The basic idea is to meet once a month for a video chat and discuss a book of interest to the GOSH community. It’s an open invite to join and you can also join the discussion even if you didn’t read the book. This is simply intended as a way to keep in touch and share ideas/resources about anything relevant to the GOSH movement (e.g., open science, open hardware, social movements, etc.).
I’ve created a Riot room here. Please join it to sign up for “the club”. For those who don’t know what Riot is, it’s like an open-source slack with clients for all browsers/phones, etc. There’s also a main GOSH channel which you should also join!
Also, if anyone has experience organizing global video calls (picking a time/day that works across multiple timezones), please speak up and share any tips!
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There is not much competition, the Rat-catcher can command a good price for his work.
The only times and circumstances when a Rat-catcher gives his services gratis is simply because he wants the live Rats for Ratting with parties of gentlemen.
The expenses of travelling come very heavy sometimes, for wherever the Rat-catcher goes he always has to pay railway fare for himself.
@ryanfobel we can set up a group here on Discourse, to make sure messages only go to members without having to handle their email address lists: http://forum.openhardware.science/groups
I boosted your trust level so you should be able to set one up and add everyone who replies here manually, then there’s a box in setup to allow future members to request to join.
So time to finally get the ball rolling on this huh? I propose that we meet on the 2nd week of the month starting in December. I created a dudle poll (an open-source version of doodle suggested by @leosehn) to see what day of the week works best and whether people would prefer to meet once a month or every two months.
Based on the timezone information posted by everyone, I think our best bet is to try for a start time of 2pm GMT. This means starting at 9-11am for people in the Americas, 3-5pm for Europe/Africa, and 10pm for those in Asia. Could probably shift a bit either way, but any more than that and it’ll be the middle of the night for a big chunk of us. If anyone has suggestions for a better way to choose a meeting time, please speak up ASAP. Otherwise, put in your vote and we can discuss at the first meeting.
I figure many people can probably find time to read the “Rat-catcher book” (it’s only 70 pages) before the first meeting or alternatively, the first meeting can just be a hangout to discuss how to organize things going forward.
Also, since we maybe don’t have enough time for everyone to read a book before the first meeting, we could use that time for people to each “pitch” a book and then we could have a vote and setup a reading list/schedule for the next few months. What do people think of that idea?
It seems nice. But maybe we can decide in each meeting the next steps, by consensus and based on how we are feeling. I believe that could be more flexible.
And I think we could start by the book you suggested, just to take a first step. Or just chat. Both approaches seem good.
So we had 8 people fill out the poll and Thursday was the clear consensus. I think I may have been a bit ambitious aiming for the 2nd week December, so maybe we can start 2nd week of January (Jan 10th, 2019) instead? That’ll give people time to read the “Rat catcher” over the holidays and start 2019 off on the right foot! Most people seemed to prefer meeting every 2nd month.
I’ve created a recurring google calendar event (will also send an invite to anyone I have an email for). Does anyone have permission to add it to the GOSH Community calendar? I think @shannond mentioned that she could setup a zoom call. Look forward to chatting with everyone on Jan 10th!
