Let's review the results of the poll.
+-------------+-------+----------+ | Option | Votes | Fraction | +-------------+-------+----------+ | Weekly | 9 | 56% | | Fortnightly | 5 | 31% | | Monthly | 2 | 13% | +-------------+-------+----------+ | Total | 16 | 100% | +-------------+-------+----------+
By my arithmetic, the weighted average period between parties for this poll is 2.49 weeks. Unfortunately, this means that whether we hold our parties fortnightly or every third week, we'll be a little off the optimal period.
In the interest of simplicity, I think we should go with fortnightly parties. (This is, after all, technically the best option given the constraint of whole numbers of weeks.)
Therefore, tomorrow's party is postponed until next Saturday, 11 January, and parties will be held every other week after that, unless we decide otherwise.
I'm happy to take further suggestions and ideas.
Bradley
On Wed, 1 Jan 2020, Bradley Gannon wrote:
A good point. I hadn't considered it, but actually I tend to think fortnightly might be a better idea. Let's put it to a vote: strawpoll.me/19162544/ Do speak up if your idea isn't represented as an option in the poll.
I suppose it would be better to start with a less frequent schedule and increase the frequency if we want to.
Bradley
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, fosslinux wrote:
On 2/1/20 3:40 am, Bradley Gannon wrote:
~clubbers:
Just to update you if you couldn't make it, the IRC party on Saturday night was a success. In total, I counted at least 14 attendees, many of whom stayed for some time and discussed various important topics such as:
- the weather - ways to play with and break BitBot - organization and lack thereof - whether or not the party was occurring - other nonsense that I can't recall
I propose that we make this a weekly event. Thoughts?
I like the idea of a regular party. But I think events like this will lose their novelty if we have them weekly; less and less people will attend is my thought. What if we made them fortnightly or monthly?
~ fosslinux