Zoom meetings question

[iris lilies]

Has anyone here attended a Zoom meeting where some of the participants Meet physically and others are present via virtual Zoom meeting software?

I ask because there’s a meeting of our plant society next Sunday and I don’t want to attend. It is outside and it is expected for people to wear masks and sit far apart. But still I don’t want to attend because it’s unnecessary for the main reason that they’re holding an auction. I have no interest in that. But the business meeting portion I should probably hear.

Up to now they refuse to set up a zoom meeting because they say too many of the participants don’t know how to use Zoom.

Will I be able to hear enough of the meeting if I am a Zoom participant and the officers are conducting the meeting in person?

[SteveinMN]

Depends on how you're connecting and the quality of the equipment on both ends. Everyone will do better if you're using a headset with a microphone. Even the one you use with your phone will be better than relying on the speaker/mic on your phone/tablet/laptop. On their end, better if they're using halfways decent equipment (like a teleconference phone instead of the speaker on someone's smartphone). You might also choose to join via audio only if that equipment is better than what you have with your video camera and you don't need to be seen to participate.

[catherine]

Yes, as long as their computer is in a place where the speakers (participants) are relatively close by (and as Steve said, good quality). I did a wedding shower where there were 30 participants, and then I invited 20 family members to join via Zoom. It was great!

[jp1]

If the in person people are going to be outside and socially distancing it’s going to be a mess unless they all connect individually.

[iris lilies]

If the in person people are going to be outside and socially distancing it’s going to be a mess unless they all connect individually.
Yes, OK. That’s what they’re saying above. I hadn’t really thought it through but if social distancing is really taking place and people are spread all over the yard then they’re not gonna be sitting in front of a computer monitor.

I guess I will have to attend the damn meeting in person

[happystuff]

Yes, OK. That’s what they’re saying above. I hadn’t really thought it through but if social distancing is really taking place and people are spread all over the yard then they’re not gonna be sitting in front of a computer monitor.

I guess I will have to attend the damn meeting in person

Unless you need to see the in-person crowd, I don't see why it should matter - as long as you can hear/see the person running the meeting and hear the topics of the business aspect, it should be fine.

[catherine]

IL, will they each have a computer handy? Then they can all log into the zoom meeting and you'll be able to hear them well, and they can participate live also.

[iris lilies]

IL, will they each have a computer handy? Then they can all log into the zoom meeting and you'll be able to hear them well, and they can participate live also.
None of them plan to have a computer handy as far as I know. I’m trying to convince them to have a Zoom meeting. But even if there is a computer it’s just gonna be one there. And who knows if the house even has Wi-Fi that reaches out to the yard although I suppose that is standard? Wi-Fi reaches out to both of my yards.

[SteveinMN]

And who knows if the house even has Wi-Fi that reaches out to the yard although I suppose that is standard? Wi-Fi reaches out to both of my yards.
Not standard here. Because of where the router is in the house, the signal much beyond our back door is iffy. Which is fine with me; there are enough wireless routers in the neighborhood spraying around IDs that less overlap is A Good Thing. Too bright outside to see the screen well anyway.

[iris lilies]

I was absolutely delighted to learn that my Wi-Fi reaches at least halfway out into our acre farmette in Hermann. Before I learned that, I had elaborate plans to set up some kind of radio system that blasts into the yard so I could weed and listen at the same time. But no need for this with Wi-Fi reception out in the iris beds, although now I have to worry about my iPads turning themselves off due to heat exhaustion.

[jp1]

They could all connect to the meeting using their phones. That's how I prefer to do my work meetings because it allows me to wander around or go out on our deck if the weather is nice. And that way it wouldn't be an issue of a bunch of socially distanced people sharing one distant microphone.

[iris lilies]

They could all connect to the meeting using their phones. That's how I prefer to do my work meetings because it allows me to wander around or go out on our deck if the weather is nice. And that way it wouldn't be an issue of a bunch of socially distanced people sharing one distant microphone.

Some will connect, others would not, and I’m not gonna push the issue. Mainly I think it would be nice if the organizers, the officers, would speak in a zoom meeting and if there were people out in the yard who are standing up and speaking and I couldn’t hear them while I was sitting at home, that would be OK. I will just as soon not hear the blather anyway. But I fear that I will have to attend the meeting in person to hear the blather.

[Tammy]

You could ask the leader of the meeting to call you on their cell and let you listen in on speaker phone.

[iris lilies]

You could ask the leader of the meeting to call you on their cell and let you listen in on speaker phone.
Oh! That’s a great idea, I might try that.

[Tybee]

Why can't you call in on your cell? I'm on zoom meetings with people on their phones all the time.

You can download the zoom app to your phone and just listen if you find the visual distracting.

[iris lilies]

Why can't you call in on your cell? I'm on zoom meetings with people on their phones all the time.

You can download the zoom app to your phone and just listen if you find the visual distracting.I don’t have the zoom app on my phone but I suppose I could load it easily enough Although I don’t understand how that is better than on an iPad in what you are envisioning, I don’t find visuals distractingL Have a zoom meeting, there has to be a central planner who sets it up.

I think the speakerphone is the easiest tech solution For me as a single participant anyway. If the officers receive more than one request for a virtual access to the meeting, they will have to respond in someway other than speakerphone.