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Introduction
Be sure you have completed all instructions in Bootcamper Onboarding before starting on this document!
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Introduction
Welcome to WARG and congratulations on completing the bootcamp! The following guide provides a list of things to do to fully onboard you to the team once you have completed a subteam bootcamp. Completing these tasks are required for a variety of WARG activities including, but not limited to:
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This document guides you through the onboarding process at WARG. It should take you less than 30 minutes to complete (excluding several safety courses - those may take longer)! Completing these tasks will enable you to:
Use equipment in the WARG bay (the physical location in which we work) while adhering to SDC safety guidelines.
Accessing Access the engineering student machine shop, if desired.
Participating Participate in the subteam(s).
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subteam tasks and activities!
Please ensure you have completed Bootcamper Onboarding before starting on this document.
And, as always - please ping your subteam leads with any questions, we . We are here to help!
Readings
Required
⚖️ Our member expectations outlines what we expect from you, and what we seek to offer you: Expectations of Members
🌊 Read the policies found as subpages to Policies and Data Handling.
Optional
🛡️ Our team charter outlines the basis of how our team is run: Team Charter
📖 You can find some other fun information in History and Culture
Onboarding Tasks
LEARN Courses
Completion of some learn several safety courses is required to grant you some privilege's access to university resources which WARG relies on. The good news is, you only have to do them . You only need to do these courses once. Completion of these courses is tracked in our team roster to ensure we as a team are complying with University safety policies.
Instructions
How to go about finding these Learn courses courses:
Click Self-Registration at the top of the LEARN homepage.
Find the course code in the table.
Click on the link to the right of the course code.
Enroll in the course.
Privileges
WARG Bay
Entrance to the WARG bay is allowed upon completion of the following learn courses:
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Required LEARN courses that you MUST COMPLETE to become a design team member (SDC rules)
WARG expects you to self-enroll and complete these courses before working in the bay or filling out the Team Roster. |
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This is generally considered a recommended privilege for any WARG member due to Location Commitment especially if you are onsite!
ESMS E5 1101
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Optional LEARN courses include the “ESMS Safety Orientation” (Engineering Student Machine Shop). This is required for entrance to the ESMS in E5 1101
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ESMS Safety Orientation
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EMS E3
There are no courses required to use this resource as it is a professionally-run machine shop that accepts orders.
Courses
This is all of the Learn courses in which completion will be useful for any WARGian to complete:
WHMIS_2015 - WHMIS 2015 (SO2017)
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~30 minutes
Mechanical Member, we heavily recommend completing this course. (~ 2 hours)
A note about WHMIS_2015 - If you have the Workplace Hazardous Materials milestone on your transcript, you do not need to complete this course.
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(It is required
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for 1st year labs, so
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you
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Worker Health Safety Awareness - Worker Health & Safety Awareness in 4 Steps (Students) - SO3000
~10 minutes
four steps to complete
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Student Design Centre Safety Requirements - Student Design Centre Safety Requirements
~5 minutes
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ESMS Safety Orientation - Engineering Student Machine Shop Orientation
~2 hours
Administrative Tasks
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may have already done it).
Self-Enrolment Instructions
Click Self-Registration at the top of the LEARN homepage.
Find the course code in the table.
Click on the link to the right of the course code.
Enroll in the course.
Readings
Highly recommended readings are listed here. We’ve designed these readings to provide important information and context about the team!
Expectations of Members - explains what the team offers you, and what we expect from you! (1 min)
Other readings:
🛡️ Our team charter outlines the basis of how our team is run: Team Charter
📖 You can find some other fun information in History and Culture
🌊 Read the policies found as subpages to Policies and Data Handling.
Required Administrative Tasks
Team Roster
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Fill out the team roster: Team Roster Information You will be asked to do this at the start of every term as well to ensure our records are up to date. |
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There is no issue with filling it out multiple times a term so if you aren’t sure if you have feel free to fill it out again.
Multiple submissions per term will not cause problems. This form takes <1 minute on average and we are accepting speedrun submissions |
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Ensure all tasks from Bootcamper Onboarding are completed, including the bootcamp!
