[Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2013-11-25 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hi.

I just wanted to remind everyone that in a week we are again having office
hours for VisualEditor. The first will be held on Monday, 2 December, at
1900 UTC and the second on 3 December at 0100. (See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_hours for time conversion links.)

Logs will be posted on meta after each office hour completes. You'll find
them and logs for older office hours on the topic at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs

Thanks!

Maggie


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Senior Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-02 Thread Nathan
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:


 Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all
 been during business/school hours in the Americas - and in some cases for
 (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are
 all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions.  When so
 many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it
 really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the
 time, and risks becoming a walled garden.  Please consider a more diverse
 window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every
 office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one
 (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most
 active.

 Risker/Anne
 


That's a good point (that I think has been made and partially addressed in
the past), and I don't to detract from it at all, but let's also note the
difficulty of scheduling off-hours office hours for WMF staff members -
they participate during their own work day, which for US-based staff of
course means business hours in the Americas range.

~Nathan
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Snow

On 5/2/2012 10:25 AM, Nathan wrote:

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Riskerrisker...@gmail.com  wrote:

Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all
been during business/school hours in the Americas - and in some cases for
(western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are
all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions.  When so
many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it
really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the
time, and risks becoming a walled garden.  Please consider a more diverse
window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every
office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one
(out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most
active.

That's a good point (that I think has been made and partially addressed in
the past), and I don't to detract from it at all, but let's also note the
difficulty of scheduling off-hours office hours for WMF staff members -
they participate during their own work day, which for US-based staff of
course means business hours in the Americas range.
Also a good point. That being said, as I understand it the office staff 
are generally allowed a fairly flexible schedule, rather than being 
locked into specific hours like a 9-to-5 workday. So I'd consider it a 
generous gesture if some of them would occasionally use that flexibility 
to arrange for IRC office hours to take place in other time windows.


--Michael Snow

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-02 Thread Sue Gardner
On 2 May 2012 10:10, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:

 Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all
 been during business/school hours in the Americas - and in some cases for
 (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are
 all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions.  When so
 many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it
 really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the
 time, and risks becoming a walled garden.  Please consider a more diverse
 window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every
 office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one
 (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most
 active.

People can help by filling out this Doodle. If a
sufficiently-geographically-representative group fills this out, that
will help us standardize on a few times that (among them) would work
for a large majority. Please share the link on IRC or wherever if you
like, to encourage broad-enough participation :-)

http://doodle.com/hnivrcvz3t5sf2gf

Thanks,
Sue

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Morris
On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on 13 
March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in May. 
Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue soon? 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-01 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:

 On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on
 13 March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in
 May. Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue soon?


I've currently got a suggestion in for Sue to have an office hours on 5/11,
we're just in the midst of scheduling. :)

Steven
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