[BLU/Officers] Online for August meeting.

Tue Aug 11 17:07:53 EDT 2020

Yes, the BLU meeting is on 8/19.

We're running the BLU meeting in Jitsi, and we cannot run BigBlueButton
within Jitsi; we have to run BigBlueButton instead of Jitsi. That's why I
figured it makes sense to do the test on a different day, after the
meeting.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:08 AM Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our Aug meeting is 8/19, correct? If you wanted to try to do an online
> test of BigBlueButton at that meeting, we could work it in ... in the
> spirit of "back to school" this could possibly be helpful to some?
>
> http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2020-aug
>
> https://bigbluebutton.org/
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 7:40 AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Conferencing software designed for teaching might turn out to be a better
>> fit for the kind of presentations we do at our meetings. I figure it's
>> worth giving it a try to see how it differs.
>>
>> Things like Zoom and Google Meet seem to me to be designed with corporate
>> meetings as their primary target audience, and Jitsi seems to be designed
>> as essentially a Zoom clone.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 7:33 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Conferencing software used for teaching is quite different from the
>>> jitsi and zoom models. We will take a look
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
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>>> B B6E7
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:29 AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The weekend is fine with me, too. Let's see when other folks are
>>>> available. I'd like at least 4 or 5 participants so we can kick the tires
>>>> and really put it through its paces.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 6:25 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Aug 21 might be a challenge for me since it is move in day to our
>>>>> new place. I could do the 22nd or 23rd.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>>> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
>>>>> PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7
>>>>> PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1  3050 5715 B88D 6F6
>>>>> B B6E7
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 1:10 AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've heard about BigBlueButton from the GNHLUG list, and it sounds
>>>>>> like it would be useful to try it out so we can compare it to Jitsi.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We're still committed to using Jitsi for August, of course.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can we plan an evening after the upcoming BLU meeting to give
>>>>>> BigBlueButton a try? Perhaps Friday, August 21, or sometime the following
>>>>>> week? What evening is good for everyone's schedule?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It shouldn't take more than 20 minutes or so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://bigbluebutton.org/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 9:36 AM Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ill test the streaming to YouTube part as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I magine a test with you will take no more than 15 minutes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks. Looking forward to this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 07:07 Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks JABR
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
>>>>>>>> PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7
>>>>>>>> PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1  3050 5715 B88D 6F6
>>>>>>>> B B6E7
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 12:18 AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've updated the calendar entries for August and September to show
>>>>>>>>> that we're meeting online with jitsi.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We should come up with a topic and speaker(s) for October soon,
>>>>>>>>> and perhaps as far ahead as January, too. I think it's unrealistic to
>>>>>>>>> schedule out more than six months ahead, but it's always a good idea to
>>>>>>>>> plan as far ahead as is reasonable, so we're not always scrambling at the
>>>>>>>>> last minute.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'll dig through my inbox for that Gentoo guy we invited before
>>>>>>>>> the pandemic. And as long as we're doing online meetings, we don't have to
>>>>>>>>> limit ourselves to the Boston area when inviting speakers.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 8:50 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I assume we are doing jitsi. Please post on web page. I will know
>>>>>>>>>> later today if I will have an internet connection to do you tube.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
>>>>>>>>>> PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7
>>>>>>>>>> PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1  3050 5715 B88D 6F6
>>>>>>>>>> B B6E7
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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