Hi, Em 12/07/2025 18:16, Christoph Biedl escreveu:
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.
Sorry to hear that, but IMHO the official dinner is ONE night to celebrate between 14 nights. I'm very happy to see the official dinner has music, people talking freely and loudy and enjoying the moment.
You can talk in the other 13 nights :-) Best regards, -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) Belo Horizonte - Brasil Debian Developer Site: http://phls.com.br GPG ID: 0443C450
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