+hloberg Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 OK, I tested Google Group Meeting with some folks and I'm looking to use it for our local Maker's and Electronics meetings here in Central Tx (if you are in the area DM me for details to join). the nice thing about Google Meeting is it's FREE for extended hours for lots of people. Zoom maxs out at 40 mins. on it's free (yes, I'm cheap). ANYWAY, how would an Atariage MONTHLY Atari Google meeting be with everyone? Say it starts about 11am on a Saturday so Europeans and Americans can both attend (sorry to any Australians). What Saturday would be good to not conflict with all the other meetings that you all might be attending? Also, does everyone want to limit it to just the Atari 8-bit or open it up to all Atari? Plus, any other thoughts about such a meeting you might have. Comment below. thx, HLO 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin1968 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 I think it would be fun! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 I'd love it! I never lived in an area large enough to have an Atari group. I'd join in whenever I could. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Count me in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndary Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 count me in too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 5, 2020 Author Share Posted October 5, 2020 OK, DM me so I can get a list to send the PW out to and let me know where you are timezone wise so we can accommodate the timing better. I'm in the Central US timezone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asommer Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 I like this idea! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erichenneke Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Cool idea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 We have discord for ages. There is 39 people there and like 1 message per week. In other words, nothing much. It would be good place to start though. Good for getting people know, seeing who's online, and it can do meetings by itself. Invite link: https://discord.gg/kajzZjn 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlight_mile Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Id like to lurk in and watch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 i'll send a password in DM to all that suggested they might be interested as soon as we agree on a date. October 24th at 11am CST sound good? will it work for those not in the US? by the way, after I send the password PLEASE don't post it. the TI group had some weirdos crash the meeting when they posted the password public. 19 hours ago, R0ger said: We have discord for ages. There is 39 people there and like 1 message per week. In other words, nothing much. It would be good place to start though. Good for getting people know, seeing who's online, and it can do meetings by itself. Invite link: https://discord.gg/kajzZjn I'll check into it, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 I'll be sending out password for the October 24th at 11am CST to all who expressed an interest this weekend through DM. anyone else wants to join just post here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777ismyname Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 (edited) On 10/5/2020 at 2:34 PM, bfollowell said: I'd love it! I never lived in an area large enough to have an Atari group. I'd join in whenever I could. I found out last year that in the 80s there was an active Atari users group, a couple of Atari BBS’ 30 minutes from home Also, I’m interested in joining in the October convo Edited October 10, 2020 by 777ismyname . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 I guess that could've been true for some places I lived as well. Definitely not my tiny country home town, but when I went to college, maybe. The college town, and the really large town 20 miles to the north. Who knows? Back then, in the mid to late-eighties, it was just luck and word of mouth when you heard about these sometimes. We certainly didn't have forums and the Internet like we do today to spread and gather information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter83 Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 I'd be interested to lurk in when I'm helping the wife with other things around the house but when it gets colder out I'd be interested for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Hey, Scooter83, I saw your link to your Atari 8-Bit Museum site and thought I'd check it out, but it appears to be a dead link. It returns an error 404, url not found. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 I won't be busy next weekend after all. So I think I'm going to kick off a test meeting on October 17th @ 11am CDT. password will be sent tomorrow afternoon (my time) to all on list and join in if you want. it'll just be a test since this will be the 1st time I used Google Meetings on a large scale but if the discussion gets going we can just go on. I'll still plan to make official start the 24th. then we'll just pick a recurring weekend that we can meet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 I don't have a webcam on my desktop, so I'll probably be joining by iPad or iPhone. Is Google Meet for iOS the same as Google Meetings? I don't see a Google Meetings app. I just wanted to make certain they were the same thing or find out if that was maybe a typo. I'm not supposed to work this weekend, but then, I wasn't supposed to work yesterday either, but COVID issues forced me in to cover for a major electrical substation outage at my plant. Hopefully, I'll be able to attend next weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 hours ago, bfollowell said: I don't have a webcam on my desktop, so I'll probably be joining by iPad or iPhone. Is Google Meet for iOS the same as Google Meetings? I don't see a Google Meetings app. I just wanted to make certain they were the same thing or find out if that was maybe a typo. I'm not supposed to work this weekend, but then, I wasn't supposed to work yesterday either, but COVID issues forced me in to cover for a major electrical substation outage at my plant. Hopefully, I'll be able to attend next weekend. same thing, I just used short hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 I have DM'ed everyone who has requested to participate the logon. please don't post this information openly, we did that on the TI-99 meeting a got crashed with a bunch of weirdos. might want to test just logging in before to see if the links work. HLO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 1:34 PM, bfollowell said: I'd love it! I never lived in an area large enough to have an Atari group. I'd join in whenever I could. I grew up in a very large Atlanta, Ga. I had both a TI-99 and 800xl. I found the local TI-99 group but oddly never found an Atari group. So this is my 1st too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 tomorrow the 17th at 11 am CST(Dallas, Chicago,Austin) is our 1st Atari 8-bit Google Virtual Meeting. still time to DM me if you want to join. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djglish Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 We had a very active Atari users group, here in the Milwaukee area, back in the 80's. MilAtari When I joined there were about 300 members. The club eventually converted into a general computer users club We still meet and have about 5 to 10 people at meetings. This year we've been meeting virtually for most of this pandemic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blues76 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 I like this idea very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scitari Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Please DM me the PWD. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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