Aigars Mahinovs dijo [Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:54:23AM +0300]: > It has been mentioned before and I somewhat agree - for a non-native > English speaker it is often easier to understand people if you see > them speak as that give some more visual cues on what they are saying. > This becomes even more important when the tone of the question might > be important. In addition, the peronality of the people asking the > question (in case of known people) is also important for a fuller > understanding. Not taping the video of the person asking the question > makes the people watching livestream or the recordings miss ... half > of the picture? (pun was not intended, originally) > > I do not see it being a fair trade to deprive hundreds of people that > are watching these videos, of the visual cues, for the privacy benefit > or minimal seating arrangement comfort of the 5 or 6 people that do > not want to be filmed.
I strongly agree with Aigars here. We are setting up a maze of hoops to jump through for a very small gain. I think (and not that I want to enter a slippery slope, but it does not seem so far from several arguments I've seen) that pushing this might end up leading to disappearing all of the videoteam at some point. I understand there is people not wanting to be filmed or photographed, but –and this might very well be a cultural thing– I cannot understand we give so much discussion to something with so small a footprint. Even more, in a community where we have been quite liberal in our image handling practices for so many years. There is a very real gain in setting up video infrastructure, and in getting to see the interaction. On one side, it helps a lot people folowing online (or offline) better understand the talks and know the people involved in the project. On the other side, it gives a great professional image our sponsors are interested in. _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
