hi,
I hope some of the IRC-veterans can pitch in here.
Not everyone is comfortable with IRC. I think these sessions will be more helpful for all involved if we had a statement put up on a wiki or on the mailing list by individuals who want to make these statements and then have a round of questions around the topics (as an example: community and outreach) which were meant to be discussed at the meeting.
Then, perhaps throw the floor open for general questions that members of the community want to raise. I think this will make it interactive and not be percieved as a narrative or a one-sided discussion. These may not have been intentional and should have been raised earlier.
I hope the Office continues this practice and tries to improve its effectiveness as they move forward.
warm regards, User:Prad2609
On 15 March 2012 20:45, Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org wrote:
Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes.
Do join in! Details below.
*hisham*
On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote:
Gentle reminder. Do join in.
*hisham*
On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote:
Hi Folks
One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects.
We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link:* http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office*.) I have been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications.
a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now
- because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly
session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on *March 15th* and March 29th (both at *9pm IST* which is GMT + 0530) b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach & Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach & Communications.
The *March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages* and the one on March 29th will be on Outreach & Communications.
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