[BLU/Officers] Online for August meeting.

Mon Aug 17 13:25:56 EDT 2020

No, it wasn't one of the options we looked at. It worked well for the
Boskone trial run a couple days ago, although the panels were held in Zoom
Meet sessions, not Discord.

My understanding is that if we wanted to use Discord for BLU meetings, we
would have to run our own server. Is that correct?

Jitsi has worked well for a couple of meetings, although I'm disappointed
that there appears to be no option to save the chat text.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 1:14 PM David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> 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> 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
>>>>
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>>>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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>>>> 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
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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>
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>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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