Re: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town

[Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, at 12:49, Mark Andrews wrote:
> If the virtual meeting follows the proposed 109 physical location timezone
> residents of China will be fine.

And of Australia, wheee

> Been up at ridiculous o’clock for meeting too much lately.  Stopping at 02:00
> for me is fine provided I can get to sleep in to 09:00.  The latter hasn’t
> actually worked for me this week.

This is why I stayed at an airbnb during the week where I was away from my family and could sleep in!  Thankfully that option has been available to me.

...

To get back on topic, I haven't had THAT many conversations in gather.town, but I have had a couple of great ones - it was really nice to drop past the registration desk and chat with our lovely secretariat, and I have stumbled across conversations with both people I already knew and a couple of times with people I didn't know.

I think the major thing missing is actually inside myself - I feel uncomfortable about just walking up to people in gather.town and barging into their conversations.  I expect I'm not alone in this experience, because the normal social cues are missing.  I expect I would have been welcome in more conversations if I'd just gone and joined them.

Bron ( though it's definitely tumbleweeds right now during the Australian afternoon )

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