Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-17 Thread K. Peachey
Well randomly cancelling them out of thin air and sending reminders a hour or two before does tend to cause that. Amongst the other issues of course On 17 April 2014 14:34, Steve Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, We would have someone noting what happens on the hang out in IRC and

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-17 Thread Andrew Owens
One was notified twice over the week before and still attracted only two non-committee attendees. It ends up being pretty useless as a member engagement tool with that low a level of participation - it was conceived years ago as a trial that seems to not have been subject to the usual review

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Zhang
Hi John, We're going to do a public meeting on the first Sunday of May (the 4th) at 4pm AEDST but we're going to experiment with Google Hangouts on Air as well as IRC, as opposed to just IRC, and see if this improves engagement. Steve On 14 April 2014 16:57, John Mark Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-16 Thread Graham Pearce
Hi Steve, I assume you mean AEST, not AEDST ... Graham On 17/04/2014 8:09 AM, Steve Zhang wrote: Hi John, We're going to do a public meeting on the first Sunday of May (the 4th) at 4pm AEDST but we're going to experiment with Google Hangouts on Air as well as IRC, as opposed to just IRC,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Zhang
Yeah. Force of habit :) On 17 Apr 2014 10:34, Graham Pearce graha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve, I assume you mean AEST, not AEDST ... Graham On 17/04/2014 8:09 AM, Steve Zhang wrote: Hi John, We're going to do a public meeting on the first Sunday of May (the 4th) at 4pm AEDST but

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-16 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:09:34AM +1000, Steve Zhang wrote: Hi John, We're going to do a public meeting on the first Sunday of May (the 4th) at 4pm AEDST but we're going to experiment with Google Hangouts on Air as well as IRC, as opposed to just IRC, and see if this improves engagement.

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-16 Thread Steve Zhang
Hi Brian, We would have someone noting what happens on the hang out in IRC and vice versa. The WMF does the same for their monthly metrics meetings with a lot of success, it's worth a shot at least - recent public meetings have been essentially dead. On 17 Apr 2014 12:38, Brian Salter-Duke