------------------------------- Wed Mar 17 06:30:48 PM EDT 2021 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Mar 17, 2021 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance: Speaker: * Christoph Doerbeck BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman * Kurt Keville Attendees (named): * Andy Puchrik * Benjamin Li * Bill Bogstad * Brendan Kidwell * Edward Piecewicz * Eric Chadbourne * Randy Cole * Ron Thibeau Attendees (anonymous): * "arnold" * "Curt" * "Lori" * "Michael I" * "Qlin" * "Fellow Jitser" #1 * "Fellow Jitser" #2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman Live Stream URL is https://youtu.be/LabGDr3bcks 18:37 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz Is there a Jitsi volume control? Volume is excessively loud. 18:42 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman control the volume using the speaker setting 18:43 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz It's all set now, was the BT headphones, This has 8 controls on it, had to find the - key. 😃 18:45 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Puchrik Jerry, do you think we'll ever get back to real in-person meetings at MIT? 18:50 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I s/droids/streaming/g 18:50 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau i asked kurt to look into mit room availability 18:50 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Li twitch is free to stream 18:50 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau no earlier than september, as far as i'm concerned, and maybe later, depending on how the vaccine rollout goes 18:51 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman We are planning on going back to MIT once they let us back in 18:51 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Bogstad If 18:51 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville Yeah, we still qualify under the User Groups criteria 18:52 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau even if MIT opens sooner, I'm not willing to hold in-person meetings before September. I'm a stickler for safety. 18:53 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I For free personal Zoom account, event 3 users are limited to 40 minutes. 18:53 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Puchrik Zoom Pro at $15 isn't bad... 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville Where did BLU used to meet? Solomon Schecter school? 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz Might be safer not to have in-person meetings until we don't have to wear masks in public anymore. 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Bogstad It's good to force a break between Zoom meetings! 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Puchrik We save on pizza 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne My first time on Jitsi Fun 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau We used to meet at MIT's Sloan Schooll. Bldg E51 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville Ha 18:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Bogstad E51 is one of the few places easy access by car or T with free parking 18:55 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville I think we met at the NERD center once... 18:56 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz 👍 18:57 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman Nerd was a good facility but parking really sucks and $$$ 18:58 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I I hope we keep the Jitsi stream even after in-person meetings resume. I like being able to attend even when I am out of MA. 18:58 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau yes, we met at the NERD center once, i think in 2016,while the E51 parking lot was being repaved or something nevermind, i was thinking of the Stata Center, not the NERD center, for that 2016 meeting 18:59 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Puchrik the green curtain makes me want to see the virtual. 19:01 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I Yes, please! 19:02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Puchrik oops 19:05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne Looks good here Lol 19:07 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Bogstad But he was very technical before he was in sales ! 19:12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lori why do so many people hate system D? 19:33 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne System D sounds like a rap Group 19:34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman people don't like change 19:34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne True 19:35 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I people who do not like change should not be in IT. 19:35 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lori I'm more concerned if user applications break due to it. (even if they are open source, some projects don't really have the developer power to fix it.) 19:36 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I Any plans to adopt Networkd that is part of systemd? 19:40 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau A lot of it had to do with resistance to gratuitous changes, where functionality that people depended on for decades was ripped out and dismissed as unnecessary. I remember one developer ranting that he was sick and tired of getting tens of thousands of complaints about the missing capabilities, and asking why can't those legions of users understand that "nobody wants those capabilities". 19:40 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell (NYC) that sounds like poettering 19:42 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I Full screen. please? 20:02 How close is wayland to providing remote desktop? 20:15 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne Great talk thanks! 20:19 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz Excellent talk. Thank you. 20:20 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I Thanks, Christoph. Great presentation. 20:25 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville Thanks Cristoph... your usual excellent presentation 20:26 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Doerbeck appreciate it 20:26 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Puchrik It works, but it's obsolete. 20:27 -----------------------------------------------------------------------