By Tom Foremski for Silicon Valley Watcher.com

We've had a wonderful response to the Call of the Rooster, an idea to create a debate society in San Francisco to serve "north Silicon Valley"--twenty years on from the founding of the Churchill Club in Palo Alto.

[Please see The Call of the Rooster...]

The rooster club idea seems to have found a large hole in the zeitgeist, and one that seems more than ready to be filled. The response was so good that it might have had something to do with losing our server Friday for a few hours.

Take a look at some of the responses.

Let's hear from the rank and file not heat-seeking PR missiles says Sun's former comms chief Andy Lark

Great idea. Evenings are such a drag. I would also encourage you to only go off the beaten track in terms of speakers and content. I'm tired of the AO crowd and VCs. I'd like to hear more from the people changing the Valley and doing the work. Not the heat-seeking, PR missiles.

Charlene Li, Forrester's super star internet analyst says rooster club can reach out to SF's super smart women, a group that needs more inclusion in the valley.

I think the name is not nearly as important as the outreach to women. It’s pretty depressing to go to events like Syndicate, SuperNova, and Web 2.0 and see such an overwhelming number of men compared to women, in both the attendees and the speakers. There’s no better place to reach out to smart, techie women than in SF and I’d like to make sure that the word gets out to them.

Bruce Lowry Novell's comms chief says count me in

I completely agree, Tom. As a North Bay type, I particularly like that you added the North Bay. There are some important tech companies up here - Autodesk being the biggest - but also a lot of startups doing interesting things (Mindjet comes immediately to mind). I like the Churchill Club events, but getting down the Peninsula is tough. Doing things in the City would be much better. When Churchill does do gigs in the City, they're always well attended. And, as a nascent corporate blogger, I'm a fan of the blogging component, too. Now if I could only come up with a good Rooster metaphor.

So count me in!

Debbie Landa, CEO of under the radar events firm IDB Networks is a big fan of the rooster

Tom, you know I'm a fan of this. Actually, many of our IBDNetwork members have been asking us to do events in the city again. Our events are definitely different from the Churchill Club, and there is always a need for the dealmaker events, but I'd be into the Rooster Club too.

Cisco's fast tracker Ron Piovesan says a more cutting edge discusion suits San Francisco's style

I like this idea. What is cool, I think, is that Churchill Club focuses on more established names. I think a "Rooster" club in SF would be good if it focused on new ideas, business models and so on (not that you can't find that in established names, mind you.) I think a more cutting edge discussion suits the personality of the city more as well.

Chris Dichtel notes that the rooster is often vane...but points in the right direction

Plus, a rooster is a common adornment on weather vanes, giving you that steady indication of which way the winds are blowing.

And there are a ton of emails to go through...

I'm going to move the rooster discussion to its own place but in the meantime, I'm tagging rooster related posts and will publish your rooster pieces if you'd like to email them to me: tom at siliconvallewatcher.com. I will also update the Call of the Rooster post, adding more metaphors and guiding principles sent in by our readers.

How about: Don't scratch at the door of the future--come into the henhouse and help make the future--join the rooster club! A salon of peers rather than podiums.

Sign up sheets are coming...

Oh, and I just realized that I was born in the Chinese year of the Rooster.

Here is the genesis post: The Call of the Rooster

Emasculate the Rooster but keep the cojones-No unproductive reproductive organ discussions please :-)