Google Wave for Nerdfighters (I have Invites)

[Grant]

I'm on Google Wave sometimes. ([e-mail]) But... I have nobody to talk to. And who better to talk to than Nerdfighters?

I am proposing a giant Nerdfighter Wave. This isn't as easy as it sounds, though... Wave invites are hard to come by, and I am running out of invites (you start off with 15). Are we ready to start the monumental task of getting every NingFighter to the Google Wave? We can even get a Ningmaster to embed the wave on the homepage.

The Actual Gameplan
To start off, I will invite a 5 or 6 people from this Ning. These first people I invite have great responsibilities (because that comes with great power. :P).

1. Get an invite. Post your email address (has to be a Gmail, i think) in this forum
OR message someone with an existing invite.

2.Wait for your invite (these can take up to two weeks to get sent).

3. Once you sign up with your invite, post your Wave address in the forum (for example, mine is [e-mail]). Edit your original post to let people know that you already have an invite so they don't invite you again. Then, Start waving! Get used to the controls and layout and learn how to wave.

4. Join the NerdFighter Wave that I will set up. Message me with your Wave address.

5. Invite others! Look through this forum to find others emails, and then go to the Wave that says "Invite Others to Google Wave" And put in their email address.

If exponential growth works the same in the real world as it does in Math Class, we should get everyone Waving pretty quick.... so start posting!

[Kenny]

I've heard people talk about Google Wave, but I still have no clue what it is and I know I'm not alone. Care to explain a bit?

[Grant]

"It's equal parts conversation and document" says Google. :P

From my basic use, it's essentially a mashup of a chat and a forum, and to be completely honest, I don't fully understand it myself. :P

[Daniela U]

i got a google wave. message me if anyone wants to add me! (and i can spare a few invites for nerdfighters once i get some).

[Manda(rific)]

I would love to participate in this, but I'm not on the wave yet. If someone wants to invite me, can you email me at [e-mail] first? I don't wanna post my gmail all over the 'nets. :3

[Ningmaster Tom]

What is Google Wave, you ask?
This video nicely explains the idea in less than 3 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo
If that sparked your interest, you can watch the full 80 minutes presentation from Google, or if you don't have that much time, the most important pieces from that presentation is this ten minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itc4253kjhw

Any e-mail address will do to nominate. For the actual Wave account, you do need a google account, but if need be, you can make one when you sign up for Wave.
The number of invites you get depends. If you're invited by Google (because you signed up for the Wave mailing list some months ago), you get invites pretty much straight away. In the beginning, you got 8 invites, but now that could be as much as 20. If you were nominated by someone, you don't immediately get invites. You might get some later (I got 8 invites after a month), but that's never a certainty.

[0mnipotent0verlord]

YESSSSSSSS.

[e-mail]

[Marley]

I don't want to waste anyone's invites but if someone still has one and doesn't know what to do with it well... [e-mail] and if not that's cool too :D