Office hours with Gayle Young, the WMF Chief Talent and Culture Officer, will begin in about 90 minutes in #wikimedia-office on the freeness IRC network. Logs will be posted at the conclusion.
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----------------------------------- Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
philippe@wikimedia.org
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On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on 13 March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in May. Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue soon?
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on 13 March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in May. Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue soon?
I've currently got a suggestion in for Sue to have an office hours on 5/11, we're just in the midst of scheduling. :)
Steven
On 1 May 2012 15:32, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on 13 March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in May. Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue
soon?
I've currently got a suggestion in for Sue to have an office hours on 5/11, we're just in the midst of scheduling. :)
Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions. When so many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the time, and risks becoming a walled garden. Please consider a more diverse window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most active.
Risker/Anne
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions. When so many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the time, and risks becoming a walled garden. Please consider a more diverse window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most active.
Risker/Anne ________________________
That's a good point (that I think has been made and partially addressed in the past), and I don't to detract from it at all, but let's also note the difficulty of scheduling off-hours "office hours" for WMF staff members - they participate during their own work day, which for US-based staff of course means business hours in the Americas range.
~Nathan
On 5/2/2012 10:25 AM, Nathan wrote:
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Riskerrisker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions. When so many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the time, and risks becoming a walled garden. Please consider a more diverse window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most active.
That's a good point (that I think has been made and partially addressed in the past), and I don't to detract from it at all, but let's also note the difficulty of scheduling off-hours "office hours" for WMF staff members - they participate during their own work day, which for US-based staff of course means business hours in the Americas range.
Also a good point. That being said, as I understand it the office staff are generally allowed a fairly flexible schedule, rather than being locked into specific hours like a 9-to-5 workday. So I'd consider it a generous gesture if some of them would occasionally use that flexibility to arrange for IRC office hours to take place in other time windows.
--Michael Snow
On 2 May 2012 10:10, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions. When so many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the time, and risks becoming a walled garden. Please consider a more diverse window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most active.
People can help by filling out this Doodle. If a sufficiently-geographically-representative group fills this out, that will help us standardize on a few times that (among them) would work for a large majority. Please share the link on IRC or wherever if you like, to encourage broad-enough participation :-)
http://doodle.com/hnivrcvz3t5sf2gf
Thanks, Sue
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