[NTLK] Worldwide Online Newton Conference 2020

[Rod Lavington]

Teams has had a free option since 2018.  The other option is Skype Meet
Now, which they have had for a while but forgot to tell anyone.  Would be
mid evening for me here in Perth Western Australia, so I could able to
watch.

Btw, I’m a Long time lurker.  Hopefully have a 120 arriving *soon* - it’s
been 2 weeks now - but sorely miss the 2100 I had years ago with MoreInfo.
Still have not found anything close to that set up.

Cheers

Rod


On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 7:55 am, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 15:57 Pawel Piotrowski <newton at indigi.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all Newtonians!
> >
> > Because we never get to planning stage of physical Newton Conference, an
> > idea arose in my restless head. Worldwide Online Newton Conference 2020.
> > Online video-conference. With international schedule, presenters,
> > presentations, demos, and - of course - networking sessions. The time is
> > bad (coronavirus), but I think because of this some of us have to stay at
> > home. I thought it was a good time to organize such an event.
>
>
> I think this is a great idea and I would look forward to attending as long
> as I can make time in my schedule. (In the short term, that's looking to be
> easy, although that's not really a good thing.)
>
> Because we are around the world, we need to have good time schedule. I
> > thought that US part of world could start about 9-10am. This give in
> Europe
> > something like 3-4pm. For the first time we could organise something like
> > 5-6 hours event, with 4-5 speakers (or longer if the presentations will
> be
> > linger). We could use Zoom app or something like that to connect
> everybody.
>
>
> Your suggestion of times makes sense to me, but I'm in the eastern US. I
> imagine there are quite a few people in western North America who might
> find a 9am start time a bit early.
>
> I would suggest against Zoom due to some of the security & privacy issues
> it has. That said, I don't currently have a good suggestion for an
> alternative and they're at least addressing some of the security issues.
> Maybe Microsoft Teams, but I'm unclear on the exact pricing as I don't
> maintain an Office 365 account. Either way, whatever can broadcast to the
> broadest spectrum of Newton users and also record the sessions.
>
> Morgan
>
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