Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 11 Sep 2014 05:52, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" wrote: > > On 09/10/2014 08:16 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > that would take extra days of my work for no good reason. > > i understand that it's extra work, but i don't understand why it's "no > good reason" -- we're trying to respect people who are s

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:14:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > project. But I do feel strongly the "no photo" group should be opt-in > (and not the "photos OK" group). I don't have numbers for DC14 (and it I feel strongly the opposite. Violating my privacy should always require my active consent.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Daniel Kahn Gillmor dijo [Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:52:33PM -0400]: > On 09/10/2014 08:16 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > that would take extra days of my work for no good reason. > > i understand that it's extra work, but i don't understand why it's "no > good reason" -- we're trying to respect pe

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/10/2014 08:16 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > that would take extra days of my work for no good reason. i understand that it's extra work, but i don't understand why it's "no good reason" -- we're trying to respect people who are signalling (via e.g. a black lanyard) that they would rather no

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 11 September 2014 02:22, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 11. September 2014, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: >> This is a great idea - if we can make a no-photo lanyard be double >> wide *and* light up when exposed to photo flash (like the pedestrian >> safety reflectors) > > now I miss th

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Fascinated to see dedicated attendee at Debconf14 with 'Blindness'

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Robert Edmonds wrote: > It would be nice if questioners would introduce themselves after taking > the microphone for the first time. At larger conferences (e.g., NANOG) > this is virtually a requirement, and very helpful for first time > attendees. That's not a b

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > ok, found my words again: make these the lanyards for people who want their > pictures taken. (and TBH, I think this years white swirly ones were quite very > well visible - once again perfect is the enemy of good. ;-) Agreed; perfect is the

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
Second times' the charm... http://www.chapea.com/Lanyard-Reflectante/en http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Hot-sale-and-promotional-reflector-Lanyard_1104449300.html So those exist and they should show up on all flash photographs. Of course they will be more or less invisible to sesse with his

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 11. September 2014, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > This is a great idea - if we can make a no-photo lanyard be double > wide *and* light up when exposed to photo flash (like the pedestrian > safety reflectors) now I miss the tags and fear you really think so. besides "uhm, no" I'm

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > if we can make a no-photo lanyard be double > wide *and* light up when exposed to photo flash (like the pedestrian > safety reflectors) I actually tried to find those first for exactly that reason, and settled for neon later. I was only a

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf conference policy on profanity

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Proposal: > > Any public presentation which is part of any event, including but not > limited to keynotes, presentations, lightning talks, addresses, mailing list > posts and forums, is subject to this code of conduc

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 11 September 2014 00:56, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Gunnar Wolf (personal) > wrote: > >> I also think the photo-free zones would not be a solution. > > Not fully, especially considering that people need to walk around to > get from A to B and making the hallways

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
Three corner cases I can't get out of my mind: * What about people who appear to the group photo while wearing no-photo lanyards? I think keeping the shot as-is, but not tagging them by name, would be prudent. * What about people who seat themselves in the normal talk room audience, or even act a

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > You could have the happy-with-photography lanyards be bright colors, and > hand out dark or black lanyards for the people who have not opted into > being photographed. The issue, to me, is that you need bright colours for people who

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > so why do have children "more rights" than other attendees? (and don't get me > wrong, I fully support that Both socially and legally speaking, the concept of parents/guardians exists for the very reason that children need more protection

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/10/2014 05:56 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > PS: Asking people who do not want to be photographed to wear bright > colours is somewhat counter-intuitive... You could have the happy-with-photography lanyards be bright colors, and hand out dark or black lanyards for the people who have not opte

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 11. September 2014, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > Children should *not* be photographed without prior consent > > from their parents. > Just to re-iterate this point: This makes sense in all cases and no > matter what, if a

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Children should *not* be photographed without prior consent > from their parents. Just to re-iterate this point: This makes sense in all cases and no matter what, if anything, we end up doing, this should be communicated clearly to every at

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > (Due to the particular room configurations and camera angles in place this > time, the "do not film" area was "somewhere outside the talk room and watch > the talk via the stream". Black cardboard cutouts could work in case DC15 and follo

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > Rooms that are being videotaped are also to be marked, fwiw. Valid point. It feels silly, but taping camera warnings to the doors can't hurt. Unless there are signs at the entrance of the Youth Hostel, already. Richard -- Richard ___

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Gunnar Wolf (personal) wrote: > I also think the photo-free zones would not be a solution. Not fully, especially considering that people need to walk around to get from A to B and making the hallways no-photo seems like unenforceable overkill. Yet, it would be tr

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:25:35PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Even a blacklist is practically impossible to realize while > maintaining even just a good coverage of the event. Whitelisting? > Forget about all photo coverage and just have video of just the > slides. Anything else will be practi

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 10 September 2014 22:50, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > All proposed solution looks like a division by zero error. There are conflicting requirements - covering Debconf (either with photo or video) requires a lot of images of people while privacy concerns require not to take images of people. > So t

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 10:37 +0200, Mika Pflüger wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Any solution that you come up with is going to be at the discretion > > of the photographers to conform to, because the law is not on the > > side of the photograph's subject where public spaces are concern

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 22:15 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > > I would like to ask to remove the "Do not photograph me" checkbox in > > Debconf registration form as we do not really have a technology to > > implement that. > > As someone who che

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:08:55PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > My reading of the law is that even in a public setting people > photographed must give some kind of consent before the photo can be > published in any way. From photography forums I read that in public > events this is usually hande

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 10. September 2014, Christoph Egger wrote: > >> I didn't understand the point of the yelling at people to stand-up when > >> they had the microphone. Was this to get a clearer video of the person? I dont get the part with the yelling neither, but standing up (usually) also helps

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Judit Foglszinger writes: >> I didn't understand the point of the yelling at people to stand-up when >> they had the microphone. Was this to get a clearer video of the person? > There is a clearer video of the person > and it makes it easier for the camera operator > to quickly catch the speaking

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 10. September 2014, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > On 10 September 2014 11:37, Mika Pflüger wrote: > > Note that for the next DebConf the legal situation is more complicated > > as Germany has much more strict "rights to the own image" than most > > other countries (see e.g. > > http:/

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 10 September 2014 11:37, Mika Pflüger wrote: > Note that for the next DebConf the legal situation is more complicated > as Germany has much more strict "rights to the own image" than most > other countries (see e.g. > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild, in German). I am > not a

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Do not photograph" checkbox in registration

2014-09-10 Thread Mika Pflüger
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > Any solution that you come up with is going to be at the discretion > of the photographers to conform to, because the law is not on the > side of the photograph's subject where public spaces are concerned. Note that for the next DebConf the legal situation is more com