[BLU/Officers] MIT just cancelled all classes

[John Abreau]

Do we know of a good online video conference platform that's free, runs on
Linux as well as MacOS and Windows, and can support a reasonably large
number of participants? Let's say at least 20 attendees if possible.

Whatever we come up with, I'd really want to test it out at least a couple
of times prior to the actual meeting, so we can work out any technical
issues ahead of time. It would also be ideal if the results could be
simultaneously live-streamed to youtube so we have a permanent record of
the meeting.




On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 9:47 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:

> I don't have any contacts at akemai. What I would like to see is a more
> professional studio where we can do a reliable online meeting where some
> people can participate, but if not maybe just youtube presentations. I
> would hope we can go back to human meetings in a few months.
>
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 7:54 AM Kurt Keville <kurt.keville at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> While MIT has mostly left of the definition of a "large group" to the
>> reader, Harvard clearly believes it to be 25 people. If the students do not
>> return to campus this semester it will be progressively hard to justify
>> in-person meetings at MIT, regardless of the actual infection rates. Do we
>> have another location? Akamai?
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:37 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'll send out an announcement
>>>
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>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 9:55 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've updated the BLU calendar to show that next week's BLU meeting is
>>>> cancelled.
>>>>
>>>> I also deleted it from our google calendar.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:21 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My thinking is to schedule April and May as virtual. Let's concentrate
>>>>> on next week right now.
>>>>>
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>>>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 6:13 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 5:56 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think we should cancel at least this month
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Given MIT cancel and Governor declaring Emergency in Mass, yes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've cancelled tonight's Perl, and am wondering if we should do
>>>>>> virtual meeting in April.
>>>>>>
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