Same applies to pool photo, just at 14:00 on Saturday. On Thu, 14 Sept 2023, 11:00 Aigars Mahinovs, <aigar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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, <aigar...@gmail.com> 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 >> >
