Meeting URL https://meet.jit.si/1013-BostonPM
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:59 PM Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > *Boston.PM* continue with virtual meetings for October 13th > (aka March 227th ). > > > *Topic*: Round-table > > *Time*: 7:00pm – 9:00pm > > *Where*: JITSI (url tba shortly before meeting on Calendar > <https://boston.pm.org/bpm/Calendar#Next_Meeting> ) > > *Who*: all of us > > This Boston Perl Monger's meeting doesn't have a scheduled speaker, so > instead we'll use the time to see what members have been up to and open the > floor for discussion of anything Perl-related. If you have a lightning > topic to present this month, you are welcome to do so, and as always we > welcome speakers for future meetings. We have a few topic ideas in mind for > next month and are in the process of contacting potential presenters. > Volunteers for half or full presentations are still welcome! > > 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. (They meet 1st Thursdays, online) > *Update *to file ^ : Firefox latest versions 78+ support multicast, so > are safer than before? Chrome/Chromium/FF78+ *supposdely *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. > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:17 PM Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2nd Tuesday is on the far side of the weekend. >> Default plan would be to have a Jit.Si virtual meeting 7-9pm EDT >> >> Does anyone have content for a long or medium speaking block ? >> Or shall we do another round-robin? >> (We /could/ watch an online conference video together with our MST3K >> commentary as we sometimes did in person but doest that feel sensible ? >> Some people do do "watch parties" on-line, so it's not as absurd as my >> initial reaction? ) >> > > -- > Bill Ricker > [email protected] > https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux > -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
