That is an encouraging update - thank you. -greg aka varnent
On 8 Jul, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Excuse me. Just about a month ago, we had a discussion about spreading out >> the times during which office hours would be hosted. Instead of increased >> diversity in times, it seems ALL office hours are now being scheduled >> during a very narrow window of time from roughly 1530 UTC to 1800 UTC. >> Now, I don't have a problem with *some* office hours being scheduled then. >> But I can't remember the last time an office hour was scheduled outside of >> that narrow window. So...if you wish to have diverse opinions, you need to >> engage people who aren't available during normal business hours throughout >> the Western world. At this point, office hours have essentially become the >> same group of people meeting at about the same time to discuss whatever the >> topic of the day is. Now, maybe that's the objective here, and I'm >> misunderstanding. >> > > Just to follow up on this topic... > > Saturday we held the office hours for the editor engagement experiments > team. As Risker pointed out, we did get it a crowd that was slightly > different, mostly people who were from North American timezones likely to > be working or in school during other office hours. It felt like a success > to me. > > I think in the future it will be fruitful to hold some office hours outside > normal business hours West Coast time, though obviously not everyone will > want to work on the weekends all the time. ;-) > > Regards, > > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
