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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Online meetup? May 9/2020 Saturday 10AM?

I've used several on-line meeting systems just lately and I'm not impressed. Even with just a few participants, they don't work for anything more than a presentation with everyone else just watching!
 
Dabbler said:
If you follow Schnier, you will see tht zoom has gotten worse, not better.
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I had a zoom conference call with my lawyer, the experience was so bad I wanted to fire my lawyer. Using the supplied links to join meetings, 2 participants were connected in a meeting, and two others were connected but clearly in another meeting. When I contacted my lawyer to explain he got snarky and rude implying we were too stupid to connect properly... we never managed to hold the meeting on zoom.
 
We use Microsoft Teams at work...generally works quite well even with dozens of people on it. You still really need to take your turn to talk, but it's not too bad when people do overlap.
 
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