The monthly Tcl Virtual Meetup is held the second Tuesday of each month, the time varies from month-to-month to accomodate various timezones.

The April Tcl meetup will be held [clock format 1681261200] - Wed 12th April 2023 0100 UTC. If I've got the timezones and daylight savings changes right this is Tuesday 6pm US West, 8pm US Central, 9pm US Eastern, Wednesday 2am UK, 3am Western Europe, 6:30am India, 9am Australia West / Singapore / China, 10am Japan, 11am Australia east, 1pm New Zealand.

Further details are available on the Tcler's Wiki at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org

Also note the new fixed/rotating monthly schedule on the wiki at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Monthly+Virtual+Meetup

Please note that this month we'll be trying the Open Source Jitsi video conferencing facility. Details are available via https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Monthly+Virtual+Meetup

On Monday, 10 April 2023 at 12:16:44 UTC+8, stevel wrote:
> The monthly Tcl Virtual Meetup is held the second Tuesday of each month, the time varies from month-to-month to accomodate various timezones.
>
> The April Tcl meetup will be held [clock format 1681261200] - Wed 12th April 2023 0100 UTC. If I've got the timezones and daylight savings changes right this is Tuesday 6pm US West, 8pm US Central, 9pm US Eastern, Wednesday 2am UK, 3am Western Europe, 6:30am India, 9am Australia West / Singapore / China, 10am Japan, 11am Australia east, 1pm New Zealand.
>
> Further details are available on the Tcler's Wiki at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org
>
> Also note the new fixed/rotating monthly schedule on the wiki at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Monthly+Virtual+Meetup

On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 7:36:38 PM UTC-7, stevel wrote:
> Please note that this month we'll be trying the Open Source Jitsi video conferencing facility. Details are available via https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Monthly+Virtual+Meetup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Monthly+Virtual+Meetup
> On Monday, 10 April 2023 at 12:16:44 UTC+8, stevel wrote:
> > The monthly Tcl Virtual Meetup is held the second Tuesday of each month, the time varies from month-to-month to accomodate various timezones.
> >
> > The April Tcl meetup will be held [clock format 1681261200] - Wed 12th April 2023 0100 UTC. If I've got the timezones and daylight savings changes right this is Tuesday 6pm US West, 8pm US Central, 9pm US Eastern, Wednesday 2am UK, 3am Western Europe, 6:30am India, 9am Australia West / Singapore / China, 10am Japan, 11am Australia east, 1pm New Zealand.
> >
> > Further details are available on the Tcler's Wiki at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org
> >
> > Also note the new fixed/rotating monthly schedule on the wiki at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Monthly+Virtual+Meetup

> "Please note that this month we'll be trying the Open Source Jitsi video conferencing facility. "
IMO that's excellent news! I've been using Jitsi videoconferencing for almost 3 years. I run my own instance but it works the same as the public site at meet.jit.si. I'll vouch for Jitsi's performance and reliability. In recent months its stability has equaled or exceeded commercial products (and I've used most of the major ones). I sure hope to make the meeting tomorrow, but alas seems there's always stuff going on I'm called on to take care of.

In any case, as for Jitsi, it should work well, and free is a very good price!

jrapdx

Being a long term Jitsi user too, I was quite happy with the system for small teams but found it didn't scale well enough for larger meetings. That's changed now with the new livestream feature, which will allow the videoconference to be live-streamed to Youtube (or whatever). That also opens up the option of recording and retaining the livestream.

I won't be doing this for the April meeting, but would appreciate knowing if anyone objects to the meetings being recorded from May onwards.

Some feedback for those interested. Jitsi worked as expected and we'll be using it from now on.

Also a poll of attendees indicated all were in favor of recording the meetups, so I'll plan on doing that pending any vehement objections. If anyone doesn't want to be recorded you will have the option of viewing the livestream via Youtube and contributing via chat.

--Steve

On Wednesday, 12 April 2023 at 08:15:52 UTC+8, stevel wrote:
> Being a long term Jitsi user too, I was quite happy with the system for small teams but found it didn't scale well enough for larger meetings. That's changed now with the new livestream feature, which will allow the videoconference to be live-streamed to Youtube (or whatever). That also opens up the option of recording and retaining the livestream.
>
> I won't be doing this for the April meeting, but would appreciate knowing if anyone objects to the meetings being recorded from May onwards.

stevel <stevel6868@gmail.com> writes:

> Some feedback for those interested. Jitsi worked as expected and we'll be using it from now on.
>
> Also a poll of attendees indicated all were in favor of recording the
> meetups, so I'll plan on doing that pending any vehement objections. If
> anyone doesn't want to be recorded you will have the option of viewing
> the livestream via Youtube and contributing via chat.
>
> --Steve
>
> On Wednesday, 12 April 2023 at 08:15:52 UTC+8, stevel wrote:
>> Being a long term Jitsi user too, I was quite happy with the system
>> for small teams but found it didn't scale well enough for larger
>> meetings. That's changed now with the new livestream feature, which
>> will allow the videoconference to be live-streamed to Youtube (or
>> whatever). That also opens up the option of recording and retaining
>> the livestream.
>>
>> I won't be doing this for the April meeting, but would appreciate
>> knowing if anyone objects to the meetings being recorded from May
>> onwards.

I am very happy with that. I will attend when possible from now on.

--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:15:49 -0700 (PDT), stevel wrote:

> Being a long term Jitsi user too, I was quite happy with the system for
> small teams but found it didn't scale well enough for larger meetings.
> That's changed now with the new livestream feature, which will allow the
> videoconference to be live-streamed to Youtube (or whatever). That also
> opens up the option of recording and retaining the livestream.
>
> I won't be doing this for the April meeting, but would appreciate
> knowing if anyone objects to the meetings being recorded from May
> onwards.

In my opinion, Tcl needs much more material available in the inter-webs
and videos are a great tool to reach a broader audience.
I'd like to see those recordings.