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<div>Yes, the BLU meeting is on 8/19. <br>
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<div>We're running the BLU meeting in Jitsi, and we cannot run
BigBlueButton within Jitsi; we have to run BigBlueButton
instead of Jitsi. That's why I figured it makes sense to do
the test on a different day, after the meeting. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">Our Aug meeting is 8/19, correct? If you
wanted to try to do an online test of BigBlueButton at
that meeting, we could work it in ... in the spirit of
"back to school" this could possibly be helpful to some?
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<div>Conferencing software designed for teaching might
turn out to be a better fit for the kind of
presentations we do at our meetings. I figure it's
worth giving it a try to see how it differs. <br>
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<div>Things like Zoom and Google Meet seem to me to be
designed with corporate meetings as their primary
target audience, and Jitsi seems to be designed as
essentially a Zoom clone. <br>
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<div dir="auto">Conferencing software used for
teaching is quite different from the jitsi and zoom
models. We will take a look <br>
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<div dir="ltr">The weekend is fine with me, too.
Let's see when other folks are available. I'd
like at least 4 or 5 participants so we can kick
the tires and really put it through its paces.<br>
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11, 2020 at 6:25 AM Jerry Feldman <<a
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<div dir="auto">Aug 21 might be a challenge
for me since it is move in day to our
new place. I could do the 22nd or 23rd.<br>
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<div>I've heard about BigBlueButton from
the GNHLUG list, and it sounds like it
would be useful to try it out so we
can compare it to Jitsi. <br>
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<div>We're still committed to using
Jitsi for August, of course. <br>
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<div>Can we plan an evening after the
upcoming BLU meeting to give
BigBlueButton a try? Perhaps Friday,
August 21, or sometime the following
week? What evening is good for
everyone's schedule? <br>
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<div>It shouldn't take more than 20
minutes or so.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Ill test the streaming
to YouTube part as well.
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<div dir="auto">I magine a test with
you will take no more than 15
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<div dir="auto">Thanks. Looking
forward to this.</div>
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Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 07:07 Jerry
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<div dir="auto">Thanks JABR<br>
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<div>I've updated the
calendar entries for
August and September to
show that we're meeting
online with jitsi. <br>
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<div>We should come up with
a topic and speaker(s) for
October soon, and perhaps
as far ahead as January,
too. I think it's
unrealistic to schedule
out more than six months
ahead, but it's always a
good idea to plan as far
ahead as is reasonable, so
we're not always
scrambling at the last
minute. <br>
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<div>I'll dig through my
inbox for that Gentoo guy
we invited before the
pandemic. And as long as
we're doing online
meetings, we don't have to
limit ourselves to the
Boston area when inviting
speakers. <br>
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<div dir="auto">I assume
we are doing jitsi.
Please post on web page.
I will know later today
if I will have an
internet connection to
do you tube. <br>
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