009 North American group

[9477VEHL]

Just a quick update. The group had it's first Zoom meeting on Tuesday December 17th at 8pm CST. There were 9 participants; the meeting was a round-robin "please introduce yourself" style meeting. There were attendees from each timezone in North America, and the attendees represented a wide range of narrow gauge interests.

It would be beneficial to have some way for people who want to participate to be able to indicate their availability before a time and date have been chosen for a meeting. If anyone has a suggestion for this type calendar scheduling option, I would be appreciative.

Thanks!
Vern Ehlke

[Graeme Dunbar]

That's good to hear Vern. I've done meeting schedule polls, but I've forgotten which software I used. It might have been Doodle or Survey Monkey. There seem to be quite a lot of them available now. I see Zoom has one itself, but don't know how well it copes with time zones.

https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/groups

[9477VEHL]

Thanks Graeme,

I will take a look.

Vern

[Hugh Norwood]

My Morris Dance side uses an app called "Band"
(I have a hate-hate reelationship with it, myself, but as everyone else is OK, I go with the flow...)

[9477VEHL]

Thanks Hugh!

I will take a peek at that one also.

Vern

[9477VEHL]

The 009 North American group had their 2nd Zoom call on Sunday, January 13 at 1:30pm (CST). 9 members participated in the round robin forum.

At this juncture The 009 North America group has 26 total members between Facebook and Gmail.
The breakdown is as follows:
10 are members on both Facebook and Gmail
8 are members on Facebook only
8 are members on Gmail only

Vern