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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Cant wait to see it in usage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>George<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Barry Kort <barry.kort@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 12, 2024 5:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> George Gamota <ggamota@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Hybrid Meeting Systems in the Town of Lexington<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>The LCC is currently in the process of installing a modern hybrid system in 4 rooms. The work is nearly finished and should be online in a few weeks. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 2:44 PM George Gamota <<a href="mailto:ggamota@gmail.com">ggamota@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>That is why I am pushing to get a proposal to the Town to outfit at least one room with uptodate hybrid system <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Oct 11, 2024, at 5:32 PM, John P. Rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Great. I was a very minor cog in the early days of discussing what turned out to be a Community Center (I was advocating a Senior Center) and somewhere along that path Harry suggested doing a lot more than anyone was planning to do. Adding my voice made very little difference, but I am glad that I have lived long enough to see (maybe) it happening.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Seniors rarely flex their muscles. I don’t give a damn about playing fields at the high school but seniors represent about 20% of the town and almost no money goes to them. Town money is either generic (fire, police, library, etc.) or for kids (schools)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John Rudy</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:ggamota@gmail.com" target="_blank">ggamota@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ggamota@gmail.com" target="_blank">ggamota@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 11, 2024 5:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:palbin24@yahoo.com" target="_blank">palbin24@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" target="_blank">harry@forsdick.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> 'Steve Isenberg' <<a href="mailto:smisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">smisenberg@gmail.com</a>>; 'John Rudy' <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>>; 'Barry Kort' <<a href="mailto:barry.kort@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.kort@gmail.com</a>>; 'Robert Primak' <<a href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bobprimak@yahoo.com</a>>; 'Steve Blumenthal' <<a href="mailto:steven.blumenthal@gmail.com" target="_blank">steven.blumenthal@gmail.com</a>>; 'Jonathan Himmel' <<a href="mailto:jonhimmel@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonhimmel@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Hybrid Meeting Systems in the Town of Lexington<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I also witnessed this system firsthand how it works, and the system is great. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I suggested some time ago that LCTG can put a proposal for such system to be installed at the Community center. They have funds to do this (it might have to wait till next fiscal year but it needs to be in the queue to be considered.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>George</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:palbin24@yahoo.com" target="_blank">palbin24@yahoo.com</a> <<a href="mailto:palbin24@yahoo.com" target="_blank">palbin24@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 11, 2024 12:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" target="_blank">harry@forsdick.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Steve Isenberg <<a href="mailto:smisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">smisenberg@gmail.com</a>>; John Rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>>; Barry Kort <<a href="mailto:barry.kort@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.kort@gmail.com</a>>; Robert Primak <<a href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bobprimak@yahoo.com</a>>; Steve Blumenthal <<a href="mailto:steven.blumenthal@gmail.com" target="_blank">steven.blumenthal@gmail.com</a>>; George Gamota <<a href="mailto:ggamota@gmail.com" target="_blank">ggamota@gmail.com</a>>; Jonathan Himmel <<a href="mailto:jonhimmel@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonhimmel@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Hybrid Meeting Systems in the Town of Lexington<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Nicely put <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>But Deja vu?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Haven’t we learned about many technologies that sat a the shelf at Bell Labs and then became “breakthroughs?”<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Peter<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Oct 11, 2024, at 12:04 PM, Harry Forsdick <<a href="mailto:forsdick@gmail.com" target="_blank">forsdick@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>[Note FYEO] Please don't distribute this message. My wife cautioned me after she read this draft. Marsha knows best...]</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Several weeks ago, my wife Marsha was talking to me about a meeting of the Tourism Committee that was being held in the Parker Room, a meeting room in the basement of the Town Office Building. She described a new Hybrid Meeting system that had been installed there that seemed very good: it was based on a Zoom conference where all participants, both local to the meeting room and remote at another location were shown on one HDTV screen in the normal Hollywood Squares layout. Presentations used the shared screen of the Zoom meeting and were shown in the meeting room on a second HDTV TV. Remote participants saw the participants and presentations in one standard Zoom display. As you would expect, audio accompanied the video and local and remote participants could have conversations.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>After seeing what it was like to use this system in the Parker Room, I went home and joined the meeting from my laptop computer. This was one of the best experiences I have had in remotely attending a hybrid meeting with presentations and conversions. This is far better (and certainly more expensive) than the Hybrid Meeting System we built for about $800 two years ago -- just one of the three cameras in that room cost $2,300...