Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: community license for Zoom Pro?

[Chris Hansen (itschrishansen]

We have a pro account, and a couple of members do too.
How have other communities dealt with meetings happening concurrently that
need more than 40 minutes if you only have one account? I believe you can
host two meetings at a time, but two meetings can not occur at the same
time on one account. Anyone found a clever workaround for this?
We have some community members who don't use zoom. Our work-around is to
set up zoom on a screen in our dining room (using a projector and screen)
or our (smaller) living room and people can view on the TV screen which has
a webcam perched on top. They all wear masks and are suitably distanced.
Not everyone has two computers or an extra monitor, but I am working on the
need to see everyone in gallery and have opened documents with dual screens
Cheers
Chris
Burlington East Village CoHousing, Vermont

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 12:46, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > On Apr 27, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > If your community has purchased a Zoom Pro license, how is that working
> for
> > you? Especially if you have many smaller and larger teams needing to use
> it.
>
> Some of our members have their own Zoom Pro accounts so we haven’t used
> the free version that is time limited. We are using it for all meetings
> now.
>
> The only difficulty I’ve had is with our Bylaws Revisions team. It’s hard
> to have all the people on the screen and to open documents to refer to or
> edit. I find it also find it difficult to refer to  the paper documents
> while I’m working on the laptop. It takes longer to find the right one and
> people are waiting. In large membership meetings I’m not usually referring
> to documents.
>
> Today I had 5 documents open at the same time. I made the Zoom window very
> small because there were only 6 people. With a larger meeting that would be
> harder to do and still see everyone. Today I had the Zoom window covered,
> but when I do that I tend to forget I’m still on video, and I don’t see who
> else is raising their hand.
>
> The ease of having no limit on meetings and using Zoom for all meetings is
> very nice. I suspect there are other added features too. I think it would
> be a good investment.
>
> I’ve also wondered if it would be possible for CohoUSA to have a corporate
> membership communities can use, or Gather to negotiate a fee to add it to
> their program.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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