[Neil C]

Ok so given the virus and need to stay distance and self isolate, which seems an anathema to us humans, and pubs and gigs are shout down, what are you doing to keen the flame alive and sane?

I’m going to try some online conferenced songwriting circle. Need to sort the tech out but most conferencing services should be good enough for audio, video might be variable for some I guess.

So please share other ideas

Keep well

:-) Neil

[pompeyjazz]

I have joined a FB group Covid Gig (The Festival At Home) where lots of guys are posting videos of their live performances. Just made a couple of vids and it's good practice for playing live again which I hope to do when this is all over

Take care all.....

[PaulAds]

I'm trying to figure out what's really going on 

Good luck with that, Neil...looks really interesting.

And great work, PJ 

[pompeyjazz]

Oh yeah, I knocked up a little website today as a portal for my music as it's on a lot of different platforms and good to have one place to put everything!

https://pompeyjazz.wordpress.com/

Love to you all

John

[Neil C]

This is what Tech says about free conferencing for information:

https://www.techradar.com/uk/best/best-video-conferencing-software#best-free-video-conferencing-software-at-a-glance

:-)
neil

[PaulAds]

Anyone on here fancy giving this a go amongst ourselves some time in the next few days?

[Neil C]

Paul, I'd be up for it one evening. I'll let you know how I get on with the collab technology, if you sort out what and how we'd do the session.
:-)
neil   

[pompeyjazz]

Yeah ! Well up for it 

[Sterix]

I'm a little shy but I could chime in. If little else I could be the group's version of the prisoners' pom-pom "girls" from The Mean Machine and offer up some moral support.

[pompeyjazz]

How's it looking with the video tech stuff @Neil C @PaulAds ? I'm quite happy to do some more research into it tomorrow if you guys are busy but it would be great to have a virtual catchup. I don't know why we haven't thought of this before tbh ! Anyway,  would love to see everyone join in and maybe our first session could be a chat, just to say hello to each other and discuss what we could do

[CaliaMoko]

A community I'm part of has met twice recently, using Zoom. If you're okay with limiting the meeting time to 40 minutes or less, it's free for up to 100 people. Plus, if you run out of time, you can immediately start a new 40-minute meeting, if you want. We did that once. I think this might be a special they're doing because of the coronavirus, but I would have to look it up to be sure.

We looked at Skype, but the free version limits meetings to 10 people for 60 days and 3 people after that, if I remember right.

[jacksimmons]

I used to use a website called Tinychat back in the day to host video calls with friends in the states. I don’t think there was any limit to the number of people. I’m sure there’s quite a few sites like this around now

[PaulAds]

I checked out a few possibile ways of doing it...but got a bit tied up in other things!

I will have another look later today...but i thought Zoom looked pretty good...the 40 minute thing isn't a problem, really.

I think it's a great idea. I'll have a think about how we could maybe approach things too...but that's a good idea @pompeyjazz about just doing a fairly short thing initially to say "hello" etc and see if things work ok...then we can see where to go from there...

[pompeyjazz]

@PaulAds I'll download Zoom today and maybe we could test it out later ?

[PaulAds]

Absolutely, John @pompeyjazz I'll give you a shout once I'm ready to go 😃