[Foundation-l] India Program - Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) & Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

[Anirudh Bhati]

FYI.  IRC Office Hours with Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia
Foundation India Programs at 1530hrs UTC on
#wikimedia-office at freenode.

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Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:03 AM
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Hi Folks,

One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly
work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are
doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate
ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been
engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in
particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects.

We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program.
(For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging
system similar to a regular chat room.  It's very simple to use and
you can join in by clicking on the following link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.)  I have been
remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to
make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications.

a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly.  (I was wary of
doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't
know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss.  I have changed
my mind now - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a
single monthly session.)  I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st
and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) -
THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE.  Just for
March, we will do it on March 15th and March 29th (both at 9pm IST
which is GMT + 0530)
b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams
instead of general.  The reason I say this is that - as with many
community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or
participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them.
To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on
Outreach & Communications.  I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of
India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC
and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic
langauges or Outreach & Communications.

The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on
March 29th will be on Outreach & Communications.

Having said that, there is quite a bit of overlap on these topics - so
feel free to join both.  The more the merrier! Please do also invite
anyone who is interested to know more about India Program or - even
more importantly - interact with fellow Wikimedians interested in a
particular activity to join in.  (It's quite a lot of of fun {citation
required} - and i've heard a rumour {citation required} that there was
actually a romance that started on one of the IRCs...)

As always, the logs will be put up on meta for the benefit of those
who can't attend and for the record.

I'll send a reminder on the day of the session and one 30 minutes
before the session.

Thanks

hisham

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