[13:23:19] <halfak>	 o/
[13:23:49] <halfak>	 It looks like the WMF Research Group meeting is dead.  Is that on purpose?
[16:13:35] <guillom>	 _o/
[16:14:03] <guillom>	 Looks like you have successfully resurrected it.
[16:14:06] <halfak>	 Good morning, guillom.  :) 
[16:14:08] <halfak>	 \o/
[16:14:22] <guillom>	 Sadly I have a conflict tomorrow :(
[16:14:32] <guillom>	 I may attend the first falf hour
[16:14:36] <guillom>	 half, too.
[16:14:51] <halfak>	 Uhoh.  I won't show up until the second half-hour. 
[16:16:00] <guillom>	 I'll join in 2 weeks, then (next week is Editing offsite week)
[16:16:38] <halfak>	 Cool.  Where are ya'll headed?
[16:17:01] <guillom>	 Seattle
[16:17:31] <guillom>	 First time in the Northwest for me.
[16:28:14] <guillom>	 Which, apparently, is going to be very wet.
[16:28:36] <halfak>	 It'll be fun and cold. :) 
[16:30:15] <guillom>	 I love rain when I can stay inside in my cocoon with hot tea and warm blankets, looking at the rain, listening to its sound, and smelling the characteristic smell. Not so much when I'm in a new place that I wanted to explore :)
[20:01:01] <guillom>	 halfak: Got a minute to talk about the dev summit?
[20:01:54] <halfak>	 o/ guillom 
[20:01:58] <halfak>	 Yeah.  What's up?
[20:02:04] <guillom>	 I wasn't going to attend this time, because in previous years many of the sessions weren't relevant to me, and I haven't felt very useful there.
[20:02:22] <guillom>	 But I see that there's a "main topic" that's more Research-y this year.
[20:02:43] <guillom>	 Still not really my area of expertise, but I thought I'd check
[20:03:37] <halfak>	 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147929 & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147710 would welcome your input
[20:03:39] <guillom>	 I'm trying to figure out if it's a good use of my time to attend
[20:03:48] <halfak>	 No technical expertise of AI stuffs necessary
[20:03:49] <guillom>	 Yeah, I've been looking at those :)
[20:04:04] <halfak>	 I'm still thinking about other sessions that might be relevant. 
[20:04:48] <guillom>	 I'm not sure how the scheduling works. Will the program be split into as many tracks as there are "main topics"?
[20:05:18] <guillom>	 i.e. I don't want to sit in 1.5 days of API and PHP and services :)
[20:07:55] <halfak>	 lol
[20:08:16] <halfak>	 I'm not quite sure about the format, but I could point that out to the rest of the committee as a concern for some attendees. 
[20:08:49] <halfak>	 Also, I suppose we could make sure to concentrate the AI stuff topic into one day so that it would be easier for you to attend just the bits you're interested in. 
[20:09:53] <guillom>	 If that makes sense for all interested attendees, sure. I'm not requesting preferential treatment.
[20:10:46] <guillom>	 The location isn't too convenient for me, and I also need to see which hotel nights I need to request.
[20:12:01] <halfak>	 guillom, yeah that location is a little bit rough.  I don't think you're alone in valuing either topic-focused tracks or a daily theme.  
[20:18:09] <halfak>	 o/ zareen 
[20:18:16] <halfak>	 That name looks familiar 
[20:18:29] <halfak>	 Any relation to Sameer?
[20:20:54] <halfak>	 I just got into one of those silly arguments about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166
[20:21:03] <halfak>	 (This was actually a couple of days ago) 
[20:21:17] <zareen>	 Hi @halfak. yup, he's my brother. I emailed you 2 weeks ago regarding an Outreachy internship. I've been working with the Reading team to come up with a project.
[20:21:24] <halfak>	 I'd reflected that many of the wiki prefixes (e.g. et for estonian) weren't standard. 
[20:21:39] <halfak>	 zareen, great news!  I'm glad that's moving forward
[20:21:58] <halfak>	 Welcome to our IRC space. 
[20:22:47] <halfak>	 Talking to post-modernists about ISO codes is frustrating. 
[20:22:59] <zareen>	 thanks. I appreciate your help!
[20:25:08] <chasemp>	 halfak: dumb question on my part is https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esileht estonian?
[20:31:07] <halfak>	 Yup
[20:31:27] <halfak>	 chasemp, ^ 
[20:31:45] <halfak>	 But the ISO 3166 code for estonian is "ee"
[20:31:56] <chasemp>	 interesting
[20:32:02] <chasemp>	 where do we get et from then?
[20:32:37] <guillom>	 halfak: FYI, I just sent a note to research-internal, Cc:ing Quim (about the dev summit).
[20:32:58] <halfak>	 Oh!  I was just about to make a posting here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Program_committee
[20:34:17] <halfak>	 guillom, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tdb0p2t33v6x5edi
[20:37:40] <guillom>	 halfak: Ah, I focused on the other solution: filling "downtime" (i.e. irrelevant sessions) with research-y work :)
[20:52:26] <halfak>	 Guillom vs. Guillaume (WMF) 
[20:52:28] <halfak>	 :P 
[20:52:34] <guillom>	 :D
[20:53:01] <guillom>	 I figured you wouldn't mind.
[20:53:39] <halfak>	 It's more accurate right now.  I was talking to work-guillom. :) 
[21:43:00] <halfak>	 OK Freenode gods.  I'll be op for a while. 
[21:43:23] <Emufarmers>	 use this power wisely
[21:44:02] * halfak signs up for a wrestling match to make money