[Gslug-general] Online Events

[Jeremiah T. Gray]

I rarely come to meetings or substantively contribute to the list,  
but I'm very interested in more group participation, so I'm chiming  
in.  Personally, I have a hard time keeping up with all the new  
forums outside of my established communication channels.  For me, the  
real-time aspect isn't that important; I'd be more interested in  
ongoing group projects and/or research and/or conversations on the  
wiki.  If I found myself on the GSLUG site more anyway, I'd probably  
be more likely to want to attend meetings.


On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:13 PM, james michael wrote:

> Mark Foster wrote:
>> james michael wrote:
>>> I was thinking it would be nice to set times for people to get on  
>>> a quick communication medium like Voice services such as Skype or  
>>> even team speak or text based services like IRC or other chat  
>>> room services. General meetings online like this could for one,  
>>> encourage people to go to real life meetings. Two, it would allow  
>>> for more follow-ups after real meetings as well create new topics  
>>> for meetings. Three) People from out of town could attend, maybe  
>>> even get caught up on the last meeting as well as draw more  
>>> interest for the group from outside the tri-cities. So that we  
>>> might eventually be able to setup and plan conventions.
>>>
>>> I might be a good idea or just a pipe dream. Either way I thought  
>>> I would share it. It would be nice if Seattle could be known as  
>>> the technology place that it once was in the 80's.
>> Cool ideas. One thing to point out is #gslug on freenode has been  
>> active for quite some time and there's nothing to prevent anyone  
>> from joining in on that, here and now[1]. It can be used (like the  
>> mailing list) to propose meeting topics or engage in arbitrary  
>> discussions.
>>
>> How is what you're proposing different / better than that? Are you  
>> suggesting an _regular_ online meeting?
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.gslug.org/index.php/IRC
>>
> Well first off define active, people who idle there and have little  
> or no input into the channel is not my idea of active. I have idled  
> there for days with out one saying a word. I am suggesting  
> something different as well. All the events could have different  
> mediums for people wanting to try them, I for one have never tried  
> Skype. It would be nice to have a nice chat about *Nix and issues  
> like that over a voice service as well. It seems like it would move  
> the conversation a long and less fighting might happen. Also these  
> would be set times everyone would meet up online. This means it  
> would be a good time to release news to the community thats not  
> important enough to be at the meeting, too important to wait or  
> just a good way to draw attention to some important idea or what  
> not that you have. It just seems like a good idea, it would be good  
> to start to coming together more as a  
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