Fwd: Sea Scout Zoom meeting
Alan Ford
Good day everyone
Attached is an invitation to join an international Sea Scout Zoom meeting on Sunday evening 25th April at 20:00 local time.
It would be great if we could participate and chat to other Sea Scouters from Europe and USA. Please distribute this invitation to as many sea scouts as possible. There is no guarantee that we can all get logged in as the system only caters for 100 participants
Please let me know if you intend trying to
join... just so that I have an idea of numbers.
Regards
Alan Ford
National Coordinator- Water Activities
Scouts South Africa
Good morning, Alan:
My apologies for the delayed response. The following is the invitation that has gone out to others:
I bring you greetings from the Sea Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America. I hope and trust that everyone is doing well and staying safe. I hope that we will be returning to our “normal” Sea Scouting program soon. In the meantime I appreciate everyone’s efforts to keep our Scouts safe, engaged, and connected.
I believe you have received a calendar invitation for our informal International Sea Scout Scuttlebutt” gathering. This is going to be a very informal get-together for Sea Scouts and adults with an interest in international Sea Scouting. The details for connecting with the meeting are as follows:
· Sunday, 25 April 2021
o 1400 EDT (UTC -4)
o 1900 BST (UTC +1)
o 2000 CEST (UTC +2)
o 2100 EEST (UTC +3)
· Monday, 26 April 2021
o 0200 AWST (UTC +8)
o 0600 NZST (UTC +12)
Topic:
International Sea Scout Scuttlebutt
Time: Apr 25, 2021 1400 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82294539608?pwd=TjA1akRYL0lNZCsydXdEcHE3SnVhQT09
Meeting ID: 822 9453 9608
Passcode: 870477
Dial by your
location
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+61 8 7150 1149 (Australia)
+43 72 011 5988 (Austria)
+32 2 788 0173 (Belgium)
+420 5 3889 0161 (Czechia)
+45 89 88 37 88 (Denmark)
+358 9 7252 2471 (Finland)
+30 231 118 0599 (Greece)
+353 6 163 9031 (Ireland)
+370 5214 1488 (Lithuania)
+31 20 794 7345 (Netherlands)
+64 9 884 6780 (New Zealand)
+47 7349 4877 (Norway)
+48 22 398 7356 (Poland)
+27 87 551 7702 (South Africa)
+44 203 901 7895 (U.K.)
[There are many more telephone numbers available]
Meeting
ID: 822 9453 9608
Passcode: 870477
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdrDVQkFkk
Who
This Zoom connection can handle up to 100, so if you are aware of anyone with an active interest in international Sea Scouting, please feel free to pass this along. If you do, please let me know so that we can add them to the attendee list.
What are we trying to accomplish?
The discussion thus far makes it clear that our Sea Scouting friends would like an opportunity to see and hear one another to say “hello” and be reassured that they are OK. There has also been a suggestion that we have a “program” of some sort. If we have a meeting, it should probably be kept short so that we spend most of our time socializing. Are there other thoughts? Whatever we do, I hope we can make this fun.
Suggestion: Are there scheduled international Sea Scout events in 2021 and 2022?
I just checked on the Zoom site and there are 4 telephone numbers for South Africa. I’ve copied one of them in on the list above. The meeting will take place on Sunday, 25 April 2021 at 2000 (UTC +2). Some countries (most notably Australia) will have very unfavorable times for this meeting, but no time of day will work well for everyone. Everything else being equal, I would be out sailing at my scheduled time (1400 EDT), but at least I’m not getting up in the middle of the night.
If you have any information about an international Sea Scout event, or anything else of interest that you would like to share with the group, please let me know ahead of time. We’re asking that presentations be limited to 2-3 minutes in the hopes that the majority of the time can be reserved for socializing. Please feel free to share this information with others whom you feel would benefit from participating.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to your participation on the 25th.
Best wishes,
Bruce
Bruce Johnson | Subcommittee Chair
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SCOUTS OF AMERICA
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From: Alan Ford
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Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2021 04:04
To: glamo...@gmail.com; Ron Bird
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Subject: Sea Scout Zoom meeting
Good day Bruce
Ron Bird forwarded me the notice regarding the Zoom Meeting on 24th April. Due to some email communication difficulties getting permission from our International Desk, ( now resolved) I would appreciate it if you could send me the meeting link information for distribution to our Sea Scout community.
I would also appreciate an explanation of how the timing issues are to be overcome as this is a "round the world" meeting from what I understand. South Africa is in the old GMT+2 time zone.
Regards
Alan Ford
National Coordinator Water Activities
Scouts South Africa.
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