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Discussion will be happening in this room. Everyone is welcome to participate and voice their opinion.

##Nov JS room meeting

Please raise topics you'd like to discuss with the room. Discussions will be held on Saturday, at evening time for Europe people and Noon for Americans. How about 19:00:33 GMT?

The following topics will be discussed, order of topics will be random:

1. Monthly coding challenges.
2. How to improve room etiquette.
3. Dealing with users who don't know JS and ask very basic questions.
4. The different derivative rooms.
5. Room atmosphere. Some people think it has deteriorated, some think it is fine.
6. How are owners chosen, what responsibilities does it have, and if someone is lacking on their responsibilities should they be owner?
7. The rules page.
8. Private Discussion.

Some things I'd like to discuss:

• Monthly coding challenges
• How to improve room etiquette
• Dealing with users who don't know JS and ask very basic questions

Also: When? Everyone who wants to be involved should be aware of the goings-on and how to participate.

@SomeKittens when should be around next weekend?

That's the weekend before Thanksgiving, so us Americans should be able to make it, though some may be travelling.

The different derivative rooms is something that could be discussed. We've the js room, the es room, and several rooms on miaou. Following recent events we shifted completely to miaou for about a week.

A list of people who want to participate will be nice (anyone want to sacrifice a drive spreadsheet?)

And a final note: We should probably create a room for this event, since it can't be held in the js room (people will still come in, ask questions, be social, etc and interrupt the topic (how rude!)), nor in the ES room (unless every participant already has/should have write access).

If we did it in Google Hangouts I could see all of your pretty faces :)

Topics I would think need discussing:

• Room atmosphere. Some people think it has deteriorated, some think it is fine. We need to get to a consensus here because those who think it's gone to the crapper want to do something about it, and those who do not think we're crazy.
• How are owners chosen, what responsibilities does it have, and if someone is lacking on their responsibilities should they be owner? Open discussion on said topics without fighting would be great!
• The rules page. It is unfinished and has some crap in there that probably needs removal or revisions. I started this repo in the hopes that others would contribute, and aside from spelling/grammar corrections I haven't had much help with content in the rules. Some contributions or an open discussion about what the room rules should be would be great as well.
• Private Discussion. Currently we use IRC or miaou to hold private discussions (not index'ed, no one can transcript lurk). I don't think we should migrate 100% to another site, but it could be VERY beneficial for owner->owner messages if we had a room on miaou that we all checked periodically to get updates meant for owners (i.e. troll accounts, kicks made while people were not present, general owner information like times and dates for these meetings so we don't crowed the pinned list on the JS room). I would like to hear what others think on this.

That is all I can think of right now. Might update with more :P

Huzzah!

@rlemon all these sound Golden.

What about this saturday around 17:00 GMT?

Mind if I join?

Dealing with users who don't know JS and ask very basic questions

Split the JS room into separate rooms: Beginner, Intermediate, Professional, etc (however many levels seem necessary. Three seems fine to me)

Have users prove their knowledge through JS challenges, granting them access to the next room tier. Skipping tiers should be possible in some form.

How do lower tiers recieve help if no-one knows how to do it?
We should have a few brave souls moderating each room, answering questions etc.

(Please keep in mind this comment thread is not for discussion of the topics suggested, but meta-discussion).

Another room for this discussion is fine by me. We should have a moderator keep track of what topic is being discussed, votes, etc. Said moderator should be randomly chosen each month.

This month's randomly chosen moderator of discussion is @SomeKittens , guaranteed by a fair dice roll.

topic: making sure people read rules
possible solution: a simple test where cap asks some questions to users in a dedicated room, like very basic, and if they pass they can be unmuted on this chat?

I've created a poll to help us decide where to host this discussion.

Some conclusions: https://gist.github.com/SomeKittens/ee7d36c171500ed13eb6