[Wikimedia-l] Office hours

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Rui Correia, 26/01/2013 14:36:
> I am a langugage person - speak a number of them, have a passion for
> linguistics, etymology and philology. I had understood that it was some
> kind of meeting, but was naturally curious as to why it should be called
> "office hours".
>
> Thanks for explaining, but it still leaves puzzled to call a meeting
> "office hours", when something less arcane would do - like "IRC-Chat",
> "Wiki-Chat", Wiki-Miti", "Wiki-gether" "Rendez-VouWiki", etc etc .....

I think the idea is/was that the "mysterious WMF office" opens for 
everyone to "visit" and chat, through IRC.

Nemo