Weekly+Availability

==**List the times of the week you are available to meet, so that we can find a mutual time to get together. Make sure to list time zones, as Laura is a West coaster.** ==

====**Monday - Thursday: 6 pm - 8 pm EDT (if after this time is absolute I'll stay up, but I am an early to bed/early riser normally) ** ====


====**Monday-Friday: 7-9 pm EDT (if it needs to be earlier, I can work this out with my husband, I will just need a little notice) ** ====

**(I am a night owl, so if we need to do something later at night, that is fine with me.) **

 * ====**I can make this schedule more flexible if necessary, but it might take a little bit of tweaking* ** ====

**Monday - Friday: after 6 p.m. Eastern **
====**Saturday/Sunday: I can meet at any time if necessary.  ** ====


====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">I am usually in Seattle for my internship Mon-Fri between 9-1p PST (12-4p EST) and then I go to the gym until 6pm or so but I can alter that when needed. My preference then would be after 7p EST Monday through Friday. Saturdays and Sundays are good anytime except early morning. ** ====

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">Gina Minks: Monday - Friday: After 6 P.M. except Thurs, when my availability is from 6 - 8:30 Sat/Sun: Most any time, I'll let you guys know as I have a couple of dentist appts coming up and we have tickets for the BC FSU game (my birthday is Oct 1, its my present) :) I agree with Kendall's suggestion, except we've already missed this week, and next week we also have to meet with Tristan.


 * Team Chat comments** (added by AJ):

For our team chat, how long do we need? If it's an hour, 7 - 8 p.m. Eastern looks good for all - perhaps we can go with Wednesdays or Thursdays. Any thoughts? I will be happy to arrange the chats. I think a combination of audio and visual would be best so we can collaborate on documents and view them while editing. I'm signing up for another free trial of Centra, so I can establish a chat for us, and we can use my audio conference line for ease of conversation (Centra offers VOIP audio, but it's harder to have a real conversation.) Any alternate solutions to propose, or is this agreeable to all? (Please add your thoughts below.)

KS: I think that setting the meetings for an hour is good because it will keep us focused. I am sure we will be communicating a lot during the week, so the conference calls can be dedicated to what is not accomplished through our other modes of communication. I have been working on DimDim, which is great for website and document sharing. Everyone would need access to a webcam and would need to set up a free account. I am just throwing that suggestion out there, but I am open to anything. Do you guys think we shoud have a backup plan in place in case our primary method of communication goes bad? That happened in my other groups several times in the past semesters.Either Wednesday or Thursday is fine with me.

<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">LG: Going on the above information, why don't we agree to Wednesday 7-8 EDT? I know as the week goes on, the more exhausted I get (you'll know what I mean when you're a little older LOL). Can't say the same for Gina though, you seem to exude energy all the time :) I've got a camera built into my display on my laptop, so I'm good there. <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 0);"> GM: GAH! I need to set FriendFeed to send me emails. I didn't realize we set a chat time SORRY and disregard that part of my email! :) Alisa, with the free trial in Centra, how many participants can you have at once? I use Centra to teach remote classes, and the VOIP only gets wonky if more than 2 people are talking at once - but we have dedicated servers. I'm ok with Wed 7 - 8, but I'd be happy to meet informally if anyone is up to it tomorrow (Sunday) perhaps to test the Centra/conference line setup? And Lea Ann --- did you just call me old!!!!!! <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Haha if I did it was inadvertent, you should take it as a compliment that you have so much energy and the ability to juggle all that you do. If you want me for testing, I'm here all day except for a trip to the gym in late afternoon (I'm worthless after that so I put it off til end of day). I'll keep AIM on so if I'm away from the computer I'll hear it go off.