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

[Stuart Pettygrove (gspettygrove]

Washington Commons has a Zoom Pro account -- same as what Phil from
Cornerstone described. I believe it is $150/year and does not require any
payment per user.  Use of the room doesn't require scheduling it or setting
up a meeting; you just go there.  Team leads can "claim host".  To avoid
calendar conflicts, anytime a team is planning to use the zoom, they have
to post the meeting on our community google calendar and show the link.
That informs others that that the zoom is already reserved for that time,
and team members can go to the calendar to get the link. Our IT team (which
by the way we have named "eComITy") under the leadership of Barbara Scott
prepared an instruction sheet for the whole community.
We only got the community zoom account a few months ago. So far, no
problems!
Stu Pettygrove
Washington Commons
washington-commons.org

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 11:59 AM Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ------------------
> 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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