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pbeaudette at wikimedia

Aug 17, 2009, 2:32 PM

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Strategic Planning Office Hours

Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at
Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT.

We're going to try having this conversation in #wikimedia-strategy
instead of taking over #wikimedia.

Hope to see you there!





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Aug 17, 2009, 2:40 PM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

Correction - this will be at #wikimedia-strategicplan



On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

> Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at
> Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT.
>
> We're going to try having this conversation in #wikimedia-strategy
> instead of taking over #wikimedia.
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
>
>
>
>
> ____________________
> Philippe Beaudette
> Facilitator, Strategic Planning
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> pbeaudette [at] wikimedia
>
>
> Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
> the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
>

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Aug 17, 2009, 11:03 PM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

I joined for part of the time last week and thought it was a great
discussion, so I definitely encourage people to get involved. I likely
won't be able to on this occasion, but if you're on IRC or can arrange
to be there during that time, it would be great to hear people's
thoughts on what the important strategic questions are. And maybe we
won't drown out all other conversation this time.

Also, the strategic planning process is the major item on the board's
agenda for its meeting in Buenos Aires. So ideas that are shared now
will be part of the input that shapes our discussion, although obviously
this won't be the last chance to participate in the process overall.

--Michael Snow

Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Correction - this will be at #wikimedia-strategicplan
>
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
>
>
>> Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at
>> Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT.
>>
>> We're going to try having this conversation in #wikimedia-strategy
>> instead of taking over #wikimedia.
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ____________________
>> Philippe Beaudette
>> Facilitator, Strategic Planning
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> pbeaudette [at] wikimedia
>>
>>
>> Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
>> the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>>
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
>>
>>
>
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pbeaudette at wikimedia

Sep 28, 2009, 8:59 AM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

> IRC office hours for the strategy project are upon us again.... Our
> next office hours will be: 20:00-21:00 UTC, Tuesday 29 September.
> Local timezones can be checked at http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=29&year=2009&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
>
> Office hours are on IRC (#wikimedia-strategy at freenode)
>
>
> You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
> filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
> may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
> Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
>

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pbeaudette at wikimedia

Jun 1, 2010, 11:34 AM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

Yes, you're quite right and my apologies.

June 1.

Today.

in an hour and a half or so. :)
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On Jun 1, 2010, at 6:15 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:

> Dear Philippe, it is June 1st, isn't it?
> Ziko
>
> 2010/6/1 Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette [at] wikimedia>:
>>
>> Hi Everyone -
>>
>> Our next strategic planning office hours will be: 20:00-21:00 UTC,
>> Tuesday, 1 May. Local timezones can be checked athttp://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=6&day=1&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
>>
>> As always, you can access the chat by going to
>> https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the
>> channel
>> name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
>> security warning. It's fine. More details at:
>>
>> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
>>
>> Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.
>>
>>
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>> Facilitator, Strategy Project
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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eekim at blueoxen

Jun 1, 2010, 3:39 PM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:16 PM, geni <geniice [at] gmail> wrote:
> Or not.
>
> Okey so it happened that the thing was taking place at a time
> reasonable for my timezone. So I check
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/IRC_Agendas
>
> So there hasn't been an agenda in months. Fair enough agendas can be a
> pain. Hey how hard can it be to wing it?

You're confusing the agendas of a Task Force to the office hours of
the strategy process as a whole. As stated at:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours

the goals of these office hours are to answer questions and engage in
discussion. These are not formal meetings, but a designated period
where Philippe and I make ourselves available to interact with people
in real-time. We keep the agenda open, but at the same time, we also
do our best to keep the discussion relevant. And, as with the strategy
process as a whole, we've worked hard to maintain an environment of
constructive, positive discourse.

> Personally I think it's a bad idea to sacrifice screen real estate on
> order to solve the odd TR:DR problem. So I make this clear. I'm told
> that this is related to having a deadline. I start to make the case
> that perhaps things are getting a little too meta. I also make the
> case that a tool that is based around removing context and nuance form
> posts is a bad idea. I start to make the case that if there is a
> deadline to meet it is better to work out how to do it using
> technology we already know well (remember no one was considering
> adding reflect to say en.pedia) rather than trying to introduce new
> technology and hope it will allow us to do things faster to the extent
> it makes up for the time lost deploying it and learning how to use it.
> But at that point I was kinda banned.

The decision to kick geniice off the channel was mine. You can read
the log to see how the discussion evolved and my explanation for why I
made this decision:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/2010-06-01

I don't think foundation-l is the appropriate place to discuss these
specific grievances, and I'm happy to continue this discussion on
strategy wiki's Village Pump. That said, I think we have a strong
record for openness and tolerance of all views, as long as the
discussion has remained polite and constructive, and I'm happy to
address any general questions about this here.

=Eugene

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geniice at gmail

Jun 1, 2010, 4:20 PM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

On 1 June 2010 23:39, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim [at] blueoxen> wrote:
> pain. Hey how hard can it be to wing it?
>
> You're confusing the agendas of a Task Force to the office hours of
> the strategy process as a whole. As stated at:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours
>
> the goals of these office hours are to answer questions and engage in
> discussion. These are not formal meetings, but a designated period
> where Philippe and I make ourselves available to interact with people
> in real-time. We keep the agenda open, but at the same time, we also
> do our best to keep the discussion relevant. And, as with the strategy
> process as a whole, we've worked hard to maintain an environment of
> constructive, positive discourse.

