Daniel, that's really getting ridiculous. Le mercredi, 5 septembre 2012 13.30:17, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > While I understand all of your points, I also think we should look at it > from the other side: > > - Company A chooses to hire DDs, let them attend DebConf on work time, > maybe even pay their travel bill > - Company B hires developers to work on Linux, doesn't share any code > with the community, gives the developers no travel allowances unless > they can prove the event is `unavoidable' or `essential' for the business > > I've worked for both types of company A and company B. I've also worked > for a company B that was exploring the idea of becoming a company A. > Should it be encouraged? Should we give such companies a `nod', even if > it is just a little one?
While company A might sponsor DebConf, Company B isn't likely to. It's not Debconf's job to teach "B" companies what benefits they can get by becoming "A", especially not this way. Getting _less_ money from the only companies that _do_ give us money (because they are nice "A" companies) is getting us into a big freaking wall and won't magically transform any "B" companies ("we'll become A because we can get a discount on a DebConf sponsoring bill"). What we need to organise DebConf is "more money, from more sponsors", not "less money overall". OdyX _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team