Hi! Wouter Verhelst: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 04:56:00AM +0000, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: >> Furthermore, I would like to see a policy in which BoFs may be >> explicitly choses by the participants to be no-photo zones, on top of >> being marked as "non-recorded".
> If you do not want to be on a photo, a lanyard idea (which applies to a > small group of people only) seems like a good idea; it allows a > photographer to see, while taking the photo, that there is one person in > that photo who would prefer not to be photographed, and they can > proceed. Obviously this would not work when the group of people is large > (like a photo in the hacklab of everyone in the room; you cannot > reasonably expect photographers to check everyone in a room with 100 > people before taking a photo). > > A room which is explicitly marked as "no photos in this room please" > would work too. You can have signs at the entraces to that room, and > anyone going in would know to leave their cameras at the door (or, at > least, to switch them off). Ack. > But to have some BoFs marked as "photos okay", and then the next BoF in > the same room be marked as "photos not okay" is just unworkable, and > effectively forbids photos alltogether. Wouter, thanks for your valuable input. You convinced me :) Cheers! Ulrike