On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:35:50AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > > > > Is this idea worth pursuing? > > > > > > It's a neat idea, and I'd sure like to meet my fellow Debianers, but > > > I doubt you'll get anybody to pay for it. > > > > What about Corel? They're getting a /lot/ from Debian (basing their dist > > on it), and while I'm sure they're contributing back to Debian, sponsoring > > such an event would be a wonderful gesture on their part. > > If it costs quite as much as it sounds like it's going to, it would > probably be unreasonable to ask any one source to sponsor the whole thing. > It might be interesting if they wanted to help sponsor it---and perhaps > send a couple of their linux people to the thing as well..
Yes, perhaps it would be a bit unreasonable to ask Corel to send *every* Debian developer somewhere and pay for room and board, etc., I would think that they would be willing to foot at least part of the bill. -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ndn.net/ "As time goes on, my signature gets shorter and shorter..." - me
