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

[Fred-List manager (fholson]

Fiona Frank <fionafrank [at] gmail.com>
is the author of the 29 Dec 2022 message below.  It was posted by Fred of
the Cohousing-L management team <cohousing-l-owner [at] cohousing.org>

Sorry about the delay in getting this reposted. There was a format issue.

It was actually two replies from Fiona. I combined the brief replies and
hopefully left the right quoted stuff to make sense.

Fred

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The host key belongs to the account and works for every meeting on that
account.
For an 'anytime meeting' - click on 'recurring meeting'
and then recurrence 'no fixed time'

ps and don't forget about no waiting room, otherwise noone can get in  -
see below

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

On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 at 21:08, 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 !!)