Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind. On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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>
