# Insiders call summary: Capacity building 💪🏾

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-capacity-building/49875>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [October 4, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-capacity-building/49875 "2024-10-04T14:00:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Aly\_Blenkin](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/aly_blenkin/32/19303_2.png) [@Aly\_Blenkin](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Aly_Blenkin)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-capacity-building/49875/1 "2024-10-04T14:00:05Z")

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[![](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/7/e/7ec96cef38703f1fd7740657cc480eb6257c95f4.jpeg "ODK Insiders Call - 2024-10-02") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYYsTfdFUIg)

**Summary**

- 🤩 **Lightning talk by @Yakub** sharing his training wisdom on pitfalls to avoid, strategies for effective learning, and how troubleshooting errors can enhance the learning process.

- 💬 **Group discussion** on capacity building, with participants sharing feedback for making ODK more user-friendly and self-service for new learners.

- 🧠 **4 training tips** from the ODK team.

- 🚀 **Product updates** for [Collect](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-collect-v2024-3-beta-offline-entities-counter-map-scale/49420), [Central](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2024-2-submission-deletes-via-api-and-s3-media-storage/49742), and [Web Forms](https://forum.getodk.org/t/web-forms-preview-xlsforms-in-odk-web-forms/49817/2).

- 🔥 **After hours** : a new thing we are trying to enable more open-ended discussions and to create space for Insiders to ask spicy questions!

**Resources**

- Yakub’s [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-q-MXV-HN3RHWypi25zxug) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yakubabdulmalik/)
- [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JDqIyOtCNV_ROkWzTVzv2Lwtm_fA_5h_R5eCnSNzwGU/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Roadmap](https://getodk.org/roadmap)

Want to join the upcoming [@Insiders](https://forum.getodk.org/groups/insiders) call on Nov 6th? [Learn how](https://forum.getodk.org/t/how-to-become-an-odk-insider/45134).

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**Author:** ![ahblake](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/ahblake/32/22392_2.png) [@ahblake](https://forum.getodk.org/u/ahblake)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-capacity-building/49875/2 "2024-10-04T22:24:01Z")

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Agh! I missed it. Need to setup a parallel calendar event that has a reminder.