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

[Kathryn Dewey (alice.k.dewey]

I love Zoom but if you are still looking for a different option there is
Discord, which is free to use. Here is the URL to their information page:
https://discord.com/  It works differently, but does have many useful
features.

Zoom is still my go to but Discord does have additional functions for
organizing and fostering online community. We use it to have family
meetings and movie nights, etc.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023, 4:52 AM Fred-List manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
> --------------------  FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS --------------------
>
> 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 !!)
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