Hello all, I would like to ask to remove the "Do not photograph me" checkbox in Debconf registration form as we do not really have a technology to implement that.
While I understand and sympathize with privacy concerns that people have in regards to their photos showing up online, there is currently no way to both provide meaningful photo coverage of the event *and* to honor such promise to attendees. So we should stop making such promises. As an alternative I propose setting up guidelines on which zones in the conference will be "photo-free" so that people that do not want to be in pictures can avoid them. For example, hacklabs can be photo free (we just need a few shots of people working in them for the whole conference) and there is no reason to explicitly photograph back rows of auditoriums, also for cafeteria we only need a couple photos and the rest of the time that can be photo free as well. You should expect to be photographed if: you are a speaker, you ask a question, you sit in front rows, you are having an animated discussion or a hack session in the hallways, you are on the daytrip (near me), you are at the cheese and wine party, formal dinner or group photo. At any point before, during or after a photo is taken, any person in the photo can ask for the photo to be removed or their identity concealed. Children should *not* be photographed without prior consent from their parents. I believe that this is a reasonable middle ground, but I would like to hear feedback on this from people who did/do not want to be photographed at Debconf. Having a list of names of people not to be photographed simply can not work - I did not get the list, I can not remember such a list and I can not possibly identify if any person from such list is among the faces visible for me before taking an audience shot of a talk, for example. In the past there were couple of instances where people asked me not to take pictures of them at the start of the conference, but even with just 2 people asking that and with knowing their faces it was very hard and I caught 2 photos of them only in pre-upload processing and actually missed 1 photo that did go up before I had to take it back down. -- Best regards, Aigars Mahinovs mailto:aigar...@debian.org #--------------------------------------------------------------# | .''`. Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) | | : :' : Latvian Open Source Assoc. (http://www.laka.lv) | | `. `' Linux Administration and Free Software Consulting | | `- (http://www.aiteki.com) | #--------------------------------------------------------------# _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss