Harald Massa wrote:
This may be hard to understand for some people, but in general
I think we strive to make EuroPython a better experience for
*everybody*, not just the geek camp and thus listen to requests
like Mikael's.
I am quite positive about listening to every request. At the same time not
only the people annoyed about keyboard-klicks should be allowed to speak up,
but also the people who really improve there experience by using notebooks.
If the sum of negative utility of attendees who get annoyed by
keyboard-klicking is greater than the positive utility of attendees who are
able to improve there experience by using computers, I am all positive to
restrict myself.
But if the cummulated negative utility of "annoyed people" is smaller than
the positive utility, I would really not recommend to do a decision which
lowers the total utility of the conference.
Fair enough. How about we ask the attendees as the opening event ?
(I'm not even talking about the
speakers playing the Windows or KDE anthem).
My impression is that we all agree on that; speakers should be off as well
as mobile phones should be off.
The same applies to things like delays due to beamer problems
You are right; beamer problems suck. But I am quite sure, that nobody really
wants to have them. Nonetheless, I have attended presentation with much much
bigger budgets and much much more technicans which had equal worse beamer
problems.
That's no excuse (you'll always find people doing worse,
but that doesn't really solve your problem :-)
The "nobody really wants to have them" is a misinterpretation:
The main reason we are having these problems is because speakers
want to show off things on their personal tool box, instead of
using notebooks provided by the track chairmen.
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