Re: Noise situation at the DebConf dinner
El 13/07/25 a las 06:02, Joost van Baal-Ilić escribió:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> Thank you for speaking out and raising this subject!
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 06:16:51PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> > 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.
> >
> <snip>
> > What can we expect for this year? Is there a chance people like me can
> > come out of this with their ears bleeding?
>
> I don't know what this years' circumstance will be: I am not arranging the
> venue. So I can only talk in general terms.
>
> If I want to have a conversation which requires focus and thinking, I can't do
> that in the current Centre Vie: it's too crowded and noisy, generally. So I
> fully understand where you're coming from. In this Centre Vie situation, I ask
> the person(s) I'd like to talk to, to move with me to a more quiet place. This
> generally works fine for all of us. But I'm afraid you're right and in a big
> shared meal situation, there is little opportunity to move (temporarily)
> elsewhere. So I'm afraid you'd have to skip this meal. Or do the talking
> before and after the eating-part: at those moments I believe it's generally
> easier to find a quiet place.
C&W and conference dinner will happen at the fort du Dellec. Despite we
didn't have too many options, the noise-related concerns were raised (so
there were listened) when we will discussing the place for conference
dinner. The fort is mainly an open space. For conference dinner, most of
the tables will be placed in a covered and "contained" area, and, if
weather helps, some tables "outside", at the other side of the internal
wall. There will be music and dancing from 20h to 21h. If you feel that
the music is too loud, I think you will be able to find a quiet place
easily.
Some pictures can be found at (text in French only, sorry):
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_du_Dellec
https://plouzane.bzh/mes-activites/equipements-municipaux/location-de-salles-communales/le-fort-du-dellec/
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