Hi Anne,
That is so true! It's extremely hard to schedule office hours for everyone around the world! Sadly, this office hours might cut out folks in Australia, for example, and people who are out and about on a Friday evening in Europe.
We are hoping to do at least two a month at different times, with the goal of encompassing as many people as possible with both of those office hours.
We're also aiming to do a Google Hangout! once a month at a different time, which will allow those of us who don't use IRC (like me) to connect with the team, too.
Again, I wish it was possible to make an office hours to make everyone happy, sadly, I haven't found the way to do that yet :)
Sarah
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Sarah, you have forgotten the most important agenda item: what programs?
As seems to be traditional for the WMF anymore, the office hours are inappropriate for anyone in North America who works or goes to school during the day; that's not a gripe about this one in particular, but ALL of them ALL the time. I can't remember the last time I saw an office hours announcement that I could attend.
Risker/Anne
On 23 July 2013 15:05, Sarah Stierch sstierch@wikimedia.org wrote:
[pardon cross-posting]
Hi everyone, I'm delighted to announce:
The Program Evaluation & Design team[1] will be hosting our first office hours on IRC on July 26 at 16:00 UTC.
Event Details:
Date: July 26, 2013 (Friday) Time: 1600-1700 UTC, 9:00-10:00 AM PDT IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
- A chance for community members to learn about *why* program
evaluation & design is an important and powerful tool. 2. An opportunity for community members to understand why WMF is engaging in PE&D. 3. General Q&A about program evaluation & design 4. A chance to get virtually get to know the PE&D team (Sarah, Jaime and Frank)[2]
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Index [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/FAQ#Who_is_on_t...
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