Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Hybrid Zoom Meetings - Need Help

[Bob Leigh (bobleigh]

And I can attest that when a group at Cornerstone announces an all-Zoom
meeting, Phil Dowds is sure to ask, did we waste our money buying an Owl?

Bob

On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 8:55 PM Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> I remember the good old days, up through 2019, when we all came into the
> room together.  Seemed easy, since we all lived within a couple hundred
> yards of each.  On rare occasions, someone was temporarily out of town, but
> really wanted to participate anyway, so we rigged up something on a
> laptop.  But the thought of all virtual never occurred to us.
>
> Pre-Zoom, there were probably fewer of us attending.  But the quality of
> the meeting was higher.  One must admit, quantity over quality is certainly
> an American tradition.
>
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> Thanks, RPD
>
> On November 12, 2023 at 4:34:53 PM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L (
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org) wrote:
>
> > On Nov 11, 2023, at 8:46 AM, Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > At Wolf Creek, do you allow participants to leave their cameras off?
>
> I also wonder about this. When people have their cameras off most show a
> still image, usually a headshot, or Zoom shows the name they signed in by.
> At first, people would only turn off their cameras during breaks. But more
> people have started doing this. One concern is that we don’t really know if
> they are there (counting toward quorum) or paying attention. I don’t like
> looking at myself during the whole meeting so leaving the video off is
> tempting. I don’t have any evidence that people not listening — sometimes
> they are cooking or taking care of children. But I play solitaire which is
> pretty much the same thing.
>
> The bigger problem is that I can’t always tell who is speaking if I can’t
> see their lips moving. This is a problem with hybrid meetings, too, because
> the camera doesn’t focus on the person speaking. The image of all the
> people in the room is as small as one person on the screen.
>
> We have higher attendance with Zoom meetings than in-person meetings and
> people who are away do often tune into meetings, as well as prospective
> buyers. I don’t like rules that say people have to do this or that to prove
> this or that because it usually doesn’t. If people are required to sit in
> front of the computer and be visible as a talking head will they pass up
> the meeting? I would rather have a headshot than no person.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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