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        <th>Issue</th>
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            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/55423>55423</a>
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        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            Create office-hours Discord channel
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      <th>Labels</th>
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            new issue
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      <th>Assignees</th>
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      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          kbeyls
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<pre>
    Some people may find it intimidating to dial in to a video chat meeting directly. Maybe it would be less intimidating if a person dialing in for the first time could use text chat to double check with the host that it's OK to dial in.
After discussing a few potential ways to make this happen in practice, the best solution seemed to be to create an #office-hours channel on Discord.
When a host opens their video chat, they can also type something like "I'm available for chats now for the next half hour at _video chat URL_. I'm looking forward to having conversations on the video chat or here in text". A person who still feels a bit anxious can start out with chatting in text form.

The actions for this task are probably:
* Have an #office-hours channel created on Discord.
* Update the documentation for office hours hosts (to be written at https://llvm.org/docs/GettingInvolved.html#office-hours) with a section on "what to do when starting a session", which should include something like "Open your video chat if you use that; then type into the #office-hours Discord channel that you are available".

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