[PLUG] Your first PLUG talk!

[brooks at netgate.net]

I used to be a member of a local fly fishing club. We had the same issue. 
Fresh new speakers were difficult to find and anyone worth listening to 
wanted to be compensated. We had guys we wanted to invite to talk but 
between travel and expenses it was just to expensive. We also had members 
who moved out of the area but still wanted to stay in touch.

Given the tech we have available today I think we can solve this problem. 
Zoom is the best video conferencing service I have ever used. And, it's 
not expensive. And, it's cloud based so (almost) anyone can participate. 
For $15 a month we could have a 100 interactive participants, possibly 
with one of those being the speaker. I don't attend the meetings because - 
well I hate what's happened to downtown Portland. Not sure how many of you 
experienced the fire drill at OSCon, but we had to evacuate. I couldn't 
even walk 1 block east of the convention center without feeling unsafe. 
But, I'd happily attend meetings if we had video conferencing setup.

I'm not exactly sure how the live meeting would integrate with the remote 
participants. They also have something called "Zoom Rooms" that lets you 
build a room into a software defined video conference room. At a minimum 
the meeting room would need a camera, a nice (big) monitor and a 
conference admin/host for each event. Could be an interesting experiment.

I'm happy to help work on this.

Kevin

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, J. Hart wrote:
>
>> It would be fascinating to set up a system for remotely based 
>> speakers......via skype mayhaps ?
>
> Which could be a good demonstration of video conferencing using linux and
> F/OSS software. :-)
>
> Rich
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