[Imc-alternatives] weekly check-in

[Aaron Kreider]

I like this idea. I'd suggest a weekly check-in, and a more serious IRC 
meeting with an agenda once a month.  How about that?

I've been skimming the entire email-list archive, and one thing I've 
noticed is how the activity of this group of people is very sporadic.  
There have never been regular meetings, and having a regular meeting 
would I think be very useful to keep things going at a steady pace.

It might be useful to try having international conference calls with 
real phones for the once per month meeting?  Conference calls are more 
personable and more accessible to the less tech-savy.  You can get free 
conference calls from freeconferencecall.com - the cost would be the 
international rate to calling the US (probably getting pretty affordible 
these days) (or domestic rate within the US).

Between having regular meetings, creating a demonstration philly-imc 
site (and other people should feel free to create other local 
alternative-imc sites), and having a fixed group of people dedicated to 
getting this to happen - I think we have a better framework for success 
than this group has had in the past several years.

Aaron

 >Hi alternatives,
 >
 >At the PhillyIMC web meeting on Thursday we talked about the need to
 >add some structure to our communication and really get down to
 >business on developing the alternatives site.
 >
 >I proposed that we (the alternatives IMC team) come up with a time
 >each week that we would use for a regular check-in via IRC, and may
 >by conference call if the need arises.  These wouldn't be weekly
 >"meetings," per se, but we'd have an established time each week when
 >anyone who is around could meet be in the #imc-alternatives chat room
 >and talk about the week's progress.  We'll then post a short update
 >to the imc-alternatives list.
 >
 >With such an international crowd, finding a time for this regular
 >check-in may be tough.  Strypey, maybe you and I could throw around
 >some potential times and suggest them to this group?
 >
 >Jay