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On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:04 AM LaVonne Carlson <lavonneh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like a great idea! I’m willing to help however possible. > > LaVonne > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 26, 2020, at 9:58 AM, 'carl smith' via Shakespeare at Winedale > Email List <shakespeare-at-winedale-email-l...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All - > > > > Of course, “IT guy” is a small part of what Mike brings to the world and > to this group. For the record. > > > > Folks were so responsive to the sonnet reading Mike shared, I wondered > if people in the group would want to read sonnets or favorite passages > > to one another. I have a number of settings of songs, as may others. > Madge could lead a singalong. > > > > Zoom is pretty simple, free, and there’s a chance it’s already familiar > to folks. > > > > Very much not thinking of it as a reunion substitute. Maybe a warmup. I > just think it would be fun to see some faces. I’m adhering to California > > guidelines, and the one in the mirror is not quite enough. > > > > Not #stayathome, but #shakesathome? > > > > Since I suggested this, I can certainly help if there’s interest and > there's something I can do that is actually help! > > > > Let me be your servant. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty. > > > > Hope everyone on the list and all around them are doing well. > > > > Carl > > > >> On Mar 26, 2020, at 3:45 AM, Mike Godwin <mnemo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Dear folks, > >> > >> Carl Smith suggested to me privately (since, as he put it, I'm "the IT > guy") that we explore doing a Winedale alumni/reunion teleconference via > Zoom.us. I've been doing a number of such teleconferences lately, and I > think it might be a good way for us to supplement our email chatter--by > holding virtual meetings or even by holding virtual "happy hours." If > there's interest, let me know, and I can see how easy it is to set one up. > My instinct is to say it should be pretty easy now that built-in cameras > are fairly standard equipment on most recent-vintage computers these days. > >> > >> (Zoom also accommodates voice-telephony participants, and ultimately we > would accommodate that, but it would be interesting to test the platform's > free tier and see how well could manage to do a meeting on it.) > >> > >> Current meetings in the free tier are limited to 40 minutes, but I've > heard rumors that the time limit has been suspended in the current Time of > Weirdness. At any rate, we can find out! > >> > >> If you're interested in setting something like this up, working with > me, let me know. > >> > >> > >> Mike > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Winedale-l mailing list > >> Winedale-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/winedale-l > > > > -- > > Be vigitant, I beseech you! > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to > shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list/2519BE38-68A2-4716-B61A-406201046B0B%40mac.com > . > > -- > Be vigitant, I beseech you! > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list/1B7A08EA-FD29-4204-96E3-4284E36B3AD0%40gmail.com > . > -- Mary Collins 646-554-3076 collinsmary...@gmail.com
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