PCC MEETING on ZOOM teleconference
April 25 at 1pm on your Smartphone or Home Computer
PCC's Monthly Meeting will be held by Teleconference on ZOOM at 1pm on 4/25
PCC'S APRIL & MAY MEETINGS BY TELECONFERENCE
As you may remember, we had moved our April monthly chapter meeting from April 18th to April 11th to accommodate our participation in the Expo Center's Earth Day event. That event has been cancelled. Meeting rooms at the library are currently closed now, through May. We'll assume that the May 16 meeting will be by teleconference too.
The PCC board has been testing a few different teleconferencing platforms and find that "ZOOM" will be the best for our needs for an all-chapter meeting. Saturday, April 25 at 1pm we will attempt a PCC Monthly meeting by method of teleconference via ZOOM. (There have been major changes to Zoom, so prior security problems reported in the news are solved.)
If you wish to participate in this meeting, please download the FREE Zoom app. It works on laptops and/or smartphones.
You will receive an email from the host (Annette Hansen). Just click the "join meeting" link and it should take you to the meeting. You can choose to be seen (if your device has a camera) or only heard.
The host may mute you while a speaker has the floor. You can 'raise your hand' icon to ask a question, discuss, vote or motion and the host will tally your vote or release your mute so you may speak. Also, the free software only allows a 40 minute meeting so we will cover all topics quickly and have a second meeting scheduled to transfer into at 1:45. It is inconvenient, but free for the interim.
If you do not get email or lose your code, you can join the 1pm meeting HERE
and the 1:45pm meeting HERE
There is a learning curve to this type of teleconference software and we expect some participants to run into trouble. Please read the tips Zoom provides for new users. Also, please be aware that if you are not able to connect with the call, we will circulate our minutes by email following the meeting so you are kept up-to-date. Or you may also call one of us to be put on speaker phone to listen in.
Thank you in advance for trying something new with PCC during the stay at home recommendations. We look forward to seeing your smiling face in person when the virus bans are lifted this summer.
Feel free to ask any tech questions; Annette Hansen 219-241-7431
Or call Gary Brown at 219-464-8882 for any chapter questions before the meeting.