I guess I should wade into this discussion since it has been going on for a while. While I hope the forum will one day have a chat room for the forum, I do not think we currently have a large enough membership base to support a chat room..

One of the benefits I have found with forums is the fact that you are able to search the posts to find answers to question you might have months after they were discussed. With a chat room, once it has been posted, the conversation is lost to the rest of the members of the forum since they will not be able to benefit from the information.

Also due to the fact that our membership is almost evenly divided between Europe and North America, scheduling a weekly chat would not really work either. It is a good suggestion, don't get me wrong, but we would almost have to have two different chat times. One for our European members, and one for our North American members since If I scheduled the chat at 7:00 pm MST, which should work for North America, Since it would only be 9:00 PM on the East coast and 6:00 PM on the West, it would be 3:00 AM in Frankfurt, Germany.

Maybe once our membership grows, we can add a chat room. Thanks for the suggestion.

Jason