[General] IRC office hours change proposal

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Philippe Bossut wrote:
> +1 on the plan/idea in general.
> 
> We may also add a sort of  general "owner" per list, someone who'd ping 
> the relevant mailing list to call for subjects twice a week, remind 
> people the IRC hour exist and advertize the subject if there's one. All 
> of this just to make sure these irc hours are adequately bootstrapped at 
> the beginning and don't just simply fade away with time.

Well, the proposal is based on the idea that we should have scheduled 
irc conversations only if we need them. If they fade away over time, 
that might suggest that we don't need them. :) As Ted has pointed out, 
other projects don't typically do "irc office hours".

That said, I know that Aparna and the team have found them useful for 
group testing related activities, so I suspect we will continue to have 
those regularly.

Instead of an owner per list, perhaps Pieter can continue to act as the 
keeper of the schedule: 
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ChatSchedule.

Cheers,
Katie