This is the rare month when 3d Wednesday immediately follows 2nd Tuesday. Since one of our own is presenting to Boston Linux Unix on Wednesday 4/15, rather than try to whip up a compelling remote meeting of our own, I'm inviting us to join their remote meeting. There may not be a much/any Perl, but Federico Lucifredi is a Perl Monger at heart and does fun presentations.
BLU starts their meetings with informal Q&A at 6:30pm ET. The livestream MIGHT start before then or closer to traditional speaker start time of 7:15pm. With a non-physical meeting they MIGHT let the speaker start earlier. A few of us with multiple screens will try to bridge comments from Jitsi Text, YouTube text chat, and #BLU IRC (irc.freenode.org) to Federico's attention. I might even notice Q's in #boston.pm (irc.perl.org) BLU abstract is : > We are resuming the meetings and trying our hand at a virtual format this > month. Federico has volunteered to begin this series with a review of his > latest cluster, a new design based on Raspberry PI 4 boards that > completely revamps the previous PI 3 design, and present his SCALE talk on > how to prototype supercomputing code in a less expensive environment. We > are going to cover the new hardware, the operational environment, and and > the coding platform while testing a new in-browser meeting format for > sharing slides, hardware inspection, asking questions, and recording a > youtube stream. > > Join us on Wednesday, same time, same channel! It will be livestreamed on YouTube BostonLinuxandUnix BLU Livestream channel <https://www.youtube.com/user/bostonlinuxandunix> and on JITSI <https://meet.jit.si/blu.org> meeting (camera & mic required to join JITSI meeting, but you can mute them after joining; on a powerful desktop you can even blur background, but no pseudo-greenscreen replacement *yet*. Chrome/ium or Android Native client recommended; other options available). (If you subscribe to the BLU channel on YouTube, you should get an offer to get notification of a scheduled livestream) Jitsi is the FLOSS tier of 8x8's Freemium product line. (They're like Zoom except the security and privacy are real, and built on web standards and FLOSS. 8x8 is a spinoff from Atlassian. (Editorial: when i want to use a meeting tool from an anti-privacy Company, Google Meet works for me. Zoom can apparently be used with moderate safety from a Chrom(e|ium) NOT LOGGED INTO Google without the plugin; the plugin or loggedin Chrome or native client should only be used when mandated on corporate hardware where you expect no privacy from the CIO/CISO. Their enterprise CISO tools are inappropriate privacy invasion in a social setting. Noooooooooo.) -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
