Open Stack

Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
>On 2018-08-03 16:41:57 +0100 (+0100), Adam Spiers wrote:
>[...]
>> Another possibility would be to offer "open clinic" office hours,
>> like the TC and other projects have done.  If the TC or anyone
>> else has established best practices in this space, it'd be great
>> to hear them.
>[...]
>
>First and foremost, office hours shouldn't be about constraining
>when and where fruitful conversation can occur. Make sure people
>with a common interest in the topic know where to find each other
>for discussion at whatever times they happen to be available. When
>you have that, "office hours" are simply a means of coordinating and
>publicizing specific times when an increased number of participants
>expect to be around. This is especially useful for having
>consensus-building discussions more quickly than can be done
>asynchronously through people responding to comments they see in
>scrollback/logs or on mailing list threads.
>
>Some options I've seen toyed with:

[snipped lots of helpful suggestions]

>Hope this helps!

Indeed it does!  I'll bring these ideas up in Denver and we'll go from
there.  Thanks a lot Jeremy :-)