My sister has a group of (about 10) pensioners who attended her evening classes for English literature. It is now a private group that really wants to keep going in spite of the current corona isolation recommendations.
Only about 75% of these pensioners have email and, in any case, the thought of distributing work sheets by email and/or snail mail back and forth is distinctly impersonal and unattractive.
My initial idea was to suggest a live stream with accompanying chat (always assuming we could persuade the participants to upgrade their technologies respectively). But I was wondering, if there are adequate alternatives that are supported by the OpenSUSE distribution packages and applications. I guess we have to suppose that the participants have Windows (my sister included), Apple and smartphones and few, if any, have Linux.
Can anyone point us to a good solution, assuming that the requirements are active communication of a group, with or without video, with or without two-way audio? She has participated of an Open University course some years ago and that caught her imagination as being what she means.
In these days of corona isolation, especially for the groups at risk, her request strikes me as having general interest, especially if a solution could be found which requires modest upgrade in resources. It's a kind of humanitarian need that has appeared on our doorstep, the need for people living in relative isolation to be able to continue to participate in their favourite activities..
Does anyone have any ideas? What OpenSUSE packages could be used in some way?
Cheers
Harvey
Only about 75% of these pensioners have email and, in any case, the thought of distributing work sheets by email and/or snail mail back and forth is distinctly impersonal and unattractive.
My initial idea was to suggest a live stream with accompanying chat (always assuming we could persuade the participants to upgrade their technologies respectively). But I was wondering, if there are adequate alternatives that are supported by the OpenSUSE distribution packages and applications. I guess we have to suppose that the participants have Windows (my sister included), Apple and smartphones and few, if any, have Linux.
Can anyone point us to a good solution, assuming that the requirements are active communication of a group, with or without video, with or without two-way audio? She has participated of an Open University course some years ago and that caught her imagination as being what she means.
In these days of corona isolation, especially for the groups at risk, her request strikes me as having general interest, especially if a solution could be found which requires modest upgrade in resources. It's a kind of humanitarian need that has appeared on our doorstep, the need for people living in relative isolation to be able to continue to participate in their favourite activities..
Does anyone have any ideas? What OpenSUSE packages could be used in some way?
Cheers
Harvey