[nesfa-reading-group] [nesfa-active] I signed up for a personal Zoom account.

[David G. Grubbs]

nesfa-active doesn't need to be involved in this specific issue, so I
removed them from this reply.

When (and if -- I may die first) I retire, I might start asking for a
dollar per meeting from people to help support such things.  The other
reading group does that to support Meet-up or whatever it is.

But for now, $15 per month is in the noise.


On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 1:25 PM Wesley Brodsky via nesfa-active <
nesfa-active at lists.nesfa.org> wrote:

> Dave;
>
> I think the version of Zoom you have costs $15/month. I had suggested that
> regulars in the reading group all contribute $5/month to reimburse whoever
> pays for Zoom.
>
>
>
> -Wes
>
> On April 12, 2020 at 11:08 AM, "David G. Grubbs" <dggrubbs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I signed up for Zoom. I thought some of you might want to know some of
> what I just found out.
>
> (Side note to those who heard me talk about the MIT Zoom license that Rick
> Kovalcik and Richard Duffy have access to. It doesn't seem available to me.
> I didn't really expect it, but I thought it might be possible since I have
> the same legacy account as they do, and I was one of the people who
> actually set up the MIT connection to what was to become "the Internet" in
> the early 1980s.  I thought I might be still connected in some way.)
>
> I paid for a personal Zoom account that will allow one host (which is
> enough for a small meeting) and up to 100 participants.  I can afford it
> for now and I looked carefully at a lot of details.  I can cancel at any
> time, for one thing.  Another thing I looked at is the uproar over security.
>
> Because Zoom was suddenly in the forefront of video conferencing services,
> they received a lot of attention. Several "security watchdogs" dove in and
> attacked the system. They found several problems, but every one of them has
> been fixed (according to the watchdogs themselves -- who went on to say
> that *other* conferencing systems might still have problems in the areas
> they found).
>
> Zoom has something like 75,000 large corporate clients who use Zoom all
> over the world. Those companies also pushed Zoom to improve in all sorts of
> areas and they responded to make their platform, in my opinion, unlikely to
> be any worse than anything else. All other choices would be at the same
> level of trustworthiness as Zoom, or *less*. If you are simply wary of
> video-conferencing, then don't participate. Otherwise, Zoom seems to be
> robust and one of the best of its kind.
>
> They say in absolute terms that they do not sell personal information. Any
> noise about that is due to leaking from (apparently fixed) bugs in the
> system, not intentional plans to use personal info.
>
> So, I'll practice a bit so I can set up small meetings if that becomes a
> need. My setup *could* support a NESFA meeting, if something went wrong
> with Richard's setup, but I'm not suggesting that. I was thinking more of
> the Reading Group, or other things I do for NESFA such as the NESFA Press
> group, or the web-committee, or board meetings (if Richard is
> pre-occupied), or . . .
>
>
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