<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Maybe I must apologize. It's a peeve of mine. I welcome hard discussions and don't think we are as sensitive as many seem to think.<br></div>And excessive deference just gets in the way. <br>
</div>My 2 cents. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 2:01 PM, David Metzler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:metzler.dl@gmail.com" target="_blank">metzler.dl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">That was not my intention at all, nor was I offended, personally. I suspected that John was just trying to make suggestions for improving the process, and was just trying to let him know that his statements might be read. I do not think that your suggestion that I was playing some kind of emotional card is a fair characterization of my response. <div>
<div><br></div><div>My own "analytical" thinking (intelligent or otherwise) suggests that as well intentioned as his ideas are, they do not look to "scale" to an event the size of Drupal CON, and should be tried out at a smaller event, preferably at one where the person who has the idea is willing to contribute time to making sure those ideas work. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If I'm out of line, here, my apologies. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 21, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Anthony <<a href="mailto:tony@tony-mac.com" target="_blank">tony@tony-mac.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">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. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dave Metzler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:metzler.dl@gmail.com" target="_blank">metzler.dl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On Apr 21, 2013, at 1:52 AM, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:summer@js.id.au" target="_blank">summer@js.id.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 20/04/13 02:22, Larry Garfield wrote:<br>
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>> Yes, you are able to give users "bypass node access" restriction, which<br>
>> would, I believe, then bypass domain access, too. Generally don't give<br>
>> that permission to people unless you really really mean it. :-)<br>
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> 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."<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> You know who to talk to, Larry, and they know who you are. Perhaps you could take it up with them?<br>
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