A heads up, some bright spark has suggested [1] merging Wikinews into Wikipedia. This came up on IRC and I've alerted the French Wikinews community on their IRC channel.

Alexandr Dmitri

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Wikinews.2FWikipedia_merge_proposal

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Hi Everyone -

Apologies for the late notice on this.  

Our next strategic planning office hours will be: 04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday, 12 May. Local timezones can be checked at http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=5&day=12&hour=04&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
security warning. It's fine. More details at:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

There has been tremendous discussion around movement goals/priorities over the last week or so, and this should be a great experience to talk about them in more detail, as well as discuss next steps.

Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.