[14:00:27] <halfak>	 Good morning sciency people!
[14:09:06] <halfak>	 o/ harej.  I'd like to poll you about good neighborhoods to stay in for wikiconfusa.  
[14:09:20] <halfak>	 ^ Or anyone else in the DC area
[15:15:45] <guillom>	 o/
[15:18:19] <halfak>	 Good morning guillom :) 
[15:18:47] <guillom>	 hello halfak
[15:21:13] <guillom>	 8 working days before the end of the quarter… I need to figure out what to prioritize.
[15:21:46] <guillom>	 An added bonus would be to figure out goals for the /next/ quarter, but let's not dream too much :)
[15:22:54] <halfak>	 Yeah.  Gotta make sure those little circles are green. 
[15:23:39] <guillom>	 It's sad because it's true.
[15:23:40] * Ironholds looks up from his "crap we haven't completed our quarterly goals and Oliver goes on holiday on Thursday" pile and screams uncontrollably before resuming work
[15:34:17] <halfak>	 "But we were agile and prioritized the work that made sense and did that instead."  Nope.  Red circles for you.  Obviously you were unproductive. 
[15:37:28] <guillom>	 Argh. A typo in my script means I need to re-run it and thus wait ~36 more hours before being able to chart the results.
[15:37:48] <halfak>	 bummers :(  Happens to me all the time. 
[15:38:14] <halfak>	 I was just thinking about how I should start trying to process the output of a long run so that I can make sure it looks OK. 
[15:38:14] <guillom>	 It's a good thing I have two projects in parallel; I can switch to the other one in the meantime.
[15:38:21] <halfak>	 Yeah +1 for that. 
[15:38:26] <Ironholds>	 halfak, yeah, in my case we're late because the person we're having to justify our lateness to kept giving us random arbitrary tasks
[15:38:53] <guillom>	 (Also, having two projects is a good way to avoid boredom.)
[15:40:18] <guillom>	 Ironholds: Tell them "Ok, to do this, we need to drop something. What do we drop?"
[15:40:36] <guillom>	 Ass: Covered.
[15:41:26] <halfak>	 ^ Need to make sure that the ad-hoc gets its own circle. 
[15:41:46] <halfak>	 Because I'm guessing that it's still going to be marked red. 
[15:44:43] <Ironholds>	 heh
[16:59:56] <leila>	 happy Monday everyone. ;-)
[17:04:24] <Ironholds>	 leila, those two statements are contraindicative :P
[17:04:54] <leila>	 come on, Ironholds. :D Monday is like any other day, no? I'll say it tomorrow, too. ;-)
[17:05:21] <Ironholds>	 rationally, yes, but monday is emotionally the WORST
[17:06:19] <guillom>	 Today's debate: whether "Happy Monday" is an oxymoron.
[17:06:46] <guillom>	 hello leila :)
[17:11:44] <EdSaperia>	 Today is awesome #piggate
[17:17:05] <leila>	 hi guillom. :-)
[17:17:45] <leila>	 it's not an oxymoron, guillom, no discussion. :D
[17:17:49] <guillom>	 :)
[17:19:37] <guillom>	 It's a beautiful Monday, in any case. Left home with a jacket, had to take it off when getting off the bus in SF.
[18:24:15] <halfak>	 Agreed is beautiful day, but today is shaping up to be one of those days where every corner catches my toe and nothing works as intended :S
[18:24:34] <halfak>	 IME, monday isn't a more common toe-stubbing day that any other. 
[18:25:03] <halfak>	 I even got a fat lib because the dog accidentally head-butted me. 
[18:25:04] <halfak>	 Man. 
[18:25:50] <halfak>	 Might have been purposeful.  I can see malice behind the face-licking and tail wagging. 
[18:25:54] <halfak>	 ;) 
[21:51:24] <DarTar>	 hey halfak 
[21:51:29] <halfak>	 Hey DarTar 
[21:51:42] <DarTar>	 I reviewed Yan’s new proposal, looks kosher to me
[21:52:09] <halfak>	 Cool.  Think we can make it by Weds?
[21:52:52] <DarTar>	 I want to check one thing with Legal re: endorsements and I think we can do this if we move now, Q for you as you;ve been shepherding this through, can you flag any changes we should make to the previous letter? 
[21:53:00] <DarTar>	 the gist of it still lgtm
[21:53:40] <DarTar>	 note to self, we need a place (office wiki?) to keep track of these collaborations-to-be until they are accepted for funding
[21:54:12] <halfak>	 or other support type ;) 
[21:54:46] <DarTar>	 well, the other types of support can be immediately published and are already listed on mw.org
[21:55:08] <DarTar>	 endorsements for grant proposals pending funding decisions are the only exception I can think of
[21:55:31] <halfak>	 Oh!  gotcha
[21:55:53] <DarTar>	 I basically want an internal table to keep track of endorsements we issue that can be ported to: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Collaborators when funding is approved
[21:55:55] <halfak>	 So, it looks like we just need to change one sentence.  Would you like me to prepare a new version of the letter in a gdoc?
[21:56:04] <halfak>	 +1
[21:56:09] <DarTar>	 yes please, that;d be helpful
[21:56:13] <halfak>	 I see what you mean now re. funding. 
[21:56:25] <halfak>	 Not our funds.  The US/EU taxpayers :D
[21:56:29] <DarTar>	 yep
[21:56:46] <DarTar>	 I think we should even upload the full endorsement letter to the office wiki so we can cross-link to it
[21:56:54] <DarTar>	 I’ll make an action item
[22:03:42] <halfak>	 {{done}}
[23:10:23] <DarTar>	 halfak: I need permission to access the gdoc you created (Yan’s letter)
[23:36:25] <halfak>	 Bah!
[23:36:27] <halfak>	 WIll fix
[23:36:40] <halfak>	 It's the same doc we used last time. 
[23:36:45] <halfak>	 Strange that you didn't already have perms. 
[23:37:10] <halfak>	 DarTar, should be good now.