Group photo is going to be shifted by two days to same time (12:15-12:30) on Saturday.
On Wed, 13 Sept 2023, 19:02 Aigars Mahinovs, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > First of all, the most important Debconf (photo) event will be happening > *tomorrow*, at no later than 12:30. Please be ready to go *directly* from > the previous talk rooms or hacklabs to the photo taking spot when volunteer > ushers will ask you to do so, which will happen at the end of the preceding > talks, so at around 12:15. > > We will then all orderly proceed to the *steps just outside the main talk > room* (Anamudi), which is just a 5 minute walk from the hotel (in case you > have not been there yet). Follow the crowds or the map inside your badge. > > When I know that everyone has arrived, but no later than 12:30, I will > start taking the many pictures needed to assemble the Group Photo. Please > try to keep looking forward, to me, without changing your head position > during that time, even if it looks like I am photographing something else. > Blinking is permitted. Manually correcting zombie heads on stitching > boundaries is really time consuming :) > > After the main group photo, we will also do the traditional t-shirts > photo, so if you brought rare Debconf t-shirts, put them on or bring them > with you so we can put them on other, yet unsuspecting people. > > As an additional photo event, celebrating the fact that, after loooong and > dry 17 years, we finally have another venue with a pool, we will be > attempting another Pool Group Photo, like we did in Debconf6. That will > happen on Friday at 14:00, during lunch break. Bring your swimsuits and a > mental image of the Debian swirl! > > As a change of pace for this year, I decided *not* to process and post > photos as soon as possible, but postpone this activity until after the > conference. That allows a bit more time and thinking in selecting or > processing the photos, allows for a better chance to catch photos with > people who expressly do not want to be photographed (before publication) > and it will also provide all of us a common chance to refresh all those > great memories of the conference soon after it is over. The group photo > will be processed and published immediately, naturally. But all other > photos will be published no sooner than two weeks after the end of the > conference. > > (And if you do not wish to appear on the published photos from the > conference, please let me know in person, so I can take a picture of you, > so that I have a reference to check when reviewing photos) > -- > Best regards, > Aigars Mahinovs >
