[Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

[Lodewijk]

sounds like a great idea, allowing people to be involved in discussions when
they dont want to read this mailing list all the time. I also hope that this
will be an opportunity for board members and staff members to be involved in
discussion with the community, and test the water for some ideas (and vv).

Moderation would be very helpful, especially when the idea becomes a
success. I believe Cary and Casey might have nice lists of volunteers who
would be willing and able to pick that up.

Best,

Lodewijk

2011/1/25 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we
> introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was
> pretty successful and we discussed afterwards making such "community
> meetings" a regular event.
>
> I'd like to revive this idea :) I've made a proposal for having
> community meetings on the first Saturday of the month:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings
>
> Which would make the first upcoming meeting on February 5.
>
> I proposed 17:00UTC as a time, but please discuss good days/times on
> the talk page if you are interested in attending; we'll need to rotate
> times.
>
> I envision this as not really a Q&A session like the staff office
> hours, but rather as a chance for community members to get together
> and talk about important issues in a structured way. To that end,
> please add your proposed agenda items to the wiki. It would also be
> great to have some volunteers to take notes/moderate.
>
> Of course this is just an experiment -- but there seemed to be a lot
> of interest in having such meetings, so I'd like to try it out. Let me
> know what you think and if you'd be interested.
>
> best,
> Phoebe
>
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