Title: Handling Office Hours on 11 – 19 September Author: Hugh Lashbrooke Published: September 4, 2017 Last modified: September 11, 2017 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/) [Hugh Lashbrooke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/) 12:00 pm _on_ September 4, 2017   # Handling Office Hours on 11 – 19 September As mentioned in [this post](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/08/25/payment-intermission-september-11-18/) 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](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/community-deputy/). who can commit to being online and available for Office Hours at the following times: * Monday, 11 September @ 22:00 UTC ([@jimtrue](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimtrue/))( [@laryswan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/laryswan/)) * Tuesday, 12 September @ 9:00 UTC ([@emanuel_blagonic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emanuel_blagonic/)) * Wednesday, 13 September @ 22:00 UTC ([@jimtrue](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimtrue/)) * Thursday, 14 September @ 9:00 UTC ([@emanuel_blagonic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emanuel_blagonic/)) * Monday, 18 September @ 22:00 UTC ([@myselfkhayer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/myselfkhayer/)) * Tuesday, 19 September @ 9:00 UTC ([@carl-alberto](https://profiles.wordpress.org/carl-alberto/)) 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](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/community-deputy/).( but preferably more) to be on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](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. ### Share this: * [ Threads ](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/handling-office-hours-on-11-19-september/?share=threads) * [ Mastodon ](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/handling-office-hours-on-11-19-september/?share=mastodon) * [ Bluesky ](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/handling-office-hours-on-11-19-september/?share=bluesky) * [ Facebook ](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/handling-office-hours-on-11-19-september/?share=facebook) * [ X ](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/handling-office-hours-on-11-19-september/?share=x) * [ LinkedIn ](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/handling-office-hours-on-11-19-september/?share=linkedin) * [Login to Reply](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fcommunity%2F2017%2F09%2F04%2Fhandling-office-hours-on-11-19-september%2F%23respond&locale=en_US) 1. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1dba75a903be8eb13bae6f961d81a99e5c76d5ca8c327a18bc25e96df2417b99? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 2. [Hugh Lashbrooke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/) 1:48 pm _on_ September 4, 2017 3. Thanks for helping out everyone! Remember, that this is just to ensure that we have at least one person at every Office HoursOffice Hours Defined times when the Global Community Team are in the [#community-events](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/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. session, but all other 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](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/community-deputy/). are welcome and encourage to be a part of them too. 4. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/82359ddec9ccf6d85dfbe983b356f9fc1ce86ba112cb3a55412aa730ca30f7d0? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 5. [Abul Khayer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/myselfkhayer/) 1:52 pm _on_ September 4, 2017 6. I will be around for at the time I marked! I was on vacation for last one week and missed many things. I’m back and active again. Hope to work more for the team. 7. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a7873a730eebbbf667e941eaefba2f3f16ee7fe49a5661507569ada7f46b94dc? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 8. [Birgit Pauli-Haack](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bph/) 3:55 pm _on_ September 4, 2017 9. Nifty little tool [@hlashbrooke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/)🙂 Is that an overall available pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.? 10. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/17e3cbd63c4ddcf873d1848277de062a48239d962359ecaf1978e966429f5b6f? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Rocio Valdivia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/_dorsvenabili/) 4:00 pm _on_ September 4, 2017 * If you mean about the checkboxes [@bph](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bph/), that’s available at all O2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at [https://make.wordpress.org](https://make.wordpress.org/) themes as far as I know 🙂 11. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ab5fa5deb26fe8a730d11dc716d440a67fb5c48c3b74f731c505b6748a58fd7d? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 12. [Cami Kaos](https://profiles.wordpress.org/camikaos/) 9:55 pm _on_ September 4, 2017 13. Wow you all handled that so quickly! You’re all awesome 14. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5022aefae4facbf0d0992d39e0c5c109b942122c628aff8ad80908a02692bbdf? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 15. [Jenny](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miss_jwo/) 2:55 pm _on_ September 11, 2017 16. Hi, late to the party, but im online all week so just feel free to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message ( DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me when an office hour is up and i’ll come and join you. ### Leave a Reply 󠀁[Cancel reply](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/handling-office-hours-on-11-19-september/?output_format=md#respond)󠁿 You must be [logged in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fcommunity%2F2017%2F09%2F04%2Fhandling-office-hours-on-11-19-september%2F&locale=en_US) to post a comment. # Post navigation [← Weekly Updates](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/04/weekly-updates-29/) [Summary of Recent Community Swag Discussions →](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/09/05/summary-of-recent-community-swag-discussions/)