And it works because it's not just one persons effort. We have 7 chat
hosts, each with their own evening, a forum host who has those who
contribute topics like programming lessons, a file library guru who
organizes the files, and plenty of folks who act as backups.
And like Paul mentioned, we tend to get together at KFest because we have
as big a blast with each other in person, as we do online. B-{)
: Hundreds of other sites offer the same thing.
: If you have a DSL connection and a computer
: that stays on all the time, you could create
: a non-web based meeting place.
This is true. But the problem remains that it'll likely be a one person
effort, at least to start, and hitting an arbitrary critical mass for the
efforts to begin to seem worthwhile is really a crapshoot.