Let's create a regular chat event!

Question

Now that we have our fantastic Community Bulletin, we can advertise our chat better and work in order to make this site more populated. So I was thinking: why not organize chat events? These ones would be on:

• Discussing site problems and strategies (e.g. promotion);
• Welcoming new users and helping them using the site;
• Etc...

But the question is... when? I think it's better if we decide a time and see where the most of us is availble. Alternatively, we can set two identical chat events for the same topic, one for a certain time zone, and another one for another time zone.

Chat events are easily scheduled in the chat, and you can register to the chat event (a click on a Register button is enough) so that you get a reminder before it starts.

Choose a Time Zone from this image that corresponds to your country and post it in the answer below:

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Am I forgetting something? This meta question will be featured in the main site, be generous in your participation! :)

Answer 1

1. Duration: 1 hour (I think 1 hour is the least to achieve something.)

2. Structure:

   • First 15 minutes: welcoming new users or new "entries" in the regulars;
   • 35 minutes: we talk about the decided topics;
   • Last 10 minutes: recap and last-minute news.

3. Some rules: During these chat events, it'd be best if we kept the jokes/chit-chat to a minimum so we don't waste time and we actually solve problems. The usual rules abour proper behavior apply. :)

4. Who: Anyone can participate, and actually, I wish all of you would join the event. It'd be a huge victory towards our final goal: graduation and the creation of a great site of Linguistics.

5. When: Still to be done.

6. Why: Because if we don't do this for ourselves, no-one will do it for us.

7. How: We can either make the conversation-free OR organize it in a way that people talk only after having requested the right to talk. The first one is more human and funnier I think, while the second is more organized but probably boring... I can do either. :)

8. What: These are some topics I think we could talk about (we choose some and do them in order or not):

   • Promotion: What have we done and what could we do? Is it enough? Strategies?
   • Community Bulletin: A quick overview of this new feature.
   • Linguistics Community FAQ: General discussion about its usefulness, etc.
   • Users: Proposals/criticism/anything from users about problems that might be present in the site (if any).
   • Moderators: Are you satisfied with their work? Anything you would change? Criticism? What about positive things? :)

Anything I forgot?

Answer 2

User - Time Zone

Note: this is not a register form. It's here as a reminder for the time zones of those who want to participate.

• Alenanno: +1
• Otavio: -3
• Danger: 0
• Tdhsmith: -6
• blunders: any timezone works