[Eg-oversight-board] Proposed conference photography policy

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

It's not beyond the realm of possibility that somebody could both want
to be active in the profession (part of which often entails giving
presentations) and have very good reasons for not wanting their
photograph taken.  Or even very bad reasons; the reason isn't really
our business.

While I would agree that the default speaker's agreement should
include the right for the conference to take photographs, make audio
and video recordings of their presentation, and distribute their
slides, I think it's reasonable for the program committee to have
leeway to make exceptions.

If a speaker doesn't want to be photographed at all, while the
conference obviously couldn't make a guarantee that images taken by
the audience won't end up on social media, it's certainly in its power
to do things like add notes to the program requesting that a
particular presentation not be photographed.

Regards,

Galen

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Increasingly when I speak at conferences outside the Evergreen ones I have
> to sign over the right to be photographed.  It is increasingly the norm and
> if it limits some small selection of speakers I'm willing to accept that.
> We can't make everyone happy.  I'm perplexed why anyone would object in fact
> since they're putting themselves in a public space by presenting.  I can
> understand not wanting the presentation itself shared, especially if they're
> a big speaker who does a lot of paid speaking however.  The events
> themselves increasingly use social media though and I think it's also just
> an acknowledgment of reality.  I know pictures of speakers were posted on
> twitter and other social media without asking the permission of individual
> speakers this last year and it will happen in the future as well.
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> As I recall correctly, this year there was a speaker that made it clear
>> they did not want to be photographed, and I assumed this included not being
>> video taped. I see why you would want to require that those that are going
>> to be speakers agree to being photographed (or at least their projected
>> slides), but I wanted to just bring up that it could make some not want to
>> give presentations.
>>
>> On a related note, concerning the policy stating that we will not record
>> the audio of those that do not wish to be recorded. I recorded the
>> conference's Git tutorial, and I happened to just place my camera facing the
>> projector screen. I know for a fact that at times I was able to record the
>> audio of some of the people that asked questions during the session. So at
>> next years conference, if I did something similar, I would not be able to
>> see the color of the lanyard of the person asking a questions. What should I
>> do about the audio recording of questions? Should we add an exception for
>> audio recordings of Q/A?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yamil
>>
>>
>> On May 7, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Chauncey Montgomery <montgoc1 at oplin.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> A secondary minor tangent - I think all speakers should agree to be
>> >> photographed so that folks can post to social media and the like.  I would
>> >> leave recording audio and video up to the individual speaker though and
>> >> require arrangement.
>> > I agree.
>> > CM
>>
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