</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'><49479A77-9732-48DC-8DAE-2F26D1CD6982_1_105_c.jpeg></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'><7D653B97-21A2-48CD-8C6B-813AC9386BC8_1_105_c.jpeg></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>LCTG Hybrid Meeting System on Portable Cart Hybrid Meeting in Room 237 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>October 2022</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Parts cost for equipment ~$800</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>The major improvements over the Hybrid Meeting System we built for use by the Lexington Computers and Technology Group in our weekly meetings in the Lexington Community Center are:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#0B5394;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>This system was permanently installed in the room: there is no need to set up the equipment for every meeting. It's just there like the electric lights.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#0B5394;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>There are several control panels permanently mounted on the walls that are used to start up a Hybrid Meeting and to tap into an electronic meeting room reservation system run by the town.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#0B5394;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Finally there is the best improvement: There are three PTZ video cameras (PTZ: Pan: Move left to right, Tilt: Move up and down, Zoom: In and out of a scene) as well as multiple microphones that can determine the position of the current person speaking. The net effect is very similar to the Owl Conferencing System where the person speaking is featured in the Zoom video of the meeting room. For those not familiar with the Owl system, here is a video Marsha and I made using an Owl:<br><br> • <a href="https://forsdick.com/MeetingOwl/MeetingOwlPro.mp4" target="_blank">https://forsdick.com/MeetingOwl/MeetingOwlPro.mp4</a><br><br>Owl systems are impressive for small meetings in small rooms. The major difference from the Owl system is that the audio in meetings with many people or in large rooms is <i>excellent</i> -- even for meeting rooms the size of the Parker Room or larger. I believe audio is still the most difficult media to share in Hybrid systems, largely because there is no hardware to zoom the sensing abilities of the microphones as there is with video.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'><48F5A209-72CB-4D2D-AB73-F57A1EF52A92_4_5005_c.jpeg></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'><73C3884D-A622-45FA-9874-8C435764D420_1_105_c.jpeg></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Town of Lexington Hybrid Meeting System in the Parker Room, Town Office Building<br>Instructions and Camera (in closed room privacy position)<br><b>October 2024</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Parts Cost est. for equipment around $15,000</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Early this week, I learned that the Town of Lexington DPW IT department was currently in the middle of installing similar systems at the LexCC. Wednesday I looked around several meeting rooms at the LexCC where systems are currently being installed. Specifically work is going on now to add this system to four rooms at the LexCC:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#0B5394;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Room 237 (LCTG's normal room)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#0B5394;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Room 242 (the other room we sometimes use on the second floor)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#0B5394;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Room 006 (the exercise "studio" in the basement)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#0B5394;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Room 137 (the dining room on the first floor)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>I am extremely excited to finally see this development -- partly because in 2015 I was on the town Committee that worked out the final use of the space in the building that became the Lexington Community Center. One thing that I proposed was that we outfit rooms where talks or meetings might occur with similar conferencing systems and equipment that is now getting installed. My proposal in 2015 was rejected because it was too ambitious. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>This was frustrating because when I worked at Genuity in the early 2000's, I was involved in the construction of a prototype of a similar meeting room, which we had working in 2001. It had the name <i>Meetings over IP</i>, mimicking the existing service Voice over IP or VOIP.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'><image.png></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'><image.png></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>from talks given about Meetings over IP </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>October 2001</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Parts cost for equipment even less than $800</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>So, we are finally seeing designs that we built as prototypes in 2001 are finally becoming possible to install and to be used by non-technical people in 2024. Granted, the system we built in 2001 didn't have as many important features as the ones being installed today, and certainly weren't as easy to use, but I must say from the start, I realized having to set up and tear down the equipment for every hybrid meeting was a non-starter. This was a little more than two decades ago... </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Of course it took the COVID Pandemic to convince the nation that they didn't have to be co-located in the same room in order to have a meeting and that they needed these types of systems. Showing that even great ideas need demand for them to be successful. Sigh.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0B5394'>-- Harry</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=5 cellpadding=0 style='background:#EEEEEE'><tr><td width=306 valign=top style='width:229.5pt;padding:3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.forsdick.com/resume/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Harry Forsdick</span></a><br><a href="http://lexingtontmma.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>Town Meeting Member Precinct 7</span></a><br><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=harry@forsdick.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>harry@forsdick.com</span></a><br><a href="http://www.forsdick.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>www.forsdick.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=179 valign=top style='width:134.25pt;padding:3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://goo.gl/xZXT2F" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>46 Burlington St.<br>Lexington, MA 02420</span></a><br><a href="callto:17817996002" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>(781) 799-6002 (mobile)</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailsignatureprefix>-- </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Process of Enlightenment Works In Mysterious Plays. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>