Please come to Chat on Monday, May 7 at 10:00 pm EDT for a planning meeting for our Launch Party. You can register for the chat and get a doodad for your calendar here.
Purpose:
Plan a party to celebrate our launch out of beta and possibly also act as a tool for promoting the site to new users...
BTW, anyone who's interested in a little Lag Ba'Omer Torah: See the second paragraph of this Hirhurim post, then see Kli Yakar to Bereshis 9:14 for an interesting explanation of that statement about the Rashbi (first paragraph of Kli Yakar in this link).
@HodofHod Yes, thank you. I hope I'll be able to stop by.
A bar joke is a very common and basic type of joke. The basic syntax of this type of joke is "A man walks into a bar and ". The initial perception of the joke is that a man is walking into a bar to have a drink, but this only lasts a few seconds as the punchline is quickly uttered. This joke has gained an incredible amount of variants over the years. It is often used by comedians and people telling jokes to their friends.
Variants
The bar joke has a large number of variations. The types of variations include puns or word plays (the man walks into a bar and pulls out a tiny piano and a 1...
According to the Shulchan Aruch (YD 114:1) it is forbidden to drink beer in the same place as non-Jews do, i.e. bars. This is not a kashrus concern, but rather is forbidden out of concern that Jews will come to socialize overly much with non-Jews and come to eat with them. The Rama there writes...
Puts a little bit of a damper on the "A priest a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar..." jokes.
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.
@IsaacMoses If we are looking for non-rabbi promoters, then he might be someone to whom we could reach out. Didn't someone say that we should look for Jewish personalities besides rabbis to endorse and advertise mi.yodeya?
Who knows one hundred?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point in the future, subject to holiday and user activity delay, I will:
Upvote all interesting answers.
Accept the best answer.
Go on to the next number.
Here's the meeting transcript.
Key decisions:
The party will be, B"H, on Sunday, June 3, 2012, at 9pm IST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT.
We will spend the next week (through Monday, May 14) trying to assemble panelists for a panel discussion.
Isaac will re-contact R' Torczyner and Joel Spolsky and wi...
Got four answers for 300 hundred so far. 5 if you count the one above. @IsaacMoses Is it proper etiquette to post them in one answer, or one per answer? I've seen both.
@IsaacMoses As you know, I contacted R' Micha Berger about panelizing. I do not see that I got a reply. Shall I contact him again, or do you wish to, or shall I await your replies from others before such an attempt?
@WAF I love setting puzzles, though I'm not sure about my skills at it. But if you want a hand in any way, please let me know.
Ok, 100, here we go!
The Heichal of the second Beish Hamikdash was 100 amos tall. -msh210
..and 100 amos long.
..and 100 amos wide.
Brochos to say each day -JeremyR
100 times ש״ם is written in Tehillim. -Yahu
100 amos2 where the Kohanim walked on top of the exterior altar. -msh210
100 childre...