On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 03:20:35AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > Ana has also been helping out some today, and identified about 27 of > ~200 sponsored attendees whom she could find no sign of free software > community related work on the internet - and yes, this is being very > broad. She also consulted with others who know of the free software > community to ensure that we didn't miss people involved but we just > don't know about, but we'd definitely want to do more of this > checking.
As I said before, I think it's a mistake to exclude people who don't yet have pre-existing signs on the internet of being visibly involved in the free software community but who can articulate a reason for wanting to attend that's plausibly related to the conference instead of the location. Most $tourists won't be able to do that usefully, and the number who can is small enough that it's a reasonable price to pay for the many probable new contributors who will show up to the first US debconf ever. (I know someone personally who is a Debian/FOSS user and is coming and yet doesn't show any Debian/FOSS involvement over the first 5 or 6 pages of Google results. I can give his name off-list if you care.) This is not to say we shouldn't ask for the brief explanation as I described, or even that we shouldn't apply it if it becomes financially necessary, but only that your/Ana's criteria are too narrow. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
