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

[Fiona Frank (fionafrank]

We use the generic user email at Lancaster cohousing but even a generic
email sometimes asks for authentication SO you can do two other things with
zoom to make it easy

1. Set up a generic any time recurring meeting and make sure there’s no
waiting room on it.
2. Get people to book the account on a google calendar or similar so there
aren’t clashes
3. Let everyone  know the link for the generic any time recurring meeting
and also let them all know the  ‘host key’ of the account (find it under
‘profile’) - someone can ‘claim host’ (it’s under ‘participants’ on the
right hand side) and do everything that a host coming in through the
account can do.

This saves you having to set up new meetings using the account thereby
needing the irritating authentication pass number .

Love
Fiona Frank
Lancaster Cohousing
(Self proclaimed zoom expert !!)



On Thursday, 29 December 2022, Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> Very much interested in this also.
> My family has moved to Facebook meetings or "rooms", which work great if
> everyone has a Facebook account. Not very useful for official groups.
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 12:18 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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