Virtual meeting tomorrow!

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tom r lopes

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May 9, 2020, 4:37:38 PM5/9/20

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Meeting Sunday May 10th 11am till whenever.

We will be using video conferencing by Jitsi.org. It is an open source product unlike

Zoom, et al. It runs without an extra client on pc, using the web-rtc feature built in

to any modern web browser (Firefox, Chrome)

The Jitsi organisation provides a free meeting server at meet.jit.si Limited to 75 users

but unlimited in time.

On mobile, IOS or Android you will need to run an app. Go to meet.jit.si to find the

appstore links.

Check your email around 11am tomorrow to get the room name. Most likely berkeleylug.

(I'll check the room first in case someone has jacked it already. Remember this completely

free not restricted to anyone) So go to meet.jit.si Enter the room berkeleylug. Your browser

will ask you to allow camera and or microphone. You can be invisible and/or silent as you

wish and/or revoke permissions. By default you are muted when you enter.. There is a

microphone icon on the bottom to unmute. Also pressing the space bar will mute/unmute.

You can also participate by phone call. I'll provide the details Sunday.

Also realize tomorrow is Mother's Day. So there may be some service congestion

problems.

Nice pdf guide here

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rg400vj5jreod3o/Latest%20Web%20Conference%20Guide%20-%20Jitsi_en-us.pdf?dl=0

Thomas

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May 10, 2020, 1:56:41 PM5/10/20

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On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 1:37 PM tom r lopes <tomr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Meeting Sunday May 10th 11am till whenever.
We will be using video conferencing by Jitsi.org. It is an open source product unlike
Zoom, et al. It runs without an extra client on pc, using the web-rtc feature built in
to any modern web browser (Firefox, Chrome)

Check your email around 11am tomorrow to get the room name. Most likely berkeleylug.

Am currently downloading a larger ISO file, so am expecting to join today's meeting a little bit later on.

Want to use as much of the home-network bandwidth for the Jitsi video conference as possible :-)