On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 June 2012 18:22, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazeland@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Date: 2012-07-18 Time: 16.30 UTC Venue: #wikimedia-office
You are invited to a Wikimedia Foundation IRC Offfice Hours in Wednesday July 18, 2012 at 16:30 UTC (time zone information: http://hexm.de/j6).
The Wikimedia Foundation features, product, design and legal teams want to discuss with the community how they see they use of e-mail in the future, as development of new features will increasingly make more use of e-mail as a way to contact and engage new, current and previously active users.
Please mark this date in your calendar if you wish to participate in the discussion. We will send a reminder a few days before the meeting.
Excuse me. Just about a month ago, we had a discussion about spreading out the times during which office hours would be hosted. Instead of increased diversity in times, it seems ALL office hours are now being scheduled during a very narrow window of time from roughly 1530 UTC to 1800 UTC. Now, I don't have a problem with *some* office hours being scheduled then. But I can't remember the last time an office hour was scheduled outside of that narrow window. So...if you wish to have diverse opinions, you need to engage people who aren't available during normal business hours throughout the Western world. At this point, office hours have essentially become the same group of people meeting at about the same time to discuss whatever the topic of the day is. Now, maybe that's the objective here, and I'm misunderstanding.
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Actually, that doesn't even really suit those of us who work during normal business hours in the Western world. So even though I live in the US, I'd call for staggered hours, to bring in a wider range of views from all areas of the Earth.