>>>Does Casey = me?  If so, I don't recall wanting anything. :-)  If not,

could you clarify?

Happy New year Casey.

I knew you never sleep. Thanks. Been lurking for a few years now, so I have some (a little) idea of how much (whew!) you must be across and the internal/external dynamics.

As per this one 

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/comproj/2007-December/000486.html

If you’re “adding it to the agenda”, it’s something you see as necessary to revisit just now. I agree. As I’ve said, Wikizine is a natural place to start in reforming to comms as per Eric’s proposal last year. WW is a natural complement for those who prefer “radio”. I really would also like a brain dump from you, especially if Eric’s got his feet under the desk now. After 12 months of going around his head, he must have a pretty good vision for how he sees things panning out. 

I really don’t like skypecast because it’s just another comms island but at least it gives groups an idea of the tools available. I don’t see we will have to work very hard at introducing a few modern tools here. As we saw over on the Wikimania threads, a month of discussing an appropriate time, at an IRC place, stymies things initially, until a new routine falls into place. Seems the chapters groups suffer the same complaint. 

There are a number of tools and domains I could point to, but I’d like to be strategic about this, so could you ask Eric and whoever to consider the OU as a potential partner. It is, I’m pretty sure, the largest online uni in the world, so they’ve got the same comms challenges and perspectives that the WMF has. Labspace is an initiative funded by HP ($5M) and the guys have a bunch of tools which would be useful, have legs, and are OPEN.

I always take a low key approach to these things, so here’s where I’m starting over there. http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=20#p23 (at the bottom) 

If you want to get a feel for the tools, and what msg is about, you’ll just have to have a play. If you wanted to do a little outreach why don’t you say a few words over there. 

And please, either continue to talk or tell me to F*** off. I don’t want to waste your time or mine. regards