On 04/12/12 15:02, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:01:34PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> It would worry me that it was even considered to accept money from a
> > If these people > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork_Assassins%27_Guild > > would use Debian it is perfectl in line with our social contract. > Thus I can't see a reason why they should not sponsor DebConf. Just to be clear, - debconf sponsorship is not the same as the social contract, because the social contract does not oblige us to promote the users of Debian, whereas sponsorship agreements do involve promotion (including T-shirts that everybody will happily wear for a week) - many countries have laws against advertising by companies that are in controlled industries and this would restrict their impact on DebConf anyway - I've started a discussion within the debconf-sponsors-team about the long term way to deal with these issues. If people have new ideas about it or can provide examples of how it has been solved elsewhere, please post them to us: [email protected] but please avoid attacking individual companies at this stage, if we iterate over all the naughty things certain companies around the world have done, we could fill the list archives very quickly. _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
