I don’t plan on hosting one or anything (and I don’t think I’d know how off the top of my head), but if anyone has the ability and inclination, maybe this would be fun, and beat a bit of the loneliness for anyone who’s not lucky enough to be an introvert partnered to another introvert. We could login with our user names and say hello to each other, face-to-face (through the screen, anyway).
Just an idea. I’d suggest evenings during the week or any time during the weekend (for North/South American participants, anyway – for others we’d need some creative scheduling).
Question: assuming you don’t record the Zoom meeting and you have access through your employer to the unlimited, paid Zoom service with your own meeting room, is there a way for the powers that be (i.e, the company that paid for the subscription) to find out that one of their peons hosted a non-work related zoom meeting?
Just a suggestion, but a group I’ve been virtually meeting with is using jitsi, which has the advantage of being free, having no time limit and not needing a host, so everyone can just drop in and out- it’s more like a virtual room, the link stays valid indefinitely. On a pc, you don’t even have to download anything, so it’s very easy to use, though there is an app for phones.
We’ve never had more than about 15 people on at once, so I’m not sure how well it would handle a big meeting, but a bunch of ‘rooms’ is also an option, which is maybe better for actual chatting anyway.
I think it was only $6.95 or something like that. Let me check.
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Okay, a little more. US$15/month for one host. A host can have an unlimited number of different meetings, but presumably only one at a time. There are also various add-ons that cost more.
I’d be happy to set up a jitsi version by the way, if people were up for that. Can poll to see who’s interested and when would be best.
I am in a different time zone to most of the board, but, like I said, a host isn’t needed, just someone to set it up. Having used it and zoom a fair bit lately, while zoom is better for serious meetings, jitsi’s better for this sort of less organised stuff IMO.
I had never given it a thought before, that’s why I’m surprised that this is the first time a video doper conference was initiated. We’re all really Luddites, aren’t we? Of course it’s the Corona situation that triggered this, and maybe it’s the big break for video telephony (I know that’s an obsolete expression) the world has been waiting for since the technology became available, but somehow initially no one really wanted it until now.