Google Meet Limit

[steguanzi2]

Dear Sirs,

I'm a volunteer for the biggest italian non-profit association, involved in substaining people and families who are proceeding with the idea of adopting a child, who have already adopted and we organize mutual family aid groups and talks with experts about all the tematics,   related to adoption. we have a google workspace for non profit license and we used and we still use google meet to bring our aid to people and to join them.

We have a big deal with google meet. Now we are limited to 100 users, you know, and this is normally ok. Sometimes, some talks are so interesting and useful that 100 users is a real limit and we have to exclude families and we do not like that. 

I know that we can by a business plus plan but it's too expensive because the cost is user based and we are a lot of volunteers but each of us does non correspond to a "real income" like it happens for a standard company.

Why not giving the possibility to offer an extention of google meet limit, even paying a right quote. This would be fo us the possibility to offer a very important service to families, without having to switch to a competitor's product, different to use, not integrated, just for few times.

Think about that, please.

thanks for your attention

Best Regards

Stefano

[icrew]

Hi Stefano:

It may still be too expensive for your organization, but Google does offer discounted plans to nonprofits, including options that include higher limits for Meet meetings. Check out https://www.google.com/nonprofits/offerings/workspace/ for the details.

Hope that helps, if only a little,

Ian Crew

UC Berkeley

[steguanzi2]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your answer. I Know about discounted plan, but it is still too much because we have to pay 200 volunteerx2.5euroxmounth for a list of functions that we don't need, when we can by an extended Zoom licence, paying 2-300euro per year.

Thanks

Stefano

[icrew]

We’ve got both Meet and Zoom here at UC Berkeley, and, honestly, Meet still has a very long way to go to catch up to Zoom’s capabilities and performance. So if Zoom is also better from a pricing point of view, then I’d suggest just using Zoom.

Just in my opinion, of course,

Ian

[steguanzi2]

Hi Ian,
I appreciate your suggestion. If we buy a single zoom license, extended at
more than 100 users, to share between different sub-units that use it in
case of need, zoom is actually better now, I agree with you. The problem
is that, when someone organize a conference, he has to wait the last
moment to understand which provider can use, depending on the number of
registered users, check if it is free, user must be skilled for both the
environments,...
If we decide to pay for a corporate license, zoom is not convenient as the
previous case, when we have a good tool for free that is more than ok most
of the times. I'm just suggesting Google to think about this option for
non-profit organizations. It would help:-)
Thanks
Stefano

[bccc_kaephas]

I hear you @steguanzi2 

I'm a little disappointed in these limits on Google Meet. Isn't the non-profit program intended to support the work of non-profit organizations?

The limitations of Google Meet for Non-Profit don't help: participant limits, unable to add co-hosts, unable to live stream. These would all be useful features for supporting the work of non-profits in the public domain.

[steguanzi2]

Dear @bccc_kaephas ,

I perfectly agree with you and appreciate.

Thanks

Stefano