Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 01:23:29PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
>> I might be wrong on this, but I expect those that don't mind to be >> filmed to vastly outnumber those that oppose to it. So to me it seems >> enough to make it clear that talk rooms are filmed and to have a space >> for those that don't want to be filmed but still want to attend the >> talk. > The registration data supports this conclusion. Only a handful of > people checked the box to say they didn't want their picture taken > without permission. The rest either don't have a problem with it, or it > wasn't important enough to them to find this information on the > registration form (arguably, the same thing). Just data-pointing here, but when I went to my first DebConf in Edinburgh, I remember being really taken aback and a little spooked at the amount that I was photographed, and at people running around the conference taking tons of photographs of everything without so much as a by-your-leave. At the time, I'd been attending technical conferences regularly for a while, mostly LISA, and I'd never encountered that aggressive of photography before. I thought about it and made the conscious choice that I didn't particularly care if my image was available on-line, in part because I'm rather privileged in various ways that mean there's no risk for me in that. And while I personally am mostly uninterested in pictures of events I've attended, I know people in the community care a lot, and since I have no strong opinion, I feel like it's a gift that I can give them. Also, I'm very impressed at how well DebConf does for remote attendees, and I think that's important. So I've never checked the "don't photograph me" checkbox. But I have to admit that I've thought about it a few times, just because the constant photography is so disconcerting and still weirds me out a little. And I have a lot of sympathy for the folks who are more sensitive to it than I am. I do think DebConf is a significant outlier here compared to other professional conferences, in a way that's likely to make at least some people quite uncomfortable. I'm not sure how much this is a generational thing. I don't have a Facebook profile either, and didn't grow up with digital cameras, and maybe I have a different relationship with photos than people who are twenty years younger than I am. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
