Hi all, By initiative of Paul Wise, recently there has been some talks about inviting a LWN journalist to cover DebConf15, by offering travel and board sponsoring.
LWN is one of the most respected news outlets in the Linux world, they have a strong emphasis on free software, and they are known for the quality and technical depth of their articles. They have not covered DebConf since 2005, and it seems like a good idea to work to have them covering us again. It is a good way to increase exposure and to make the sponsors more happy about giving us money. The LWN people have already said that they would like to cover the conference, and that they have had that pending for a while. They also said that helping cover some of the costs would make it more feasible. To quote Paul: > "(Flock) offered travel sponsorship to LWN > reporters and as a result Flock 2014 had some great coverage. > https://lwn.net/Articles/608426/ > https://lwn.net/Articles/608546/ > https://lwn.net/Articles/608915/ > https://lwn.net/Articles/609048/"; Does this seem like a good idea to the wider orga team? If so, I would then defer this to bursaries and budget team to study the costs and feasibility. Note: this is a public mailing list, so if you have some comments that should not be publicly archived, please reply directly to cha...@debconf.org Tincho. -- Martín Ferrari (Tincho) _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
