Greetings from Austin, TX. I'll keep this brief: I want one of you, or a few of you, to create a tribe for SF Bay Area night shift workers and work to promote it. It is a great community service project. I worked the night shift for 6 months in Seattle, and I have talked to a few other people here in Austin who have worked the shift and I promise you that most know of the shift as being quite miserable. Books, movies, and video games, and the like, are not sufficient for people working the shift. People are social but the night shift generally does not allow people to be social enough. Fixing this problem would help society: the shift is necessary for businesses to function well, but the workers of the shift are fairly neglected. Here is my tribe in Austin: tribes.tribe.net/answ1 Feel free to use the layout.

Promoting: I advertised in the Austin Chronicle for 2 weeks. It was an unsuccessful ad, but I think the problem is that Austin does not have enough businesses open during the 2AM-6AM hours.
Solution: I think that what people in Austin need for developing a social life for night shift workers is successful models. SF Bay Area is a more populated region that probably has many businesses open for night shift workers. A tribe that caters to the night shift will help workers and businesses. Businesses can promote events such as the broadcasting of a rugby match @ 4AM @ such-and-such deli.

Thanks for your time,
Matt