Hey Hisham,
It would be awesome if you could, every wednesday, send out
a reminder about it :)
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
cross-posting to reach pan-community; apologies if you
received it from
other mailing lists already
Hi Folks,
One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work
out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so
that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a
wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific
village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities
(e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects.
We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For
those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system
similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join
in by clicking on the following link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.) I have been
remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make
amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications.
a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of
doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if
there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now
- because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly
session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays
of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH -
BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on March
15th and March 29th (both at 9pm IST which is GMT + 0530)
b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams
instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community
meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC
only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do
one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach & Communications. I'd start
both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight
(or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk
about either Indic langauges or Outreach & Communications.
The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on
March 29th will be on Outreach & Communications.
Having said that, there is quite a bit of overlap on these topics - so
feel free to join both. The more the merrier! Please do also invite anyone
who is interested to know more about India Program or - even more
importantly - interact with fellow Wikimedians interested in a particular
activity to join in. (It's quite a lot of of fun {citation required} - and
i've heard a rumour {citation required} that there was actually a romance
that started on one of the IRCs...)
As always, the logs will be put up on
meta<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/meetings> for
the benefit of those who can't attend and for the record.
I'll send a reminder on the day of the session and one 30 minutes before
the session.
Thanks
*hisham*
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