Hugh Lashbrooke 12:00 pm on September 4, 2017  

Handling Office Hours on 11 – 19 September

As mentioned in this post the Automattic sponsored staff members of the Global Community TeamGlobal Community Team A group of community organizers and contributors who collaborate on local events about WordPress — monthly WordPress meetups and/or annual conferences called WordCamps., who usually (but not always) handle Office HoursOffice Hours Defined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them in advance.You are very welcome to drop into any of the Community Team Slack channels at any time., will be at a company offsite September 11-18 (next week). This means that we need to make sure that we have deputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. who can commit to being online and available for Office Hours at the following times:

Office Hours are very simple to run – we just need at least one deputyProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. (but preferably more) to be on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. for the hour. It means that, at the set time, you would announce in the #community-events channel that Office Hours is opening so people can ask any questions they like and there will be a few deputies around to answer them.

If you can commit to being online at any of the times listed above, please tick the box next to it. We would love to have more than one deputy at each time slot, so please comment here even if someone else has committed to the same times that you can make it to.