“Skypecasts are live, moderated discussions that allow groups of Skype users anywhere in the world to discuss shared interests, from classes to computer support to cultural or political debates. They amount to the conversational equivalent of Web blogs, complementing the written interactions of blogs.”
Read the full article here [via ZDnet] and also this [via the Skype blog].
A few minutes after reading this, I started wondering if this could be something useful for our Micro-ISV community. Kind of like a virtual uISV conference - but no travel expenses! Especially convenient to those of us, like myself, on the other side of the world from the U.S.
I think this could be worth a go. Anyone agree? Feel free to post topic ideas for a first Skypecast in the comments here and I may just see if I can get something going…
…if there’s enough interest I’ll try and pick a convenient time for those interested and announce it here and the relevent forums. Now it’s over to you…
May 4th, 2006 at 2:18 am
I am not too hang up on Skype myself but in general it sounds nice.
Though if you are serious about this you’ll need to do more organizing than that. You’ll need to define an agenda so that peoples will know what they are in for, because as much as it sounds interesting, what the hell will people be talking about in this conference?
So far it seems that the few forums, blogs and occassional meetup (in the UK) were fairly sufficient for the (small) community needs.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:58 am
Perhaps “conference” was the wrong word as it conveys something much bigger than what I meant. I cannot think of a better one though
I agree totally about the need to define a topic well for a cast.
At this stage I’m just gauging the interest level in something like this - if there’s none then I’ll leave it, otherwise I’ll think about step 2…
Thanks for the comment.
May 4th, 2006 at 8:42 am
It sounds like an interesting idea. You’ll probably find you’ll need to start making plans before many will commit or speak up (even if you don’t get a lot of responses here, don’t assume no interest, “if you build it, they will come”, etc :)). Once you have a provisional date or agenda, just make sure you get the details in front of as many people as possible, probably via the usual forums.
Actually, even if you build it, they might not come, but that might be the quickest way to find out for sure!
May 4th, 2006 at 10:19 am
You’re probably right! I should probably just think of a good initial discussion topic and announce something…
August 14th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Hi,
count me in!
Ah, and please tell me ahead of time so that I can announce it at TamsPalm’s; my own blog.
Best regards
Tam Hanna
P.s. I know its called TamsPALM, but it stopped beeing purely Palm focussed a long time ago and now runs all kinds of IT related stuff!