> -----Original Message----- > From: beginners-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners- > boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of askoh > > In MeetUp, I go to a real place to meet real people. Great for popular > activities. > > But I would like to meet Smalltalkers once a month or a week for realtime > conversations. There are too few or no one nearby who are interested. A > virtual meeting place would be a great substitute. Is there such a website or > app? > > Perhaps, in the future we can combine physical with virtual meetings > simultaneously. A remote user can see the real meeting room and identify > the person he wants to talk to. He then calls that person to start a > conversation. Does such a capability exist? > [Ron Teitelbaum] Right now I think your options are Facebook or google hangouts. There is also second life which used to have a lot of areas dedicated for different activities like science and academia but it turned into a ghost town for most of the useful areas. I like the idea but need to really think it through. The real problem with 3d as I see it is that there is a certain amount of investment required of users to learn and understand the platform. The activity needs to pay back that investment with something useful. We do well in education, training, counseling, and collaboration. Places where the software provides sufficient benefits to the users to pay back that investment. MeetUp is a calendaring and coordination application. It has a very low cost to users to use and understand and a minimal cost to organizers, and a benefit that organizers can charge more than the cost to members that participate. I'm not sure that the same is true of a virtual world. We tried having google hangouts for Squeak people! That was fun, but difficult to coordinate. It also quickly dropped off in attendance after the first few meetings. If someone would like to use Terf for Squeak meetings, and we can organize something that would be useful to pay back participants, I would be very interested. Please feel free to contact me. r...@3dicc.com. What I would suggest is an agenda, speakers, training, sprints, documentation days, programming contests, something like that.
All the best, Ron Teitelbaum > All the best, > Aik-Siong Koh > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Need-a-local-tutor-for- > Squeak-tp4888503p4895183.html > Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners