project, the webinars would be recorded whenever possible. This keeps a trace of the exchange, so that participants and the team can later find what was said and agreed.

How to join today

The registration flow described above is not yet in place. For now, to receive the link to the webinars, send a request to info@wikideal.net.

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