When I get a chance to "harvest", it's invariably outside of the times of the parties, but I can see the usefulness of the parties to attract new people to the harvesting process. 
Besides, Ken can attest to the times I've hit the parties because I needed to sanity check the problems that I have had in the past with testing the posts. :^)


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From: stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
> 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
>