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- | Allan Geekie\\ | + | Dave Mason, who is a retired chartered engineer with relevant experience in electronics and control system software, but little experience with railways, model or otherwise. Dave is a member of the South Hants Area Group and piloted the first virtual Special Interest Group exploring " |
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- | The Virtual Area Group uses a Zoom video call to meet every Tuesday | + | The Virtual Area Group (VAG) is for MERG members only and was started primarily for those too distant from their nearest Area Group. It only meets using Zoom. |
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- | The times vary to try and make the calls work for different time zones. | + | |
- | \\ | + | During the first two years of the VAG we regularly welcomed members from Australia, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, UK, USA etc and varied weekly meeting |
- | * Australia\\ | + | |
- | * Canada\\ | + | |
- | * Iceland\\ | + | Many Area Groups have switched to using Zoom during Covid and so, temporarily we hope, created many other options for joining in. |
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- | * USA.\\ | + | At the start of 2021, after a break in the programme and with those other MERG Zoom options which are accessible to members in the western hemisphere, the plan is to resume VAG meeting only once a month on a Tuesday at 10am UK time which suits members in Europe and the Australian times zones. |
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+ | Meetings are nominally for an hour but typically Zoom will open 15mins before and for 30 mins afterwards for informal chat. | ||
- | Calls are recorded and made available | + | Calls may be recorded and made available all MERG members. |
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public/vag.txt · Last modified: 2023/04/18 13:31 by grovenor