[PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

John Sechrest sechrest at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 18:58:44 UTC 2020


Just yesterday I was in a conversation about tools and I started a
spreadsheet of different video / remote tools.

So far people have mentioned:

Zoom
Kast
Crowdcast
Slack
Google Hangouts
Google duo
MS Teams
discord
Wechat
Whatsapp
Facebook/facetime
Kakao
Line
Youtube live
Meetaway



It would be interesting to me to know what criteria/features you would use
to evaluate these.

I am trying to run workshops of 25-35 people.

And on May13 I have a 250 person event I am trying to run. So I am all ears
about how you are thinking about video tools and evaluating them.

I just saw a conversation on the facilitators mailing list about the use of
Miro and Mural and the bandwidth requirements. So that is also an Issue.



On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:29 PM wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:

> I would be interested in seeing this concept get put to work. Could we
> consider load-testing various alternative video conferencing tools so we
> can get a better sense of their capabilities?
>
> -wes
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:07 PM John Sechrest <sechrest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been organizing Open Coffee meetings with zoom. It works
> reasonably
> > well. I have not been able to replace it with other tools yet.
> >
> > We just this weekend ran a startup weekend remote. The core tool for that
> > was discord.
> >
> > If you want a text + video experience, that can work.
> >
> > It helps to have a facilitator with a theme about what they want to
> > communicate.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 7:59 PM Michael Dexter <dexter at pdxlinux.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > PLUG to me is a monthly meeting. The Clinics are great but are not a
> way
> > > for me to participate in.
> > >
> > > Would someone like to organize an online activity during the First
> > > Thursday time slot? I will drop in as I can as I do have a list of
> > > candidate speakers if a rhythm is established.
> > >
> > > Public and private answers OK!
> > >
> > > Happy Quarantine!
> > >
> > > Michael Dexter
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