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does not work let a lead know. We will fix it. |
General Sites & Accounts
Discord
Add your subteam role, if you haven’t already.
Ask your subteam lead to remove the New Bootcamper
role.Subteam leads: Ensure member has the subteam role before removing.
Remove the relevant subteam bootcamper role.
Feel free to send a message in #introductions.
There's a pinned message you can follow as a template.
Add our WARG Google calendar for all meeting times.
A link can be found in #information.
All WARG meetings, including subteam meetings and work sessions, will be tracked there!
All tasks and WARG projects are discussed in subteam and project meetings so please attend them to get started on the team!
Please note that you are welcome to join ANY meeting on the Google calendar, including leads meetings, unless otherwise stated. We may want to keep some specific conversations private (with respect to Private Communications), but the vast majority of leads topics are completely public information.
Any meeting you miss will have meeting minutes here on Confluence to keep you up to speed: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/l/cp/QzEGA9ti .
Check out useful information found in #information.
Check out useful information in this “administration” confluence space.
All our team policies and guidelines are documented for all to see. It’s good to give them all a quick read!
Check out useful information in your subteam’s Confluence.
At the top of Confluence, click Spaces, and then your subteam’s name.
Account Tasks
Administrative accounts:
and <subteam> Bootcamper role after your subteam role is added.
Asana
Create an Asana account: https://app.asana.com/
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We recommend registering with your university provided email
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Confluence
Create a Confluence account: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence .
Click Sign In at the top right of the screen, then click Sign Up
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We recommending doing “sign in with Microsoft” to sign in with your university provided
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Microsoft account.
Request access to the WARG Asana and WARG Confluence in your corresponding subteam channel:
I would like to be added to the Asana and Confluence. Name: [name]. Email: [email used].Feel free to ping the leads of the subteam to ensure this gets completed!
Instructions for leads to help with this can be found here: Lead Onboarding .
Subteam
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GitHub for Autonomy, Electrical, EFS:
I would like to be added to the GitHub organization. My username is: [email used for GitHub]Feel free to ping the leads of the subteam to ensure this gets completed!
Altium 365 for Electrical:
I would like to be added to the WARG's Altium 365. My UWaterloo email is: [UW email]Feel free to ping the leads of the subteam to ensure this gets completed!
CAD file storage system for Mechanical:
I would like to be added to the WARG's CAD system. My UWaterloo email is: [UW email]Feel free to ping the leads of the subteam to ensure this gets completed!
Recommended Administrative Tasks
Feel free to send a message in #introductions. There's a pinned message you can follow as a template.
Add our WARG Google calendar for all meeting times - a link can be found in #info.
All WARG meetings, including subteam meetings and work sessions, will be tracked there!
Please note that you are welcome to join ANY meeting on the Google calendar, including leads meetings, unless otherwise stated. We may want to keep some specific conversations private (with respect to Private Communications), but the vast majority of leads topics are completely public information.
Any meeting you miss will have meeting minutes here on Confluence to keep you up to speed: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/l/cp/QzEGA9ti .
Check out useful information found in #info on Discord.
Check out useful information in this “administration” confluence space.
All our team policies and guidelines are documented for all to see. It’s good to give them all a quick read!
Check out useful information in your subteam’s Confluence
At the top of Confluence, click Spaces, and then your subteam’s name.
For leads
The team roster should provide callouts for these account tasks as well, but we still state here we still want new members to manually make these requests to ensure they get access even if all automation fails. Please seeTeam Roster Information for how the automated system works.
Subteam Specific Onboarding Packages
Some subteams have more specific information regarding onboarding that is not found in this document. These can be found as subpages to this general (non-subteam specific) onboarding package.
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If you’d like to do another bootcamp for a different subteam:
You are totally welcome to complete a bootcamp for any other subteam. Feel free to pickup the specific subteam bootcamper role to indicate you’re working on that subteam, but do NOT grab the New Bootcamper role again.
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