Hi everyone,
Strategic Planning office hours are tonight, Wednesday, November 11, from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: 8-9pm PST, 11pm-12am EST.
We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC.
Hope to see you there!
=Eugene
I appreciate that the Wikipedia Office is based in the US, and that the staff there have time constraints. However, I feel it is a shame that meetings like this take place at hours which are unlikely to attract users from Europe (UTC to UTC+5) and Africa (UTC-1 to UTC+4).
Obviously, with timezones varying so greatly throughout the world we will never be able to satisfy everyone, and I realise that not all meetings are held at this time (and yes, I have missed the other recent meetings which were at a better time for me (UTC) here in Morocco), but I just wanted to highlight that 4am for people based in UK/Ireland/Western Africa, 5am in Western Europe, and 6am Central Europe is not conducive for our participation.
Have meetings been tried at 9am West Coast Pacific time (I presume so)? Whilst this may present other problems (people being at work), it might avoid the problems of people being fast asleep.
Just my musings on trying to encourage participation from a wider international base.
Александр Дмитрий Alexandr Dmitri
This message and any attachments (the "message") are intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you have received this message by mistake, please delete it and immediately inform me by replying to this email address. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except after formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. I can not therefore be held liable for the message if it is modified.
Ce message et toutes les pièces-jointes (ci-après le « message » ou « courrier email ») sont établis a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le détruire et de m'en avertir immédiatement en répondant à cette adresse email. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'intégrité de ce message, je décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message, dans l'hypothèse où il aurait été modifié.
2009/11/10 Eugene Eric Kim eekim@blueoxen.com
Hi everyone,
Strategic Planning office hours are tonight, Wednesday, November 11, from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: 8-9pm PST, 11pm-12am EST.
We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC.
Hope to see you there!
=Eugene
--
Eugene Eric Kim ................................ http://xri.net/=eekim Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http://www.blueoxen.com/ ======================================================================
foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Hi Alexandr: the strategic planning office hours alternate times every week; some weeks it's at 20:00UTC, and the next at 04:00 UTC.
I know it's not perfect, but hopefully it's a step in the right direction. The current schedule can always be found at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC
Philippe
On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Alexandr Romanov wrote:
I appreciate that the Wikipedia Office is based in the US, and that the staff there have time constraints. However, I feel it is a shame that meetings like this take place at hours which are unlikely to attract users from Europe (UTC to UTC+5) and Africa (UTC-1 to UTC+4).
Obviously, with timezones varying so greatly throughout the world we will never be able to satisfy everyone, and I realise that not all meetings are held at this time (and yes, I have missed the other recent meetings which were at a better time for me (UTC) here in Morocco), but I just wanted to highlight that 4am for people based in UK/Ireland/Western Africa, 5am in Western Europe, and 6am Central Europe is not conducive for our participation.
Have meetings been tried at 9am West Coast Pacific time (I presume so)? Whilst this may present other problems (people being at work), it might avoid the problems of people being fast asleep.
Just my musings on trying to encourage participation from a wider international base.
Александр Дмитрий Alexandr Dmitri
This message and any attachments (the "message") are intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you have received this message by mistake, please delete it and immediately inform me by replying to this email address. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except after formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. I can not therefore be held liable for the message if it is modified.
Ce message et toutes les pièces-jointes (ci-après le « message » ou « courrier email ») sont établis a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le détruire et de m'en avertir immédiatement en répondant à cette adresse email. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'intégrité de ce message, je décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message, dans l'hypothèse où il aurait été modifié.
2009/11/10 Eugene Eric Kim eekim@blueoxen.com
Hi everyone,
Strategic Planning office hours are tonight, Wednesday, November 11, from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: 8-9pm PST, 11pm-12am EST.
We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC.
Hope to see you there!
=Eugene
-- = ===================================================================== Eugene Eric Kim ................................ http://xri.net/ =eekim Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http:// www.blueoxen.com/ = =====================================================================
foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ foundation-l
foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation
philippe@wikimedia.org
mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454)
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org