Due to popular demand, we're having an Round-table / open-mike / virtual social meeting tonight.
6:30pm - 9:00pm Eastern Time Meeting will be on *JITSI* FLOSS meetings -- like Zoom but with better security and open source. To compute the secure meeting URL, run this command on day of event (computes a different URL each day). perl -MDigest::SHA=sha1_hex -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime "%Y/%m/%d week %U", localtime; $date=strftime "Y%Y W%U", localtime; print $date; print "https://meet.jit.si/BostonPM-".sha1_hex("BostonPM".$date);' ( *If on Windows with classic CMD instead of a Gnu/BSD shell in Terminal, exchange single and double quotes, but you knew that.If your mail client breaks the line in a way that it stays broken cut-&-paste, unbreak it.* *This hashes Year and ISO Week which won't be friendly to AU/NZ/JP/IN on New Year's Eve but should work on Tuesdays the rest of the year.* *If this doesn't work for you, send off-list email to Bill or DM on Twitter. *) (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, 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 you can install the browser plug-in if you like (recommended if sharing slides or terminal). There are also iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android apps which work well. JITSI keyboard shortcuts - https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts 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 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 skeuomorphic microphone, avoid the handset hangup button!). As now seen on Perl Weekly newsletter <https://perlweekly.com/> [image: Perl weekly 234x60.png] <https://bpm.qualitybox.us/bpm/File:Perl_weekly_234x60.png> and their Events Calendar <https://perlweekly.com/events.html> - which you can import via the live iCal <https://perlweekly.com/perlweekly.ical> calendar -- at least in months that i plan ahead (not this month). -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
