HHC2020

[BruceH]

(03-17-2020 02:00 AM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  As I understand it, 'miracles' apart there's no way to stop the spreading, even with confinement. What mandatory confinement will achieve is *slowing down* the exponential spreading (say from 2x infected every 3 days to every week), so that you don't have more affected people *at once* than you can deal with, avoiding collapse of both the health system and the economy, and gaining time to try and find a cure.

Contact tracing combined with isolation can stop the spread: Singapore and China both achieved it.

Given that China only had an outbreak in one region - meaning that there are another billion Chinese who haven't had it - their strategy must presumably be containment until a vaccine is developed or the virus dies out or both; but not one of slowly allowing everyone to get it as there are simply too many people.

[Eddie W. Shore]

I'm fine with a Virtual HHC 2020 this year. Better a virtual one than not at all.

Hopefully Google Duo or Zoom can handle a large meeting of at least 50.

[Dave Britten]

(03-25-2020 07:21 PM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  I'm fine with a Virtual HHC 2020 this year. Better a virtual one than not at all.

Hopefully Google Duo or Zoom can handle a large meeting of at least 50.

If not, there's always Twitch or Minecraft or something.

[John Cadick]

(03-25-2020 07:21 PM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  I'm fine with a Virtual HHC 2020 this year. Better a virtual one than not at all.

Hopefully Google Duo or Zoom can handle a large meeting of at least 50.

Eddie: I got a message from Google that you are on duo. I am also.

From the internet:

Google Duo - 7 maximum
Google Meet - 25 maximum
Zoom - free 100 maximum with a 40 min time limit
Zoom - $14.95 per/mo/host 100 max with 24 hr time limit
Skype - free 50 max Group video calls are subject to a fair usage limit of 100 hours per month with no more than 10 hours per day and a limit of 4 hours per individual video call. Once these limits have been reached, the video will switch off and the call will convert to an audio call.

None of them are optimal, but they are free (except zoom with 24 hour time limit.) However, it would seem that if we did it as a group (HHC) $14.95 per/mo/host we could have more than one meeting in a year, for way less money than face to face. Just a thought

I would love an online meeting personally. Save on travel, rooms, and still get to see all of HHC's pretty faces. (Myself excluded)

J

P.S. For a meeting that big, I think we would all have to have some serious screen sizes. ;0}

[Harald]

If HHC2020 is an online meeting, I would attend, too.

[Giancarlo]

I am interested too in a eventual hhc2020 virtual meeting.

Thanks

Giancarlo

[Eddie W. Shore]

It looks like Zoom would be way to go.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello1

(03-31-2020 02:15 AM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  It looks like Zoom would be way to go.

My wife (who is a school teacher) has been on a videoconference with her colleagues (I guess they must be 30 to 50 from what I hear in the background) for the last hour using jitsy (https://jitsi.org/). This is a free open source project that can, according to their website, host up to 200 participants at once. Maybe it is worth looking at that solution as well.

And there is source code available too, so maybe someone can get it running on his Prime :-)

Regards
Max

[Eddie W. Shore]

I don't know when, though I would like to do a test call/micro-conference.

[BruceH]

(03-31-2020 02:15 AM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  It looks like Zoom would be way to go.

I wouldn't touch Zoom with a bargepole.

https://daringfireball.net/2020/03/regarding_zoom

Edit to add: Maybe HouseParty for full video or Riot for chatting?

[StephenG1CMZ]

That's interesting.
There are reports that the uk Prime Minister has been using zoom whilst self-isolating.
There have been some claims that House party has been problematic, though Houseparty claims that is sabotage.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co....y-52101421

[Mark Power]

We ran a sort of test today via HPCC with Gene and Eric from the USA joining a few of us in the UK. We avoided Zoom given its current security and privacy issues, and time limits on free accounts.

The system we used today supports up to 150 people simultaneously, for up to 4 hours (per session) and runs inside a browser (but not seemingly on iPads). We learnt a lot about how to use its facilities properly, so it is a potential candidate if HHC2020 goes virtual.

Hopefully we did a better job than some we could mention.

Regards Mark

[Wizard83]

Well I for one hope the HHC2020 does happen in Nashville this October. I live about an hour north of Downtown and am looking forward to attending my first one.

I'm a long time fan of the HP-41CV and HP-42s calculators and have recently gotten a DM42

If we can't have one in person a virtual one would be better than none at all.