Re: Upcoming documentation meetings
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:50 PM Polgár Márton wrote: > > Since there is a public Jitsi link, I don't think this would get cancelled > because of personal problems. This is my "unofficial opinion" but I > think whether the proposed dates (noon Eastern time, second > Saturday of February, March an April respectively) can be followed > is only a matter of reaching the "critical mass" of interest now. There > is plenty of time to plan for it. I looked at Jitsi when vrurg suggested it for their Core class. It required an international phone call. I'm not able/willing to cover such a cost. So I won't be attending despite being interested in doing so if I could do so for free (as would be the case with, for example, google meet). vrurg didn't want to alter their plans and I respect that. Same goes for you guys. Iirc he w/couldn't offer the session for me to watch for free after the event either. (And iirc he cancelled it anyway, but still, my point is that it seemed to me that Jitsi has a double negative in that it is both expensive to join live and does not have a free post-meet replay option either.) -- raiph
Re: Upcoming documentation meetings
> On 2 Feb 2023, at 00:53, Ralph Mellor wrote: > I looked at Jitsi when vrurg suggested it for their Core class. > It required an international phone call. ??? I've never had to make *any* phone call to be able to use Jitsi. And the RSC uses it every 2 weeks or so. Liz
Re: Upcoming documentation meetings
> On Feb 1, 2023, at 6:00 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >> On 2 Feb 2023, at 00:53, Ralph Mellor wrote: >> I looked at Jitsi when vrurg suggested it for their Core class. >> It required an international phone call. > > ??? I've never had to make *any* phone call to be able to use Jitsi. And > the RSC uses it every 2 weeks or so. > > Liz To clarify, using Jitsi as normal (for *video* conferencing) is free, worldwide. (e.g. One of my user group members participates in our mostly-U.S.A meetings from his new home in the Czech Republic) Also, like Zoom and many other video conferencing services, Jitsi allows you to call a phone number, to listen and speak (audio-only) on in the video meeting room: +1.512.647.1431 US +44.203.885.2179UK +33.1.87.21.0005France +31.85.208.1541 Netherlands +34.932.205.409 Spain +1.437.538.3987 Canada +61.8.7150.1136 Australia +55.21.3500.0112Brazil +81.3.4510.2372 Japan +41.61.588.0496 Switzerland These numbers are also free, but only if your phone company considers them free. In other words, you might get charged, but it is the phone company's charge, not Jitsi's. -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)
