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

[Risker]

On 26 June 2012 07:47, Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrandecic at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> 2012/6/26 Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com>:
> > On 25 June 2012 13:56, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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, it's entirely possible that the WMF staff and those of other
> projects
> > using the "usual" timeslot have decided that their target audience is the
> > people who are available during that timeslot (I don't think Wikidata's
> > ever had an office hours outside of the same slot, for example).
>  However,
>
> Since we have been named explicitly: our three English office hours
> have so far been at 16:30 UTC (twice) and 12:00 UTC (once), so one out
> of three was outside that narrow band you mentioned.
>
> I have to admit that the next one was again scheduled for 16:30 UTC,
> but in order to respond to the critique we will move it to 22:00 UTC
> (which is, by the way, midnight for us. I hope that someone
> appreciates that effort).
>
> We will try to keep that in mind for further scheduling and to make it
> more diverse, and if we do not, anyone is free to remind us. We're not
> perfect :)
>
>
> Thanks for pointing it out,
> Cheers,
> Denny
>
> _
>

Denny - Thank you very much.  I for one will make every effort to attend.

Risker