Thanks for the email Mike, I was planning to send out something similar but you beat me to it. I definitely would like to have a meeting of Wikibookians and other well-wishers, and I would like to make it a regular thing. Even if we only met monthly or bimonthly for 30 minutes, that would be enough to get some dedicated communication going. Of course, I would like longer meetings more frequently then that, but I'd be happy with anything we could get. Getting more participants is paramount, I think. Of course, there is a symbiotic relationship between books and contributors. More of one will lead to more of the other, which leads to more of the first, etc. My strategy has been to try and solicit book donations, which will generate press and enthusiasm among participants. There has been only mild success in this area, I think we're limited by a lack of advertising: Not enough people know about our accomplishments, and we need to get more proactive about things if we want to start turning a "profit" of contributors. Working up partnerships with other charitable organizations would be great. We could get groups to donate books to us, or get their volunteers to write books on our website, etc. If we could tie it in to a relevant event, that would just generate more press. One of my ideas would be getting a book about breast cancer going during "National Breast Cancer Month" or something like that. You could repeat this with any other group that has a "...awareness day" or "...awareness month" and information worth sharing. Anyway, I would like to schedule some kind of online meeting. IRC is preferred by me, but Skype works also. If we can't find a single time when many people can attend, we could just schedule multiple meetings and expect partial turnout for each. We just need a way to discuss ideas for growth, concerns about current on-wiki events, etc. I'd love to hear what other people think about this. --Andrew Whitworth On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Mike.lifeguard <mikelifeguard(a)fastmail.fm> wrote: