Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Video conferencing platforms beyond Zoom? What works for you?

[Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Why not pay for just one login account, and set it up for genericuser with an 
email address of genericuser [at] anydomaine.com?  Everyone who is charged with 
running a Zoom meeting can pretend to be genericuser for a while, and use the 
genericuser password.  After all, one login account can do only one Zoom 
meeting at a time, and there is no limit known to me on the frequency or length 
of meetings per account.  It is possible to turn off 2-factor authentication, 
and register different separately.

Cornerstone is 32 units, and we get by with many hosts taking turns on one 
community-owned account.  On rare occasions we do have a scheduling conflict, 
and the usual solution is one of the participants mobilizes his/her personal 
Zoom account for the second meeting.

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Thanks, RPD
617.460.4549

On December 29, 2022 at 2:18:24 PM, Leah Halper (lhalper [at] garlic.com) wrote:

Hello, CoHo community.  

Our current use of Zoom is starting to not feel sustainable. We have ten or 
more committees trying to set up meetings, and only one official log-in person; 
we have the $14.99/month Zoom Pro Plan. It requires two-step authentication, as 
they all seem to, and that is getting to be too much for the one person who can 
authenticate based on the emailed or texted code she is sent.  

What do you use?  

We need a way to authenticate/empower more committee chairs with their own 
logins, but our research suggests that depending on the provider, each login 
will cost between $3 and $20/month. Anyone out there using Zoho, Google Meet, 
Teams, or another video conferencing platform? What is working and what is not? 
We are wondering if we should pay for four or five logins, divide them among 
committees, and set up gmail email accounts to receive two-step authentication 
codes for each login. Anyone trying that?!  

Any help much appreciated.  

Leah Halper  
Faciliation Committee  
Yulupa CoHousing, Santa Rosa, CA  
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