On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM,
Risker<risker.wp(a)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