Meeting URL is https://meet.jit.si/BostonPMSeptember
JITSI keybaord shortcuts - https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcuts Meeting room is open now ... i won't start til 7pm or after but feel free to congregate. On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:16 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would we like to have virtual Perl Mongers? > > Our prior meeting schedule was 2nd Tuesday of the Month. This month that > falls the day after Labor Day monday. (And as always falls on MS Windows > Patch Day, if anyone observes.) Since we're mostly *not* going to the > beach, is that a better date than it usually would be? > > Considerations > > - In-person face-to-face will not be possible at MIT for the > foreseeable future (through end of calendar year at a minimum) and > alternate venues seem problematic likewise unless we dope up with bug spray > and sit outdoors in a circle (polygon) with 6' shortest chords, which makes > projecting demos hard. > - BLU.org has been using *JITSI*, a FLOSS alternative to Zoom that is > a spinoff of Atlassian, upon which the 8x8 commercial freemium stack is > built; it works well for small groups (doesn't scale as well in > all-cameras-all-the-time Brady-Bunch/Hollywood Squares mode - if it hurts > when you do that, don't do that!). I would intend to use that. (Browser > Plug-in or iOS/Android app is useful but not required.) > - Does anyone have a topic or everyone have a mini-topic to present? > (Since I'm preparing the September BLU talk, i won't have anything but > scraps myself. > I do have an interesting result with Raku recently but that won't > take much time.) > - Since i'm presenting to BLU on 3d Wednesday (topic might or might > not be early feedback shift register all-electronic crypto hardware), i'm > not willing to push Boston.pm to 3d Tuesday (as I often would for a Monday > holiday otherwise). > > -- > Bill Ricker > bill.n1...@gmail.com > https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux > -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
