[lug] (Virtual) BLUG is ON! Thursday April 9th, 2020 @ 6:30PM (MDT!)

Fri Apr 10 08:03:52 MDT 2020

>From Friday the 3rd to the day before yesterday, I attempted to use Zoom
many times, mostly for job-related meetings, but also for a few other ones
(e.g. music lessons). I missed two work meetings and spent an inordinate
amount of time trying to fix the issues (I think those are now resolved,
and might have been their clumsy attempt to mitigate zoombombing and the
security issues that were made public just before the problem occurred).
Yet, I am still really angry at that company. I initially resolved to not
use Zoom anymore at all, but then I "relaxed the policy" to give it a try
for anything I really care about. However, my "policy" is to never ever
spend more than 90 seconds on each device. If it doesn't work out of the
box, try another device. It did not work out of the box on bionic, I do not
know why and I do not care. It did work on Android. If I run out of
devices, I am just resigned to miss the meeting. Life is too short to deal
with such a stupid company.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:15 PM Maxwell Spangler <lists at maxwellspangler.com>
wrote:

> What doesn't work on Linux?
>
> Zoom? I was using Zoom on Fedora 31 tonight.
>
> Curious.
>
> On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 19:06 -0600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
> FWIW it does not work on a Linux workstation, but it does work on Android
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:04 PM Dan Mackin <dan.mackin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our feature presenter's slides are here:
> https://www.varrazzo.com/psycopg-boulder-2020/#slide1
>
> Dan Mackin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
>
> Topic: April 2020 Boulder Linux User's Group
> Time: Apr 9, 2020 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
>
> Join Zoom Meeting
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>
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:47 PM Jeffrey S. Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Go Dan!
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:37 AM Dan Mackin <dan.mackin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 videoconference!!
> -Dan
>
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