Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 07:20:58AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The main reason to attend a talk in person, rather than just watching it on > the video stream, is to be able to participate. If the talk is being video > taped, and you don't want to be on video, you obviously aren't going to be

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-22 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > as someone who has been on the talks team in the past (i was basically > AWOL this year) it would help us in talk scheduling to have a tristate > option in penta for talk submitters: This is starting to feel like bikeshedding, but her

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/21/2013 03:30 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Very valid point. Asking this via penta would allow the talks team to > schedule such talks in untaped rooms. as someone who has been on the talks team in the past (i was basically AWOL this year) it would help us in talk scheduling to have a trist

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: > While I think the ideas expressed so far are good for completeness, I > don't recall a recent DebConf that did not have a 3rd, 4th, or more > additional talk or BOF rooms that are not streamed/recorded. These > rooms can certainly be utili

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > I don't think we want anything so elaborate as a signed waiver; and I also > think we can and should assume that by default people giving talks are ok > being videotaped and need to opt out, otherwise people will overlook the box > and we'l

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Shuler
On 08/21/2013 09:20 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > The main reason to attend a talk in person, rather than just watching it on > the video stream, is to be able to participate. Those people attending remotely also participate. :) While I think the ideas expressed so far are good for completeness, I

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
[Adding debconf14-team to the Cc:] Hi folks, On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:05:19PM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > a.) tell the talks+video team before the talk that you dont want to be > > videoed (or only audioed), thats totally fine. (

Re: [Debconf-team] A/V opt-out for speakers (Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > a.) tell the talks+video team before the talk that you dont want to be videoed > (or only audioed), thats totally fine. (But we really should have this in the > conference management system.) Open Source Days in Copenhagen made me sign a wa