The English have been known to be "at home" for similar purposes.
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From: "Rui Correia" <[email protected]>
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours
That makes more sense - but to turn that into a noun (we are having "office
hours" on Tuesday", is stretching the borders of everything language.
What next? "we are having **Car Park** on Saturday" to denote the sort of
informal discussions that carry on after a meeting as peole head for their
cars? ;-)
Rui
On 26 January 2013 15:46, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't know if it's just an american school thing but I know the term
from
my professors (and before that some high school teachers) who had 'office
hours' which were set hours when they could be guaranteed to be in their
office without other meetings/commitments so that you could just drop by
without an appointment an chat.
James
James Alexander
Manager, Merchandise
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]
>wrote:
> Rui Correia, 26/01/2013 14:36:
>
> I am a langugage person - speak a number of them, have a passion for
>> linguistics, etymology and philology. I had understood that it was some
>> kind of meeting, but was naturally curious as to why it should be
>> called
>> "office hours".
>>
>> Thanks for explaining, but it still leaves puzzled to call a meeting
>> "office hours", when something less arcane would do - like "IRC-Chat",
>> "Wiki-Chat", Wiki-Miti", "Wiki-gether" "Rendez-VouWiki", etc etc .....
>>
>
> I think the idea is/was that the "mysterious WMF office" opens for
> everyone to "visit" and chat, through IRC.
>
> Nemo
>
>
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