diff --git a/events/README.md b/events/README.md index 89d39d1c..5976d624 100644 --- a/events/README.md +++ b/events/README.md @@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ What meetings, and regular events do we have. | [Lunch & Learn](/events/lunch-and-learn.md#readme) | A meetup where we talk about things that inspire us. | | [Open Standup](/events/open-standup.md#readme) | How do we do whole-team standup at Artsy? | | [Show & Tell](/events/show-and-tell.md#readme) | Internal presentations with no preparation | +| [Writing Office Hours](/events/writing-office-hours.md#readme) | Weekly meeting for support sharing knowledge | diff --git a/events/writing-office-hours.md b/events/writing-office-hours.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3c758f5c --- /dev/null +++ b/events/writing-office-hours.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Writing Office Hours +description: Weekly meeting for support sharing knowledge +--- + +Writing office hours are a weekly drop-in meeting run by [Ash][] every Monday at 2pm (NYC time) in the café area on +the 24th floor, or over Slack. The purpose of Writing Office Hours was originally to help Artsy staff with +_writing_, specifically blog posts. Today, the office hours are for help with sharing knowledge _generally_ and not +just through writing. + +Here are some examples of good uses of Writing Office Hours: + +- You'd like to write a blog post but don't know where to start. +- There is a conference you're thinking of submitting to and want some feedback on your application. +- There's an important email you have to write. +- You're presenting a [Lunch & Learn][lnl] to the team and want to go through a dry run first. +- You will be a guest on a podcast and want to organize some thoughts first. +- You have _most_ of a blog post written out, but want help getting it over the finish line. + +[ash]: https://github.com/ashfurrow +[lnl]: ./lunch-and-learn.md