Hi Gilles, Thanks for leading this! My reading of your agenda leads me to believe that this is intended as a "problem solving" meeting, as described in User:RobLa-WMF/Meetings#Taxonomy. To quote that article:
*Problem-solving* - Discuss a problem that we don’t know how to solve. > "Conversation for possibility" as described by 1999 article > <http://www.fastcompany.com/36861/you-have-start-meeting> > > - Successful outcome: an idea or a reasonably complete list of ideas > for how to solve the problem > > > - Successful outcome: consensus on the priority about the importance > of solving this problem (or consensus that it isn’t a problem after all) > > > - Non-goal: a decision for how to solve the problem > > Does that seem like an accurate characterization for what you have planned on Thursday? I recommend structuring the conversation (and figure out action items) to achieve your imagined goal. Rob On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Gilles Dubuc <gil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > As part of T113210 [1], which is a broader discussion on track for the > developer summit, I am hosting an IRC office hour [2] this Thursday at > 19:00 UTC. > > Since shared hosting is a broad topic, this session will focus > specifically on brainstorming ways to reconnect with the shared hosting > community. Shared hosting mediawiki users are currently underrepresented in > the greater mediawiki community. We rarely run into them in phabricator, on > gerrit or on the mailing lists. Which means that people often have to think > on their behalf about their use cases and issues, instead of getting direct > input. > > There must be practical ways to bring those thousands of mediawiki users > back into the fold, so to speak. Hopefully we can come up with interesting > ideas to achieve that. > > And if you happen to be a shared hosting user, by all means, please join > this IRC office hour :) > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113210 > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours > > _______________________________________________ > Engineering mailing list > engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
