"Conversation for possibility" as described by 1999 article <http://www.fastcompany.com/36861/you-have-start-meeting> - Successful outcome: an idea or a reasonably complete list of ideas for how to solve the problem - Successful outcome: consensus on the priority about the importance of solving this problem (or consensus that it isn’t a problem after all) - Non-goal: a decision for how to solve the problem

As part of T113210 [1], which is a broader discussion on track for the developer summit, I am hosting an IRC office hour [2] this Thursday at 19:00 UTC. Since shared hosting is a broad topic, this session will focus specifically on brainstorming ways to reconnect with the shared hosting community. Shared hosting mediawiki users are currently underrepresented in the greater mediawiki community. We rarely run into them in phabricator, on gerrit or on the mailing lists. Which means that people often have to think on their behalf about their use cases and issues, instead of getting direct input. There must be practical ways to bring those thousands of mediawiki users back into the fold, so to speak. Hopefully we can come up with interesting ideas to achieve that. And if you happen to be a shared hosting user, by all means, please join this IRC office hour :) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113210 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours _______________________________________________ Engineering mailing list Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering