[lugm.org] Linux meetup today

Sat Sep 26 18:07:10 UTC 2015

3 people were able to get there. If you were indeed lost, you could have simply called.
The time was given in advance, and nobody objected, and we got quite a few people.
I raised the issue of the need for a webmaster for lugm.org, and made a call for volunteers. You never stepped in. I also proposed your name concerning the NCB/LUGM event for infotech, but you were not able to join a google hangout session.
Google hangout just works, and reduces the barrier for someone to join. Remember, we need low latency for video conferencing. Are you going to provide us with a server in a local datacenter to host an Open Source video conference server ? I'd be happy to work on that server if you mail me the SSH credentials.

     On Saturday, 26 September 2015, 17:48, Jheengut Pritvi <z.coldplayer at gmail.com> wrote:

 where ???

previous emails suggested knowledge seven , now only a street is given 

that too the street name is spelled uncorrectly. or google map does not have such a street in its database

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Remono+St,+Curepipe,+Mauritius/@-20.3154968,57.5216621,679m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x217c5c42fe9df401:0x995b0853b4f66eae

who gets up so early on a saturday? I only got up early at ten to watch Click on its AI based programs.

a facebook event / meetup / eventbrite have an accompanying ics data file that can be imported by all FLOSS calender programs I tested and used. even openoffice v2 had an extension to import and edit the ics file. 

there had been a question about hosting events too.

If this had been on official lugm event , then the event would have been hosted on http://lugm.org/events

and the last event happens to be http://lugm.org/events/list/?action=tribe_list&tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past&ical=1&tribe_display=past.

I now remember why I never tested hangout, its not a FLOSS program. 
So how come a LUG is forcing its members to use a proprietary program, unless this event is not officially patronised .by LUGM  There are other FLOSS alternatives to video conferencing.  http://alternativeto.net/software/google-hangouts/?license=opensource 
I was introduced to chat at LIO using pidgin . pidgin supports video https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#VoiceandVideoMicrophoneandWebcamSupport 

or is it referring to hangout here https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#WhycantIdoavideocallwiththeGMailclient

In this view,   non-drm formats when hosted on youtube, I do not download. So I use youtube-dl -tc to download all such video's. and dailymotion too can be used,   https://www.dmcloud.net/doc/api/api-objects-drm.html , it has a nice api to reject streaming to non-compliant players.

On 26 September 2015 at 09:03, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hosting venue is : 20, remeo street, Curepipe.

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