I think, fwiw, John's remarks are constructive criticism. Why does everyone play the "emotional I am so offended card" when one expresses intelligent analytical thinking? This type of thinking can only help us not hurt us.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:15 AM, 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? > > > > > > > -- *Anthony Stefan Maciejowski* *www.Tony-Mac.com*
