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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have downloaded Harry's Ideas Document as .DOCX in case anyone wants to reference it during the planning meeting. I'll have it handy and can upload it into Zoom Chat if we want to reference it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 05:17:49 PM EDT, Harry Forsdick <forsdick@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv1910195295"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">John,</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">Thanks for setting up the meeting at 9 am on July 14 to discuss Hybrid Meetings.</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">Unfortunately, I will be away in the Berkshires on July 14 so I won't be able to participate. In the past several days, I have done some research on the Internet looking for various suggested solutions to the issue of Hybrid Meetings -- everybody is thinking about this subject these days.</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">I have written down my contributions to a discussion about this topic. This might serve as a good starting point for a discussion:</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><ul><li style="padding-bottom:0.6001em;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rnwFZEExlY4cubzU30vhTK2J1znWT1FRKIFcwcNlOZg/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rnwFZEExlY4cubzU30vhTK2J1znWT1FRKIFcwcNlOZg/edit?usp=sharing</a><br clear="none"></li></ul></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><span style="font-size:small;">I have shared this in a way that everybody who receives this message has permission to leave comments on what I have written.</span></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><span style="font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><span style="font-size:small;">If there is one main idea I have, it is, keep this <i>as simple as we can get away with</i>. As you well know, it's possible to go way overboard with a group design session, and this is a mistake. In general, my rule when </span>doing<span style="font-size:small;"> such things is to start low and make improvements based on actual experience, not imagined need, as we go along.</span><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">As for additional hardware, we will clearly need additional microphones and cameras. As I've mentioned, between 2014 and 2017 I was involved (as was George Gamota) in the high-level design of the A/V equipment used throughout the Community Center. Included in this design were ideas and plans for having a video conferencing capability permanently installed in each of the rooms where meetings might be held. This plan was a little too far out for the higher-ups and was politely ignored. But if we had installed the fixed microphones and cameras, we wouldn't be having to do this now. So be it: there was nothing like a global pandemic to motivate the idea in peoples' minds.</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">Four years later, now that we all seem to be comfortable with the beneficial aspects of cameras and microphones picking up the content of our meetings, the suggestion that we have cameras and microphones permanently installed in the conference room still stands.</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">I think that is all I have for now.</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">Regards,</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">-- Harry</div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div><div class="yiv1910195295gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#0b5394"><br clear="none"></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br clear="none"></div><table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-left:0px;margin-right:auto;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.forsdick.com/resume/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Harry Forsdick</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lexingtonphotoscan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Lexington Photo Scanning</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lexingtontmma.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Town 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href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv1910195295gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" style=""><div class="yiv1910195295gmail-m_-6605335444228882253WordSection1"><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">At 9am on July 14<sup>th</sup> we will discuss the return to the Lexington Community Center. You can view it as storming the Bastille.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">The Community Center is reopening on July 5<sup>th</sup> and we must decide whether to return, remain on Zoom, or do something in the middle. And of course what we decide to do for July might be different than what we choose to do in September or January<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Everyone is invited and we will use or normal Zoom entry. Steve will merely open it up an hour early. So far I have heard from Charlie Holbrow, Harry Forsdick, Peter Albin, George Burnell, Bob Primak but would expect others.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">It will be useful to know what other organizations are doing.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">If we decide to have a mixed environment we have to think about how we would zoom from the Community Center. Would we need additional equipment?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">I would appreciate knowing if others plan to participate.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">John<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">John Rudy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">781-861-0402<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">781-718-8334 (cell)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu">John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">13 Hawthorne Lane<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bedford, MA 01730-1047<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><img id="yiv1910195295gmail-m_-6605335444228882253Picture_x0020_1" border="0" width="99" height="94" style="width:1.0333in;min-height:0.975in;" src="cid:yCroGdR85BK010DniDxz"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv1910195295MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>===============================================<br clear="none">
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