[BLU/Officers] Online for August meeting.
David Kramer
david at thekramers.net
Mon Aug 17 13:13:26 EDT 2020
I forget, did we consider Discord for streaming and chat?
On 8/11/20 5:07 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto:gaf.linux at gmail.com>>
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:29 AM John Abreau
> <abreauj at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
>
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com
> <mailto:gaf.linux at gmail.com>>
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 1:10 AM John Abreau
> <abreauj at gmail.com <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto:gaf.linux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks JABR
>
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> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 12:18 AM John
> Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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.
>
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