[Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC general meeting today

[phoebe ayers]

Reminder: general meeting today in a couple hours (1800 UTC). Bring
your agenda items and topics for discussion with others, etc. (see
below for the original idea). Casual, moderated by Mono and myself.
freenode#wikimedia

best,
Phoebe

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all! We have not had an open IRC meeting in a while... but next
> Saturday, June 4 is the first Saturday in June, and it would be good
> to have a revival! I've suggested meeting at 18:00 UTC.
>
> Sign up, discuss topics and meeting times on Meta:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings#June_4.2C_2011
>
> best,
> Phoebe
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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>>
>



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