I don’t have a photo of attendees this time as Jim was “elsewhere” in poetic, or creative writing, mode. I received apologies from him, Sally, Don, Christine, Sianed, Jenny and Paul. If I’ve forgotten anyone, my apologies!
I started off by advertising that Margaret Richards was looking for volunteers to man Hubs (mainly in Libraries, I believe) to promote u3a in its 40th anniversary year. I also commented that Owen’s re-modelling of the Cardiff u3a website was now complete and he was hoping that groups would volunteer to keep their pages up-to-date. I said that as a group I was sure we would want to do that. Training would be provided.
I then reported on the progress (or lack of it) on WiFi at URC. Obviously and as reported subsequently on Signal and through eMail, I was unable to make the progress I’d hoped for and that’s why the next meeting would be held in Sight Life. Hopefully we might be able to return to URC after Christmas.
Not much news but I encouraged you to to look at the James Webb Space telescope images which are amazing.
Going round the screen, the following was noted.
John was busy taking and editing photos
Stella had upgraded her broadband with Three in the past year to a 4G Router but had to return to the shop because devices were not recognising passwords. However with her iPhone and a QR code it recognised immediately. When she tried pressing the WPS button, connections were made. Hurrah! Owen reported that he’d had problems with his 4G Router app. A changed password for admin then forced him to change back to factory settings. Duh!
Owen reported that he hadn’t made much progress with discounted software for u3a members. The charity that had provided the service before the lockdown was Charity Digital Exchange. There didn’t appear to be a national scheme for u3a members anymore.
Fred commented that he had taken part in a number of hybrid (in-person/zoom) meetings with the Institute of Government. I commented that a large organisation would quite probably have facilitators and technical support to assist/service the meeting – a luxury we would not have. I was however trying to work out a way of providing a reasonable experience and if it failed we would revert to alternate Zoom and in-person meetings possibly..
David reported that he now had increased fibre broadband speed. Whilst on holiday he’d noticed that access to his bridge tuition site was better, so perhaps there may be a solution to hand???
Anne commented that when dealing with internet connection problems that you needed to take it easy (or was she saying that I needed to take it easy – notes unclear). Anyway she mentioned that if WPS doesn’t immediately work (ref. Stella’s problem) a re-boot of the router can almost certainly work.
I seem to have run out of notes, so if I’ve forgotten someone, or something, again my apologies. I rather forgot (don’t say … “as usual”) to write these up immediately after the meeting.