[Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers ^tech^ (?e-social?) meeting tonight

Due to popular demand, we're having an Round-table / open-mike / virtual
social meeting tonight.

6:30pm - 9:00pm Eastern Time

Meeting will be on *JITSI* FLOSS meetings -- like Zoom but with better
security and open source.
To compute the secure meeting URL, run this command on day of event
(computes a different URL each day).

 perl -MDigest::SHA=sha1_hex -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime
"%Y/%m/%d week %U", localtime; $date=strftime "Y%Y W%U", localtime;
print $date; print
"https://meet.jit.si/BostonPM-".sha1_hex("BostonPM".$date);'

(
*If on Windows with classic CMD instead of a Gnu/BSD shell in Terminal,
exchange single and double quotes, but you knew that.If your mail client
breaks the line in a way that it stays broken cut-&-paste, unbreak it.*
*This hashes Year and ISO Week which won't be friendly to AU/NZ/JP/IN on
New Year's Eve but should work on Tuesdays the rest of the year.*
*If this doesn't work for you, send off-list email to Bill or DM on
Twitter. *)

  (If you need to hear my rant about why Zoom’s “fixes” are
inadequate, ask me off-list.)
  Jitsi is a Free/Libre OSS project sponsored by 8x8 (an Atlassian
spin-off). It is the freemium base for their added-value corporate
meeting & VOIP platform. As FLOSS, it can be self-hosted; they provide
a free demo server. We will currently be using the free demo server,
but may migrate to a hosted server (where we can set defaults,
privileges).
  Natick FOSS group has a 4-page Jitsi Help .pdf file
<http://www.millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupJitsi.pdf>, and you can
practice beforehand.  (They meet 1st Thursdays, online, early
afternoon.)
 Update to file ^ : Firefox latest versions 78+ support multicast, so
are safer than before. Chrome/Chromium/FF78+ all plausible now.

One can use plain web mode, but you can install the browser plug-in if you
like (recommended if sharing slides or terminal). There are also iOS
(iPhone/iPad) and Android apps which work well.


JITSI keyboard shortcuts -
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts

JITSI scales fine to more people in face-sharing BradyBunch /
HollywoodSquares mode than you can easily see at once (30ish) and if folks
turn off their cameras when just listening/talking, i.e. when not
commenting/presenting, it scales much higher. (If we later get more folks
than will comfortably fit in Jitsi, we can set up a stream to YouTubeLive
or some other platform … or upgrade to a proper panelist platform feeding a
stream, but the “seminar” quality of Jitsi is fine for our level of
anarchy.)

I will routinely mute those not presenting so you’ll usually need to unmute
to comment. Hint: Space-bar is push to talk, M is mute/unmute (on
phone/tablet it’s the skeuomorphic microphone, avoid the handset hangup
button!).

As now seen on Perl Weekly newsletter <https://perlweekly.com/> [image:
Perl weekly 234x60.png]
<https://bpm.qualitybox.us/bpm/File:Perl_weekly_234x60.png> and their Events
Calendar <https://perlweekly.com/events.html> - which you can import via
the live iCal <https://perlweekly.com/perlweekly.ical> calendar -- at least
in months that i plan ahead (not this month).

-- 
Bill Ricker
[email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

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