On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 07:12:19PM -0600, Carl Karsten wrote: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Philip Paeps <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2012-01-06 13:22:14 (-0600), Carl Karsten <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > * audience mics (2 maybe 3 because of the large room?) > >> > >> I prefer 1 on a stand for people to queue up to. keeps things moving, > >> easier for the AV crew to figure out what mic to bring up and where to > >> point the camera. > > > > I agree with you but this is tricky in Janson. Especially for people in the > > centre block. It is very hard to squeeze out of the long row of seats > > without > > inconveniencing everyone between you and the aisle. I think asking people > > to > > get out to ask questions will lead to an impolite premature exodus during > > the > > Q&A sessions of the talks. > > > > Two microphone stands for questions, one in each aisle, may mitigate > > (halve?) > > the problem, but I'm not sure it won't happen... > > 2 mics on stands isn't too bad. > > > > >> I have done all 3: 1 mic, 2 mics on a stand, 1 and 2 roving > >> wireless... roving sucks the most. IMHO. > > > > But does it suck more than a lot of noisy exits? > > > > I doubt people will leave. From what you describe it will reduce the > number of people that bother to ask a question, which is bad, unless > there are more questions than you have time for, then it is a good > filter: if you aren't willing to climb over a row of people, your > question isn't that important :)
Carl, note, Janson is a 1415-seat auditorium. It is *huge*; walking from the top all the way to the bottom takes several minutes, which is annoying. I think having microphones on a stand may work well for smaller places, but probably not for Janson. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
