Virtual Pub Meet

When:
April 4, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
2020-04-04T19:30:00+01:00
2020-04-04T19:45:00+01:00
Where:
Online (Jitsi Meet)
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Zak

Hot on the heels of Monday’s virtual film festival, let’s try a virtual pub meet, to keep the BW spirit alive during lockdown! Please bring your preferred beverage and join the video chat from the comfort of your own home (where else, at the moment?) Depending how many people join, we may break out into multiple virtual “tables” rather than trying to have everyone in one large conversation, though in this case circulating between them during the evening is definitely to be encouraged.

Please email the organiser by noon on the day if you’d like to attend, and you’ll be sent the link(s) to join the virtual pub!

We’ll host this on Jitsi Meet, which you can run either in your web browser on a computer (Chrome or its derivatives appear to work best), or as an iOS or Android app on a smartphone or tablet. If we have multiple “tables” then moving between them will be a case of changing from one meeting URL to another, which should reload quickly.

A few pointers to get you started:

  • Once connected, please click the menu icon (three dots in the bottom-right corner), select “me” at the top of the menu and give yourself a name (this is especially helpful if we can’t see your video for any reason). If you’ve used it before, then it may already remember your name.
  • If the connection quality seems poor, try going to “Manage video quality” from the same menu, and reducing to standard or low definition; you could also try turning off your own camera, or as a last resort low bandwidth mode, which is audio only. Moving to a location in your house with a better wifi signal (or using a wired connection on a computer) may also improve things.
  • You can switch between seeing everyone at once, or just the current speaker with thumbnails of everyone else, via the “tile mode” button (bottom right) or menu item on the smartphone app.
  • There’s also a text chat facility, if you’re having problems with sound – click the speech bubble in the bottom left corner.

Please contact the organiser separately if you’re having problems getting it to work.