[arg_discuss] Weekly Informal IRC Chats

[Wendy Despain]

One of the members of the Writing SIG set up this chat room:
http://chat.zakelro.com/

The Writers use it on rare occasions, and would be happy to share.

Wendy Despain
quantumcontent.com


On Mon, August 18, 2008 11:40 am, Andrea Phillips wrote:

> After the official SIG chat last night, which mainly dealt with Moo

> cards, a few people expressed disappointment that there wasn't time to

> just talk about stuff that's on our minds. While there is

> off-the-record time to just chat after the agenda items are done, this

> is a real, valid problem. So!

>

> I propose a rotating weekly chat on IRC (...or actually, Wendy has

> said she has a better platform, if she'll speak up?) This time would

> be good for the "Well, how do you price out your proposals?" and "How

> much are you charging for X?" and "Say, what's the best freemail

> provider for Y?" and "Which blogging platform has been the most

> secure?" and "My GOD did you see what io9 said this time?!" kinds of

> discussions that a lot of people want to have, but not so many people

> want to have recorded.

>

> We could time-shift this chat to start three hours later every time,

> to try to make it convenient for people around the globe. (Actually,

> there's no reason we can't keep a chat open all the time, and just

> remind people it's there every now and again. :) Not sure if weekdays

> or weekends work better for more people, though.

>

> I arbitrarily say that the first of these informal chats will begin

> Thursday Aug. 21, at noon Eastern US time. That's 9am/09:00 on the

> West Coast, 5pm/17:00 in Britain, and 2am/02:00 in Sydney. (Sorry,

> Christy...)

>

> If you miss it, there's another one next week... but these transcripts

> will NOT be posted to the list, to allow people a little more latitude

> in what they say.

>

> Pending a better idea than IRC for the chat, I'll post join

> instructions again on Wednesday sometime.

>

> --

> Andrea Phillips

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Wendy Despain
quantumcontent.com