St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) https://www.stllinux.org/ 6:30 ~ 9:00 PM (Central Time, USA) You are invited to attend the next ONLINE session, in lieu of our regular physical face-to-face meeting. Instructions are below. * ONLINE Sessions * NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice. * ONLINE session will use Jitsi remote video software on 20 August 2020 Face-to-face meeting were usually held on the third Thursday of every month, from 6:30 PM until 9:00 PM Central Time, USA. We hope to maintain that timeline into the future by using ONLINE sessions. All physical meetings and ONLINE sessions are free and open to the public. 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. For those just getting started remotely with JITSI, ahead of time, watch video below, as it seems to be a very good short JITSI introduction. HOW TO ENTER THE STLLUG ONLINE SESSION: Our ONLINE sessions will use JITSI remote video meeting software service on a private remote host. Even if you do not have a camera and microphone, you can ask questions using the chat box, and you can still hear and see others. You must access the session using an Internet browser. A Chromium browser is recommended. Using a Chromium browser seemingly works better than FireFox. Some use a FireFox browser with seemingly no, to little problems; however, Firefox tends to disrupt connectivity. On a PC workstation you shouldn't need to install anything else. Mobile phones have an app available from 8x8 that works well. ************************************************************** **Please note that our private JITSI server address changed.** ************************************************************** The session will use the following link: ************************************************************** **Please note that our private JITSI server address changed.** ************************************************************** 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. □ Deactivate your camera to help reduce bandwidth problems. □ Recommend that you immediately mute your microphone upon entry. You can then use your spacebar as PUSH_TO_TALK. □ Using the "More actions" selection found at lower right screen, then go to "Settings" and enter into "Profile" your first and last name. □ You could enter your first and last name when first entering the Chat area. As you may know it is our intention to use JITSI video meeting software with NEWLUG and SLACC online gatherings. This may also be an acceptable alternative and backup to the ZOOM remote video service that SLUUG had successfully used since the March 2020 STLLUG session. We may also use JITSI, ZOOM, or yet some other remote video conferencing service with all our SLUUG sponsored remote sessions. Some detailed descriptions about the problems with using Firefox: There was very little relief when Firefox version 76 became available from the repositories. ************************************************************** WHAT! TOPIC: Using Open Tools to Sell your Art By Bryce Meyer Bryce will show some open source tools that can be used with LibreOffice such as the GIMP (an open-src alternative to PhotoShop), Pinta, and other editors in Linux. These tools will assure that art-work and documents that you have prepared (authored, edited,…) can be pulled up by other people and they can print them… and it prints out CORRECTLY!! The results can be used as direct prints onto T-shirts, poster-boards, frame-ables, etc. They can also be made available to other artists who may want to alter your work to create their own. There are online markets (ex CafePress, SpoonFlower,...) where you can buy and sell. Bryce will show us the how-tos of those markets and the tools to best prepare for them. Bryce Meyer teaches and consults for Carnegie Mellon University when he isn't speaking at our meetings. FOR YOUR INFORMATION --