On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 02:10:10 -0400 Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > My name is Louis-Philippe and I'm part of the orga team for DebConf, > the annual Debian conference. > > DebConf18 is in Taiwan this year and will take place from July 29th to > August 5th 2018. We would like someone from LWN to cover the > conference. > > I previously talked with Antoine Beaupré about this, as he is an LWN > author and long time Debian Developper. Sadly, his plans changed and > he cannot make it to Taiwan for the conference anymore. > > We have a press budget of 500 USD to help finance a plane ticket and > we can offer accommodation in a shared dorm on premise and 3 meals > for the duration of the conference. > > Could you ask your authors if anyone is interested in covering > DebConf18? Ideally, we would prefer if the author is already part of > the Debian community, but this is not a hard requirement. > > More information on the conference can be found on our website [1] and > on our wiki [2]. > > Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions. > > Thanks in advance, > > [1] https://debconf18.debconf.org/ > [2] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18 > It doesn't look like we will be able to get anyone to come to DebConf this year. It really is a shame Antoine can't go. -- Rebecca Sobol [email protected] LWN.net
