*Boston.PM* will try a virtual meeting for September 8th (aka March 192nd ).
*Topic*: What did you do on your summer vacation? WFH & stacation (with Perl¹)? *Time*: 7:00pm – 9:00pm *Where*: JITSI (url tba) *Who*: all of us ¹ *or other compatible, interesting FLOSS too* *NOTE* – This is as early as 2nd Tuesday can fall and is the day after the long Labor Day Weekend, so it will feel very Monday and not very Tuesday, let alone 2nd Tuesday ! We will use the Jitsi Meet service. (*If you need to hear my rant about why Zoom’s “fixes” are inadequate, ask me off-list*.) Jitsi is a Free/Libre OSS project sponsored by 8x8 (an Atlassian spin-off). It is the freemium base for their added-value corporate meeting & VOIP platform. As FLOSS, it can be self-hosted; they provide a free demo server. We will currently be using the free demo server, but may migrate to a hosted server (where we can set defaults, privileges). Natick FOSS group has a 4-page Jitsi Help .pdf file <http://www.millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupJitsi.pdf>, and you can practice beforehand. (Natick meet 1st Thursdays, online, early afternoon) *Update *to file ^ : Firefox latest versions 78+ support multicast, so are safer than before. Chrome/Chromium/FF78+ all plausible now. One can use plain web mode, but if you can install the browser plug-in if you like. There are also iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android apps which work well. (I will replace this line with the link to the meeting room later) JITSI scales fine to more people in face-sharing BradyBunch / HollywoodSquares mode than you can easily see at once (30ish) and if folks turn off their cameras (same as mikes) when just listening/talking, i.e. when not commenting/presenting, it scales much higher. (If we later get more folks than will comfortably fit in Jitsi, we can set up a stream to YouTubeLive or some other platform … or upgrade to a proper panelist platform feeding a stream, but the “seminar” quality of Jitsi is fine for our level of anarchy.) I will routinely mute those not presenting so you’ll usually need to *unmute* to comment. Hint: Space-bar is push to talk, M is mute/unmute (on phone/tablet it’s the skewmorphic microphone, avoid the handset hangup button!). https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcuts -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
