Last I heard someone was going to find the thread that I started (which I can't find) where I asked what should go at the front and end of the videos; given no one came up with an an alternative, that would be considered authorization.
As far as I know, no sponsors paid to have their logo on the video given no one knew that was an option until I offered it. I paid $300 for travel that I was not reimbursed. I let it go as a donation to the cause. If it helps straighten this out, apply it payment for the logo. Of if the videos need to be removed for whatever reason, I will not complain. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Martín Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote: > [I am sending this email to Carl, the fundraising and infra team leads, > fundraising and video team mailing lists, and the DebConf chairs.] > > I presume you are all aware of this, but in case somebody is not, last > year the chairs learned that in many archived DC14 videos, there were > logos from a company that was not a sponsor of DC14 added at the end of > the video, effectively having as much -if not even more- visibility than > logos from companies that were prominent sponsors of the conference. The > company in question happens to be Carl's company. > > This is inadmissible for a range of reasons: this was introduced into > the videos without anybody knowing, it looks very bad if our sponsors > were to find out, and made many people very angry for what they consider > profiting from other people's volunteering. I agree with that sentiment. > > This is a breach of the trust put in Carl by the rest of the organising > team and volunteers. We are all sponsors in a way, as we could be > earning money instead of using our free time to make DebConf and Debian > happen, but nobody else gets the chance to promote their personal > projects with the resources of the conference. > > I know that Carl was asked to remove these logos, and nothing happened. > I believe that the Fundraising and Infrastructure teams were asked to > intervene, as it is in their best interest not to alienate sponsors or > volunteers, but I think that was not conductive either. > > It has recently brought to my attention that the issue was still not > solved, and I consider this situation unacceptable. > > So, with my DebConf Chair hat I kindly ask: > > 1. Carl to remove these logos from any public copies of the DebConf > videos and issue a public apology. > > 2. The Infrastructure and Fundraising team to verify that this issue is > solved within one week from now, that is, February the 16th. > > 3. The Infrastructure team to put offline any videos that are not > compliant by that date, and not bring them back online until the logos > are removed. Then recruit volunteers to do the work inside the > infra/video team. > > Tincho. > > -- > Martín Ferrari (Tincho) > > >
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