As a possible event, you could do a "speed dating" networking event with meetaway and have people mingle.
Or to mirror the Lab experience, you could do zoom with breakout rooms. We do that weekly now with the 601club. These would be just social gathering more than topic oriented. Both are easy to set up. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:58 AM John Sechrest <[email protected]> wrote: > Just yesterday I was in a conversation about tools and I started a > spreadsheet of different video / remote tools. > > So far people have mentioned: > > Zoom > Kast > Crowdcast > Slack > Google Hangouts > Google duo > MS Teams > discord > Wechat > Whatsapp > Facebook/facetime > Kakao > Line > Youtube live > Meetaway > > > > It would be interesting to me to know what criteria/features you would use > to evaluate these. > > I am trying to run workshops of 25-35 people. > > And on May13 I have a 250 person event I am trying to run. So I am all > ears about how you are thinking about video tools and evaluating them. > > I just saw a conversation on the facilitators mailing list about the use > of Miro and Mural and the bandwidth requirements. So that is also an Issue. > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:29 PM wes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would be interested in seeing this concept get put to work. Could we >> consider load-testing various alternative video conferencing tools so we >> can get a better sense of their capabilities? >> >> -wes >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:07 PM John Sechrest <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I have been organizing Open Coffee meetings with zoom. It works >> reasonably >> > well. I have not been able to replace it with other tools yet. >> > >> > We just this weekend ran a startup weekend remote. The core tool for >> that >> > was discord. >> > >> > If you want a text + video experience, that can work. >> > >> > It helps to have a facilitator with a theme about what they want to >> > communicate. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 7:59 PM Michael Dexter <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hello all, >> > > >> > > PLUG to me is a monthly meeting. The Clinics are great but are not a >> way >> > > for me to participate in. >> > > >> > > Would someone like to organize an online activity during the First >> > > Thursday time slot? I will drop in as I can as I do have a list of >> > > candidate speakers if a rhythm is established. >> > > >> > > Public and private answers OK! >> > > >> > > Happy Quarantine! >> > > >> > > Michael Dexter >> > > PLUG Volunteer >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > PLUG mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > John Sechrest . Need to schedule a meeting : >> > http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com >> > . >> > . >> > . >> > >> > . >> > [email protected] >> > . >> > @sechrest <http://www.twitter.com/sechrest> >> > >> > . >> > http://www.oomaat.com >> > . >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > -- > John Sechrest . Need to schedule a meeting : > http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com > . > . > . > > . > [email protected] > . > @sechrest <http://www.twitter.com/sechrest> > > . > http://www.oomaat.com > . > -- John Sechrest . Need to schedule a meeting : http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com . . . . [email protected] . @sechrest <http://www.twitter.com/sechrest> . http://www.oomaat.com . _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
