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...
The European Community Weekend in Berlin is over and was a full sucess.
This is no report of the event but a place where you can e.g. comment on the event, link to photos or what else you want to share.
I'm not the organizer of the Meetup but I have been there and for me it was a great event. Meeting many energetic, compassionate and in general awesome, people. Great presentations and workshops. And a very awesome positive athmosphere.
Cheers to all participants!
Gunnar
PS. I get it that there will be an upload of the presentations by the organizers and maybe some report of the results some time later. Those may or may not be linked from this post.