What I didn't agree is having Twitter #debconf11 hashtag, I don't care about Facebook or anything else.
Adnan On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > On 05/12/2011 02:58 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> It is fine if people use facebook/twitter/flickr/youtube/whatever to >> promote DebConf. If it is clear they are doing it on their own, it is >> NOT DebConf (or Debian) doing it. >> >> But our website should NOT ever include a non-free service. Either there >> is a free one, then link/use that, or DebConf provides its own. One of >> the two. If none works, then leave a feature out of the website. >> >> (That also includes any kind of JS or whatever which might be >> included. Either we legally can distribute it, or we should not have it) >> >> Sorry, but we are a free conference, promoting free and open - not >> closed-source stuff. > > I wholeheartedly agree with Joerg here. > > Debian is about freedom. There is already more than enough pressure on > people to submit to joining centralized, non-free, corporate gatekeepers > of culture and communications. We should make sure that our work does > not encourage or support this kind of behavior. > > --dkg > > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > > _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
