[ANNOUNCE] ONLINE St. Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) ~ 2 April 2020

You are invited to attend tonight's ONLINE session, in lieu of our regular physical, face-to-face meeting. Instructions below. The Saint Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) is the oldest, longest enduring, continuously meeting personal computer organization active in the Greater St. Louis Metro Area. Face-to-face meeting were usually held on the first Thursday of every month from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM Central Time USA. We hope to maintain that time frame into the future by using ONLINE sessions. All meetings and ONLINE sessions are free and open to the public. NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice. Our usual library reservations for room meetings were cancelled thru 31 May 2020. Room fees had been paid by our sponsoring St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG). We have no membership dues or other charges for the meetings. So, please join us at our next meetings, sessions or other events for fun, knowledge and networking. All hardware, operating systems and software are explored. For those just getting started, watch below ahead of time, as it seems to be a best short JITSI introduction. HOW TO ENTER THE SLACC ONLINE SESSION: Our ONLINE sessions will use JITSI remote video meeting software service on a remote host. You shouldn't need to install anything. You must access the session using an Internet browser. A chromium browser is recommended. Using a chromium browser is said to work better than FireFox. Some use a FireFox browser with seemingly no, to little problems. Recommend that you immediately mute your microphone upon entry. You can then use your spacebar as PUSH_TO_TALK. Deactivate your camera to help reduce bandwidth problems. **Please do not attempt to sign in before 6:00 PM Central Time (USA)** The session will be: meeting software. **Please do not attempt to sign in before 6:00 PM Central Time (USA)** We believe that we will have better low bandwidth access if most everyone turns off their cameras and mutes their microphones. However, we MIGHT have to begin with starting everyone's microphone muted anyway. Using the space bar as a sort of "PUSH TO TALK" should then work very well. As you may know it is our intention to use JITSI video meeting software with SLACC and NEWLUG online gatherings. This may also be an acceptable alternative and backup to the ZOOM service that we have successfully used with the March 2020 STLLUG session. We may also use this or ZOOM service with the SLUUG General Meeting sessions. We want SLUUG to remain the forum for exchanging information about open standards, open systems, open source, products, services and architectures. SLACC holds a Linux Configuration Workshop when nothing else more interesting comes up, or when there is no other event or activity scheduled. Problems with other operating systems and hardware are also frequently fixed. New software tools are often demonstrated or discussed. Not being physically present with your hardware will be a new and challenging experience for us all. Linux is an Internet capable Networking Operating System that provides many fully functional applications that perform well on both older and new computers. Most Linux distributions are free or low cost and provides an extremely reliable and cost effective alternative to high priced proprietary software. The Linux Workshop is where we usually examine, troubleshoot, fix and repair difficult hardware and software configuration problems for Linux newcomers.