response 1 of 49:

Apr 23 17:16 UTC 2001

I'm carrying over the most recent posts on suggestions for new
conferences.


#133 of 142: by Robertr Gold (use) on Sat, Apr  7, 2001 (14:16):
 I would like to propose setting up a new conference for the purpose of
 discussing the problems present when using email for advocacy with elected
 officials specifically the problem of the emails being ignored and thereby
 jeopardizing the success of an advocacy campaign. There has been some media
 coverage about this recently. There are also some reports and surveys on this
 by the Congress Online Project and OMBWATCH.(I will provide the URLs in
future
 posts or will give it to anyone requesting it by email.) I am new to GREX
and
 am not sure I will ultimately decide I wan't it here because I find the
 Conferencing system a bit confusing, and I would like to invite alot of
people
 who are new to GREX to come here and participate, and they might also find
the
 system to be too confusing.

#134 of 142: by Joe (gelinas) on Sat, Apr  7, 2001 (15:21):
 This subject needs a conference?  Start an item in agora and see what
happens.

#135 of 142: by Robertr Gold (use) on Sat, Apr  7, 2001 (21:21):
 Joe.

 I would like to have people from outside of GREX also use the
 conference, and they will have trouble finding the info in Agora.

#136 of 142: by Joe (gelinas) on Sat, Apr  7, 2001 (21:53):
 I disagree, but that is no argument against starting a conference.

#137 of 142: by E R Bassey (other) on Sun, Apr  8, 2001 (02:25):
 Posting an item in Agora and seeing what kind of response it generates is
 a good way to gauge whether there is sufficient interest in the topic to
 support a new conference.

#138 of 142: by Robertr Gold (use) on Sun, Apr  8, 2001 (07:22):
 Even if there is not a big interest shown in Agora, I would still want
 to start it, because I would publicize it on many places outside of GREX
 and bring in participants to the conference.

 Also, in response to a previous question about wether there is a need
 for a seperate conference for this, I have thought about the possibility
 of starting it out as a seperate conference and later on moving it into
 another broader category conference like the politics conference
 or broadening the scope of the conference and renaming it.

#139 of 142: by Scott Helmke (scott) on Sun, Apr  8, 2001 (08:50):
 I don't see any problem with starting a conference for this.  It may end up
 dying a lonely death, but that's no reason not to try it in the first place.

#140 of 142: by C. S. McGee (cmcgee) on Sun, Apr  8, 2001 (09:08):
 Heh, Some of us FWs have conferences that are severely inactive, not dead.
 I just KNOW that the Food Coop people would flock here if I only had a
 separate conference for them  ;-)

#141 of 142: by C. Keesan (keesan) on Sun, Apr  8, 2001 (13:01):
 I tried out a translators' conference as an item in the language conference.
 It lived for a few days.

#142 of 142: by Robertr Gold (use) on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 (14:52):
 Regarding my request for a conference about 'email advocacy':

 I am not yet ready to make a final decision yet to start it,and need
 some time to sort some things out related to this.

 I am not sure how much time I need to decide,but will try to post
 again about this as soon as possible.

response 3 of 49:

Jun 5 05:50 UTC 2001

Would the internet conference serve your needs?

response 5 of 49:

Jun 5 13:25 UTC 2001

Item 1 in the Internet conference (from 1994) suggests to me even more
that the Internet conference has become mostly of historical interest;
the conference was originally intended for talking about all the neat 
things users could do with the newfangled Internet connection that Grex
had, or for the connections which were becoming common in homes.
 
So, my proposal is: restart the Internet conference, add "network" as a 
synonym name, retain kaplan as fw and add me, and refocus the discussion
towards "making it work" issues as opposed to "here's this neat thing a 
user can do."

response 7 of 49:

Jun 5 15:58 UTC 2001

Good plan.

response 9 of 49:

Jun 5 22:18 UTC 2001

Yup, I'm here.  I approve of your plan, Ken.

Is it withing the power of a FW to make other people FWs and to turn an
existing converence into an archive?  Other than waiting for more public
discussion, what am I expected to do here?

response 11 of 49:

Jun 6 01:26 UTC 2001

Since this is fw-changes & rolling of an existing cf, nothing is needed
here.  I prefer to see public discussion (& approval) of fw-change and
rolling decisions in the cf in question, but you've already got that ball
in motion.  E-mail me from your grex account when you figure that it's
time to fire up the forge.

response 13 of 49:

May 24 13:30 UTC 2002

Morning everyone! I had come up with this idea, and didn't find anything
similar to it already in existence no Grex, so I'm gonna toss it out and see
what happens.I've been hard pressed lately to find a decent (free)
chess-related club/list/conference online where people can get together and
organize email/snail mail games, form local groups, make friends, etc... So
I'd like to create a Chess conference. Anyone think this is a good idea? Any
suggestions on it?

response 15 of 49:

May 24 18:13 UTC 2002

Likewise, I think this is a neat idea.  I'd suggest that you can help its
chances of taking off by sending mail to your chess-playing friends, posting
notes in Agora and the games conference, and things like that.

response 17 of 49:

May 25 05:24 UTC 2002

We'd certainly welcome new people for a chess conference, Patrick.

response 19 of 49:

May 28 12:38 UTC 2002

Could that in general be a rule of thumb?  Testing out the proposed 
conference by adding an item in agora if folks are unsure of how much 
interest it would generate?

response 21 of 49:

May 28 15:21 UTC 2002

That's true.  In any case, the responses people post here should be
taken as suggestions to the proposer, which he's free to accept or
reject.  Our policy is that anybody can have a conference if they
want it, after allowing a few days' for user input in this item.
After five days of discussion here, if Patrick still wants the
conference, he can have it.  Or if he'd feel more comfortable with
a trial item in some other conference (perhaps Agora, or Games
would also be suitable for this proposal), that's fine too.

The only restriction on conferences is that they must be "open",
i.e. accessible to all users.  This was decided by member vote a
few years ago.

And if Patrick can attract new users to Grex with a Chess conference,
that would be great.

response 23 of 49:

Jan 30 21:59 UTC 2005

I'd be interrested in a chess item/conf.  I've been playing with
itsyourturn.com again lately.