[Foundation-l] strategic planning office hours today

[Philippe Beaudette]

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
>
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> 2009/11/10 Eugene Eric Kim <eekim at 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
>>
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