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.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:52:18PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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). On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:54:23AM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > 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. On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:33:00PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > 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 am somewhat puzzled by why the ochlocrats aren't arguing that we shouldn't accommodate vegans either, since it's extra effort for only a handful of people. On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 05:38:43PM -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Speaking for myself, I think a compromise could be to videotape the > speaker only, but record audio from the microphones that people use for > asking questions, and having people announce themselves - if they are > comfortable - before asking their questions. Seems like something people could live with. On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 02:51:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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. I know younger people who understand privacy concerns as well. My impression is that they tend toward a combintion of misinformation and avoidance rather than straight avoidance. Disguising yourself from facial recognition algorithms, however, is probably difficult to pull off at DebConf without some unfortunate tradeoffs. _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
