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

[S N Martin (snmartin]

Hi Muriel and all,

I second Fiona's suggestions.

When scheduling the recurring meeting via the web, there is an option to
select "No Fixed Time." You could also use the Personal Meeting ID as a
recurring meeting with no fixed time.

The host key (
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205172555-Using-your-host-key)
belongs to the account not a specific meeting, so works with any meeting.

In addition to the suggestion of using a generic gmail account for the
address, for one of the organizations I help support, we have set up the
generic account (zoom [at] orgname.org) to specifically forward the
verification code emails to the three people who use the account most
frequently so they don't have to bother logging into the generic account
for the verification code.

Stan
@Acorn Creek Community

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 4:08 PM Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:

> 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 !!)
> >
> >
> [snip]
> > > 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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