Removing the ability to raise problems with a suggestion is a great
way to render discourse pointless. It in effect makes a virtue of
[[en:not even wrong]].


> The decision to kick geniice off the channel was mine. You can read
> the log to see how the discussion evolved and my explanation for why I
> made this decision:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/2010-06-01
>
> I don't think foundation-l is the appropriate place to discuss these
> specific grievances, and I'm happy to continue this discussion on
> strategy wiki's Village Pump. That said, I think we have a strong
> record for openness and tolerance of all views, as long as the
> discussion has remained polite and constructive, and I'm happy to
> address any general questions about this here.

You have demonstrated a preparedness to shut down lines of debate you
don't like. This being the case there is no rational reason why I
would chose to raise issues with your actions in places where you were
able to continue to take such actions.

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keegan.wiki at gmail

Jun 1, 2010, 4:57 PM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

There hasn't been an agenda because there haven't been meetings, geni.
There haven't been meetings because after five months of biweekly meetings
that process ran its course of what we needed for discourse. I've
communicated with you many times, geni over several mediums. I'm
facilitating that task force, so please address me with concerns as well.

On Jun 1, 2010 6:20 PM, "geni" <geniice [at] gmail> wrote:

On 1 June 2010 23:39, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim [at] blueoxen> wrote: > pain.
Hey how hard can it be to ...
Removing the ability to raise problems with a suggestion is a great
way to render discourse pointless. It in effect makes a virtue of
[[en:not even wrong]].

> The decision to kick geniice off the channel was mine. You can read > the
log to see how the dis...
You have demonstrated a preparedness to shut down lines of debate you
don't like. This being the case there is no rational reason why I
would chose to raise issues with your actions in places where you were
able to continue to take such actions.

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lodewijk at effeietsanders

Jun 2, 2010, 6:43 AM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

Hi Eugene,

thanks for the explanation, I think the whole banning was quite justified.
But besides that, as I also asked in an earlier email, I can understand
geniice's feeling that it is unclear what the topics are (which can be
solved by an agenda as he suggests or a description of what tend to be the
topics nowadays as I asked). Could you perhaps make it more insightful?

Thanks,

Lodewijk

2010/6/2 Eugene Eric Kim <eekim [at] blueoxen>

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:16 PM, geni <geniice [at] gmail> wrote:
> > Or not.
> >
> > Okey so it happened that the thing was taking place at a time
> > reasonable for my timezone. So I check
> > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/IRC_Agendas
> >
> > So there hasn't been an agenda in months. Fair enough agendas can be a
> > pain. Hey how hard can it be to wing it?
>
> You're confusing the agendas of a Task Force to the office hours of
> the strategy process as a whole. As stated at:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours
>
> the goals of these office hours are to answer questions and engage in
> discussion. These are not formal meetings, but a designated period
> where Philippe and I make ourselves available to interact with people
> in real-time. We keep the agenda open, but at the same time, we also
> do our best to keep the discussion relevant. And, as with the strategy
> process as a whole, we've worked hard to maintain an environment of
> constructive, positive discourse.
>
> > Personally I think it's a bad idea to sacrifice screen real estate on
> > order to solve the odd TR:DR problem. So I make this clear. I'm told
> > that this is related to having a deadline. I start to make the case
> > that perhaps things are getting a little too meta. I also make the
> > case that a tool that is based around removing context and nuance form
> > posts is a bad idea. I start to make the case that if there is a
> > deadline to meet it is better to work out how to do it using
> > technology we already know well (remember no one was considering
> > adding reflect to say en.pedia) rather than trying to introduce new
> > technology and hope it will allow us to do things faster to the extent
> > it makes up for the time lost deploying it and learning how to use it.
> > But at that point I was kinda banned.
>
> The decision to kick geniice off the channel was mine. You can read
> the log to see how the discussion evolved and my explanation for why I
> made this decision:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/2010-06-01
>
> I don't think foundation-l is the appropriate place to discuss these
> specific grievances, and I'm happy to continue this discussion on
> strategy wiki's Village Pump. That said, I think we have a strong
> record for openness and tolerance of all views, as long as the
> discussion has remained polite and constructive, and I'm happy to
> address any general questions about this here.
>
> =Eugene
>
> --
> ======================================================================
> Eugene Eric Kim ................................ http://xri.net/=eekim
> Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http://www.blueoxen.com/
> ======================================================================
>
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eekim at blueoxen

Jun 7, 2010, 12:06 PM

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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours [In reply to]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk [at] effeietsanders> wrote:
> thanks for the explanation, I think the whole banning was quite justified.
> But besides that, as I also asked in an earlier email, I can understand
> geniice's feeling that it is unclear what the topics are (which can be
> solved by an agenda as he suggests or a description of what tend to be the
> topics nowadays as I asked). Could you perhaps make it more insightful?

Realized I never responded to this; sorry about the late response.

As I said before, office hours are meant to be open-ended gatherings,
explicit time where people should feel comfortable asking questions
and meeting people in a more informal setting. I usually have a few
things in mind that I bring up during office hours, but I don't impose
those topics. I've often been surprised at the direction of the
conversations, and I've almost always walked away feeling better
informed. Moreover, I've found it a great way to bolster
relationships, and I've noticed a lot of constructive activity happens
on strategy wiki after these office hours.

Sometimes, IRC meetings are called with more explicit intentions; in
those cases, agendas are usually posted beforehand.

=Eugene

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