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Re: Gather.town hour every month?

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Thu, 18 March 2021 16:52 UTC

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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Tim Chown <tjc.ietf@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Gather.town hour every month?
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Alas, there also seemed to be the need at least for some folks i
wanted to meet up with in gather.town to do more troubleshooting,
so not only are those two uses compatible, but IMHO some
additional time for troubleshooting is quite important to
get more people to be able to effectively use gather.town.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:40:09PM +0000, Tim Chown wrote:
> > On 16 Mar 2021, at 12:32, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 2021-03-16, at 10:47, Tim Chown <tjc.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Why not just leave Gather up 24x7x365?   The 110 space is still there right now.
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > My proposal was to designate an event, a time when people actually are likely to be there.
> > 
> > Leaving the town in place would be great for group-specific gatherings.
> > But having a day where there is a good likelihood to meet people who are not in your immediate peer group provides some additional potential for serendipity.
> 
> Yes, these things are wholly compatible :)
> 
> Tim

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