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From time to time, staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation conduct online chat sessions known as office hours. The events provide Wikimedia community members the opportunity to ask questions or provide feedback on the work of the staff member hosting the session. There is generally no set agenda; often, the staff member hosting the session will be assisted by a facilitator, who determines the order of questions, and generally helps to keep things going.

Sessions typically last one hour, and happen more or less once a week. Time of day varies, both according to staff availability, and in order to offer people in different parts of the world the opportunity to participate. (Check local timezones) Announcements are made on this page, and on the Foundation-L email list.

IRC is the technology used for office hours.

If you haven't used IRC before, it may be easiest to use a web client; this means you don't have to install any software on your computer. Just click here to join in, and then choose a username when prompted: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-office You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.

For more information about IRC software you can install on your computer, go to the Wikipedia entry on IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC. If using dedicated software, connect to the channel #wikimedia-office^connect on the freenode network.

Upcoming office hours

Day	Date	Time	Who	Topic(s)
Friday	2011-03-18	04:00 UTC	Sue Gardner	Informal updates and discussion with Sue

Office hour logs

2011

2011-03-03, with Hisham Mundol
2011-02-24, with Sue Gardner
2011-02-18 with Barry Newstead, Moushira Elamrawy, Zack Exley
2011-02-17 with Barry Newstead and Hisham Mundol
2011-02-14, on ResourceLoader, with Trevor Parscal & Roan Kattouw
2011-02-11, with Barry Newstead, Asaf Bartov, Moushira Elamrawy
2011-01-27, with Sue Gardner

2010

2010-12-01, with Steven Walling
2010-11-10, with Sue Gardner
2010-11-05, with 2010 Fundraising Team
2010-10-27, with Sue Gardner
2010-10-15, with Barry Newstead
2010-10-14, with Sue Gardner
2010-10-07, with Zak Greant
2010-10-06, with Zak Greant
2010-10-05, with Zack Exley
2010-09-30, with Sue Gardner
2010-09-30, with Zak Greant
2010-09-29, with Zak Greant
2010-09-22, with Danese Cooper
2010-09-16, with Sue Gardner
2010-08-31, with Barry Newstead
2010-07-22, with Sue Gardner
2010-07-15, with Frank Schulenburg
2010-06-11, with Mike Godwin
2010-04-22, with Naoko Komura
2010-02-12, with Mike Godwin
2010-02-04, with Guillaume Paumier & Neil Kandalgaonkar
2010-01-27, with Rebecca Handler
2010-01-07, with Rand Montoya

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