We have a possible volunteer for a follow-up presentation in *April*. If there's another Half-Meeting presentation for April or any half or full pres in April/May, I'd love to hear from your.
No set topic *tonight* - Since it was a non-leap year, March as was February is as early as 2d Tuesday falls - so we're having an Round-table / open-mike / virtual social meeting tonight. If you have a short item, screen share is ok! *6:30pm - 9:00pm Eastern Time * Meeting will be on *JITSI* FLOSS meetings -- like Zoom but with better security and open source. To *compute the secure meeting URL*, run this command on day of event (or day before - it computes a different URL each *week*, so as to be usable in far flung timezones). > perl -MDigest::SHA=sha1_hex -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime "%Y/%m/%d > week %U", localtime; $date=strftime "Y%Y W%U", localtime; print $date; print > "https://meet.jit.si/BostonPM-".sha1_hex("BostonPM".$date);' > > ( > *If on Windows with classic CMD instead of a Gnu/BSD shell in Terminal, > exchange single and double quotes, but you knew that.If your mail client > breaks the line in a way that it stays broken cut-&-paste, unbreak it.* > *This hashes Year and ISO Week which won't be friendly to AU/NZ/JP/IN on > New Year's Eve but should work on Tuesdays the rest of the year.* > *If this doesn't work for you, send off-list email to Bill or DM on > Twitter @n1vux or @BostonPM . *) > > *BOILERPLATE* > > (If you need to hear my rant about why Zoom’s “fixes” are inadequate, ask > me off-list.) > Jitsi is a Free/Libre OSS project sponsored by 8x8 (an Atlassian spin-off). > It is the freemium base for their added-value corporate meeting & VOIP > platform. As FLOSS, it can be self-hosted; they provide a free demo server. > We will currently be using the free demo server, but may migrate to a hosted > server (where we can set defaults, privileges). > Natick FOSS group has a 4-page Jitsi Help .pdf file > <http://www.millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupJitsi.pdf>, and you can practice > beforehand. (They meet 1st Thursdays, online, early afternoon.) > Update to file ^ : Firefox latest versions 78+ support multicast, so are > safer than before. Chrome/Chromium/FF78+ all plausible now. > > One can use plain web mode, but you can install the browser plug-in if you > like (recommended if sharing slides or terminal). There are also iOS > (iPhone/iPad) and Android apps which work well. > > > JITSI keyboard shortcuts - > https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts > > JITSI scales fine to more people in face-sharing BradyBunch / > HollywoodSquares mode than you can easily see at once (30ish) and if folks > turn off their cameras when just listening/talking, i.e. when not > commenting/presenting, it scales much higher. (If we later get more folks > than will comfortably fit in Jitsi, we can set up a stream to YouTubeLive > or some other platform … or upgrade to a proper panelist platform feeding a > stream, but the “seminar” quality of Jitsi is fine for our level of > anarchy.) > > I will routinely mute those not presenting so you’ll usually need to > unmute to comment. Hint: Space-bar is push to talk, M is mute/unmute (on > phone/tablet it’s the skeuomorphic microphone, avoid the handset hangup > button!). > > As now seen on Perl Weekly newsletter <https://perlweekly.com/> [image: > Perl weekly 234x60.png] > <https://bpm.qualitybox.us/bpm/File:Perl_weekly_234x60.png> and their Events > Calendar <https://perlweekly.com/events.html> - which you can import via > the live iCal <https://perlweekly.com/perlweekly.ical> calendar. > (And i usually post the Charlotte meetings there and here too.) FWIW Our *Wiki* is currently *OFFLINE*. (Provider got DNS-jacked after business folded. Free is worth every penny, no complaints. It will eventually reappear, whether as a wiki or as static pages is TBD. ) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
