This is an idea that was brought up in this thread, but I thought it needed its own seperate thread, especially in light of today's annoucement of a new service by Skype:
It looks like Skype just introduced 100-person conferencing (link) for free as a "Skypecast", which means that a moderator determines who can speak. It looks like that they will be listing all the different Skypecasts on their website (which will allow people to find Skypecasts of interest to them).
This seems like a perfect format for us, or other transhumanists, cryonicists, etc, that are seperated by distance, but have a good following. It might be interesting to try this out, also the fact that you can list it on Skype's "Skypecast" page (not many listed yet since this is the first day the service is available, but you can search, list by start time, etc.) might help promote the conferences to others that are interested.
It basically seems like a very large conference call that is moderated by someone so that everyone isn't talking over themselves the whole time. (excellent feature, imo)
So, what do you guys think? Would this be beneficial for us? (or the WTA, or anyone else for that matter) It could also be used for board meetings for the leadership here, or monthly (or bi-monthly, or quarterly, etc.) "meetings" for ImmInst as a whole. If we had a meeting once a quarter it might generate more interest than just a once a month meeting, perhaps?
Edited by liveforever22, 04 May 2006 - 02:56 PM.