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Re: CHAT: 10-year anniversary (was Re: CHAT: Re: More enter-bringings)

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Monday, March 6, 2000, 17:44
* Jeffrey Henning <Jeffrey@...> [000306 17:27]:
> > If we've long enough to arrange something, I think it'd be cool to try and > > get as many current (and any willing past) listmembers under one roof as > > possible for a Megaconlangcon (or would it be a Conlangmegacon? ;-) > > Given our geographic dispersion, that would be difficult. It might make > sense to have a multicast party, with a center on the West Coast U.S., in > the Northeast U.S., in the Southern U.S., in England, in France, in > Scandinavia, etc.
Going by plane for a forthnight in London is a lot cheaper than visiting the north of Norway for a weekend so a boink in England (and I think it's the same for Sweden and Denmark pricewise) might get some visitors from the scandinavian ikea-purchasing socialists :)
> The cool thing would be to have the centers use video phones on > their computers to see one another and to do the party at the same > global time. A virtual party, as it were.
Definitely! t. -- "What? You mean one liter of gas costs less than $1.50? You're shittin' me!"