Le sam. 12 juil. 2025 à 22:44, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana < [email protected]> a écrit :
> Hi, > > Em 12/07/2025 18:16, Christoph Biedl escreveu: > > > > In my understanding, the dinner is about (verbal) communication, at > > least during the time we are seated around a table and have our meals. > > However, several hundred people in a single room already create some > > noise just by chatting. Adding music, artificial or live, makes things > > worse. In such a situation, I have difficulties talking even to the > > people sitting next to me, and a conversation around the table is plain > > impossible. I strongly doubt it's just me. > > > > Dinner is not the loudest event at a DebConf. Cheese&Wine is worse. But > > there I can walk away a few steps and still have a chance to interact > > with some people who share the same pain. As however the dinner is > > taking place somewhere else, I'd rather feel locked away, not enjoying a > > single second, and being angry about all this. > > > > What can we expect for this year? Is there a chance people like me can > > come out of this with their ears bleeding? > > > > Christoph > > > > ¹ 2016 in Cape Town, 2019 in Curitiba, 2022 in Kosovo. > > Sorry to hear that, but IMHO the official dinner is ONE night to > celebrate between 14 nights. I'm very happy to see the official dinner > has music, people talking freely and loudy and enjoying the moment. > > You can talk in the other 13 nights :-) > Maybe the issue is something more practical, like "the music is too loud to speak" ?
