Public chats are great - provided you can find one on a topic that interests you. Unfortunately we don't have an official directory of Public Chats (yet), so here's an unofficial one. If you're hosting a Public chat or know good ones, please help other Skype users find out.

We want to give Skype hardware for hosts of most active public chats. We can't participate in all public chats, so we have to limit this to hosts who have added the contact publicchatfan to their chat before the 12th of March. It's not a contest for the most chat messages. Think of it as a small Thank you to users who have helped to make Skype more useful, fun or both. I'be announcing six lucky winners here on the 19th of March. One of them receives a Philips VOIP 321 phone and five will receive a Logitech webcam.

And here's a tip from Voidstar if you want to find out about more public chats, but can't find them in the directory - search for joinpublicchat which is an integral part of any public chat code and you'll see them beautifully displayed in your favourite search engine. Just some link "engineering" needed later

See the unofficial directory of public chats