You can fully participate in a Zoom call by telephone. You don't need a webcam to ask questions. If there's video, of course you would need a computer running for that, but dial-in works for both listening and talking, just like any teleconference service.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:54 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > But I am interested only in receiving broadcasts of the PLUG meetings, > > hence I assume that I would not need a camera. On my desk I have my > laptop > > and the monitor for my desktop computer. I'd prefer to use the desktop > > computer for the meetings, so I assume its lack of a camera would not be > a > > problem. Do I still need to install Zoom? Oh wait ... what if I want to > > ask a question? Hmm, I think I need more instructions. > > To participate passively an audio connection (e.g., telephone) is all you > need. To ask questions you need a microphone which appearently comes with > webcams. > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
