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Re: Pi.BerkeleyLUG: Next meeting this Sunday 2021-05-16. Hybrid meeting!!!

Quoting tom r lopes (tomrlopes@gmail.com):

> Going to try Virtual + in person.
> From what I hear Rick's Cabal went pretty good, So I am going to try.

Further random thoughts -- with the disclaimer that everyone is going to
have to figure out what works and what doesn't:

Tom, it's really promising to invite some folks to join you in-person at
Caffe Strada and collectively interact with the remote folks on Jitsi
Meet.  It being an outdoor cafe of course definitely helps.  Having 
not been there specifically, I'm picturing, y'know, a half-dozen or more
tables out on the sidewalk.  You'd be at one of those tables with, hmm, 
an RPi? or a smartphone?  talking to Jitsi Meet via cafe WiFi (ideally). 

So, probably, assuming people join you there, you might have three or
four of you on one side of the table, looking at the screen, listening,
and talking.  

That's cool, so I'm trying to anticipate what the rough points might be.
As mentioned, in CABAL's case, the Achilles Heel was a failing 3.5mm
audio stereo patch cord.  Damn.  Replacement is on its way, so next time
local attendees' ability to hear the online people will be way better.
In your case on Sunday, you may have an ambient noise problem, and 
also the problem of the mic being too far away from most of the people
at the table, at any given time.

CABAL (or actually CABAL co-founder Duncan MacKinnon) anticipated this 
problem and had drop-shipped here a nice, cheap, external mic on a
flexible neck and stand -- that also has good built-in ambient noise
rejection.  That part worked _great_.  The screen was my regular
Macintoy laptop, so reasonable-sized for a small crowd.

The external speakers were intended to overcome the usual problem of
tinny little laptop-internal speakers.  And but for the failing cable, 
probably would have.

The setup was small enough that it could have been shlepped to a
Berkeley cafe and put on a small outdoor table -- provided there was AC
(because the Yamaha speakers need an AC feed).

Best of fortune with the hybrid effort.

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