Re: Project PM Africa Development Program
Subject: Re: Project PM Africa Development Program
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 10/3/10, 11:10
To: Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com>

Thanks a lot for setting that up for us; I'll check this out later today and let everyone know about it. We can definitely meet earlier; how about 6 EST? Additionally, since the IRC is up I'll probably idle there for most of the day and so will Clark Robinson and probably a couple of other people, so we'll probably de-emphasize the weekly meetings over time in favor of continuous dialog.

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:
Hi Barrett - 
I can set us up channels, no problem.  I would think we'd want up to two channels: a public channel for open discussion, and potentially a private channel if we want password-protected, administrative discussions separated from everything else.  For now, I've created #projectpm on freenode (irc.freenode.net).  Anyone can join.  Let's start using this!  

7:30pm ET is 1:30am for me.  I will try and make it but it will be a challenge to be consistent.  Is there any possibility of doing it earlier in the evening?  

C

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On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Campbell-

We've been meeting on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 EST. Gchat has been used for no particular reason, although we're fond of a couple of features it has. I've actually been thinking than an IRC channel that's constantly up might work better for our meetings as well as a perpetual manner of communication and collaboration to supplement those meetings as well as our e-mail lists and other mediums. I'll ask a couple of our people about starting one up; I've used IRC before but don't know much about our options in terms of setting up a private channel.


On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:
Hi Barrett - 
I'm interested in all of it. I'd love to just listen in to the thoughts of the Science Journalism committee - those are very impressive minds!  As for the evening Gchat... evening in which timezone?  I'm based in Paris, so evenings ET can be a bit tricky for me.  Not impossible, just tricky.

I'm interested in why you chose Gchat instead of a more open group discussion medium, like IRC.  It would be easy enough to create a private channel... 

Anyway I'm looking forward to the Africa discussion.

Thanks

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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
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