<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Before we meet virtually to discuss The Light Brigade in early May. I’d like to run a test virtual meeting at which we’ll discuss a short story. <div><br></div><div><div>Email me back letting me know If Friday 4/10 or Friday 4/17 better for you. </div></div><div><br></div><div>We’ll read and discuss a story available online so it’ll be easy for everyone to get. I like the name of this one: <i>The Secret Life of Bots</i> by Suzanne Palmer.</div><div><a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/</a> </div><div><br></div><div><div>For video chatting, we’ll use <a href="https://jitsi.org/">https://jitsi.org/</a>, a Zoom-like video conferencing client. No accounts, no logins, no passwords, encrypted end to end, just hop on, start a meeting, inform others of the virtual meeting room’s name, and get to video chatting. </div><div><br></div><div>When using a computer, jitsi runs through your web browser. You can download the jitsi app for apple and android smartphones and tablets.</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t have a zoom account and I don’t like the idea of creating a new meeting every 40 minutes. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to James Boggie and Robert Luoma for helping come up with and refine the idea. </div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Louis</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime. </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Sent from Snoopy, my other iThing</span></div></div></div></body></html>