Virtual forum meets

Which style of meet would you be interested in attending?

  • Traditional Meet

    Votes: 18 43.9%

  • Coffee Morning

    Votes: 32 78.0%

  • Webinar

    Votes: 13 31.7%
  • Total voters
    41
Lady Kelly

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Good evening all,

We have been having a discussion behind the scenes on how we can bring our forum meets to you all in a covid secure way.

We have several options of style of zoom calls so, as we all love a poll, please see the poll and select which - if any - of them you would be interested to attend.

Traditional meet - bit of a free for all with everyone chatting about anything and everything.

Coffee Morning - a guided session where everyone has a chance to introduce themselves and to speak.

Webinar - this would be a sort of question and answer session which could be about diet, bonding, rescue etc.

Please note that all of the options above would have a strict attendee limit to give everyone an opportunity to speak. There would be some ground rules which would include the need for all attendees to display their forum name and real name (e.g. "Lady Kelly - Kelly") and to have their cameras switched on during the session. There would also be no health & illness or pregnancy themed question and answer sessions.
 
GPTV said:
Oh crumbs! I have no idea on video calling & zoom, gonna sit this one out me thinks, lovely idea though :nod: .
Have fun :D
Xx
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I have no experience, either, but it is actually much easier to download or sign up for a session (for free) and to use than I thought - even for a technophobe like me.
 
You don't have to download zoom app on laptop. If you follow the link for the meet (once provided) there's option to join using your browser rather than via app.
 
Could I have my camera on my piggies instead of my face. You guys are all so sweet and I trust you but sometimes hackers come in and I don't feel to comfortable showing my face. These events sound fabulous! Once these events are safe to do in person I would love for you all to meet me with my face. LOL
 
Pretzelpigs said:
Could I have my camera on my piggies instead of my face. You guys are all so sweet and I trust you but sometimes hackers come in and I don't feel to comfortable showing my face. These events sound fabulous! Once these events are safe to do in person I would love for you all to meet me with my face. LOL
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It is a condition of admission to the online meeting that you have your camera on and that we see you in person. Otherwise you will not be admitted to the meeting. No exemptions to this rule.
 
We will be having a cameras on rule @Pretzelpigs just to be sure there are no hackers, bots, or underage people trying to join- but you can hold a piggy near your face if you like then once we see you are a real person focus more on piggy.
Security will be tight, people will have to request the link by PM then join the meeting with their forum name visible and face and piggies visible and we will have a waiting room and someone from the staff team on the door verifying that anyone trying to join is a real forum member.
We're putting a lot of thought and effort into the safeguarding aspects, dont worry about that! I think the forum is actually one of the safest places on the whole internet actually, the mods and admins do a fantastic job behind the scenes :)
 
This sounds wonderful, but I am too shy to join in. Hope you all have a lovely time!
 
PigglePuggle said:
We will be having a cameras on rule @Pretzelpigs just to be sure there are no hackers, bots, or underage people trying to join- but you can hold a piggy near your face if you like then once we see you are a real person focus more on piggy.
Security will be tight, people will have to request the link by PM then join the meeting with their forum name visible and face and piggies visible and we will have a waiting room and someone from the staff team on the door verifying that anyone trying to join is a real forum member.
We're putting a lot of thought and effort into the safeguarding aspects, dont worry about that! I think the forum is actually one of the safest places on the whole internet actually, the mods and admins do a fantastic job behind the scenes :)
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I think I will be able to join. This responce makes it feel safer!
 
Pretzelpigs said:
Could I have my camera on my piggies instead of my face. You guys are all so sweet and I trust you but sometimes hackers come in and I don't feel to comfortable showing my face. These events sound fabulous! Once these events are safe to do in person I would love for you all to meet me with my face. LOL
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Hackers can't do much with just seeing your face anyway as long as you don't leave your bank card on the table or have your home address written on the wall behind you you'll be fine.
 
Sweet Potato said:
Hackers can't do much with just seeing your face anyway as long as you don't leave your bank card on the table or have your home address written on the wall behind you you'll be fine.
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I was a little bit more worried about iris scanning. People these days are dangerously smart! No one should be that close to the camera though! LOL
 
More pragmatically, I think the time of the meet would be important in order to enable overseas members to attend without having to stay up till 3 am if at all possible...?
 
Free Ranger said:
More pragmatically, I think the time of the meet would be important in order to enable overseas members to attend without having to stay up till 3 am if at all possible...?
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Sweet Potato said:
It would have to be a weekend for me to be able to go
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The Forum has been considering this. The virtual meets will probably be held at a weekend and possibly in the evening UK time so as to make them as accessible as possible. However please bear in mind that we are all volunteers with our own lives, jobs, pets and families.
 
Thats how slow and not hi tech I am... I couldn't find the vote. :hmm: I kept pressing the sentence.
Dopy Dave.
 
David Piggie Lover said:
Well, I'd love to join,,,, I think its a great idea etc... but I'm a virgin on zoom or anything like that.. . ?
But I got a tablet last week thu and hey if it possible to aid the slow learning one me
Only zoom I know is what piggies do. :yahoo:
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I'm with you on that one David :tu:

Betsy said:
Good idea! Not very techno minded but I did manage to show the OH how to join a Teams Meet with his brother on a Sunday and I really didn't know what I was doing! As long as there is an invitation I'm sure I'll manage it.
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Might be PM'ing you to show me the same as your hubby... I'm not very techno/social media minded either! Lol!

I always want to write down our orders with pen & paper at proper meets, I don't understand all this modern jiggery-pokery! Aka 'the Weatherspoons app' Lol!

If I do manage to suss it, then I'll have to do some strategic placement of my laptop so its quite high, double chinnies aren't as noticeable looking upwards.... I do resemble 'the Addams familys' cousin Itt again at the moment with my covid hairdo!
Bit too grey to be mistaken for underage though! :D Lol!

I do miss our proper meets, but this is a lovely idea as a safe work-around :wub:
Thank you to all involved :luv: x
 
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