Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Singapore 3

Meetup infobox
I'll like to propose a setting up a meetup infobox. Please see Wikipedia talk:SGpedians%27_notice_board for more information. -ZhongHan (Email)
 * Meetup infobox was created on 6 December. The template page is Meetup/Singapore/Invite. Feel free to improve it. --ZhongHan (Email) 09:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Let our meeting time be constant
The whole purpose of having a meeting time is to ensure that we appear together at the same place at the same time to facilitate physical interaction. Consequently, everyone must be suitably informed of a common time at which we should meet. Off-Wikipedia, I've never had any problems with arranging a common time for meeting my friends.

Then again, what's life without some complication? On 23 November 2006 at 7.59 pm (SST), as I was at my school's graduation dinner, one night before our second meetup, Terence Ong changed the pre-meetup meeting time from 10.30 am to 9.30 am. On the same night at 8.20 pm (SST), Terence once again changed the time from 9.30 am to 9.00 am. What, then, happens if someone visits the page before 7.59 pm the night before the meeting and turns up at 10.30 am the next morning, oblivious to the change in the timing? That almost happened to me, mind you&mdash;I was just too tired to turn up for further activities; I really would have stayed over at my friend's house and then proceeded to City Hall MRT Station at 10.30 am.

I was really annoyed at the arbitrary last-minute change of meeting time the last time. I never thought that a change in meeting time would happen this time round again. On 26 November 2006 at 4.08 am (SST), the meeting time was fixed arbitrarily fixed at noon following an MSN conversation between Terence Ong and Chaerani. On 30 November 2006 at 4.36 pm (SST), Terence changed the meeting time on the meetup page such that it was brought forward by half an hour to 11.30 am. Terence said that this is done to anticipate the fact that people will be late, as they have been for both our previous meetups.

Admittedly, this change wouldn't cause the kind of confusion it did for our previous meetup. After all, people will have ample time to react to the change in meeting time for this meetup. However, I ask: What's the point of a meeting time if it's something to be changed? When is a meeting time ever final, so that participants won't have to check back for any changes after that time frame? Why can't a meeting time be permanent? Surely, not because we should satisfy the whims and fancies of the meetup's organisers.

I didn't revert Terence Ong's change to the meetup time as two wrongs don't make a right. Still, let us make things easier for everyone. Let us not force participants of the meetup to check back here more necessarily than they need to. Let us reduce last-minute enquiries of meeting time. Let us not disadvantage the people among us who don't own a mobile phone, or don't have 24/7 Internet access, and ergo aren't able to be notified of last-minute changes. Amidst all the changes that we'll be making regarding the details of the meetup, let our meeting time be constant. &mdash;Goh wz 13:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Good Gentles
We're getting rather close to the event - can we confirm numbers and details? InfernoXV 11:54, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * They are given until Friday to decide. Details confirmed. Terence Ong 12:17, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Slight postponement
Hi, I'd like to request slight postponement for 10 March. Can you all come to my house at 2.00-2.15 rather than 12.45? I needed to run some errand before that, and just to safeguard that my errands could run a bit stretched.. so you guys go ahead have an extended lunch, and walk to my house at 2.00 arriving 2.15, is this doable? Pls confirm. thanks Chaerani 03:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It will start at 1345. Terence Ong 10:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

InfernoXV is LOST!
User:InfernoXV is currently looking for the address, but he can't find it. Apparently he knows either the block number or unit number, but not both. (I apologise, my mum was calling me while I was talking to him.) Can you contact him at 9424//4261? Ariedartin JECJY Talk 12:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)