Gentle reminder. Do join in. hisham
On Mar 11, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Hisham wrote: > cross-posting to reach pan-community; apologies if you received it from other > mailing lists already > > 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. _______________________________________________ Wikita-l mailing list Wikita-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikita-l
