Hi folks,

If you are interested in multimedia, we invite you to join our community IRC chat today at 18:00 UTC (11:00am PDT), on this 'office hours' channel: #wikimedia-office .

Our new multimedia team is hosting this one-hour chat to discuss our plans and first feature ideas with community members from Wikipedia, Commons and other wiki projects. You can read more about our current plans here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

During this chat, we will ask you how we can improve your multimedia workflows, as well as discuss these new feature ideas:
• Media Viewer
• File Notifications
• File Feedback
* New Gallery Layout

To learn more about these projects, visit this feature ideas page -- where you are welcome to add comments:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Feature_ideas

Please RSVP here if you plan to join the chat, so we know how many people to expect:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Join_an_IRC_Chat_about_Multimedia_this_Thursday

Even if you can't join this IRC chat, we'd be grateful if you could spread the word in your community, so we can attract a good mix of Commonists and Wikipedians to help us plan our next steps for this important program. 

Thanks for your interest. We hope to speak with you soon!

All the best,


Fabrice and the Multimedia Team



P.S.: For more info on how to join this IRC chat, check this IRC office hours page: 

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours



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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
fflorin@wikimedia.org

Wikipedia Profile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)