Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

I've heard Jitsi Meet works well for large groups. I've used Signal with medium sized groups. I'd like to hear how Signal works with larger groups, as it is the main tool I use to communicate with folks. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:50 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > You have pretty nice spreadsheet -

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

You have pretty nice spreadsheet - I used Google Hangouts - it works great as well as Jitsi - works well using chrome and on Android. I do not know what is Discord or what is IRC. And I do not have any teletypes - just a good collection of Linux laptops, desktops and servers. Will I be able to

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

As for criteria, I would mostly be looking for deficiencies rather than efficiencies. Does it break down after the 10th participant joins? 20th? I don't think we have the manpower available to test at the 100 user level, but the more the better. "Breaking down" would consist of the video or audio

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, John Sechrest wrote: Yes, I know about freeconference call. Since I am focused on largish groups, it does not pop to my mind as a group video tool. John, Their web site says they support 1,000 participants per call. Rich ___

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

I was surprised at how much discord felt like IRC, with a more modern interface... On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:42 PM Russell Senior wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:07 AM Michael Dexter > wrote: > > > On 4/27/20 10:28 PM, wes wrote: > > > I would be interested in seeing this concept get put

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:07 AM Michael Dexter wrote: > On 4/27/20 10:28 PM, wes 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? > >

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

Yes, I know about freeconference call. Since I am focused on largish groups, it does not pop to my mind as a group video tool. Put it on the list. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:10 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, John Sechrest wrote: > > > Just yesterday I was in a conversation

Re: [PLUG] Setting up LAMP on Xubuntu 18.04

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:12 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > Today's work is done, so I'm going to migrate the last of the stuff from > ENU-1 to ENU-2, my desktop machines. The next task is installing LAMP on > ENU-1. I've done this several times over the years, and I don't expect > to run into any

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

On 4/28/20 12:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, John Sechrest 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: John, Have you looked at freeconferencecall.com?

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, John Sechrest 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: John, Have you looked at freeconferencecall.com? I created

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

Since the list of tools is so large, it might be worth trying them on a larger time scale. Run a series of talks, each one focusing on a select number of tools. Someone just needs to manage the list and send out a notification in advance of the talk to inform participants which tools they should

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

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

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

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

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

On 4/27/20 10:28 PM, wes 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? Sounds like we have two volunteers! Let me know how I can help.