[Bradford] BCB Covid sort of update

[John Robert Hudson]

HI David

Following up your personal musings, there are obviously things like the work 
with disadvantaged groups which will need to be done in a building but the BBC 
has managed to send out live programs with people sat at home and 
communicating with a producer over the Internet. So I wonder if one thing BCB 
could consider is the viability of ‘home studios’ - certainly for programmes 
with a single presenter - and more home working on editing etc.

I mentioned I think in the May meeting that I had heard a very interesting 
presentation at the openSUSE Digital Conference from an Irishman on using 
Apache Guacamole to enable home working by businesses during Covid-19. He was 
saying that it was the only thing he had found which allowed you to connect 
from any type of device.

John

On Monday, 7 September 2020 11:46:14 BST David Carpenter wrote:
> Hello John
> 
> The move will still need to happen.
> 
> AFAIK, the plans to demolish the building, market, etc are still in place.
> The new market is under construction and I think they hope to deliver it
> on  time.
> 
> We keep saying '2 years' is how long we have left in the building, but we
> seem to have been saying that for a while!
> 
> (Personal musings, not BCB's line) I've been wondering out loud about
> whether or not we should use this time as an opportunity to get out now,
> save ourselves some rent and rates, and look at how we provide what we do
> differently. The building does seem to pose a number of problems due to the
> size of spaces, the way it is used, and the lack of ventilation. Bearing in
> mind that a move under 'business as usual' conditions would have been hard
> work, maybe it's easier under present conditions (to at least move out).
> Dunno!
> 
> As an additional consideration. I'm not entirely sure (!?) whether current
> covid restrictions in the district would mean that even if we we're 'covid
> secure' people would be restricted to the numbers of households that could
> meet indoors at one time - Maybe we could have lots of separate meetings in
> the same room!
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 11:19, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <
> 
> bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> > HI David
> > 
> > Thanks. I take it that the move has now been put on hold or will that
> > happen
> > any time soon which might change the options?
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > On Monday, 7 September 2020 09:36:09 BST David Carpenter via Bradford
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > Just to chip in on the status of BCB...
> > > (Starting this as a new thread so we can discuss here if you like)
> > > 
> > > There is a small working group of staff and management committee working
> > 
> > on
> > 
> > > options around opening the building. This includes writing a risk
> > > assessment for the building and activities, and some proposals about how
> > > the building could be used. This will involve some consultation with
> > > 'building users' at some point.
> > > 
> > > My personal understanding so far is that we're unlikely to be able to go
> > > back to business as usual - which for Bradlug this was going into an
> > > already busy building and occupying a part of it for a few hours.
> > > 
> > > I could see that with the numbers, BradLug could meet in the larger open
> > > area, at a time where there were not other people in the building (this
> > > could also apply to other small groups) - I don't think the smaller
> > 
> > meeting
> > 
> > > rooms are safe for more than a few people for a short period of time. In
> > > the larger area, that might also be for a shorter time than usual, and
> > > it
> > > maybe that you would want to know that that area had not been in use for
> > > e.g. 24/48/72 hours previously. There would probably be hand washing,
> > > and
> > > cleaning/wiping down to be done by the group (before and after? Table
> > > surfaces, projector, door handles?)
> > > 
> > > Just to say - the only ventilation in the building is via the doors -
> > 
> > there
> > 
> > > is no air conditioning. (There are a couple of fans - one in studio 1,
> > 
> > one
> > 
> > > in the racks room currently) .
> > > 
> > > If people have ideas/opinions about how BradLUG can operate at BCB I'd
> > > be
> > > happy to hear them and feed them into the process internally at BCB
> > > 
> > > All the best
> > > David Carpenter
> > 
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