Collaboration and Voice chat

I like the idea of having MSN as a way to contact each other. I don't have internet at home to much at the moment, but I am willing to put up my e-mail, which is another way to contact each other(besides on the forums). aresir56@gmail.com is for both. Hope to hear from someone!

Skype is a great way to chat with one another vocally, and even with a cam if one were so inclined. You can have several people in one conversation as well, and it is completely free to download and use between computers.
I highly recommend Skype it's a great program, with fewer problems than MSN chat (In my experience). Google wave as I understand it is limited to those who have Google chrome, and teamspeak and ventrillo (I believe) have to be paid for, at least in my experience teamspeak did, and I've never had the opportunity to use Ventrillo.

I am very much inclined towards the idea of using Skype to collaborate in story making. It seems that, from the posted works I have read, Gallidon has been almost entirely comprised of single-author works. Certainly there are instances where one author plays off of the story of another, or 'borrows' another author's characters, but for a large part the stories are each stand-alone in our common world.

This method is great, and part of the allure of Gallidon, but it also prevents us from taking the big steps that would alter large swaths of the landscape: wars and alliances, natural disasters and the like. By having active collaboration between members, we would be able to reach more-or-less of a consensus regarding world changing events, without giving all of the authority to a single author.

It might be a bit dated, and perhaps if you're running a machine without an up-to-date firewall somewhat precarious, but there's always the possibility of setting up an IRC chatroom. I'm not exactly sure how one would code a java or CGI applet in order for people to enter the chat via the website, but I know it can be done. I would much prefer shiny-shiny Skype/Vent/Google to it, but IRC is free and easy to use, hence my suggestion. ; )

Since it has been mentioned, and I'm not one to shy away from any chance at a collaboration, I do have and constantly use MSN IM. If you email me (valesse@gmail.com)* your MSN contact I'll add you to my friends list.

• : Curiously, my MSN contact is not my posted email address, so don't add the gmail account to your buddy lists. ; )