Yeah, the dining idea may become more like herding cats, if it worked it would be great, I've always wanted to see cats herded.
The threads would be ""scrubbed"" of person IDs before sharing and the ""author"" of the thread would HAVE to give permission before the thread was included in the ""quotable moments"" at MOTM. These may be better displayed as a screen saver/scrolling message on the main screens between sessions, and that may be the best way to share a bunch of them.
On the Sage presentation at the meeting - we'll have the Town Hall again, which is a Q&A of sorts with Sage. Sage usually responds with ""Linda may know that"" or ""just send any of us an email"" which aren't answers, just dodges. Not sure I follow what you mean by 'old days chat was public...' Old MOTM meetings?