Comments on: SLCC Community Standards – Agreement (no, it’s a contract) http://www.tmttlt.com/2007/06/29/slcc-community-standards-agreement-no-its-a-contract/ All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:40:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rochelle http://www.tmttlt.com/2007/06/29/slcc-community-standards-agreement-no-its-a-contract/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Rochelle Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:28:21 +0000 http://www.tmttlt.com/archives/2007/06/29/5698/#comment-342 I think I get where they're coming from, and I don't much like people taking pictures of me to post online either, but generally speaking if I think people at a certain event are likely to take my picture and put it online, along with unsavory commentary, I simply don't attend the event. Going to something like this is pretty much putting your physical person up against your digital person, it's a public acknowledgement of which real-world body fits with which avatar. Can't really have it both ways and attend a thing, introduce yourself as your digital self, but have no evidence of it remaining. When your digital self is deeply involved in a community it's very tempting to jump in and meet everyone in person, but you can't really protect your real-world identity at the same time. That's one of the most either/or situations I can think of. The part that weirds me out a bit is the strict wording around recording. I generally record all presentations I do (unless I forget my italk, as I did for my last two presentations, and I'm still smarting about those last two because one of them was really great and the second one was at least really interesting with lots of cool questions and commentary). I always begin a presentation by noting that it's being recorded, that the recording will end up on my blog, and that anyone with questions who doesn't feel comfortable being recorded can speak to me afterwards. No conference organizational committee has ever told me I couldn't record my own presentation. You alluded to this already: are they sneakily claiming intellectual property rights there by saying, in no uncertain terms, that <i>no one</i> can record a session or panel? Bit weird that they introduced this so late in the game, isn't it. I don't think I can go anyway, and since the person most likely to encourage me to go is now unlikely to keep on encouraging me in the face of this "argreement", chances are I'll just keep to my appointments here. Difficult time of year to start with, for me. I think I get where they’re coming from, and I don’t much like people taking pictures of me to post online either, but generally speaking if I think people at a certain event are likely to take my picture and put it online, along with unsavory commentary, I simply don’t attend the event. Going to something like this is pretty much putting your physical person up against your digital person, it’s a public acknowledgement of which real-world body fits with which avatar. Can’t really have it both ways and attend a thing, introduce yourself as your digital self, but have no evidence of it remaining. When your digital self is deeply involved in a community it’s very tempting to jump in and meet everyone in person, but you can’t really protect your real-world identity at the same time. That’s one of the most either/or situations I can think of.

The part that weirds me out a bit is the strict wording around recording. I generally record all presentations I do (unless I forget my italk, as I did for my last two presentations, and I’m still smarting about those last two because one of them was really great and the second one was at least really interesting with lots of cool questions and commentary). I always begin a presentation by noting that it’s being recorded, that the recording will end up on my blog, and that anyone with questions who doesn’t feel comfortable being recorded can speak to me afterwards. No conference organizational committee has ever told me I couldn’t record my own presentation. You alluded to this already: are they sneakily claiming intellectual property rights there by saying, in no uncertain terms, that no one can record a session or panel?

Bit weird that they introduced this so late in the game, isn’t it. I don’t think I can go anyway, and since the person most likely to encourage me to go is now unlikely to keep on encouraging me in the face of this “argreement”, chances are I’ll just keep to my appointments here. Difficult time of year to start with, for me.

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