[Leica] Planning a LUG video gathering

Douglas Barry imra at iol.ie
Sun Mar 29 15:43:04 PDT 2020


Thanks Brian,  My wife has a hospital appointment for her cancer 
treatment, but she usually drives herself in, so that time should suit 
me also.

The only other issue I have is a minor one. Since my children returned 
to Ireland some years ago, I never bothered with my webcam, so 
discovered that it's way out of date and now unrecognised by Windows 10. 
I tried to buy a replacement, but no joy - all relevant shops here are 
now closed, and online ones have a huge delay in delivery - several 
weeks or more. I probably could get a driver for it on the web, but that 
runs the risk of getting a whole lot hidden crap with it.

So, as a workaround, I'm going to set it up on my iPhone, but I see that 
there are variants on the app store - Zoom Cloud and Zoom Social. I've 
downloaded both but I presume it's the Z Cloud, I'll need, yes? The only 
problem with the iPhone is the screen size, so I may try getting Zoom on 
my wife's iPad which hasn't had anything new put on it since she got it 
in 2012! Needless to say, thanks to her chemo-brain at the time - she's 
forgotten what her Apple password is and which one of her several email 
addresses she used...

Don't you love technology!

Douglas



On 29/03/2020 00:54, Brian Reid wrote:
> After some research,
>
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20200331&p1=1240&p2=62&p3=78&p4=31&p5=553&p6=102&p7=152 
>
>
> it seems that the time that includes the largest fraction of regular 
> contributors is 14:00 GMT.
>
> An alternate time of 02:00 or 03:00 GMT would include the Far East but 
> shut out Europe and be marginal for much of the USA.
>
> I have called in to international phone meetings more times than I can 
> count (mostly IETF, RIPE, and ICANN), so I know first-hand how hard it 
> is to cope with telecommunications at times I should be sleeping.
>
> After listening to discussion, I will set up a trial Zoom session or 
> two, and we can see what happens.
>
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