No, the standard disclaimer is not enough. A session can talk about commercial offerings as long as it adds value. Nobody pays to speak.
People to pay for exhibition space. If we provide poster space to anyone who asks that undermines LFs ability to charge for vendor space and thus undermines the conference Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Claude Warren<mailto:cla...@xenei.com> Sent: 1/13/2015 11:05 AM To: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> Subject: Re: ApacheCon Poster Session? Seems to me that the standard disclaimer for the presentation would be appropriate for the posters. I would suggest adding poster as a submission type and collect the same basic info to make an acceptance determination. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Thanks for stepping up folks. > > I might not like them but I am outnumbered - I like to be proven wrong its > educational :-) > > Please make sure these posters font become advertising for companies. That > will damage sponsorship relations. The easiest route is to say "no company > logo" the slightly more complex route would be to require PMC approval of > posters. > > You will need to coordinate with Angela at the Linux Foundation to ensure > she is comfortable with your proposal. When you have it outlined Rich or I > can introduce you. > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ________________________________ > From: Lewis John Mcgibbney<mailto:lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> > Sent: 1/13/2015 9:27 AM > To: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> > Subject: Re: ApacheCon Poster Session? > > Hi Claude, > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:38 AM, <dev-digest-h...@community.apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > Are you willing to organize this? I've never been much of a fan of poster > > sessions at conferences, but others will strongly disagree with me, I'm > > sure. > > > > Just been at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Fran. Around > 26,000 people there. Also literally thousands of posters. > ApacheCon, for me anyways, has always been a conference in the corridors. I > feel that having posters would only add to this atmosphere and I feel it is > a fantastic idea (sorry Ross :)). > I feel that this is especially suited to the Science and Research track > where people could even reuse posters they have used elsewhere to further > promote their research. > Claude, I am willing to work with you to organize this. > > > > > > It might be a good idea to have these in the hackathon space. Where folks > > from the involved projects are present they could locate themselves near > > the posters. > > > > Great idea Ross. > > > > > > Anyway, it will only happen if someone steps up to organize it. > > > > > Claude and Lewis. We are on it. I think we should make it a casual affair > though and as Ross has stated near to the hackathon rooms. > Thanks > Lewis > -- I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web <http://like-like.xenei.com> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
