Hybrid = A Meeting that meets in-person and on Zoom
Take a Group Conscience – Unless someone wants to go in face to face and setup the meeting – there would be no point in having a group conscience.
Contact church or venue – is this ok with them? Have other 12-step meetings already done all the set-up work for you? Ask if your group can contribute for WI-FI as we pay our own way.
If all else fails contact an open AA Hall that is set up for hybrid and ask if you can meet there. (Region One Suggestion)
Are people required to show an immunization card at the in person meeting?
Contact Tracing is a list of people’s names and phone numbers who attended the meeting collected by the venue’s staff. King County Covid-19 Page does not require contact tracing for churches, but someone could check if the venue requires it.
Parking Lot Scenario: It’s summer, everyone brings their own lawn chair and you sit six feet apart.
The person with a good phone logs into Zoom and points the phone at the people talking. The phone’s volume is loud enough to hear when the Zoom participants chime in. We found that if two people were on phones, there was feedback – a high whiny noise which was horrid for a Zoom Participant wearing headphones.
Zoom Host – It’s hard to Zoom host on a phone, but it is possible. Maybe someone that is strictly Zoom can be the Zoom host.
Fancier Scenario – going inside the building.
Contact church and check and see if they want you to sanitize everything after you leave. Meeting could provide plastic gloves for attendees?
Set up a Zoom Person to bring their laptop to a meeting. The King County COVID page recommends not using any bleach to disinfect microphones.
a) Can you use the church’s wi-fi? Get Username and Password from them.
b) If not – set up your phone as a hotspot and then connect laptop to phone.
(Please google how to do this as Androids and Iphones are different.)
c) There are intelligent motion sensing web cams that cost about $30 that swivel to whoever is talking to prevent each person handling the mouse.
Set up the laptop at the end of a table and the person sharing can sit in front of the laptop, as witnessed in a meeting in Australia.
Contact OA.org to add your meeting in as a new Hybrid Meeting. Click here to Add Your Meeting. OA.org is adding Hybrid Meetings to the “Find a Meeting” tool under Additional Search Options | Special Focus, which will mean your meeting will get a new Meeting Number. Since this is all programmed at OA.org – you will need to contact them as the Seattle Webmaster does not add meetings to OA.org. Click this for more Info from a Virtual Region Trustee
