briandc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:02 am
Anyway, my suggestion is that we arrange a specific meeting time that will work for most people. Then we can consider multiple times if people want to have an alternative time.
But having a chat room 24/7 doesn't help to get people together, imo.
Yes, that's probably the best thing. To save bandwidth (and carbon emissions) and to make sure that people don't just pop in, see that nobody is around at that particular time and leave.
I think @Michael Willis had a good idea but we could set up two evening meetings, one for the west hemisphere and the other for the east hemisphere. Each meeting should last 3 hours to allow people from slightly different timezones to join. I think this solution would cover many cases, and if we do it on the weekends it would be even better because everyone from all over the world would have a good chance to join.
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briandc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:02 am
I dropped in last night; I saw someone's desktop briefly, and then they closed off.
Anyway, my suggestion is that we arrange a specific meeting time that will work for most people. Then we can consider multiple times if people want to have an alternative time.
But having a chat room 24/7 doesn't help to get people together, imo.
Can we come up with some possible times/days?
Personally my weekends are usually flexible. I'm on GMT +1, (Rome time).
Brian
Might have been mine, sorry. And proved your point about using the chat room as a lazy lobby.
briandc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:02 am
Anyway, my suggestion is that we arrange a specific meeting time that will work for most people. Then we can consider multiple times if people want to have an alternative time.
But having a chat room 24/7 doesn't help to get people together, imo.
Yes, that's probably the best thing. To save bandwidth (and carbon emissions) and to make sure that people don't just pop in, see that nobody is around at that particular time and leave.
I think @Michael Willis had a good idea but we could set up two evening meetings, one for the west hemisphere and the other for the east hemisphere. Each meeting should last 3 hours to allow people from slightly different timezones to join. I think this solution would cover many cases, and if we do it on the weekends it would be even better because everyone from all over the world would have a good chance to join.
For a start I'd suggest
#1 weekly schedule.
#2 maybe some kind of notifier bot thingy to supplement notifications from this thread.
#3 an option to chip in on an open agenda for the meeting, for instance to....
catch up on a recent thread here
showcase a specific usecase or system
share some music
etc.
For now, let's stick with a single meeting and see how many people show up..
I won't be available for an entire 3-hour period but if anyone has a preference for Saturday or Sunday, I'm flexible.
Who is interested in meeting this weekend?
oddy.o.lynx wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:47 pm
why not open a Discord channel? and use that as a central meeting place
I wouldn't be a huge fan of promoting a closed service such as Discord TBQH. What would be the advantage over an open channel in https://fairmeeting.net/alinuxmusiciansvideomeeting ? I guess it's more convenient when you're already also in other Discover channels?
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