[BLU/Officers] Online meetings

[Jerry Feldman]

Some of our speakers may have access to a video conferencing system. We
certainly could have the speaker give his/her talk via YouTube. But, our
next speaker is Federico who has access to BlueJeans
<https://www.bluejeans.com/>.
In the future, we can explore ways to be able to conduct online meetings
where the audience will be able to interact with the speaker.

We would need to secure a location with a high enough bandwidth for the
speaker, or the speaker could present from his/her home or work.
We would probably need to buy a license that would allow our members to
connect. (Possibly Boston User Groups could use its funds to acquire a
license). For us, we must be able to use Linux. I'm sure most support
Android.

Zoom is $14.99/Mo
SamePage has a free option. Prices start at $7.50/User
RingCentral $14.99/Mo
jitsi https://jitsi.org/ Free/Open source. We may be able to use this.
Source is on github.
Google Hangouts Meet
Talky (https://talky.io/) built on jitsi

Let's take a look at the above list and add or subtract. I would like to be
able to test 1 or more of these online within a few days among us. I would
prefer all of John, Me, Kurt, Bill, and Dave. I think John is the key here
since he does not really have home internet.

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