On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 03:41:36PM -0400, micah anderson wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> writes:
>
> > As a member of the video team, I would strongly object to such a policy.
> > There is nothing more annoying than hearing a question on a video but
> > not seeing the speaker.
>
> There are plenty off things that are more annoying than that: audio not
> working, video playing something other than it should, a distracting
> monkey swinging around and making noises.
Well, yes, but not when we only consider the things that are likely to
happen in a Debconf video. The first does indeed happen sometimes, and
is annoying, but usally fixed after a few tries. The second and third,
not quite.
> I can think of more, but I think you are just being hyperbolic.
No, in fact, I was being serious.
> I watched Debconf videos, and have in the past. I have *never* been
> annoyed at hearing a question on a video and not seeing the speaker. Not
> a single time. If I can hear the question, I don't care what the person
> looks like.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that part then, I suppose.
> In fact, every time the video team tries to quickly capture the person
> asking the question, it just makes me seasick.
That does happen and is unfortunate, indeed. We do try to avoid it, and
our training warns people not to make sudden movements in such cases.
But I do think it's reasonable for people to want to know who the person
asking a certain question is, and that can only happen if they are
captured on camera.
DebConf videos are an important resource to the community; while I think
it is reasonable for people to participate to events by proxy, or to
prefer to talk to a speaker after the recorded part of a video has
finished, I do not think that it is reasonable for them to request to
remain out of the camera's eye *if they are actively participating in a
session*.
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