[General] Last call: IRC office hours change proposal

[Katie Capps Parlante]

So, the amended proposal:

+ Folks are welcome to propose topics for planned IRC conversations 
(anyone can propose a topic, not just OSAF staff)

+ Pieter will maintain the schedule of planned IRC conversations: 
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ChatSchedule. Pieter 
will be responsible for managing conflicts.

+ Planned conversations can happen in whatever channel is appropriate 
(cosmo, scooby, chandler, or as-yet-to-be-created-public-osaf-channel)

+ We will avoid having multiple scheduled conversations at one time

+ We will create a public osaf channel so that we can have conversations 
that apply across projects

+ The person proposing the topic is responsible for facilitating (or 
finding a facilitator)

+ Pieter and the person proposing the topic will work out the announcement

+ Any date/time can be chosen, although 11am PST Wed/Fri is preferred. 
Note that I changed this from 1pm after Andi pointed out that folks in 
Europe have some chance of making the morning office hours, and we do 
get some international interest.

Unless someone speaks up in the next 2 days, we'll go ahead with this plan.

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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