[teampractices] How deviantART organizes its work

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 01/10/2014 05:02 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
> One of the things that keeps us stuck in IRC land is that it's not just
> an internal company tool. It's also deeply embedded in the Wikimedia
> community, even among a segment of "non-technical" community members. We
> used to actually hold IRC office hours (you can look up the logs on
> Meta) as general community chats, though this is slowly dying out as a
> communication practice.

The growth team hasn't done one that recently (maybe we should!), but I 
wouldn't say it's dying out overall 
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours).

Matt Flaschen