Morendil comments on Less Wrong Book Club and Study Group - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Morendil 09 June 2010 05:00PM

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Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 09 June 2010 09:28:11PM *  4 points [-]

I think this could be a fun project.

Besides IRL (which is hard to organize) I think other real time communication could be tried out as well. What do you think about the following options:

  • Traditional IRC
  • Google wave
  • Skype conference call
  • Realtime desktop sharing (e.g. mikogo up to 10 participants.)

Does anyone know a good IRC infrastructure that allows for quickly entering and displaying TeX formulas?

Comment author: Morendil 10 June 2010 06:52:15AM 3 points [-]

Other LWers have used IRC before, so that would be a good option to prolong our discussions. The difficulty I anticipate is dealing with time zones. People who have responded to the post are from all over the map.

Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 10 June 2010 09:28:31PM *  1 point [-]

I think some interactive discussion would definitely help to keep up the spirit.

I'd definitely be interested in joining a real time discussion if there is enough substance for an clear agenda. Using IRC with pidgin-latex sounds good to me.

It is also not strictly necessary that everybody participates at the same time: we could have two meetings, for two different time zones discussing the same topic.