*Notice* Regular Online Meetings

Message directed to all members.

Myself, J. Donner, fschmidt and Will2 had our first online meeting Monday 03/21/11.

From this meeting we decided the following:

- Regular meetings tentatively on Sunday 6PM PST.
- The format will be Skype conference calls until further notice.
- No women allowed.

* Format may change to another program.
* Format may eventually include video.
* We're undecided on how open or closed the meetings should be (members vs non-members).
* As a reminder I'll send out an email to all members prior to scheduled meeting (email will be sent to email address listed here).
* No requirement to attend, but all members are encouraged.
* If you lack microphone you can still type.

I would like to test Paltalk at the next meeting.

Will you be hosting a room Franklin?

I'm going to send an email with a link to this thread. You can post the details for what to log into at 6:00pm.

I was planning on starting with Skype, but either should be fine.

Ok, we'll start with Skype first. I'll host.

We discussed how regular meetings should work today and we agreed to try skype for this.  I have set up an account named "coalpha.brotherhood".  To attend a meeting, add "coalpha.brotherhood" as a contact.  Then coalpha.brotherhood will invite you to the meeting.

Today's meeting was unstructured because we were just figuring out how things should work.  In the future, we plan to have meetings at 5pm PST with the first hour being public and of general interest, and then we will make the meeting private and deal with technical and administrative issues.

Drealm, here is my draft of the meeting notice:


Subject: Sunday Skype Meetings

The CoAlpha Brotherhood meets on Skype every Sunday from 5pm to 6pm Pacific Time.  This meeting is open to all men (no women).  To join the meeting, contact Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood and we will add you to the discussion.

Some people are not familiar with Skype. I'd recommend breaking down the Skype process into the four steps we discussed in Skype:

fschmidt wrote

guest invite host
host accept guest
host add guest to group
guest answers call

This could be written as:

wrote

To join the meeting:

1. Contact Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood before or during the meeting.

2. Wait for Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood to add you to contacts.

3. Once Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood has added you to contacts, Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood will contact you at meeting's scheduled time (every Sunday from 5pm to 6pm Pacific Time).

4. Log in at the appropriate time and respond to Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood's contact at meeting's scheduled time (every Sunday from 5pm to 6pm Pacific Time) and you'll be connected to meeting.

I'd recommend a screen shot for each step.

Then we can say:

wrote

If you're already a contact of Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood ignore steps 1-3 and just do step 4:

4. Log in at the appropriate time and respond to Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood's contact at meeting's scheduled time (every Sunday from 5pm to 6pm Pacific Time) and you'll be connected to meeting.

fschmidt wrote

Drealm, here is my draft of the meeting notice:


Subject: Sunday Skype Meetings

The CoAlpha Brotherhood meets on Skype every Sunday from 5pm to 6pm Pacific Time.  This meeting is open to all men (no women).  To join the meeting, contact Skype ID coalpha.brotherhood and we will add you to the discussion.

Wait when you say meeting "notice", is this what you'll be sending in emails and writing on outside forums or what you'll be posting here? My suggestion is for what to post here. Your message works fine for outside of here (email and other forums). I'd just have a link at the bottom saying "see more details here", which links to a cleaned up version of this post for people whom need more technical help.

I meant for posting here.  Specifically posting to the top forum and pinned to the top.

I can't imagine that anyone who is unfamaliar with skype would attend, but I think most people are familiar with skype.  I didn't think all the steps needed to be laid out because if you click in the link, skype walks you through the process.  (Try it.)  I don't see value in mentioning what MAY happen.  I wouldn't encourage someone without a microphone to attend expecting to participate because the conversation will be voice.  I want this to look like something very simple, and not have a long list of steps.  If anyone has questions, they can post them.  If we want a longer message, we could talk more about what the meeting is for, instead of about technical details.

I am going to go ahead and post the notice.  We can change it based on this discussion.

That's fine.

All future up-to-date meeting information will be posted here: Sunday Skype Meetings