The presenter's computer could be screencast onto the video stream by using Open Broadcast Studio (OBS).  We had a presentation on OBS awhile back.

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:11:19PM -0500, Joshua Stone via WLUG wrote:
> That's excellent news! Sounds like the service is already paying for itself.
>
> I'm not opposed to video uploads, so long as the video/audio production is
> decent and the camera isn't in people's faces. I have a Sony video camera
> with native 4K and optical zoom, with a shotgun microphone attachment for
> capturing audio in front of the camera instead of the surrounding area. I
> also have a blue yeti if you want a good microphone for public speakers to
> use.
>
> We could make this a bit fancier and less intrusive by having a screencast
> of the speaker's computer to show slideshow material, terminal output, etc,
> and have an omnidirectional microphone listening and syncing with the
> screencast.
>
> -Josh
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 13:51 Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've gotten a couple of hits about people possibly showing up for the next
> > WLUG meeting from meetup. That's cool!
> >
> > I went looking at the Boston Linux Users Group site and it's clear to me
> > that we're really missing the boat with putting our meetings on youtube,
> > well at least the ones with a definite presenter.
> >
> > Would people be freaked out about being on youtube? Is this something that
> > people would be interested in? I've got a decent DSLR we could use to take
> > video, but I don't want people to be uncomfortable.
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 1:41 PM <joshua.gage.stone@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Tim,
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for creating a meetup.com group for us! The UX for
> >> finding future meetups and adding meetup dates to a calender is quite good.
> >> Finding WLUG should also be fairly easy now when searching for "linux"
> >> within a 50 mile radius of Boston:
> >>
> >>
> >> https://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=linux&radius=50&userFreeform=Boston%2C+Massachusetts%2C+USA&mcId=c2108&change=yes&sort=default
> >>
> >> I've noticed that some search strings will show LUGs with overlapping
> >> interests but not WLUG. I think adding more words like "FOSS", "Android",
> >> "Libre", "Open Source", "Ubuntu", "Fedora", "OpenSUSE", "Arch Linux",
> >> "Unix", etc, to the related topics and/or What We're About section should
> >> improve this.
> >>
> >> I've tried setting up a community over Slack but I think the steps need
> >> to join was what made it too intrusive for new people -- take joining the
> >> Rust language Slack server for example:
> >>
> >> https://rust-slack.herokuapp.com/
> >>
> >> - Send an invite link to your email
> >> - Register with a name and password
> >> - Be greeted with prompts about whether to send notifications
> >> - Open the #general channel
> >>
> >> And this has to be repeated for joining every community that has their
> >> own Slack server, or at least this has been my experience so far. I think
> >> Slack has cemented itself as more of a means for teams to collaborate on a
> >> project, not so much for casual users who want to jump right into a new
> >> chat.
> >>
> >> Matrix only needs to register a username and password (email is optional)
> >> on the server you're on, and once that's done you can join any number of
> >> channels on that server. This is much closer to the UX of IRC, and it's
> >> still superior in some ways because there's no fiddling with choosing a
> >> specific authentication method like SASL and/or authenticating with nickserv
> >>
> >> I think in general Matrix has more mindshare amongst Linux users as a
> >> modern alternative to IRC, which I think is worth considering when
> >> comparing frequency of posts on Reddit:
> >>
> >>
> >> https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/search?q=matrix&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all
> >>
> >> -Josh
> >>
> >> On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 22:59 -0500, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
> >>
> >> This morning I went out and created a meetup group for WLUG:
> >> https://www.meetup.com/Worcester-Linux-Users-Group and paid for six
> >> months. Feel free to go and join up if you'd like.
> >>
> >> The matrix stuff is cool, I cut my teeth on IRC so I'm always partial to
> >> the old school but I also understand that eventually we'll want a slack
> >> channel as well maybe.
> >>
> >> Tim.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 4:07 PM Anderson, Charles R via WLUG <
> >> wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> We also have an IRC channel:
> >>
> >> http://www.wlug.org/participate.html
> >>
> >> Internet Relay Chat
> >>
> >> Join the realtime chat on our IRC channel.
> >>
> >>     Connect your IRC client to irc.freenode.net
> >>     Join the #wlug-ma channel or join directly from this link: irc://
> >> irc.freenode.net/#wlug-ma.
> >>     See more information about Freenode and join the chat from your web
> >> browser
> >>
> >> but maybe IRC is too old school--no one chats on it anymore.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 04:03:14PM -0500, Joshua Stone via WLUG wrote:
> >> > Hey all,
> >> >
> >> > Last night's meeting was excellent, and I'd like say thanks again to
> >> > Tim for giving me a ride home!
> >> >
> >> > Last night's discussion gave me ideas of ways we could improve general
> >> > activity, increase attendence, and improve outreach efforts. Hosting a
> >> > meetup.com group would be certainly improve discoverability, and
> >> > getting in touch with WPI's computer science group would be great too.
> >> >
> >> > I think what a lot communities are doing nowadays is having a text chat
> >> > format for users who want to communicate more easily over the internet,
> >> > especially with mobile devices. As an example, there are Discord
> >> > servers for Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc, and they have room sizes
> >> > generally in the hundreds or even well over a thousand. Even before
> >> > Discord they'd use IRC for providing support, posting updates, etc.
> >> >
> >> > Having a text chat of our own would certainly help improve
> >> > participation -- I think Matrix would be a good option here because it
> >> > has many nice features and has a fairly polished user experience:
> >> >
> >> > - Numerous clients available on desktop, mobile, and web (
> >> > https://matrix.org/clients/
> >> > - Persistent chat history
> >> > - Link previews
> >> > - Various bots to choose from for adding functionality (
> >> > https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bots/
> >> > - User moderation
> >> > - Server federation
> >> > - Self-hosting available, both client and server are completely FOSS
> >> > - File sharing
> >> > - Voice/video calls
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I have a screenshot if anyone wants to see what a Matrix chat room
> >> > would look like:
> >> >
> >> > https://i.imgur.com/aVILcWB.png
> >> >
> >> > Or you can join the room I made:
> >> >
> >> > https://matrix.to/#/!EiTljkvagZDFKfQfFu:matrix.org?via=matrix.org
> >> >
> >> > Alteratively, if you have a Matrix client already:
> >> >
> >> > #wlug:matrix.org
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Any thoughts?
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