On Thu, May 2, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > IMO, if the costs for attendance were only to cover the cost of doing > the training, then I'd be fine. I assume, however, that ShapeBlue is > hoping to make a little profit from the training. (If I'm wrong, > correct me) While I *love* that it's happening, and I hope that it goes > well, and frankly like companies in our ecosystem to be profitable... > the project itself should not be endorsing commercial ventures. > > Comments / flames?
Here's my thoughts: - Linking to an event in the calendar isn't endorsing so much as informing people it's happening. - Historically, I've put talks, etc., that are tutorials on CloudStack in the events section even when they're part of an event that's paid. (e.g. OSCON) Those events are also for-profit, and the talks are of interest to our community. I see a subtle difference between "this talk is happening at OSCON" and "Acme Cloud Company is doing paid training," but both situations are us pointing to a commercial venture. I am OK with having a line between what's acceptable and not, so long as we're consistent and the line is logical. An open registration event for training (as opposed to an advertisement for in-house training that's not of general interest) seems OK *to me* but I'll go with whatever seems to be consensus. Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier [email protected] Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
