Frankly, I'm not happy to bring this up in the public - but I've tried
several times and in various ways to have this problem solved, in
official and semi-official ways, and occasionally by some rumbling as
well. I don't even know whether the messages were received. So I feel
like I have no other choice ...
Several times already, the most annoying events of the DebConfs I've
attended was the dinner¹, for just one reason: The noise situation
destroys everything that would make this quality time, and there's
nothing I can do but wait for an opportunity to return to venue as soon
as possible.
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.
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