In light of recently revived discussion regarding planning the show, I suppose I should get on the ball and see if there's a possibility we could get chat working.
Here's a short 5 question survey that may help me organize some semi-regular chat sessions. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q79JG2Q On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Dilwyn Jones <dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk>wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
