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View Poll Results: What day of the week should the BA live video chat be?
Monday 2 3.77%
Tuesday 3 5.66%
Wednesday 8 15.09%
Thursday 4 7.55%
Fri/Sat/Sun 42 79.25%
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Old 25-February-2008, 08:49 PM
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Hey BABlogees and BAUTers-

I want to do the live video chat on a regular weekly basis (and maybe even more often in the future). However, I'm not sure what day is best. The time needs to be in the late afternoon/early evening Mountain (US) Time for me, but the day is pretty much open. So I've started this poll to see what everyone else thinks.

There are only 5 options allowed, so I lumped Fri/Sat/Sun into one day -- if any one of those days is good for you, vote for that option. If it gets a huge number of votes, then I'll do a second poll to narrow it down.
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Old 25-February-2008, 10:54 PM
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Friday's out for me; it's my therapy day. Saturday, I have Planned Social Activities. (Hanging out with a couple of friends.) But any other day is fine.
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Old 25-February-2008, 11:13 PM
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Sunday night sounds like a plan for me. I never do anything then.

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I say Sunday, its not like us skeptics do anything on that day.
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Old 25-February-2008, 11:31 PM
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I'd say Friday, as early as possible.
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I say weekend, we kids have homework afternoon and evening all the other days.
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Old 26-February-2008, 02:57 AM
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The day doesn't matter as much to me as advance notice so that I can be sure my daughter is otherwise occupied/supervised during that time.
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A weekend is best so as to give us Aussies a chance to participate. Evening in Boulder equates to very early morning for us.
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Sunday night. Just like my girlcrush Janie.
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Old 26-February-2008, 05:20 AM
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Days of the week aside, a live chat should be held as close as possible to the end of the calendar month so that people (like myself) with a limited download allocation can burn their spare change on something educational!

I don't know what other countries are like, but in Australia, ISP Broadband plans are usually capped and limit you to only a few GB per month. It's a monthly tradition to burn this on useless crap. I urge Phil in the strongest terms to put an end to this barbaric practice.

...and regarding this month, surely a live chat on February 29 is relevant to Astronomy!
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Friday night for me!

Early results are in: monday sucks. :X
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Weekend nights are better for your non-US participants (so we can sleep in next morning!)
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I don't know what other countries are like, but in Australia, ISP Broadband plans are usually capped and limit you to only a few GB per month.
Ours is unlimited.
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Well, Sunday is certainly the front runner. I'll probably do one again this Sunday, and see how it goes.
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well with the weekends a have 50/50 chance of those days off.
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Do we have to keep checking the boards to find out the day or will you send out an email
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Heh, thanks Tinaa. I was just about to post that.
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