On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:28:49AM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > no, i dont really expect help here I meant that i just send this for information and did not hope for people's votes or suggestions on how to tell them off since the cfp deadline was over already. we had a discussion about this at the irc meeting on monday where it was stated that it was standard procedure for sponsors to ask for a talk slot to present their stuff to the conference attendees. We get these requests every year and sometimes those talks are really good. (like bdale garbee's (from HP) about why HP uses debian and the talk by Dario (from Extremadura) was really an intel talk). Then we accept (or even ask for) them. if they seem far fetched we try to avoid them and usually succeed in both not alianating the sponsor and in still getting some money/goods/booze/drugs. There was a wide variety of oppinions there about how to select talks and deal with sponors and i felt that it would help to provide a recent example of such a "sponsor-asks-for-talk" incident from a known-good company. > > and will try to talk them out of it with reason. > I don't understand anything. I even had more coffee, and I still don't > understand. Can you clarify?
i told them stuff like "we are all familiar with mysql and know how to use it, we are all techies, we are not your target audience for a marketing talk" i also pointed out that a direct link to debian would be important to make the talk relevant for us and asked what that link would be in this case. I tried to be friendly and not repulsive to not drive away a potential sponsor. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
