So far about 60 photo submissions have been received, feel free to
send yours in until tomorrow evening (UTC)

If you have not received a reply from me, then the photo looks good
and will be included :)

On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 14:10, Aigars Mahinovs <aigar...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> As we all know Debconf 20 will this year be virtual. But we still want
> to have an image to remember this event and this special year with,
> just like we have for all the previous Debian conferences. So this
> year also the group photo will be a virtual one.
>
> If you are planning to even just listen in to at least one of the
> presentations, you are welcome to be part of the group photo.
>
> Here is what you need to do to be part of the group photo:
>
> 1. Go outside during the day and find a white or light grey wall that
> is in the shadow - there should be no direct sunlight or reflections
> either on the wall or on your face. The wall should be as blank and as
> featureless as possible.
> 2. Take a selfie or ask someone else to take a photo of you.
> 3. Make sure the photo is sharp, that there is a lot of space between
> the top of your hair/head and the frame. Make sure that tips of both
> of your shoulders are in frame.
> 4. Send the full resolution image to aigarius+debcon...@gmail.com with
> the subject line "Debconf20 group photo".
>
> By submitting the image you agree that your image may be used to
> create a collage work that will be licensed in all of GPLv2+, MIT and
> CC-BYv3+ licenses and will be freely distributed anywhere in the world
> in any medium.
>
> The deadline for submissions is 25th of August, but the sooner the
> better, so I can try multiple approaches of blending the images
> together and have time to manually crop out the background for the
> cases where automatic background removal will inevitably fail.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>     Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:aigar...@debian.org
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-- 
Best regards,
    Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:aigar...@debian.org
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 | `. `'    Linux Administration and Free Software Consulting   |
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