Future:IRC Channel

Proposal by Lion Kimbro
I notice that some of us are editing the pages near the same time.

I propose that we have a Futures wikis IRC channel, and that it's address be #future on FreeNode.

I know several people who would almost certainly be interested in joining a futures IRC channel. From the TaoRiver futures wiki community: bpt, flammifer, jroes, myself, Danila Mendelev. We already meet in #onebigsoup, which is a social software effort. But I think it would be better if we used #onebigsoup for our particular social software developments, and used #future for future conversation.

Looking for existing chat rooms: I see that there has been an ASF future salon IRC chat room before, before, but I also see that there's nobody home right now. People tend to stay logged in on IRC, so I'm guessing it's not generally active right now.

Meeting Time?

I also propose that we designate a recommended time window for meeting between ourselves.

LionKimbro has a CommunityWiki meeting on Sunday, 18:00 UTC. So perhaps 20:00 UTC, 21:00 UTC, or 16:00, 17:00 UTC might be good? Saturday at similar times are also good. LionKimbro would prefer to have 20:00 UTC on Sunday.

Time windows are not mandatory, they are not like scheduled meetings, where you are supposed to be there. Only, they are suggestions for when to meet. Think of a hang-out where people like to spend time, rather than a meeting at work, or a doctor's appointment.

If we miss each other a lot, we could designate the first timewindow of the month as more important. So the first Sunday 18:00 UTC would be "the one to attend," if you couldn't make any of the others, or just want to be sure to meet the most people at a time.


 * I think this is a great idea. Paranoid 17:52, 4 Sep 2005 (UTC)