Since many of us can’t get to Gettysburg conveniently or to any of the other sporadic Dopefests but would still love to put a face and voice to some Dopers, would anyone be interested in a virtual Dopefest of some sort? I’m not versed enough in skype to know how many can chat at one time but there are options.
One is chatroulette: if we could have an appointed date and hour we could play Hail Mary Dopefest. Hold up a sign that says SDMB and perhaps your user name and keep “nexting” until you find another Doper. Like speed dating we could spend a few minutes chatting then move on.
Interested in any interest or in any other suggestions.
A lot of us already have “virtual” get togethers of sorts. Steam (a video game for the old timers) and the weekly poker game are just two examples of us Dopers getting together in a virtual environment.
Google Wave was a very active one but it has since died down, I believe. Unless no one told me about any new SDMB waves.
The next #straightdope Old-School IRC Night has been set! Friday, July 9.
Anyone interested is welcome to join the Facebook group to get reminders about this and future #straightdope chat parties. Old chatters, new chatters, old Dopers, new Dopers, come on down.
For those NOT on Facebook, I’ll start a new thread here with more information as we get closer to the date. (And I think I was skating right on the line of raising up a zombie thread with this one.)
