Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hi, Rui. Nothing to pardon. I'd have been asking that question myself not too awfully long ago. :) Occasionally, staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation or other groups, such as chapters, go on IRC to chat with members of the communities that work on Wikipedia and the other projects we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread Rui Correia
Thanks Maggie 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread James Alexander
I don't know if it's just an american school thing but I know the term from my professors (and before that some high school teachers) who had 'office hours' which were set hours when they could be guaranteed to be in their office without other meetings/commitments so that you could just drop by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread Sage Ross
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote: 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 just took a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread Rui Correia
That makes more sense - but to turn that into a noun (we are having office hours on Tuesday, is stretching the borders of everything language. What next? we are having **Car Park** on Saturday to denote the sort of informal discussions that carry on after a meeting as peole head for their cars?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Jan 26, 2013 1:55 PM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote: That makes more sense - but to turn that into a noun (we are having office hours on Tuesday, is stretching the borders of everything language. It makes perfect sense to me. It's a particular period of time that is spent in an

[Wikimedia-l] Job offer: Secretary-General for Chapters Association

2013-01-26 Thread Markus Glaser
Dear all, after a long period of discussions and clarifications, we are now finally starting our search for a Secretary-General to serve the Chapters Association. Please distribute to following text to as many of your contacts, mailing-lists and networks as possible. Thank you very much,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread Peter Southwood
The English have been known to be at home for similar purposes. - Original Message - From: Rui Correia correia@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours That makes more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: IRC Office Hours

2013-01-26 Thread Bence Damokos
As a reminder, this is still scheduled for next Monday at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. Best regards, Bence On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Gayle Karen Young gyo...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hello! I'll be doing an open office hours on IRC at #wikimedia-office on January