Thursday, May 7, 2020

May 11 Meeting to be Held via JITSI

Since we will not be able to meet in-person for our May 11 meeting, we have decided to hold a video meeting via Jitsi. This will be much different from the Facebook Live meeting last month and has benefits along with a few negatives. The first negative is that many of the club members probably don’t have the Jitsi meeting app on their phones, tablets, or laptop/computers. So this will be a new process. The good news is that many of the AMPSCV members have been using this app and successfully conducted their April meeting by Jitsi. The next good news is that it is pretty easy to get up and running. Linked below is a document with instructions for downloading and using Jitsi. However, here are the basic steps:

  1. Download the Jitsi app (www.jitsi.org)
  2. At 6:30 p.m., enter the meeting by typing "ipmsrichmond" in the Meeting box. There is no password.
  3. Either watch or participate.

Our meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and for the first half-hour we will simply chit-chat and work out any installation or usability bugs. At 7:00 p.m. we will begin the actual meeting with whatever club business there is followed by the main event of Show and Tell. I know everyone has quite a few quarantine projects so please share them with us!

By the way, the "ipmsrichmond" meeting room is always open, so you can certainly log in earlier to meet others or just try it out.


At the April AMPSCV meeting, people showed off their WIPs and completed kits. Some folks just watched and did not use their camera. All of this is up to the users and what they want to use or what they have. You don’t need a camera or microphone to just watch the meeting but you can’t participate.


Click here for the Jitsi instructions

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