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Re: well wishes /coverage
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lugnet.events.brickfest
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Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:51:28 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Sheree Rosenkrantz writes:
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> > [2] I remember Larry Pieniazek typing at a superhuman rate during this
> > session, I have always assumed this was what he was doing...
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> Yes...
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> > IF this was a
> > correct assumption, encore in 2002, please ?
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> I would be glad to type faster than I usually do as long as people could
> tolerate more than my usual number of misteaks. (1) :-), assuming that the
> facilities exist (last year I was able to leverage a network connection that
> was there already, I do not know if such will be the case this year but I
> will ask. I assume it will be though)
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> Last year was quite ad hoc. It may be good if the questions are prepared in
> advance this time, and more importantly, if everyone that wanted a chance to
> ask remote questions knew of the time and of the venue to do so.
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> I do not want to be innundated with emails in advance (although the ones i
> got as we were in the meeting were good). Perhaps someone else could create
> and monitor a thread here in events.brickfest to prestage questions? I would
> suggest posts which contained cogent questions that were not dups of posts
> already made.
>
> As to the transmission, last year I did it via post to the newsgroup. That
> made for a lot of choppy posts. I am not a fan of chat, in general, but this
> year I think it may make sense to consider using BrickLink chat. I assume
> most people are BrickLink members (at least as buyers). Since I'm a
> moderator at BrickLink I can capture the chatlog, scrub it and republish it
> later somewhere.
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> But I'm open to suggestions on that. I need to ask Dan what he thinks. This
> of course disenfranchises those people who are not BrickLink members. With
> chat peek/lurk turned off, the strain of having many many members present
> might be overwhelming. Please do not ask me to use AIM or IRC, I just will
> not, it's not an option and I have my reasons.
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> I am also not sure of the protocol for asking questions and taking turns. I
> asked more questions than anyone else in the room by a huge margin... IF you
> counted all the questions as mine. Otherwise it was below average, actually!
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> One could argue that Brad should have called on me exclusively till the
> questions I was relaying were exhausted... I did not ask every one I got,
> due to time.
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> But the attendees have paid to be there, and that would seem to be unfair to
> them. They ought to get first crack or at least a majority of the time for
> Q&A, ne?
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> So I would throw it open to, (and would look for guidance from) Christina
> and other organizers as well as from LD themselves on how they want to do • this.
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> That said I don't want this to become some huge production. Maybe all of the
> above is overblown and we should just go with the flow. I dunno. Dear
> reader, what do YOU think?
Go with the flow. If you're able to, be our live on the spot reporter. No need
for this to be a huge production that could distract you or take away from your
enjoyment.It was pretty much off the cuff last year and that was good.
I'd prefer any commentary be kept at lugnet.events.brickfest and not BrickLink.
Julie
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| (...) I like that idea... (...) What I meant was that because BL has a chat area it would be a good place for the dynamic part. But because it also has a chat buffer capture (if you're a moderator) I could capture what all transpired and repost it (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| (...) Yes... (...) I would be glad to type faster than I usually do as long as people could tolerate more than my usual number of misteaks. (1) :-), assuming that the facilities exist (last year I was able to leverage a network connection that was (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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