[Linux-aus] Re: A/V recordings and publishing

Steve Walsh <Steve@nerdvana.org.au> · Wed Jan 31 08:46:02 2007

Another thing I noticed as an issue was the number of people who thought 
the Mic was solely there so they could heard, and would decline it when 
offered. I noticed this a fair bit during the Virtualisation miniconf, 
which whilst it was held in Matt C did mean that it was still large 
enough that a mic was needed to ensure that people could be heard when 
the video got released.
Most of the speakers would repeat the question, but if attendees don't 
understand why the mic is there, then making allowances is a bit of a 
moot point.
Russell Stuart wrote:

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:50 +1100, Ken Wilson wrote:

With a speaker that is used to repeating questions this works well, but 
many speakers have not yet learnt this, maybe prompting would help, but 
in small theatres where all people can hear the floor question it is 
counter intuitive to repeat the question for the recording.

It is true the speaker doesn't always repeat the

question.  But equally it seemed to me that the 
person asking often didn't wait for the microphone.  
At LCA2006 the audience often corrected the problem 
when the speaker didn't repeat the question by yelling

"question".  It became a kind of a game between the 
audience and the speaker, possibly because the 
audience didn't here the question either.  On the 
other hand once a question was asked from the floor 
without the microphone at LCA2007 I noticed it

usually wasn't corrected.
So one way the problem is largely self-correcting
without any input from the AV team.  The other way
isn't, and requires someone from the AV team to
run around like mad chooks during question time.