Talk:Office Hours

Thanks for starting this, Eddy! I'm going to be revising and adding info to this shortly. --Torley Linden 18:22, 3 April 2007 (PDT)

Ideas for getting the word out about Office Hours?

First off, a precursor that I prefer using Talk/Discussion pages in reverse-chronological order (newest at the top), so that's why my question is here.

I just linked the Official Linden Blog's "Linden Village" stuff directly to the Office Hours page and am open to practical suggestions re: increasing awareness of Office Hours. In other words, where else should we (Linden Lab) be advertising them that we're not already? Any drop-dead easy places I should be advocating they be listed/linked to? Thanx. --Torley Linden 16:55, 11 December 2007 (PST)

Could more office hours be held in the afternoon/evening?

It's great that Lindens are having office hours, but most of these hours are during the day on weekdays while people are at work and such. Could we get more office hours that are in the afternoon and evening? This would work out better for most people who do want to talk to Lindens but also have day jobs. Oz Spade 00:01, 1 May 2007 (PDT)

Could you list the focus area of the Linden holding the talk, ie what do they do?

--Drew Dwi 07:37, 1 May 2007 (PDT)

reworking the Office Hours page to a table

At todays Open Source office hour it was mentioned, that this list here is only sorted by the hosts' names, not dates. If this page was reworked to a table (see SLDev_Resident_Names for an example) viewers of the page could easily sort by any column they'd like. Is this worth doing? It would require rewriting all the included bits, too, I guess, which might break their functionality when included at other places :-/

Boroondas Gupte 15:09, 13 September 2007 (PDT)

You could rewrite the functionality without breaking their current operation by using variables :-P

SignpostMarv Martin 20:02, 13 September 2007 (PDT)

Could you give an example (or link to an existing one)?

/me still has to learn a lot about MediaWiki.

Boroondas Gupte 03:52, 14 September 2007 (PDT)

Gimme a bit, I'll put together a demo

SignpostMarv Martin 04:39, 16 September 2007 (PDT)

ta-da

Only the base Office Hours template was altered, none of the Resident/Linden templates needed to be altered (with the exception of some Lindens who were using it wrong :-P)

SignpostMarv Martin 05:29, 16 September 2007 (PDT)

wow :-D

Boroondas Gupte 11:29, 16 September 2007 (PDT)

As a further example of the flexibility of the new modifications, compare SL5B#Office_Hours with SL5B/Office_Hours.

You'll note that SL5B/Office_Hours is included in the main SL5B article, but due to the rendering mode variable, different wiki code is used to present the office hours.

SignpostMarv Martin 15:24, 17 September 2007 (PDT)

Google Calendar

There's this "somewhat out-of-date" google calendar which is helpful. Do you know who is maintaining that calendar? I can help update this, as I am maintaining my own google calendar (public) and have the current user office hour pages in my watch list. --JetZep Zabelin 18:38, 5 October 2007 (PDT)

Here is a link to my publicly available calender of the Linden's office hours http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=c2g7djaua9j4he8c6d0iu7n7k8%40group.calendar.google.com. --JetZep Zabelin 17:33, 18 November 2007 (PST)

Thanx JetZep! Pathfinder Linden is the creator of the original Linden Office Hours calendar. I think we need a more collectively-update-able one... ah what the hey, I put your GCal on the main page. Thanx! --Torley Linden 09:38, 11 December 2007 (PST)

Strife is investigating a bug in Template:HCalendar event. Once this bug is fixed, it will render both google calendars obsolete, so I'd prefer if the that no GCals be linked on the front page.

The reason it will make the use of a separate GCal obsolete is that the wiki article can be used as an iCal feed (via some XSLT magic).

SignpostMarv Martin 12:00, 11 December 2007 (PST)

I am? Could you point me to where I committed to this, I'm pulling a blank. I'm not doubting you I just don't remember this. -- Strife Onizuka 12:16, 11 December 2007 (PST)

SignpostMarv, this is exactly what I was hoping we could do. Can you remember, Strife? =D --JetZep Zabelin 14:40, 11 December 2007 (PST)

Thanks Torley, I know it helps people find an office hour that works for them especially if they already use Gcal. I have to update the calendar manually and so I agree it would be even better if Template:HCalendar event was working (Whats wrong with it anyway?) --JetZep Zabelin 14:38, 11 December 2007 (PST)

I'm not famliar with the background of Template:HCalendar event *goes to learn more* but at first blush, it sounds like a better approach in the future. Let's go for it if it makes finding Office Hours effectively easier for newer & more experienced Resis alike! --Torley Linden 16:51, 11 December 2007 (PST)