[lug] LUG Digest, Vol 198, Issue 4 -- BLUG meeting on Zoom

[Dru Whitledge]

As I see that Dan is doing this on Zoom, I'm assuming that he not 
only has a long history with Zoom, but as an intrepid techie has 
delved into the controversies on Zoon being evil (if you think phone 
tapping, opps! I mean spying or data sucking and selling).

This is especially interesting to me as I've heard all the same stuff 
from Eric Yuan at Zoom saying all the same sounding similar stuff 
that other data suckers say (Eventbrite, security -- "It depends on 
what you mean by selling ..."

LINUX -- that we all love like a warm fuzzy puppy in a quarantine 
video -- is Open Source Software (OSS), mostly. We believe (don't 
we?) in OSS and I would hope would believe we could accomplish 
essentially the same outcomes for tele-confernecing as does Zoom -- 
with much less suspected "evil".

Two names I've heard in the OSS arena for tele-conferencing are BBB 
(Big Blue Button) with no downloaded client -- and Jitsi ( 
<https://jitsi.org/>https://Jitsi.org) that does use a downloaded 
client (that you can hopefully trust -- as it's OSS).

I'm hoping we've finally learned that since the separation of homo 
sapiens from the evolutionary lineage with Lemmings over 100 years 
ago -- we still share many characteristics. Recently we've learned 
that those characteristics are exacerbated by the recombinant DNA 
emerging from rural Wyoming suspected to be due to novel 
Minion-Bootlicker virus that combines Sheep DNA with Cowboy DNA and 
we see compulsive emergency herd seeking behavior -- "There's no time 
to navigate -- we gotta go -- now".

If the OSS community can't get it together on this one there may not 
ever be a vaccine available. Because of that emergency and no time to 
think about it -- I'm certainly offering, encouraging (begging ... 
nawww), the use of the dormant little OSS group I pay for --

  https://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Northern-Area-Open-Source-Software-Community-Meetup/ 


if that might help us coordinate our effects to share info and skills.

I pay for this group in hopes it might someday, eventually help us 
work on Public Infrastructure Software -- and tele-conferencing seems 
like a perfect fit for that (though I am still manifesting for 
political process, eventually).

Dru








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>is ON! Thursday April 9th,        2020 @ 6:30PM       (MDT!) (Dan 
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>Message: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 10:37:30 -0600 From: Dan Mackin 
><dan.mackin at gmail.com> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- 
>General Mailing List"       <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> Subject: Re: 
>[lug] (Virtual) BLUG is ON! Thursday April 9th,    2020 @  6:30PM 
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>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hey y'all!! Thanks for 
>your patience as I worked up a plan! We've got a fantastic speaker 
>lined up for our online MeetUp tonight! ...although maybe I should 
>say "tomorrow afternoon" as our speaker will be casting all the way 
>from New Zealand!! I know we've got folks on this mailing list in 
>all sorts of different time zones, so for further clarity, official 
>BLUG start day and time is: 2020-04-10T00:30Z DETAILS - I will send 
>out a Zoom link to this mailing list (and to the folks that have 
>RSVP'd "Yes" on our MeetUp page) at 2020-04-10T00:00Z. The meeting 
>link won't be active until 2020-04:10T00:30Z. I'll have the waiting 
>room feature enabled so you'll need to be admitted into the Zoom. 
>Please be patient as I let y'all in and make sure you use whatever 
>name you'd put on your name tag if we were meeting in person as 
>it'll help me facilitate questions, discussion, etc. - We'll mingle, 
>chat and fiddle with A/V while waiting for folks to join the meeting 
>and I'll get started right at 2020-04-10T01:00Z. - You'll all enter 
>the room on mute by default. You should be able to unmute yourself 
>at your leisure but remember: Mute's your friend when it comes to 
>good group video chat etiquette. - I'll get us started, we'll do 
>group intros, and then I'll introduce our speaker for our feature 
>presentation: A live presentation on how Python and PostgreSQL 
>interact using psycopg2, the most used Postgres database driver for 
>Python! We will touch basic topics like, basic Python objects, 
>interaction with a database session, data adaptation, and security 
>by avoiding things like SQL injection attacks. - Our presenter, 
>Daniele Varrazzo, has offered to provide the slides ahead of the 
>meeting, just in case we have technical difficulties! I'll send a 
>link to those when I send out the Zoom link. Yes, we will have a 
>give away "raffle" at the end. No, I'm not able to GrubHub everyone 
>food and beer. Logistical nightmare! I know not everyone likes Zoom. 
>Sorry. In the event Zoom becomes unusable across the board, I'll 
>send out a backup Hangouts link to this list (and to the folks that 
>have RSVP'd "Yes" on our MeetUp page). Oh, and if anyone's lost on 
>the timezone thing... we're starting at our normal day/time. Our 
>MeetUp site should list this accurately as well: 
>https://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Linux-Users-Group-BLUG/) See y'all 
>soon!! On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:23 PM Dan Mackin 
><dan.mackin at gmail.com> wrote: > LUGers! > Yuppers... we'll have a 
>vBLUG MeetUp Thursday evening. I'll have more > details for y'all on 
>the event soon but wanted to let you know so as you > could keep 
>your calendars clear... > > Looking forward to seeing y'all via 
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