[FM Discuss] FLOSS Friday

[Janet Swisher]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Joshua Facemyer <jfacemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds cool, but I'm getting mixed signals as to whether this would be a
> physical or virtual gathering?  Sounds like there are aspects of
> both...maybe both are possible...either or, both together...?

In a word, yes. That is, folks who are located near other FM
contributors can get together in real space if they want to have the
benefit of f2f interaction. Folks who aren't near others can still
participate "remotely", and the local gatherings can also be
represented online. That way, everybody gets the benefit of working
"together", more or less. OTOH, it's also not tied to any given time
zone. You can do it whenever on "Friday" that works for you. (If I
figure correctly, any time between 10:00 UTC Thursday and 12:00 UTC
Saturday, it's Friday somewhere.)

--Janet

> Guess I'm still a little vague, but I like the idea I think I have of it :)
>  In fact, I'd be willing to "host" one (virtually) once I get a bit more
> settled in to my new abode.  Maybe next month.
>
> JF
>
> Anne Gentle wrote:
>>
>> Hi all -
>> Are you a little vague on what a FLOSS Friday might look like? Well, feel
>> free to shape it how you'd like. :) Our idea was that we could gather people
>> together on Fridays to collaborate on certain chapters or books, learn more
>> about FLOSS, try a new FLOSS program, make edits on a manual on FLOSS
>> Manuals, listen to a FLOSS podcast with a group, whatever you can think of.
>>
>> I just noticed tonight that someone started a Twitter-based education chat
>> by encouraging other Twitter users to use #educhat in their tweets. Take a
>> look at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23educhat. It trended really
>> fast! But more importantly, people enjoyed themselves. I wonder if we could
>> start #flossfri or some such? Might be a fun experiment.
>>
>> Anyway, I'd be willing to help out with a 3/20 FLOSS Friday - as long as
>> I've got the right ideas for getting it started. Let me know if I'm on the
>> right track?
>> Thanks,
>> Anne
>>
>> --