On 21/04/2013, at 8:15 PM, Dave Metzler <metzler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It may not be what you intended but this comes off as a bit disrespectful to > the volunteers that make these kinds of events happen. > > I think having people parrot back from an mp3 player would seriuosly degrade > the quality of the presentations. I also think that adding a lot of post > production work to the process is problematic. > > Dave > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 21, 2013, at 1:52 AM, John Summerfield <sum...@js.id.au> wrote: > >> On 20/04/13 02:22, Larry Garfield wrote: >>> >>> Yes, you are able to give users "bypass node access" restriction, which >>> would, I believe, then bypass domain access, too. Generally don't give >>> that permission to people unless you really really mean it. :-) >> >> Larry, on another note, a lot, maybe all, the Drupalcon videos are hard to >> read. I suspect someone points a camera at the screen and says, "That will >> do." >> >> >> A day or so ago I went through some of my less recent photos, and I found >> some from and Events Management event in Perth a year ago. Someone was >> talking to a slideshow, just like Drupalcons, and I took some pics of the >> screen. I didn't do anything special, just pointed the camera and let >> auto-everything do its magic. The results were fine, even on a DSLR >> approaching 10 years old. >> >> So I don't know what your videographers are doing, but they do need to >> sharpen up their act. I'm thinking it shouldn't be too hard to merge the >> audio with the slide presentation they already have. >> >> If the presenters rehearse (and they really should), they they can prerecord >> the audio and them be wired to an MP3 player in their pocket and parrot what >> they hear. It would mean absolutely no questions during the formal >> presentations though. Or just post the original audio and edit in questions >> later. Or something. >> >> You know who to talk to, Larry, and they know who you are. Perhaps you could >> take it up with them? >> >> >>
