[BSW] Zoom reminder, tomorrow December 1st (includes corrected URL)

[KATHY BILTON]

Our holiday Zoom is almost upon us!  Tomorrow, December 1 at 7PM.

The meeting room will open at 6:45PM for those who wish to come a bit 
early to socialize.

Please write to Robin Everly (EverlyR at si.edu) if you would like to speak 
for a couple of minutes about a particular topic before John begins his 
presidential talk.

John's talk, "An Analysis of the World’s Economic Plants", will include a 
number of questions for you to try to answer.  So as soon as you are 
admitted to the room, please look for the participants icon at the bottom 
of the screen and click on it.  That should bring up a box which you can 
then drag off to the side of your screen so it's not in the way. You 
should be able to find an option to "Raise Hand" somewhere in the box. 
(In the mobile app, you can raise your hand by tapping the "Raise Hand" 
option in the "More" tab.)  This way, you'll be ready to answer questions 
during the talk. (And you'll be able to see the names of those in 
attendance.)

Please attend wearing your favorite thinking cap or hat and have at hand 
your favorite alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverageto consume, as the talk 
will be interactive. Consider also competing in our best ‘ugly’ holiday 
sweater competition by donning your favorite holiday jersey.  Not sure 
what the prize will be, but it's bound to be amazing!

Here is the flier for tomorrow: http://botsoc.org/dec20-links.pdf

There was a small error in the URL given last week in the message that was 
sent (it was missing a "?"), so the correct one can be found below:

Tuesday, December 1st
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86360527784?pwd=czJ2KzF5bzdtaHZxcml0aEZnMTFpZz09
Meeting ID: 863 6052 7784
Passcode: 012021
(Phone: 301 715 8592)

A little about John and his presentation:

Dr. Wiersema retired in 2018 after 34 years of surveying economic plants 
for the GRIN-Global database of the USDA’s National Plant Germplasm 
System. He is currently a Research Associate in the Botany Department of 
the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. This presentation 
will analyze the diversity of useful plants and their uses over the entire 
world, with material for this analysis being derived from the 329 
families, 3,391 genera, and 14,482 species of economic plants 
characterized in GRIN-Global
(https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/search).