Hi Sailesh, I accidentally tried to sign up for a 1:1 Thursday instead of August, sorry about that.
Please delete my request for tomorrow and I will enter a new one. I will have more info on Thursday at the discuss-space and/or Slack or something. Best regards, Jim On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 2:13 AM Sailesh Patnaik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Hope the month of July is going well! We have some updates for you. We’ve > been holding Office Hours for the past 11 months, and have engaged with > more than 40 Wikimedians during that time. We’ve enjoyed chatting about > topics ranging from the usefulness of Wikiversity to how best to support > students who edit on mobile phones. Though Office Hours have been > reasonably well attended, we’ve noticed that it may be more useful to > slightly restructure this time. From July, we’ll be hosting only one open > Office Hours event, while experimenting with a way to deep dive with > individuals who need more 1:1 consulting. > > While the monthly Office Hours event will remain the same, we are excited > to introduce Office Space. Our goal for Office Space is to provide 1:1 > consultation to Wikimedians involved in education activities. As a result > of Office Space, we hope individuals and groups interested in Wikimedia in > education will have better capacity to make their initiatives strong, > results oriented and scalable. > > Office Hours will be an open platform for The Wikimedia Foundation > Education Team to hear from the community, share what we’re doing and > answer questions in an open forum where we can learn from each other. The > platform provides an opportunity to share your work with others and learn > from them, get updates from activities happening around the movement and > look for opportunities to collaborate. > > Office Space will be a platform where you can schedule a 1:1 consultation > with one or more members of the education team. We’re setting aside 4.5 > hours of team time a month for ½ hour or 1 hour consultations. This will > help you get answers to specific questions, and tap into the various > expertise of the Wikimedia Foundation Education Team. We will start > hostingOffice Space events from the month of August. We will triage > incoming requests based on when they were received, and the nature of the > request. We hope that through this mechanism our support to the community > is fair and productive. > > From August, the Education Team will host one Office Hours and one Office > Space each month for the Wikimedians involved in education activities or > are interested in them. We will be announcing Office Hours events on > the Wikimedia > Space <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/tags/c/events/education> and will > update the Office Hours events and the minutes of meeting there. > > You can sign up for a 1:1 Office Space consultation for August! Just fill > out the form here: http://bit.ly/2xHwwOz > > Do you have queries related to this? Feel free to reach out to me via email > or start a discussion here : > https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/tags/c/other/education :) > > Best! > -- > *Sailesh Patnaik* > Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
