Update + Consent Process re: 11th Hour Professional Filming @ GOAT

Open Ag Technology GOAT 2024
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Hi folks,

We shouldn’t have allowed GOAT to be filmed in the manner that it did - we’re sorry that there wasn’t clear communication about this, and we will be taking steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again. It is our responsibility to ensure that you each have clarity, agency, and context for activities at GOAT. We (the organizers) gave Sam and his team the go ahead to bring a film crew given his historical individual involvement in the GOAT community since 2018, and his related organizing efforts that have inspired trust and goodwill.

All video footage filmed professionally at GOAT 2024 will not be shared until you have expressed your written consent via this Media Consent form for 11th Hour. by Nov 29, 2024, as shared via email. If you do not fill out the form, we will default to not using footage that includes you. After that, we will share the list of consenting individuals with the 11th Hour for next steps.

Please note, the consent form includes a message from 11th Hour describing the film context and purpose. Specifically:

“Production of a short film (5-8 minutes) which brings together content from across convenings. The focus of this short film is on community innovation, collective impact funding, and collaborative tech development. In total the film team estimates between 1 to 2 minutes of footage from GOAT would make it into a final 5-8 minute film”

In sum, we apologize for the lack of transparency regarding the film crew that was there for part of the event. We also want to note the CoC issues that video and audio recording poses, whether by professional or peers, or that we need a more clear process for managing photo consent. We will be reviewing our materials to ensure consent is an opt-in process for future GOAT activities.

With apologies,

Your 2024 GOATherders

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Sorry if this is off-topic, but I observed a similar contradiction around the request that GOAT participants capture images and videos of sessions.

The stated intention (that I heard verbally stated) at the beginning of the conference was that consent should be obtained when captured media includes people, but in practice I didn’t observe that happening and didn’t see a reasonable way to do it myself during the flow of sessions…

So, that brings up two points:

  1. We need a similar media consent form for future GOAT events and a good strategy for honoring wishes of those who choose not to consent or consent in a limited way.
  2. We need to retro-actively get consent for the use of any media we already captured and filter/blur non-consenting individuals.

I have some ideas about how that could work, but maybe it should be a separate thread…

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I don’t think it’s off-topic @Symbioquine.

This thread exists because we heard people explicitly mention they wanted a post-GOAT consent process for the 11th hour filming. There was no issue raised with peer photography, though some concerns about peer audio-recording, and we hope people will let us know their thoughts in the feedback survey.

So at this stage, the media consent form was only meant for the professional filming.

We assume, that as in past goats peer-photos and recordings shared in the GOAT 2024 PUBLIC - Google Drive are considered acceptable. If someone does NOT want their photos in this archive, I’d like to ask that you simply email goatech.org@gmail.com and we’ll try to remove photos with you in it.

Likely in a future community call, we’ll invite folks to help create general GOAT policies around photos, recording, and consent.

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