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

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Fiona, this is a pretty genius idea! But how do you set up an "any time"
meeting? Zoom wants day of the week and time of day when I schedule
meetings, whether recurring or one-time.

Also, does the host key belong to the meeting (or series of meetings) or to
the Zoom account?
    Muriel @ Shadowlake Village

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 3:53 PM Fiona Frank <fionafrank [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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