On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Sarah Stierch <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sarah.stierch@gmail.com">sarah.stierch@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div id=":1by">I think that&#39;s a good idea. It&#39;s just deciding when...and topics? and what we seek to achieve in these &quot;meetings&quot;, unless that&#39;s not a necessity.....? The whole IRC meeting concept is rather new to me, so I&#39;m not sure how organized/micromanaged it needs to be. <br>


<br>n00b,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Sarah</font></div></blockquote></div><br>It doesn&#39;t need to be micro-managed, but it does help to have a moderator to kick off the meeting, say when to wrap things up,  keep track of questions, and try to make sure people don&#39;t get drowned in a wall of text (though some side conversation is inevitable and okay). If you want to talk about this further Sarah, myself or Philippe have both run WMF office hours in #wikimedia-office and would be happy to give you more of a primer. <br clear="all">

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