Hi Alexandr: the strategic planning office hours alternate times every week; some weeks it's at 20:00UTC, and the next at 04:00 UTC.
I know it's not perfect, but hopefully it's a step in the right direction. The current schedule can always be found at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC Philippe On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Alexandr Romanov wrote: > I appreciate that the Wikipedia Office is based in the US, and that > the > staff there have time constraints. However, I feel it is a shame that > meetings like this take place at hours which are unlikely to attract > users > from Europe (UTC to UTC+5) and Africa (UTC-1 to UTC+4). > > Obviously, with timezones varying so greatly throughout the world we > will > never be able to satisfy everyone, and I realise that not all > meetings are > held at this time (and yes, I have missed the other recent meetings > which > were at a better time for me (UTC) here in Morocco), but I just > wanted to > highlight that 4am for people based in UK/Ireland/Western Africa, > 5am in > Western Europe, and 6am Central Europe is not conducive for our > participation. > > Have meetings been tried at 9am West Coast Pacific time (I presume > so)? > Whilst this may present other problems (people being at work), it > might > avoid the problems of people being fast asleep. > > Just my musings on trying to encourage participation from a wider > international base. > > Александр Дмитрий > Alexandr Dmitri > > This message and any attachments (the "message") are intended solely > for the > addressees and is confidential. If you have received this message by > mistake, please delete it and immediately inform me by replying to > this > email address. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any > dissemination or > disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except after formal > approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this > message. I > can not therefore be held liable for the message if it is modified. > > Ce message et toutes les pièces-jointes (ci-après le « message » > ou « > courrier email ») sont établis a l'intention exclusive de ses > destinataires > et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci > de le > détruire et de m'en avertir immédiatement en répondant à cette > adresse > email. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa > destination, toute > diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, > sauf > autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer > l'intégrité de > ce message, je décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message, > dans > l'hypothèse où il aurait été modifié. > > 2009/11/10 Eugene Eric Kim <[email protected]> > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Strategic Planning office hours are tonight, Wednesday, November 11, >> from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: 8-9pm PST, 11pm-12am EST. >> >> We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can >> access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling >> in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be >> prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another >> option is http://chat.wikizine.org. >> >> For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on >> IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC. >> >> Hope to see you there! >> >> =Eugene >> >> -- >> = >> ===================================================================== >> Eugene Eric Kim ................................ http://xri.net/ >> =eekim >> Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http:// >> www.blueoxen.com/ >> = >> ===================================================================== >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ >> foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
