[NFB-Talk] Presidential Release Meeting

Fri Apr 3 21:13:24 UTC 2020

Cory,

There was no mention of a limit and I expect that president Riccobono and others did not expect any attendance limitation. However, Zoom does have various levels of conferencing which determine how many hosts and attendees can be involved in any particular meeting. Given the reactions yesterday, I think the National Center believed that they had made arrangements for a large meeting. Zoom did not set up the space in time.

No one's fault and I think we all need to move on. Zoom did expand the meeting attendee number part way through the meeting and, as I said yesterday, I think I saw that some 950 people heard the last part of the meeting. I am sure this won't be a problem in the future.

It was interesting and relevant that people from within and outside the Federation were invited and attended. Given all the capabilities of Zoom I also expect that a recording was made and that recording will be made available especially since this was a regular presidential release. I don't know if President Riccobono was in the Center's recording studio, but from the audio it sounded like he was which means the Federation made its own recording.

I look forward to the next release which I hope also will be broadcast live. This was a great experience. 

Best Regards,

Michael Hingson

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From: Cory McMahon 
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You're correct, Mark--I also tried, and was notified that the meeting had: "reached a maximum of 300 participants." I don't recall reading anything about a participant limitation in any of the announcements regarding this release.

Sincerely,

Cory McMahon

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Well, I'm glad to hear that.  But I certainly couldn't get in and I wasn't the only one.

Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
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I  will comment on your first point. At its peak the meeting had over 950 attendees. I found no ineptness concerning this meeting.

Best Regards,

Michael Hingson

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I tried several times to get into the meeting as well and voiced my concern 
and displeasure to Chris Danielson and President Riccobono.  I feel this is 
technology that should have been well-understood before endeavoring to hold 
a meeting of this kind and publicize it so heavily.  It makes us look inept. 
I was very disappointed.

I would like to know if the National Convention was discussed.  Thank you.
Sherri

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Subject: [NFB-Talk] Presidential Release Meeting

Hello, friends.  We were asked to join the live Presidential Release meeting 
of April, 2020 this evening.  We were told this was a great forum to listen 
and ask questions of the president.  We were cordially asked to participate, 
and nonmembers were also asked to participate in this meeting.  However, 
when I tried to call in, twice, I might add, I was bounced out and told that 
the meeting was full as there were over 300 participants.  I tried using 
Zoom on my computer and was told the meeting had reached its capacity. 
While I’m sure this was an honest mistake, this was an unfortunate oversight 
on the part of the Federation.  Obviously, the technology wasn’t researched 
properly.  Frankly that angers me, but what’s worse is that this was 
advertised as a meeting we could all participate in or at least listen to 
live.  To me this seems like a serious misrepresentation.  If people are new 
and interested, it will appear that we don’t have our “ducks in a row.” 
Yes, I’m sure we can listen to Presidential Release 493 some time in April, 
that’s really not the point.  At the very least, there should have been some 
warning that the Zoom capacity for this meeting was limited, so we should 
have called quite early.  I didn’t see this in any of the emails concerning 
this meeting.  We talk about being a “Federation family.”  This hardly seems 
like a proper example of what that should be.  If we can’t do better than 
this, maybe it’s understandable that some blind people don’t particularly 
like us.
Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
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