I like the sound of this and wish you well with looking into it. The big
benefit is that it can be international and even useful for those in Britain
who can't get to traditional workshops.
I can assure you that you won't be treading on committee toes - I for one
quite like it when people come up with ideas like this. Given that Quanta
has come in for some heavy criticism recently, it's nice to see things like
this being proposed independently.
It could actually set a model for more future QL meetings now that the
traditional workshops are not well attended.
Dilwyn Jones
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Martin
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 4:57 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] Teleconference idea
Recent discussions about holding a physical meeting have gotten me
thinking. Someone mentioned skyping as a possibility, and I can tell you
that another retro computing group (the CoCo group) have held online-only
events in the past. These were very informal and low-key, and while they
were repeated only a handful of times, they were extremely easy to
coordinate.
Along that line, I'm offering for your consideration two proposals:
-- The informal approach is that I will lead an effort to determine the
most common IM program used among interested parties (hopefully Skype). I
will collect contact information and then schedule a first call. I'll try
to gather consensus on a schedule and an agenda. In other words, I will
facilitate and then happily let others lead discussions they are interested
in.
-- The Big Bang approach is to model after what the virtual tabletop
role-playing conventions do -- they host schedules for individual tables,
and allow interested parties to lead those "tables". They allow signup for
these tables and coordinate all of the interested parties into a
(essentially) private meeting space. These are essentially a large online,
virtual convention -- but focused on smaller interest topics (in this case,
individual role playing game sessions). I could perhaps leverage websites
that cater to this type of convention and, again, help facilitate smaller
groups to get together at various times over some pre-planned convention
weekend.
I do not intend to step on Quantas toes here as I know they are separately
trying to schedule a more robust and higher scale venture. I'm more
interested in seeing if there is interest in something a lot less formal,
on the side, and not necessarily tied to any Quanta business -- global in
scale. I have very little to no budget to do this, although I believe there
isn't much need for such a budget. This is mostly a volunteer time kind of
thing for all parties.
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