[NBLUG/talk] NBLUG participants

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Derek B. Noonburg (derekn at foolabs.com):

> I think of NBLUG as having three overlapping functions: social,
> technical, and advocacy.  (Rick's HOWTO phrases things a little
> differently, but I think we're close enough.)  We've been doing pretty
> much 100% social since we started meeting again at Flagship.

On a sample of a couple'a dozen, most LUGs have been doing mostly that,
during the pandemic.  Widespread adoption of Jitsi Meet or Zoom or
BigBlueButton or one of the other videoconferencing platforms has helped
many of them.  Some are doing primarily videoconferenced meetings; some
do "hybrid" meetings where there is one in-person venue that has a
camera and a microphone/speakers connected across the Web to a
videoconference room, with local video display set to "gallery" mode.

BTW, Michael Paoli and I have been, during the pandemic, collecting
information on what LUGs around the world are known to have meetings
online (either online-only or hybrid) in the English language:
http://balug.org/covid

(Note section at the bottom about handling the maddening time-zone
programmatically using GNU date.  I wrote that section!)