Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:28:56PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:05:05AM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > >> So I propose the following policy: > >> > >> *The DPN do not inform about fund raising initiative* > >> > >> The following exception tries to reflect our current usage: > >> > >> Once a year, mentioning the possibility to sponsor Debian (e.g. via its > >> DebConf event) is acceptable (but not mandatory). > >> > >> If we want to make things crystal clear, we could drop the exception: > >> DebConf has other ways to inform about sponsorship (e.g. specific press > >> announcement). > > Le 12/10/2011 22:57, Fernando C. Estrada a écrit : > > > I believe that a message to thank when someone has contributed with a > > donation to Debian is highly appropiate (i.e. hardware donations, > > hosting, mirrors, etc.) > > Sure, it would be rude not to thanks our sponsors, especially if they > contributed to make a Debian event, or any Debian initiative, happen. I > hope that the proposed policy cannot be interpreted as preventing such > thing to be mentioned. If it does, would the following wording be > appropriate (as a complement): “Thanking sponsors who helped in > achieving an item mentioned in the DPN is not considered as a fund > raising initiative”? > > > but ask for donations directly on behalf of > > Debian is something that I disagree. > > So do you think we should even drop the proposed exception? The last > mention of a “fund raising initiative” I found [1] just provides a link > to the DebConf sponsorship page [2]. > > 1: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/05/#dc11 > 2: http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml > > If you believe that even such mention is annoying, we'll drop the exception.
Of course not, Debian as a project encourages the annual Debian Conference, so for me bug #592170 [1] was closed without adding current DebConf delegates [2] to intro/organization [3] (cc'ing debian-www). Regards, [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592170 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg00005.html [3] http://www.debian.org/intro/organization -- Fernando C. Estrada Does she think we just want to sit around painting debian swirls on our toenails? -- Erinn Clark, referring to the Debian-women project
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