Chat

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

An informal AIM chat is run many nights as well, though I'm not sure how that will work during the buildseason.

How about this, if people think it is beneficial to host AIM chats to discuss the game and other FIRST issues, we can start a thread in General, and the person who want to host the chat of the day can post in there asking people to IM him/her to join the chatroom.

We can make the thread sticky, and whoever post there before anyone else during the day (say, starting at noon) can host the chat. The chat will last until noon of next day, then people can post again after noon. You can also organize different chat room with different topics and so on.

Comments/suggestions?

[Kyle]

that would be great i used to just get people from my buddy list and invite them in to a FIRST chat at random times.

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

How about this, if people think it is beneficial to host AIM chats to discuss the game and other FIRST issues, we can start a thread in General, and the person who want to host the chat of the day can post in there asking people to IM him/her to join the chatroom.

We can make the thread sticky, and whoever post there before anyone else during the day (say, starting at noon) can host the chat. The chat will last until noon of next day, then people can post again after noon. You can also organize different chat room with different topics and so on.

Comments/suggestions?

While I think that a CD IRC thread would be the best, I think this would be a good substitute.

To those who posted about alternative chats--

My webserver, too, has chat capabilities. But I do not pretend that www.theforceteam.com has the same following as CD, nor do I think that any other team site does.

Brandon--perhaps you could link to the Tigerbolt chat from the top of the forum, so it was obvious that it was the "CD sanctioned" chat? That would serve much the same purpose.

--Petey

[Ken Leung]

There are ups and downs with the tigerbolt chat room, but if people are willing to use that as the main chatroom, that's fine.

My thoughts is that even with the tigerbolt chat room being the focus of the chats, i feel it is still important for there to have some sort of announcements telling people something like "between XXXXpm to XXXXpm we are having an official chat about the new game". In other words, some sort of focus in the chat when people know when to show up, and what to talk about. The other problem is there is not a lot of room for multiple discussion in a single chat room.

What I was hopping to see is people who have a specific topic in mind can easily organize a chat for it and invite the rest of the FIRST community to join in. That person will be able to keep the focus on the topic, and have some fun with it. There can be different chatroom happening at the same time so you don't get as much noise in a single one.

Though that's just my thoughts. If people think the tigerbolt chatroom is the place to go to, than that's fine.

*edit* I just saw wetzel's comment about the sticky belonging to chit-chat, and I agree with that. If people are making any sort of chat announcement they should do it in there. *edit*

[EddieMcD]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

There are ups and downs with the tigerbolt chat room, but if people are willing to use that as the main chatroom, that's fine.

My thoughts is that even with the tigerbolt chat room being the focus of the chats, i feel it is still important for there to have some sort of announcements telling people something like "between XXXXpm to XXXXpm we are having an official chat about the new game". In other words, some sort of focus in the chat when people know when to show up, and what to talk about.

Okay, done. I just need some input from you people of when would be a good time to set the "between XXXXpm to XXXXpm we are having an official chat about the new game" chat. We communicate this with Brandon, he helps spread the word, and we have a semi-stable chat atmosphere.

Well it looks good on paper anyway...

[Qbranch]

I know sigmachat has a free version of their webchat. http://www.sigmachat.com/