I still don't entirely understand why an online conference is not even considered. We have the technology for it. It might also be a great way to try out some of the networking tools for music. Louigi Verona https://louigiverona.com/ On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 12:20 PM bernard <bernard(a)tressol.fr> wrote:

Why not do a Zoom conference ? Bob V. On 11/1/20 11:05 AM, Louigi Verona wrote:

Hi, Is it still possible to register again since it is now online? thx Chris On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 18:09, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk> wrote:

I have an (old) Logitech C310 which works just fine for me with Debian. Not even sure they make them anymore. This is about as cheap as they get. On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 7:44 AM Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk> wrote:

Hello Will, On 11-11-2020 15:43, Will Godfrey wrote: Bear in mind that due to the current crisis prices have doubled and sometimes even quintupled for webcams, at least over here (Netherlands). Webcams seem to be the new toilet paper. Jeremy

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:52:16 +0100 Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy(a)autostatic.com> wrote: It's actually worse than that here. Virtually no deliveries seem to be quoted till December :( Just to make it more interesting, it seems the audio of none of my machines work on the LAC test site except my laptop, and that already has a camera which is at least reasonable. This is probably a combination of hardware, distro and browser version, so it looks like I'll be going with the laptop... carefully. It's getting a bit long in the tooth. Still, it will be a 'learning experience' as they say. It seems with BBB if you share screen, this includes the browser window. Whereas somehow the Zoom program manages to hide itself. I can only guess it is hiding, grabing the screen, then displaying itself again. Clever people these web-foot types :) Will. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, at 20:38, Will Godfrey wrote: So does this query have something to do with LAC? Does that mean it is happening, is online, and has some agreed date and technology? (I don't think I ever registered for it previously, because there was no way I was ever going to make it to an in-person conference this year. But I am on the LAC-team mailing list and have seen nothing there either) Chris

On Wed, November 11, 2020 8:43 am, Will Godfrey wrote: My old Logitech works fine with Fedora. I do not have a newer Logitech, so I can only speculate that the newer models would likely use the same USB driver interface. Once lockdown started locally I bought a couple of cheap webcams at the local computer store for the kids' computers, I found Vivitar brand cams that seemed to be some fairly generic low cost camera, those also work fine with Fedora, so I expect they use a standard USB class that would work with nearly any kernel. -- Chris Caudle

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 03:31:33PM -0800, Len Ovens wrote: Yes, these are all good options. Last time I checked (which was years ago and the situation should only have improved since then), as long as the webcam is a USB class compliant one, which most of them are, then it should work with Debian and derivatives. -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:36:42 +0100 Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com> wrote: The BBB system apparently has a chat window, but it's not clear *exactly* who is control of it or how it is managed. I have asked if an IRC channel could be opened before each day's presentations start, but haven't heard back yet. Because it's a system that everyone is unfamiliar with it's quite possible that connections might fail for some reason, so a *known* reliable fall-back for communication is pretty important. I appreciate that the Uni is pretty tied up with higher (frequently changing) priorities at this time, but information has been worryingly sparse. Will. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:36:35 +0000 Christopher Obbard <chris(a)64studio.com> wrote: I think the current link is only intended for presenters, in order to get some practice with their presentations. It's probably better if you ask them yourself. I'm not even sure if that is the same as the one they will eventually use. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 19:33, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk> wrote: Thanks, the latest email confirms that the link will be sent later ;-)