Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Jaime/WMF checklist

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Important Foundation Accounts

When	What	Who starts it	Status
Day 1 or 2	Review the 'do it yourself' technical support office wiki page	You	Done
Day 1 or 2	Read the instructions for setting up and enhancing your GMail account (such as: logging in / out, sending a test email, adding your profile picture and increasing the timeout for undo send)	You	Done
Day 1 or 2	Access your Gmail calendar to view your scheduled meetings, subscribe to various calendars (your manager is a good one to start with, along with the Staff Calendar), setup your working hours / timezone and much more.	You	Done
Day 1 or 2	Turn on Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Google (required) and other accounts.	You	Done
Day 1 or 2	Set up your Slack account and join the #tech-department channel.	You	Done
1st week	Join the tech-all@ Google Group	You
1st week	Confirm that you can access the Technology Department Google Folder. (Access enabled by joining the tech-all@ Google Group.)	You

First days

First few days

When	What	Who starts it	Status
Day 1	Read our Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles (skim the Bylaws)	You	Done
Day 1 or 2 (or 3ish)	Write a brief intro about yourself for your manager to share on the #welcomeandtransitions slack channel	You	Done
Day 1 or 2 (or 3ish)	Add yourself to the contact list on office wiki. Bookmark this page.	You	Done
Day 1 or 2 (or 3ish)	Create a public user page	You	Done

First week

First week

When	What	Who starts it	Status
1st week	Read the Guide for New Hires for general but important information about the Foundation.	You
1st week	Read about Our Projects and what they do Snoop around on the Design Documents shared drive	You
1st week	Read about our various wiki's, the difference between personal and work wiki accounts, and community wikis that are of interest.	You
1st week	Add your dietary preferences, our Travel Team uses this information when planning catering and restaurant reservations for All-Hands and other events.	You
1st week	Setup your Betterworks account by emailing the Learning and Development team	You
1st week	Read about the Foundation's Distributed Toolkit for insights on workspaces, connectivity, collaboration, and community.	You
1st week	Read about our Wellness Program	You
1st week	Read the Foundation's Code of Conduct	You
1st week	Read up on Coupa; it is our expense reimbursement, procurement and contract management system.	You
1st week	Learn about taking time off by reading the staff handbook for non-US employees.	You
1st week	Familiarize yourself about the staff computer equipment policies	You