Hello all! Next Thursday's office hours will feature Frank Schulenberg, the Wikimedia Foundation's Head of Public Outreach. If you don't know Frank you can learn all about him at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frank_Schulenburg>. Office hours on Friday are from 2330 to 0030 UTC (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksgAgwACgkQyQg4JSymDYkreACgzoSw3Y3K+qM+rgU6c0/+flJG 3ggAoOUVXpd3/f5runSOeNXVWopEDU73 =67cZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Cary Bass &lt;cary(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: Mike Godwin's excellent and should have his own TV show. And I really value the Office Hours idea, it's a great way for the community to interact with the WMF. I'd just like to make the point though, hoping not to come across as too critical, that Mike will have done office hours duty three times recently after today. It would be great if someone else can be persuaded to have a go for next time. I certainly have a few things I would like to ask which Mike would not be best placed to answer.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Dalton &lt;thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Oh, it's a shame if the staff don't feel there's much interest. The ones I've attended don't get many folk in terms of numbers but there always seems to be enough questions to keep an interesting discussion going for an hour. I'd like Tim Starling to do one; I have some questions about the impact of the Strategy process on Mediawiki.

Hi, It could also be a idea to ask Danese Cooper to come by on IRC for a hour. But I would like it when Tim Starling would come by also... Yes he is always on IRC but almost always busy :)

Thomas Dalton schreef: 02/25/10 08:34:00 Meeting the community is also a way to settle in. -- Huib Laurens Http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/user:Abigor _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Hey everyone! On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read about at <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin>

On 10 June 2010 01:13, Cary Bass &lt;cary(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: As interesting as Mike is, this will be the fourth time (judging by http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours, which I'm assuming is up-to-date) that we've heard from him. Could we hear from some other staff members soon? It seems Erik hasn't answered questions once. Frank, who I know is doing a lot of fantastic and little-known work, has only appeared once. Sue has only appeared once, and that was nearly a year ago. I think Danese has now been in her job long enough for it not to be /too/ unfair to inflict us on her. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Hi, It would be great to have one from the technical staff also...

(Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday. The date has been moved up to Thursday. The time remains the same.) On Thursday, July 22, the Wikimedia Office Hour will be hosted by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. The Office Hour is from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PDT). If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on.