I think next time we could expand the 5-10min speeches part.
There were slots for 10 five minutes speeches planned but not enough people volunteering fro speeches. That’s why some speeches then expanded to take 10 minutes.
It’s a pity so few people took any photos at all.
As far as photos goes I think there was at least one person who made a decision not to be on the final group photo. The person probably also wouldn’t want to have been on photos done by individuals.
The formal legal default in Germany is that it’s not allowed to make photos of people without their consent.
Maybe we could solve this with a tag system next time around. A no-photo tag and another tag that signals to be happy to be photographed.
There were slots for 10 five minutes speeches planned but not enough people volunteering fro speeches.
I thought that there would be so many people, that I didn’t volunteer (by the time Gunnar’s speech was over I had outlines for 3 interesting speeches, though one of them would likely be too inside of the topic for our public).
The formal legal default in Germany is that it’s not allowed to make photos of people without their consent.
I asked some people, others were delighted when I took those photos (so I assumed consent), others still also thought it pity to have so few photos. But I didn’t consider the legal side. Do you think I should take those photos down? I don’t think I asked everyone I photographed.
And BTW, they are low resolution, so if someone wishes a higher quality pic of their own face, PM me please.
I don’t think the person who went outside of the room for the group photo is clearly visible on one of your photos, so I don’t expect there to be a practical problem with the photos that’s you posted.
On the other hand going forward I would want to have a system that allows people to clearly signal that the don’t want to have photos taken of themselves.
From the LessWrong regulars, if gwern would attend a meetup I would guess that he would be uncomfortable with photos of him afterwards being available online.
While being a toastmaster I remember having a board member of my local toastmasters club who didn’t want picture of him on the internet because he had a public persona as a musician and didn’t want the information of being in a toastmasters club associated with that persona.
The formal legal default in Germany is that it’s not allowed to make photos of people without their consent.
I find that unlikely because that would make most of street and news photography impossible. If, say, Der Spiegel publishes a photo of a protest somewhere in Germany, did it really get consent forms from all the people in the picture?
Consent doesn’t mean that you have to have a consent form. Most people have consensual sex without signing consent forms.
There are also a bunch of expectations. You can make photos of a protest to cover the protest.
In this case the question is whether a LW meetup is a public event or a private get together. Is a person who reads the annoucement supposed to have a reasonable expectation that his anonymity might get blown by attending the event?
Given the way the event was communicated I don’t think that’s the case. On the other hand if we would have sticker system to mark people who don’t want to appear on photos, not marking yourself as someone who doesn’t like to be photographed creates that expectation.
There were slots for 10 five minutes speeches planned but not enough people volunteering fro speeches. That’s why some speeches then expanded to take 10 minutes.
As far as photos goes I think there was at least one person who made a decision not to be on the final group photo. The person probably also wouldn’t want to have been on photos done by individuals.
The formal legal default in Germany is that it’s not allowed to make photos of people without their consent.
Maybe we could solve this with a tag system next time around. A no-photo tag and another tag that signals to be happy to be photographed.
I thought that there would be so many people, that I didn’t volunteer (by the time Gunnar’s speech was over I had outlines for 3 interesting speeches, though one of them would likely be too inside of the topic for our public).
I asked some people, others were delighted when I took those photos (so I assumed consent), others still also thought it pity to have so few photos. But I didn’t consider the legal side. Do you think I should take those photos down? I don’t think I asked everyone I photographed.
And BTW, they are low resolution, so if someone wishes a higher quality pic of their own face, PM me please.
I don’t think the person who went outside of the room for the group photo is clearly visible on one of your photos, so I don’t expect there to be a practical problem with the photos that’s you posted.
On the other hand going forward I would want to have a system that allows people to clearly signal that the don’t want to have photos taken of themselves.
From the LessWrong regulars, if gwern would attend a meetup I would guess that he would be uncomfortable with photos of him afterwards being available online.
While being a toastmaster I remember having a board member of my local toastmasters club who didn’t want picture of him on the internet because he had a public persona as a musician and didn’t want the information of being in a toastmasters club associated with that persona.
I find that unlikely because that would make most of street and news photography impossible. If, say, Der Spiegel publishes a photo of a protest somewhere in Germany, did it really get consent forms from all the people in the picture?
Consent doesn’t mean that you have to have a consent form. Most people have consensual sex without signing consent forms.
There are also a bunch of expectations. You can make photos of a protest to cover the protest.
In this case the question is whether a LW meetup is a public event or a private get together. Is a person who reads the annoucement supposed to have a reasonable expectation that his anonymity might get blown by attending the event?
Given the way the event was communicated I don’t think that’s the case. On the other hand if we would have sticker system to mark people who don’t want to appear on photos, not marking yourself as someone who doesn’t like to be photographed creates that expectation.