This is my recurring 2nd Saturday outdoor event that's in theory a Linux user group but mostly friends enjoying being together and my cooking for the crowd. (Some guests also bring food but it's not required or expected.) Please feel welcome to join us if fully vaccinated.
I think I'll do homemade apple pies. ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> ----- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 23:11:08 -0700 From: Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> To: consp...@linuxmafia.com Subject: CABAL (in-person + Jitsi Meet), Sat. Aug. 14, 4pm - 12m We're on again for CABAL in Family Moen's nice and very spacious backyard with home cooking -- despite the Delta variant -- and the only new change is, re: vaccination proof, have altered "Assume I may check" to "I will check." And I will check. For August, I'm doing a perennial favourite: homemade from scratch pizza. Also traditional garlic bread with homemade sourdough, and we'll see what else. Good things. Rick & Deirdre's house 1105 Altschul Ave. @ Gordon Ave. W. Menlo Park (lost? call me: 650-283-7902) You must: o Be COVID-19 vaccinated, plus enough time for ramped-up immunity. o Feel safe to be here, in company. o Attend at your own risk. Bring your CDC card: I will check. _or_ attend online, on Jitsi Meet: http://meet.jit.si/CABAL To attend remotely, you'll need: o Computer w/supported Web browser. Jitsi Meet's supported list is at https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/supported-browsers mic w/ speakers/headphones. Headphones/earbuds are recommended because they avert audio feeback loops. o or a specialised Jitsi Meet client program: o Jitsi Meet Client (28MB APK) for Android 5.0+, via F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jitsi.meet/ o Jitsi Meet Client for Android, via Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jitsi.meet o Jitsi Meet Client for iOS, via Apple iTunes Store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jitsi-meet/id1165103905 o Jitsi Meet Electron desktop client (86MB binary: Linux x86_64, MacOS, MS-Windows), https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases (Recommendation for headphones/earbuds still applies.) DELTA BULLETIN: Yes, we do follow pandemic news. A recent tool that should be of interest: microCOVID Project, https://www.microcovid.org/ One microCOVID is a bespoke unit denoting one-in-a-million chance of getting COVID-19 (meaning, infection, which does not necessarily mean being ill). The tool permits, using data for one's county, calculating the incremental risk for particular sorts of activity -- and also uses the concept of "risk budget", the cumulative level of COVID risk each person decides is acceptable to run in life. You tell it the sort of scenario, e.g., for CABAL, I tried: Scenario: Outdoor hangout with multiple people My vax: Double dose Moderna Nearby people usually within 5 metres: 6 How close are those nearby people, on average: normal socialising Duration: 180 mins Other people vaxed? Yes Their risk profile: Has 1 close contact whose risk profile I don't know. Environment: outdoor Masks: none Talking volume: normal Result: moderate risk, 20% of my weekly risk budget (assuming I have a standard caution budget permitting 1% chance of COVID illness per year, working out to 200 microCOVIDs per week. Risk for this events: ~40 microCOVIDs. And, speaking for my family, we're totally fine with that. I think the tool's a brilliant way to get your mind straight. It shows you the math, the assumptions, and the data modeling. ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
