On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Erik Lane wrote: > >> 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. > >D'oh! Of course. Too many distractions when I wrote that response. My telephone is ancient, and I dislike using it. And no, a new phone would be even worse - it's the new features that I hate. So I would much prefer to do it all on my desktop computer. It might be easiest to use a browser - Chromium or Firefox, which play videos with sound just fine. I have several old microphones that I can plug into the desktop, but I'm unclear how I would make the browser pick up the microphone and then have the presenter know that I have my hand up to ask a question. For me, live audience interaction is fundamental to the 'group' thing. Would the presenter be able to see the audience, perhaps as small squares on a monitor? If I was presenting I'd want to be able to see my audience. Maybe I just need to wait until April 2 when we can actually do a virtual PLUG meeting. In fact, a good topic for April 2 might be 'How to run an effective video meeting on Linux.' _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
