DI (Zoom) Meeting – 6 March 2020
At the last DI meeting I did express concern regarding the current pandemic what the situation will be at the time of the next meeting. My fears were realised soon afterwards and all physical gatherings have been banned. However many other clubs have successfully held online meetings and competitions using software such as Zoom which some of you may already be familiar with. A small group of us have been exploring the feasibility of using it in BPS and had reasonable success with a trial meeting to emulate the presentations we normally have in the clubroom. So I bravely (or foolishly) agreed to hold our first BPS DI meeting online as scheduled in the programme on Monday 6 March. If successful, it will pave the way for the Wednesday meetings in similar form, perhaps with a different content to what is in the booklet. I hope as many of you as possible are able to take part and become familiar in advance with Zoom training sessions published in the newsletter.
The presentations will be in a similar format – I will gather all images and call out the contributor to comment on his or her images as they are projected. Slight differences here will be that instead of bringing you images on a USB stick I would like you to email the images to me and I will show them on my screen which everyone should be able to see on their screens. Also the speaker’s commentary should be audible to all if your Zoom software is set up correctly. All images will be deleted from my computer after the meeting just as they have been deleted from the club computer.
As before the images should be JPG format, sRGB colour space and for this first meeting keep the image size to 1600 x 1200 pixels as in the club competitions. The size restrictions will also allow me to receive the images as attachments within the 20 Mb limit per email. Alternatively send me via Dropbox (please send me a link to download from your computer). As I need time to arrange all images in a single folder for ease of presenting smoothly please send them to me by Saturday 4 April 7.30 pm. Please prefix the filename with 01, 02, 03 etc so that they will be shown in that order if you wish.
As this the first online meeting I suggest it is limited to one hour. Sorry I can’t offer chocolate biscuits this time but I am sure you will be sitting snugly with a drink in your hand and your favourite biscuits to go with it.
The link to the meeting will published in this Friday's edition of the newsletter.
I hope all goes well. Keep safe.
Ashwin Chauhan
