I always had issues with the SM chat room. I prefer a forum thread than chat. I am also on EST, so too late won't work for me, 9pm preferred, 9:30 is ok tho.
I would say to definitely have it in the forum. But we could also chat at the SM chat for those who want to chat.
Now that SM is back up and running I can check to see when the SS are there so that we don't set it up for a date when there is already an SS scheduled.
The only time that wouldn't work this week is this Saturday. Those of us who were at the Northern Virginia lunch on Saturday are doing a scrap-off at 9:00, and we're using the chat room for it. I don't know if I could do two pages at once!