[Foundation-l] Office Hours with Executive Director Sue Gardner, today 18:00 UTC

Wed Nov 10 16:34:24 UTC 2010

Hi everyone,

Today at 18:00 UTC will be IRC Office Hours with the Wikimedia 
Foundation's Executive Director, Sue Gardner. As usual it will take 
place in #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net. You can find links to 
time conversions and a guide to accessing IRC at 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

Reflecting on the past few chat sessions, we've noticed that the most 
productive (in terms of most questions answered, most participants etc.) 
have been the ones with a little bit of prep work on the topic. The 
recent fundraising session, Sue's on Pending Changes, and interviews 
with new Wikimedia staff have all been extremely helpful.

That's why we'd like to try something a little different for Sue's 
Office Hours today.

We're going to devote the first 30 minutes for a structured topic 
discussion. During that 30 minutes attendees can write their questions 
on the Meta page mentioned above, and simultaneously !vote on/discuss 
the proposed questions. The 3-6 top questions will be answered during 
the second half of the hour. This way we actually answer the questions 
that interest the attendees, rather than miss really valuable questions 
and discussion.

We hope you'll try this experiment with us. We're trying to find some 
balance between a free-flowing discussion and some structure that allows 
deeper conversation about topics important to Wikimedia.

Thanks,

-- 
Steven Walling
Wikimedia Foundation Fellow
(wikimediafoundation.org)