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I was in Kasia's group during the CiviCon ecosystem tune-up session. We talked about how to have more community interaction through regular conference calls or Google hangouts or something like that.

I sometimes take part in regular Twitter chats with an informal group of nonprofit community organizers (#commbuild). (I don't think tweet chats are the way to go for the Civi community.) The chats have a few core organizers who make sure that someone from the community signs up to facilitate the chat each week and helps suggest topics, etc. Each time the chat has a different facilitator and a different community-driven topic. The chats are typically Q&A but have also worked well as lightning talks or expert interviews.

There are also monthly Drupal for nonprofits/social change calls which do something similar but I think the same two people facilitate and organize them each month.

Thoughts? Could something like this be sustainable in the Civi community through monthly meetings via phone or video? Or is something like this already going on?