As for the BoF: please consider one thing: being able to see the person
speaking has a HUGE value for people who are hard of hearing; I don't
think that our videos can be followed just by lip reading (often, it's
impossible to get the person on camera when they start to speak), but
having visual cues is very helpful to lower the effort required to
understand speech when hearing is not completely absent but simply
limited.
This also applies to people with English as a foreign language, both for listener and for the speaker. In such case it is also often helpful to see the person speaking to taki in their non-verbal cues to be able to understand what exactly they are saying.
Having a separate room for non-video-BoFs is an easy solution to this. And in other sessions we should be striving to be able to take questions from IRC anyway, so people wishing to not be associated with their question should be able to use that avenue.
Let's try to use this to solve more problems at once instead of creating new ones.