2005-09-03: Open Discussion (cancelled)

[Robert]

Let's have another open discussion this Saturday, September 3rd, at 3:00pm Central Standard Time (CST) or GMT-6. Saturday is the current winner in the poll and seems to be a reasonable time for most folks. We'll have another open discussion and see how it goes. If you have topics in mind you can post them to this thread ahead of time.

Future Chat: Current thinking is to start a weekly open discussion chat with day and time based on when the most visitors are present as indicated by web server log files averaged over the preceding month. Currently this looks like 10am (CST) Thursday, but that could change. The bi-weekly chat (every two weeks) will most likely be held on Saturdays and will be topic based (following the 9/3 chat). The topic will be selected about 12 days ahead of time to give members a chance to research and prepare, and to start early discussions on the chat thread.

This will be chat session #12! Since last chat (two weeks ago) we have grown from 667 to 713 members representing 86 countries (up from 80). Also we've had 160 members active over the preceding 30 days which is up from 145; another good indicator that we may have a good turnout.

Ok, the usual stuff... As I already said, the chat session will be held this Saturday at 3:00pm (CST). You can use the timezone converter to convert to your local time. Once there, enter the day and time as specified above, then select US/Central in the "From Time Zone" column and your own location in the "To Time Zone" column, then click Convert. Be sure and unclick the "Use Current Date/Time" option. This will give you the time of the chat meeting in your own local time.

Some other areas:

Texas, U.S. - Saturday, 3:00pm
California, U.S. - Saturday, 1:00pm
India - Sunday, 1:30am
London - Saturday, 9:00pm
Madrid, Spain - Saturday, 10:00pm
Melbourne, Australia - Saturday, 10:00pm
New Zealand - Sunday, 8:00am
Sweden - Saturday, 10:00pm
Canada, Eastern - Saturday, 4:00pm

We'll meet in Flash Chat. Hope to see you there!

Regards,
--Robert

[Robert]

This is probably a bad weekend to hold a chat session because of the holiday weekend for many. No holiday for me; however, cause I'll be working all weekend on the new Research Library and new forums. I may pop into the chat just to see if anyone is there, but I'll be doing a lot of website work during that time. Carly will be my standin.

Future bi-weekly chats will be all topic based, with during-the-week chats all open discussion. I will post a topic for the next bi-weekly chat in the next day or two. I'll also post a poll in each future chat thread to see who plans on attending, just like the one in this thread. If too few people sign up I may cancel the chat.

Hope you all have a nice weekend. See you next time.

Regards,
--Robert

[volantis]

Sorry I couldn't make this chat. I've been on the road for the past few days and didn't get back until 2 hours after the chat. Let's keep trying.

[Robert]

Sorry I couldn't make this chat. I've been on the road for the past few days and didn't get back until 2 hours after the chat. Let's keep trying.

No problem volantis. I'll keep up with the chat sessions. I just need to start the chat thread sooner, work on the timing, keep improving the website and promotional stuff to get more traffic, and we'll get there. I don't give up easily, just look for new ways to do it.

Regards,
--Robert

[Guille]

O no!

These weeks I was so occupied by posting and posting,, because there is a lot of people coming and starting threads, that I didn't notice this thread, and didn't remember about chat sessions. I will definatelly have the next chat session as a priority to "what to do" in that weekend.