Wikimedia Apps/Office Hours

Background
With the continuous progress that we have been making during the past couple of years in the apps team, we found that it’s a must to have two-way communication channels with the users; that’s why a community relations specialist dedicated to the team joined us during mid of 2022 and started to represent us in Wikimedia’s events.

We think it’s time now to start organizing and having office hours with users, where we can listen to live comments, suggested features and present our roadmap and upcoming projects.

March 2023
We started to announce our first office hours during the first week of March 2023 as follows:

Hey all,

I would like to invite you to the first office hour for the mobile apps team in 2023.

It will take place on the 24th of March at 5 pm UTC. You can check your zone’s exact time through this [ https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1679677247 zone stamp].

The host will be Jazmin Tanner, Lead Product Manager of the apps team, with a number of our software engineers.

You can join at the mentioned time through this link: https://meet.google.com/aww-miri-kik.

And the meeting will be recorded.

You can add your questions and thoughts about Wikipedia’s mobile apps [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/10xejqvocsr3suSmGkwpEcMiGsFSed1AqU9ES9vdHqz0/edit here], and the last date to add your input will be on the 20th of March at 12:00 UTC.

We will be waiting for you all!

Summary
The office hour started on time with a number of our community users, the following points were discussed:
 * History of apps
 * App partnerships
 * Work Prioritization
 * Roadmap
 * Custom learning and Discovery
 * Quick but impactful contributions
 * Meaningful connections
 * Platform reliability
 * Tracking
 * FY 23-24

You can know more from our presentation deck here.

There were also some questions from the attendees about the differentiation between the road map of the Android VS. the iOS one, the nearby feature for the Android and the beta versions too.