[LINK] Just as everyone's hopping onto Zoom ...

[Tom Worthington]

On 2/4/20 3:12 pm, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> ... Inner West Council will be holding an extraordinary Council
> meeting next Tuesday via Zoom! ...  advice? ...

A council has only a few members, so just about any video conference 
system would be able to handle it. Some suggestions: 
https://blog.tomw.net.au/2020/04/remote-meetings-for-running-australia.html

ps: On Thursday I gave my first presentation via Zoom, and it worked 
much like other video conference systems. This was on "Better e-Learning 
Tools for Combating COVID-19" to ANU early career academics.

While Zoom offers to share a window on your screen, I could not get this 
to work with Linux and Firefox. As soon as I started sharing a window, 
it went black on my screen and for everyone else. Sharing my whole 
screen worked, but then I could not see the chat window or video from 
other people. This was a little like speaking to a darkened room full of 
people (which I have done in Indonesia during a blackout). The window 
sharing may be better supported on other operating systems and browsers.


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