To promote our impending launch, I think it would be cool to have a launch party. Some elements that it could include:
Live text chat
Live audio
A call-in show format, using BlogTalkRadio.
People identifying favorite site content to date.
A ribbon-cutting in which we count down to a SE staff pe...
I agree with @WAF that divrei Torah would be most appropriate. How about a few of us agreeing to prepare a short-and-to-the-point message for broadcast?
@IsaacMoses Do we have suitable candidates from within our community? (I was thinking we should highlight some of our contributors, not bring in outsiders to talk to/about us.)
@Alex The only time I ever remember seeing Jeopardy, I was doing mivtza tfilin in an old-age home (where else to see Jeopardy?). The question was actually something to do with how Hebrew writes tes-vov to avoid what problem?
@MonicaCellio My first thoughts were Joel Spolsky and a Rabbi-blogger who's helped promote m.y and who has participated here, but neither was expecting to be available.
@MonicaCellio I mean, we could have a panel discussion featuring a bunch of us, but (unless any of us are a little famous) it won't bring in people from outside
@IsaacMoses You know - one person spits out a number and the fastest one to give a valid submission for that number gets a point and gives the next number.
@MonicaCellio I actually have a list of Jewish "groups of three" that I drew up ages ago, so I can send it along to Isaac or whoever volunteers to coordinate the games
@IsaacMoses A Hangout is a multi-user video chat. A Hangout "On Air" is said video chat, but with the added feature that you can watch it without joining/having a camera, and it's automatically saved and uploaded to youtube (privately) so there's a record of it.
:4512903 I was thinking that a moderator (not JE-mod, but panel-mod) could prepare some starter questions, perhaps drawn from some of our best content, and then callers could ask more.
@Alex The panel mod and the panelists should work together to fiture out some good topic(s). Surprises make for weaker panels unless the panelists are used to that kind of public speaking.
@IsaacMoses torah on the internet and torah about being on the internet, among things?
@IsaacMoses - Have you contacted Gil Student and Mordechai Torczyner? They were helpful in promoting m.y 1.0, and may be willing to participate in the launch.
@MonicaCellio There's at least one good woman speaker I know from working with her at Chabad.org (though mostly she talks about relationship topics). I could sound her out, though then again it also gets into that matter of fees
@IsaacMoses I know she delivers lectures both in person and via video on that site, but I don't know whether specifically she deals with 'Net issues. I can ask, though.
Somebody from Mechon Hadar/Yeshivat Hadar? And/or Hebrew College? (I'm thinking institutions that are intentionally cross-cutting but with enough traditional foundation to not bother people.)
To get this going, with panelists, we need to: 1) line up panelists and a topic. 2) Prepare ads 3) Get the ads out there 4) allow time to pass between the ads and the party 5) Have the party
@Alex sounds about right. Also, we need somebody to take point on the panelists -- keep track of who we're reaching out to and who's doing that, so we don't drop or double-contact anyone.
@IsaacMoses I work for a multinational company, and I keep on saying the same thing about trying to schedule meetings. Hashem really should have made the world flat, in my opinion!
@IsaacMoses Google says it's currently 6:17AM in Israel (7 hours from EDT).
On the other hand, if the party runs for a couple hours and people at the time-zone "edges" aren't necessarily there for all of it, they can still participate if we structure it well.
@AdamMosheh He started with the intention to do so, but then decided to make it round after all. We commemorate this by starting Pesach by eating flat round matzah, and then moving on to matzah balls.
What about Mark Frankel, from BeyondBT.com? He works as a software designer, so he would probably be into a website such as mi.yodeya. Also, he is not a rabbi.
@AdamMosheh It was really early. He was waiting for there to be more content before he'd link to it. I never followed up, as far as I can tell from my email records.
OK, Planning Meeting Adjourned. Thanks very much to everyone for your lively participation.
To promote our impending launch, I think it would be cool to have a launch party. Some elements that it could include:
Live text chat
Live audio
A call-in show format, using BlogTalkRadio.
People identifying favorite site content to date.
A ribbon-cutting in which we count down to a SE staff pe...
