I think it is an excellent compromise
I don't.
I'd like to bring up priorities.
photos are an important way to show what
happens at an event to the world,
Who are these people and why do they need to see photos?
and we do need them, if only for the
sponsorship report at the end of a debconf.
This is the only reason I have seen in this tread that I feel has
enough weight to consider.
How many photos is needed?
How many shots need to be taken to have a nice pool to select from?
Personally, I think the comfort of every single Debconf attendee is
important enough that they should not be asked to comprise in order to
fulfil the need for making it easy to collect photos.
Video Q&A: how about
if the person stands up, point and zoom a camera on them
else wide shot of the audience, and don't full screen it. side by
side is fine.
And don't ask anyone to stand up.
yes, that degrades the value of the video.
I'll point out I just did 53 PyOhio videos with no audience cameras
(mainly because minimal setup time)
No one is complaining about the less than ideal Q&A sections.
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 9:09 AM Elena ``of Valhalla''
<valhalla@trueelena.org> wrote:
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.