[Lilug] No physical LILUG meeting tomorrow. Let's experiment.

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https://meet.jit.si/
is open source and used for many open source projects.

That said, there's always IRC.

Nate

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:22 PM <odinson at warcloud.net> wrote:

> Hello All
>
>         Well the end of the world continues.  It's a slow motion thing.  I
> always thought it would be more welding and screaming and toplessness.
> Instead our domiciles have all been turned into low budget space capsules.
> Trying to scrub things clean with limited paper goods.  Mowing your lawn
> in snowstorms.  Ya know, living the dream.
>
>          But one thing about free time and low budget, it screams open
> source.  There is plenty to talk about in the open source space.  We can't
> meet in person.  I don't want to.  Not to mention the whole 'infection
> capital of the world' thing.
>
>         Naturally we can and will revisit this for June's meeting.  I'm OK
> with meeting in person with masks if it's safer.  And by safer I don't
> mean scientifically, or legally, or politically, but some combo of
> obviousness.
>
>         There is some justified fear that this lack of meetings will kill
> groups, all groups, that meet in person.  It should be video conferencing,
> even though it's buggy (dropped packets, creepy tracking) and I hate it.
> Been working on a less buggy, less creepy, open source solution, but I'm
> not quite there.  (maybe tomorrow?)  Hence my delay in writing this.
> I've had some breakthroughs and I'm almost there so it's entirely
> possible that I will or will not write the list with a URL this week.  I'm
> motivated, don't like being anyone's lackey, including being cut off.
>
> Here's my thinking on this.
>
>         Any virtual meetings this week shouldn't official.
>         Anybody can hit us with a possible video conference so long
> as it's not crappy or creepy.
>         Whatever it is, it should at least be pseudo-anonymous
>   (labels/titles/screennames are not required to be verified w/real data.)
>         Lets try whatever,whenever and see what works.
>         It should work on Linux, duh.  Don't be insulting.
>         Freedom and privacy over quality.
>         No hurt feelings for sunk time or don't bother (including me)
>
> Let's experiment.  Post your credential process and URLs at will lets
> experiment this week.
>
> Matt
>
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