Entrepreneurship brainstorming (how about a virtual session?)

Saw a few people talking about Entrepreneurship brainstorming on Matt's blog comments and wanted to suggest an idea. I'm sure a lot of people are trying to cut down on travel. Why not set up an Entrepreneurship brainstorming session on Skype or IRC? Please post to this thread if you are interested.

~Michael

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rrawal's picture

I think this is a great way

Submitted by rrawal on Mon, Mar 2 2009 - 11:56 AM.

I think this is a great way to broaden the audience. I would be interested

zratchet's picture

What date/time would be good

Submitted by zratchet on Mon, Mar 2 2009 - 12:02 PM.

What date/time would be good for this sort of event? I'm guessing a weekend is likely the best or after 7PM on a weekday?

zratchet's picture

I'd like to see more

Submitted by zratchet on Sat, Mar 7 2009 - 1:16 PM.

I'd like to see more interest, but how about just having an open channel on Freenode? I can try to be in there if a moderator is needed, I'm on *most* but not all of the time...

irc.freenode.net #door64 anyone?

~M

NY2TX's picture

I'm interested, but I truly

Submitted by NY2TX on Sat, Mar 7 2009 - 3:16 PM.

I'm interested, but I truly believe that in-person is the way to go...and I'm willing to travel up from San Antonio to do it. Other than that, if someone can help me work out the virtual part of it, I'd be willing to do it that way too.

zratchet's picture

OK. I'm trying to limit my

Submitted by zratchet on Sat, Mar 7 2009 - 3:20 PM.

OK. I'm trying to limit my travel these days, on the virtual side, pidgin.im provides a free IRC client that is pretty easy to use.

~M

NY2TX's picture

I'm pretty

Submitted by NY2TX on Sat, Mar 7 2009 - 3:32 PM.

I'm pretty tech-stupid...Surprise! And almost a dino when it comes to current tech capabilities. If someone wants to help me, I'll do it virtually. I have Skype but do not have a webcam, for example.

zratchet's picture

http://pidgin.im After

Submitted by zratchet on Sat, Mar 7 2009 - 3:44 PM.

http://pidgin.im

After installing (standard Windows-style installer):

1. Open main Pidgin window, select Accounts from the top menu, and then click Add/Edit. (or it may pop it up automatically the first time you open Pidgin)

2. Click the Add button in the Window that comes up.

3. Select Protocol: IRC from the drop down menu. Enter your name in Screen Name field. Put your server into Server field (in our case irc.freenode.net).

4. Save the account.

5. Close any windows that pop up, then hit Control-C and type #door64 in the window that comes up.

6. A chat room window should come up. If anyone else is in the room they'll be listed in the right hand side of the window.

~M