SwitchViewz Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hey their everyone, we have recently announced Mumble Fireside Chats and the first one is taking place this Friday. I would like to use this thread so that staff members can signup for them. If you would like to signup for a certain day please respond here with the day and time you will be able to attend. Right now we are going to try and keep them to Fridays but at a variety of different times. The next one will be July 17th after this Friday, please list the time you will be available and we will then announce the time that works the best for everyone. Note: This is in no way required or any sort of official meeting! This is just a casual chat that we will be having with any community members that show up. I will be keeping this thread up-to-date and moving old replies to Closed Mod Chat / The Archives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROCKODUCK Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Fak, the one week I'm gone... Well I'll try to be signed up for the next one, I do really like the idea though switch, good work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Are you looking for admin sign ups or anyone sign ups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchViewz Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Are you looking for admin sign ups or anyone sign ups? I'm looking for any staff member that is interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 If we can do them later on that Friday I can join. I don't get home from work until 6-630pm (eastern time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Former Staff Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I would probably be able to attend to a similar time next Friday to the time we have for the first fireside chat. Could it be worth considering holding different meetings at varying lengths from different groups of people / individuals? For example, the following Friday we could have meetings like this (I'm making up names / times): 1pm - 3pm: Barlimore 5pm - 6pm: Creative admins 9pm-10pm: Silversunset, Ghrey303, Zburdsal This way, we could provide more than one chat during the day with different groups of people as timezones can be restrictive. How do people feel about that idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchViewz Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I would probably be able to attend to a similar time next Friday to the time we have for the first fireside chat. Could it be worth considering holding different meetings at varying lengths from different groups of people / individuals? For example, the following Friday we could have meetings like this (I'm making up names / times): 1pm - 3pm: Barlimore 5pm - 6pm: Creative admins 9pm-10pm: Silversunset, Ghrey303, Zburdsal This way, we could provide more than one chat during the day with different groups of people as timezones can be restrictive. How do people feel about that idea? I think this is a good idea. My only concern though is that if we do this every friday we are asking a lot of our staff. Perhaps if we went with this tructure, it'd be better to do these biweekly or once a month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Former Staff Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I think this is a good idea. My only concern though is that if we do this every friday we are asking a lot of our staff. Perhaps if we went with this tructure, it'd be better to do these biweekly or once a month? Maybe I haven't explained the idea as well as it is floating around in my mind because I see your concern. How about for Friday 17th, we find out when people can attend, and let them set up their own chat times? This way, we remove an issue with trying to find those who can attend a specific time together. I have just remembered why Friday 17th sounds so familiar to me, I will not be able to attend that day unfortunately as I'll be travelling back here from seeing my family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Is the aim to do this weekly? Maybe set up a sign up (Google doc/trello/magic scheduling board somewhere?) for a month in advance (or a few months) and let people sign up for as many days and times they are available for. Then publish that list to the server. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c45y Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 You can sign up to events in the staff calendar I believe ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zburdsal Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'll be there, from probably like 3pm edt until it ends I'd imagine. That's just generally when I'm in mumble anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Dread Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'll probably be there assuming my schedule doesn't change between now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 You can sign up to events in the staff calendar I believe ;) Why not that then :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchViewz Posted July 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 How does 8:00PM EDT / 5:00 PM PST sound to everyone? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c45y Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 How does 8:00PM EDT / 5:00 PM PST sound to everyone? Like 10am Sunday morning presuming you plan to host it on your American Saturday. No complaints with that time here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 On the 17th? Works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 So...is there a fireside chat tomorrow/Saturday? If so what time? Hadn't seen the official post yet and wanted to plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Former Staff Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 So...is there a fireside chat tomorrow/Saturday? If so what time? Hadn't seen the official post yet and wanted to plan. Yes, SwitchViewz has put a community news post up here and added a calendar event to try to bring about visibility. I won't be attending but I'd like to chat to anyone who attends to see what concerns people are bringing to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Oh geeze I missed that :) excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirTacoface Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Question: I would like to do this and answer questions/talk about Creative (assuming this is what you mean), though do I have to have a mic? I'd like to do this but with text chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 You can text in mumble, don't see why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weazol Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 I can't commit to anything on a Friday, but I will show up whenever I have nothing going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchViewz Posted July 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 Alright so if you attended tonight's chat you will know how much of a disaster it was. The usual group of people trolled and completely derailed any possible discussion. I'm not going to give up however as I think this is a good line for communication. We also need to get notifications out on the servers for this. For the next chat I intend to introduce a set of rules as I'm not going to deal with there bullshit. If they wish to not adhere to these rules, I will warn them, and if they proceed, I will ban them. This somewhat goes against how we ban people as we like to give lots of warnings first, but frankly I'm not going to deal with it. The set of rules are simple and are as follows: - No trolling or purposeful derailing of topics - No constantly harassing of staff for a reply - Be polite and respectful to other members and staff I originally didn't want to have to do this as I wanted chats to be laidback and kind of a "just hanging out" sort of deal. After this last chat though I'm going to take steps to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchViewz Posted July 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 I have created a whenisgood link for next week. If you are interested in attending please fill it out and we will have a date announced by sunday.http://whenisgood.net/m9ifye9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Former Staff Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 I originally didn't want to have to do this as I wanted chats to be laidback and kind of a "just hanging out" sort of deal. After this last chat though I'm going to take steps to fix it. I hope to attend the next fireside chat to be able to see how it goes. Despite such a small minority of people ruining the experience, it would be a shame if we ended up cancelling future meetings because of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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