“Are you going too fast”? The post has only been up for two days, man—people are still signing up to join the group, we don’t have any scheduled meets, we don’t have any scheduled chatroom meets … the pace might be right once we get going, but most of us haven’t.
Two-three of us met up this morning (my time) on IRC informally, we started a Google Wave on an experimental basis—I have a biased impression of how much is going on, relative to a typical member of the group. Do feel free to help me correct for that.
If you ask me, announce the official start on Monday in a new post and pick (say) five weekdays and UTC times staggered so that most of the people who announced their locations would be probably able to make at least one or two of them. And tell people what chapters are being discussed this week and next week in a new post every week, so they can get ahead if they want.
I missed the preface update. Sometimes I get old posts duplicated in my RSS feed but this didn’t happen with your edits so something else must trigger that. A title change perhaps? I think new posts might be better than expanding the original post by increments both because it would probably make RSS notifications work better and because I imagine the size of the comments section could get out of hand with it contained to a single post.
I’ve been thinking about that; I’d like to strike a compromise between helping people notice when something new is posted, and the interests of LW readers outside the study group. ISTM that we might want to keep this to one top-level post per chapter, with each chapter possibly divided into several updates.
Study group update
(edited to defer starting group work in earnest—see discussion below—readings to start monday)
On the meta level, what do people think of this method of expanding the study group post by increments?
“Are you going too fast”? The post has only been up for two days, man—people are still signing up to join the group, we don’t have any scheduled meets, we don’t have any scheduled chatroom meets … the pace might be right once we get going, but most of us haven’t.
Okay, I’ll ease up. Thanks. :)
Two-three of us met up this morning (my time) on IRC informally, we started a Google Wave on an experimental basis—I have a biased impression of how much is going on, relative to a typical member of the group. Do feel free to help me correct for that.
If you ask me, announce the official start on Monday in a new post and pick (say) five weekdays and UTC times staggered so that most of the people who announced their locations would be probably able to make at least one or two of them. And tell people what chapters are being discussed this week and next week in a new post every week, so they can get ahead if they want.
I missed the preface update. Sometimes I get old posts duplicated in my RSS feed but this didn’t happen with your edits so something else must trigger that. A title change perhaps? I think new posts might be better than expanding the original post by increments both because it would probably make RSS notifications work better and because I imagine the size of the comments section could get out of hand with it contained to a single post.
I’ve been thinking about that; I’d like to strike a compromise between helping people notice when something new is posted, and the interests of LW readers outside the study group. ISTM that we might want to keep this to one top-level post per chapter, with each chapter possibly divided into several updates.