[14:09:26] <halfak>	 o/
[14:16:31] <schana>	 halfak: We've been thinking of a name for the recommendation-api service, and I think we're going with Open Access Recommendation System, or OARS for short </joke>
[14:18:50] <halfak>	 lol
[14:18:54] <halfak>	 That would cause no confusion
[14:19:11] <schana>	 pronounced o-ars, of course
[14:20:55] <halfak>	 ha.  That'd be great.  I've been getting good at IPA.  I can help with a pronunciation key :) 
[14:21:08] <halfak>	 o-recs
[16:30:16] <harej>	 ohhhh rez can you seeeee
[18:30:14] <Matthew_>	 Hello research team, otrs agent here.  Just received a proposal for a research project to our queue.  What is the best way to forward this email to you?  
[19:04:33] <halfak>	 Hi Matthew_!
[19:04:45] <Matthew_>	 Hello!
[19:04:48] <halfak>	 Are the details of the proposal public?
[19:04:51] <halfak>	 Or can they be?
[19:05:31] <halfak>	 Step 1: Write project description here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_project
[19:05:52] <halfak>	 Step 2: Post a phab task with a link to the project page.  (do you do phabricator stuff or do you need help with this?)
[19:05:56] <Matthew_>	 Let me go back into OTRS real quick and take a look at the email.  
[19:06:06] <halfak>	 ^ tag "Research-and-Data" 
[19:06:08] <halfak>	 kk
[19:06:55] <halfak>	 Step 3: We try to find someone to work on it.  This is hard.  Too many projects, not enough time.  So I'd like to pitch it to grad students and other people outside of our team. 
[19:07:43] <Matthew_>	 Ok so this user is working on a thesis .on Social Entrepreneurship (those words make no sense to me, apologies) and wants to do it by qualitative research.  He wants to interview someone...
[19:09:41] <Matthew_>	 Would you like me to send him those steps?  Or is this outside of the research team?
[19:16:09] <halfak>	 Matthew_, yes please share those steps
[19:16:22] <Matthew_>	 Can do, thank you.
[19:16:23] <halfak>	 I'll help out.
[19:16:34] <halfak>	 Glad there's someone who wants to do the work :) 
[19:16:58] <halfak>	 Matthew_, can you help him get introduced to some otrs folks once we've got the project docs together?
[19:17:14] <Matthew_>	 How do you mean?
[19:26:29] <halfak>	 Matthew_, eventually the researcher will need to be introduced to OTRS workers for doing interviews.  
[19:26:39] <halfak>	 I'm not so familiar with OTRS or the people who do the work. 
[19:27:37] <Matthew_>	 That makes more sense, OK.  
[19:48:05] <harej>	 OTRS, otherwise known as "otters"
[20:08:57] <Emufarmers>	 :v
[21:48:34] <Nettrom>	 TFW you find a bug in your HQL and think you have to rerun everything, only to find out that it got passed in from a configuration file and everything’s consistent *phew*