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March 27, 2012 at 3:25 pm #1336
BreakableKeymasterI believe there is some potential benefit from having a realtime-chat channel.
Of course the excitement of IRC has faded in years past, but maybe we could find some use for it, such as organising voting campaigns on social news sites.July 4, 2012 at 11:04 pm #12027opensourceParticipantI’ll start an IRC channel if we can sticky a thread or put something on focusfusion.org about how to use IRC and that it’s #focusfusion on freenode or something.
July 4, 2012 at 11:17 pm #12028BreakableKeymasterIf you arrange the instructions, I will find where to put it.
Also (next stage?) idea would be to setup a web based chat channel (could be connecting to irc).July 14, 2012 at 1:00 am #12104vansigParticipantIRC, being text-based, ends up working a whole lot better than google wave ever did.
and the freenode IRC network seems quite active.December 2, 2012 at 3:20 am #12400opensourceParticipantHey guys, come check out my IRC channel. I think it is a good place to start getting people together for an always-on chat session!
You need an IRC client in order to do this – Pidgin (pidgin.im) can suffice if you don’t already have one.
Once you connect to Freenode (irc.freenode.net), then you must join my channel, which is literally: ##dpf
In order to do this you may, for example, type: /join ##dpfI’ll try to always be in there!
December 8, 2012 at 9:59 pm #12415BreakableKeymasterI just visited it – great idea!
I will try to promote it on our site and Facebook.January 3, 2013 at 7:14 am #12424opensourceParticipantChat has been up for a while – just us geeks in there… No bonafide plasma physicists yet!
May 6, 2013 at 7:09 am #12640opensourceParticipantI sat in there for a few months and it was too dead. I think we need some bi-monthly meet-ups per region.
Breakable, maybe you could help setup a part of the website where those interested could join a regional group (I thought about searching by profile, but most people haven’t filled out where they live). For example, if we could have a “researchers in [San Francisco]” view, I would volunteer to lead it and organize a bi-monthly meet-up in San Francisco. This would link to meetup.com, but would be promoted through focusfusion.org. The lack of communication (mostly due to the specialization of this subject and how common it is in academia) really stifles iterating on progress (startups are a great example if you’ve ever worked for one, if you haven’t checkout LEAN, agile, scrum, etc).
I think this should be promoted on the front page of this web site for a while.
Hopefully those with more status here will chime in…May 7, 2013 at 4:51 pm #12643BreakableKeymasterThank you for your suggestions. I think the format does not matter much, but I can certainly help promote any focus fusion related event.
It is great that you help with leadership.
We certainly need: more people, more leaders, more events, more participation.
To achieve that I think there need to be several actions by our organisation:
1)Promotion of our organisation ant its activities
2)Making it easier to get involvedGrowing a community is somewhat chicken and egg problem. People will come if there are more activities – activities will happen if there are more people.
Attracting people is a difficult issue as they don’t like advertisements or notification emails and word of mount also does not work easily with fusion.May 8, 2013 at 12:23 am #12644opensourceParticipantSo if I create a meetup in SF through meetup.com – how will you help promote it?
May 8, 2013 at 12:36 am #12645BreakableKeymasterHey There,
Tnx for your response. We can certainly post it on our Facebook group and website – still its a small coverage.
We could also spend some of our own money to promote it specific to your area on Facebook – that also can help and is not too expensive.
Are there any more strategies we can use to make it grow sustain-ably?
I would suggest to investigate and propose some here:
http://www.meetup.com/help/keyword/promote/May 8, 2013 at 12:38 am #12646opensourceParticipantI would mostly like to make sure that everyone who visits this site who live in/near [the meetup of interest] hears about that meetup. I don’t think Facebook is a cost effective way of getting the right people word that this is happening. However, focusfusion.org is (probably the best), along with its sister sites like the plasma physics wiki.
May 8, 2013 at 11:29 am #12649BreakableKeymasterFacebook does have location based advertising. Of course we will make sure to add this news to the front-page of focusfusion.org,
but if reaching more people is important then it should be promoted more than that. I think creating a proper correct meetup group also would help with advertisement
as many people join new groups – for that it is important to prepare in advance before creating one. Meetup group should have a good description and be clear about location.May 9, 2013 at 11:19 am #12650BreakableKeymasterRegarding reaching out to members on focusfusion website that are location specific, in principle we could use ip addresses, but I am somewhat not sure if its the right thing to do.
I tried sending batch emails to everyone for important causes, such as society board election, but sometimes they are not well accepted.May 11, 2013 at 11:01 pm #12651vansigParticipantChat is one of those things that needs a critical mass before it gets flowing; i reckon when 100 people hang out there routinely, it’ll have some traffic
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