Office Hours¶
Self-paced doesn't have to mean alone. Office Hours are a recurring live call where you bring a stuck lab, a half-working detection, or a "is this the right approach?" question — and work through it with a maintainer, a mentor, and other learners on the same track.
They run in the 🎙 Office Hours voice channel on the
Plaintext Discord. Everything happens there: screen-share for the
hard parts, the #labs-and-docker and *-help forums for the threads that outlive the call.
How it works¶
- Open format. No fixed lecture. We triage what people bring — env that won't
make up, a Vulhub container exiting, a detection that won't fire, a capstone you want a second opinion on. - Bring a specific question. "It doesn't work" gets "what doesn't?" Have the module/lab, the exact command and full error, and your OS/Docker version ready — same ask as the help forums.
- Screen-share encouraged. Most lab problems are five minutes once we can see the terminal.
- It stays searchable. Anything broadly useful gets written up in the matching
*-helpforum afterward so the next person finds it without needing the call.
Schedule¶
Cadence is being set with the first cohorts — placeholder below
We're not publishing a fixed time we can't yet honor. The schedule lands in #announcements
on Discord once a regular slot is set; react 🎙 on the announcements seed post to vote for a
weekly call. Until then, treat the rows below as the template.
| When | Focus | Host | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| (e.g. Weekly · Thu 18:00 UTC) | (open triage / rotating track) | (maintainer or mentor handle) | 🎙 Office Hours (Discord voice) |
(ad-hoc, announced in #announcements) |
(capstone reviews) | (maintainer) | 🎙 Office Hours |
Times will be posted in UTC with a converter link, since learners span time zones. If demand clusters in another region, we'll add a second slot rather than force one time on everyone.
Between sessions¶
Office Hours are the live layer on top of the always-on community — they don't replace it:
- Async help: the per-track
*-helpforums and#labs-and-docker(the busiest channel). One question = one post, mark it ✅ Solved when sorted. - Study Rooms & Co-working: the 📚 Study Room and 🧑💻 Co-working voice channels are open any time — grab a peer and pair on a lab without waiting for a scheduled call.
- Show your work: post finished capstones and phase projects in
#wins, and they may land on the Showcase.
Hosting an Office Hours (mentors)¶
If you're a @Mentor or @Maintainer and want to run a session, see the
Instructor & Cohort Guide — it covers pacing, scaffolding a question, and how
to review phase projects and capstones without just handing over the answer.
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