Sounds great! I spend 75 percent of my day on Zoom right now. šŸ‘šŸ¼

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> On Mar 26, 2020, at 11:04 AM, LaVonne Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sounds like a great idea! I’m willing to help however possible. 
> 
> LaVonne
> 
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>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 9:58 AM, 'carl smith' via Shakespeare at Winedale Email 
>> List <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All -
>> 
>> Of course, ā€œIT guyā€ is a small part of what Mike brings to the world and to 
>> this group. For the record.
>> 
>> Folks were so responsive to the sonnet reading Mike shared, I wondered if 
>> people in the group would want to read sonnets or favorite passages
>> to one another. I have a number of settings of songs, as may others. Madge 
>> could lead a singalong. 
>> 
>> Zoom is pretty simple, free, and there’s a chance it’s already familiar to 
>> folks.
>> 
>> Very much not thinking of it as a reunion substitute. Maybe a warmup. I just 
>> think it would be fun to see some faces. I’m adhering to California 
>> guidelines, and the one in the mirror is not quite enough.
>> 
>> Not #stayathome, but #shakesathome?
>> 
>> Since I suggested this, I can certainly help if there’s interest and there's 
>> something I can do that is actually help! 
>> 
>> Let me be your servant. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty.
>> 
>> Hope everyone on the list and all around them are doing well. 
>> 
>> Carl
>> 
>>>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 3:45 AM, Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear folks,
>>> 
>>> Carl Smith suggested to me privately (since, as he put it, I'm "the IT 
>>> guy") that we explore doing a Winedale alumni/reunion teleconference via 
>>> Zoom.us.  I've been doing a number of such teleconferences lately, and I 
>>> think it might be a good way for us to supplement our email chatter--by 
>>> holding virtual meetings or even by holding virtual "happy hours."  If 
>>> there's interest, let me know, and I can see how easy it is to set one up. 
>>> My instinct is to say it should be pretty easy now that built-in cameras 
>>> are fairly standard equipment on most recent-vintage computers these days.
>>> 
>>> (Zoom also accommodates voice-telephony participants, and ultimately we 
>>> would accommodate that, but it would be interesting to test the platform's 
>>> free tier and see how well could manage to do a meeting on it.)
>>> 
>>> Current meetings in the free tier are limited to 40 minutes, but I've heard 
>>> rumors that the time limit has been suspended in the current Time of 
>>> Weirdness. At any rate, we can find out!
>>> 
>>> If you're interested in setting something like this up, working with me, 
>>> let me know.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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