[Foundation-l] open IRC meeting w/ Wikimedia Trustees: this Friday, 1800 UTC

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/9 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Michael Snow<wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> 2009/9/8 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Michael Snow<wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> The announcement makes it clear this is intended for the new board
>>> members introduce themselves to the community and have a chat with
>>> them, there is no real need for the rest of the board to have been
>>> involved in the planning. I don't see why you thought it was an actual
>>> board meeting.
>>>
>> Perhaps the jargon of agendas and meetings and minutes added to the
>> confusion. A different framework that might be more fitting is to think
>> of it like the "office hours" that the strategic planning team is
>
> Yes, precisely.  I always find 'office hours' a bit confusing in the
> same sense, when not used by a professor : whose office is it?  and
> that feels less collaborative and more query-response than an open
> meeting.  The reason for asking for community moderators and
> note-takers is to emphasize that this is an open meeting, with the
> agenda defined by the participants.  Please feel welcome to change the
> language on the Wikimedia meetings page.

How about "Open-door session"?