[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours "The future of e-mail usage in Wikimedia projects" 2012-07-18 16:30 UTC

[Steven Walling]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excuse me. Just about a month ago, we had a discussion about spreading out
> the times during which office hours would be hosted. Instead of increased
> diversity in times, it seems ALL office hours are now being scheduled
> during a very narrow window of time from roughly 1530 UTC to 1800 UTC.
> Now, I don't have a problem with *some* office hours being scheduled then.
> But I can't remember the last time an office hour was scheduled outside of
> that narrow window.  So...if you wish to have diverse opinions, you need to
> engage people who aren't available during normal business hours throughout
> the Western world.  At this point, office hours have essentially become the
> same group of people meeting at about the same time to discuss whatever the
> topic of the day is. Now, maybe that's the objective here, and I'm
> misunderstanding.
>

I'm glad you brought this up Risker, but to be fair, Siebrand can't speak
for everyone scheduling office hours, since there is no one person who
coordinates them all -- each team is responsible for their own, and some
are not associated with the WMF.

Anyway, I'm willing to test out doing this at a different time that's not
during North American working hours. The editor engagement experiments team
is due for another office hours. How does 10:00 UTC next Monday sound?

Steven