The meetings framing is one of the things I mean. The reference class of meetings is low value. What I’m proposing is that the current threshold for “a big enough chance of being useful to risk a 30 minute skype call” is set too high and that more video calls should happen on the margin. I don’t think these should necessarily be thought of as meetings with clear agendas. Exploratory conversations are there to discover if there is any value, not exploit known value from the first minute.
I agree about the house party parameters. I’d be interested in efforts to host a regular virtual meetup. VR solutions are likely still a couple years off from being reasonably pleasant to use casually (phones rather than dedicated headsets, since most will not have dedicated hardware, but mid-range phones will be VR capable soon)
Virtual meetups seem like they would be good, but in order to gain momentum they need a person who can commit to being on at a certain time, and I currently don’t have that.
I would guess that monthly would work well. Too frequent lowers people’s inclination to show up.
Tinychat has the lowest friction logistics last I checked.
The meetings framing is one of the things I mean. The reference class of meetings is low value. What I’m proposing is that the current threshold for “a big enough chance of being useful to risk a 30 minute skype call” is set too high and that more video calls should happen on the margin. I don’t think these should necessarily be thought of as meetings with clear agendas. Exploratory conversations are there to discover if there is any value, not exploit known value from the first minute.
I agree about the house party parameters. I’d be interested in efforts to host a regular virtual meetup. VR solutions are likely still a couple years off from being reasonably pleasant to use casually (phones rather than dedicated headsets, since most will not have dedicated hardware, but mid-range phones will be VR capable soon)
I agree that changing the framing away from meetings would be good, I’m just not sure how to do that.
Do you fancy running a virtual party?
Virtual meetups seem like they would be good, but in order to gain momentum they need a person who can commit to being on at a certain time, and I currently don’t have that.
I would guess that monthly would work well. Too frequent lowers people’s inclination to show up.
Tinychat has the lowest friction logistics last I checked.