I think we should do at least one of two things:

1. Reduce the party recurrence to maybe every 200 hours instead of 100,
so we get a bit more critical mass at each party.  Also, we *definitely*
do not need a "reminder" in addition to the original regularly recurring
announcement, since it's already recurring and the upcoming parties are
already listed in the announcement.

2. Maybe rename it to SqueakChat, but include in the announcement that
harvesting activities are encouraged (but not required) as part of the
chat.  (Of course, the IRC channel is always open for chatting, but it
might be nice to have certain times when you know it's more likely that
more people will be on the channel.)

In any case, I still think having recurring notices of an IRC party/chat
is an excellent idea, and I don't want to see them stop altogether. 
If/when harvesting is kickstarted again, the chats can be an important
part of it.

- Doug


On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:04:50 +0200, "stéphane ducasse"
<ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> said:
> Hi all,
> 
> I discussed with ken about the fact that the harvesting party emails  
> are counter-productive
> and that I would like to see them rename as SqueakOnline, SqueakChat.
> 
> The main problem is that right now the email gives the impression  
> that something
> is happening but NOTHING happen in the harvesting. (alex started to  
> harvest a bit
> and me too) but beside that this is not during the parties and now  
> nothing happen.
> 
> So I would prefer that you realize that if you think that if  
> something is happening
> this is totally wrong.
> 
> I could not convince ken and he asked me to ask you to react. So please
> let him know that this is not productive to let people think that  
> some progress
> are made to include fixes and enh when nothing happen.
> 
> I think that the voices of the previous harvesters are important: so  
> marcus, doug,
> mike, yoshiki, bert let us know.
> 
> 
> Note that I have nothing against the chat over irc because this is a  
> cool idea.
> But right now, it gives the wrong message
> 
> Stef
>