[Online event described will be at 9am Sunday AEST, Melbourne time.] The first virtual meeting of CABAL, the LUG that normally meets in West Menlo Park, California (which as a reminder is one of the relatively sane parts of the USA). Thanks again to Trent W. Buck for the cool timezone-dumping trick, which he'll note I swiped. There will be no special topic, though I might give a briefing about my experience installing in a tearing hurry and administering Jitsi Meet on Amazon EC2 to provide one of major functions of the recent World Science Fiction Convention ('Worldcon') in Wellington, New Zealand, when it was obliged to operate as the first-ever virtual Worldcon. ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> ----- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:26:42 -0700 From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> To: conspire@linuxmafia.com Subject: [conspire] CABAL meetings of the apocalypse, Saturday, Sept. 12, 4pm Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already. Hi ho! Seeing that the world is falling apart, the sky is the colour of a dead television channel, and the air is barely breathable, let's get together on Jitsi Meet! CABAL Virual Edition: Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, 4pm - 8pm Pacific Daylight Time.[1] Where? Here, via videoconferencing: http://meet.jit.si/cabal You will need: o Computer w/supported Web browser. Best results reported with: o Chromium o Chrome o Microsoft Edge v. 79.0.309 or later o (some others, e.g., Firefox, might work but are not guaranteed) o A computer with mic and speakers/headphones. Headphones/earbuds are recommended (because they avert audio feedback loops). Upon joining @ that URL, your browser will probably ask if the page may have permission to connect to your microphone and speaker. Say yes. If you haven't done computer videoconferencing before: o You can check your setup for problems at https://test.webrtc.org/ . (Don't worry about minor bobbles like 'Reflexive connectivity' getting dinged.) o You might want to show up 15 minutes early, to thrash out problems. (Problems are common during first-time videoconferencing.) I will have fresh garlic bread and other home cooking. You probably won't, unless you're in my household, but, hey, that's the year 2020 for you. I expect we'll continue with 2nd Saturday 4-8 pm online CABAL meetings for the duration of the Martian Death Flu. When will reality get restored? Haha. "Der mentsh trakht un got lakht." I will promise with extreme insincerity to give a prize to the farthest flung videoconfercing participant. Astronauts calling from the ISS will automatically win. [1] If not in the Pacific Daylight Time time zone, check using https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ Or try something lik this Bourne shell recipe (tested on Debian): :r! grep worldclock .bashrc alias worldclock='zdump America/{Los_Angeles,Mexico_City,New_York,Sao_Paulo} Europe/{London,Berlin,Moscow} Asia/Calcutta PRC Japan Australia/{Perth,Melbourne}' -- Cheers, "My hot flight attendant asked how I like my coffee. Rick Moen And that's when she told me: 'That's cute, honey, but rick@linuxmafia.com the coffee's free. You don't have to pay for it, here." McQ! (4x80) (seen on Twitter) _______________________________________________ conspire mailing list conspire@linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> ----- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:47:41 -0700 From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> To: conspire@linuxmafia.com Subject: Re: [conspire] CABAL meetings of the apocalypse, Saturday, Sept. 12, 4pm Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already. Quoting Rick Moen (rick@linuxmafia.com):

CABAL Virual Edition: Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, 4pm - 8pm Pacific Daylight Time.[1]

Where? Here, via videoconferencing: http://meet.jit.si/cabal

Forgot to say: If you can't (or would rather not) videoconference in, via Web browser, you can _instead_ join audio-only by dialing in telephonically. Call-in numbers and access PIN follow. PIN: 3654 3335 40 Country Dial-in Number US +1.512.647.1431 UK +44.203.885.2179 France +33.1.87.21.0005 Germany +49.89.380.38719 Netherlands +31.85.208.1541 Spain +34.932.205.409 Canada +1.437.538.3987 Australia +61.8.7150.1136 Brazil +55.21.3500.0112 Japan +81.3.4510.2372 Switzerland +41.61.588.0496 _______________________________________________ conspire mailing list conspire@linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire ----- End forwarded message -----