[General] Re: [Design] IRC office hours change proposal

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Priscilla Chung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for proposing this Katie. Two quick thoughts that I had:
> 
> 1. As you mentioned about proposing the discussion early on, who would 
> be responsible for conflicting schedules?  Not that this would happen 
> frequently, but there should also probably be someone who is tasked at 
> deciding who should go when, on which days? If there are conflicts that 
> is...

Pieter currently maintains the chat schedule:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ChatSchedule

He could continue to do this and be responsible for sorting out any 
conflicts.

> 2. Also in regards to Q.1, perhaps there should only be one topic on one 
> channel on the Wed. & Fri. Mainly if people have interest in two or 
> three topics, trying to follow several threads at the same time is 
> somewhat difficult (at least for me it is.). Or for those who like to 
> multi-task, maybe it's a good thing?

Agreed, we could limit ourselves to one scheduled conversation at a 
time, and assume that some people will want to participate in different 
projects' conversations.

> 3. Okay, a 3rd thought just came to mind. What about having a guest to 
> host an IRC discussion sometime? Unless that's happened before?

Yes, we've had "guest" hosts: Nick Bastin and Brian Kirsch led a 
discussion about wrapping ICU in Python.

I'll amend the proposal to say that any community member could propose 
to host a scheduled conversation if they wanted.

Cheers,
Katie


> 
> Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
>> I'd like to propose some changes to IRC office hours.
>>
>> The original plan was to hold an "office hours" in the #chandler 
>> channel once a week. We queued up a list of topics, rotating the host 
>> between groups. The goal was to get osaf staff to hang out in irc and 
>> talk to people who might join us on the project. Eventually we scaled 
>> back to bi-weekly topics.
>>
>> Now we hang out in irc all of the time and have several projects 
>> going. Even though we're frequently in irc, it can be useful to have 
>> some scheduled topics for irc sessions. I'd like to see us schedule 
>> these sessions in #chandler, #cosmo, #scooby, or #osaf based on the 
>> need or desire for a conversation, QA session, etc. It would work 
>> something like this...
>>
>> + We have two slots a week for planned IRC sessions, Wednesday and 
>> Friday at 1pm PST. (A couple of people mentioned that these might be 
>> better times than Wed at 11am PST.)
>>
>> + Anyone can propose a topic for a slot, preferably at least a few 
>> days ahead of time.
>>
>> + The person proposing the topic is responsible for being the 
>> facilitator/host of the session (or finding a facilitator).
>>
>> + The person proposing the topic is responsible for choosing the 
>> channel and broadcasting the notice.
>>
>> + We should use an #osaf channel (logged) as a space for cross-project 
>> discussions (not just scheduled sessions, but in general).
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> btw: Please respond to general at osafoundation.org. I wasn't sure that 
>> everyone was subscribed and spammed the other lists, but it would be 
>> good to move all discussions like this to general.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Katie
>>
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