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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwareMark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwarePosted May 18, 2011 0:47 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by pzb Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
Do you some specific event sponsors you want to call out by name? I'm planning on trying to contact up to 10 different FLOSS ecosystem entities (for-profit and non-profit alike) in my effort to get a sense of what the cultural norm is. Like I said this isn't a witch hunt, I'm genuinely interested in knowing what the current norm is for handling of press access to events and what the sponsoring entities expect in terms of disclosure from journalists.
-jef
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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software Posted May 18, 2011 1:22 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
free access for the press is very common (and the definition of 'press' is pretty slippery in the FOSS world)
providing assistance for press to attend is less common in the FOSS world, if for no other reason than that the budgets tend to be small.
but in the commercial world, high-value give-aways are very common, even to attendees. This is a large part of the reason that many press people end up getting the reputation as shills and I believe that it's a large part of the reason that the traditional press (including many magazines) are of such poor quality.
I can't point at specifics on the commercial side, but if you read the write-ups after just about any major commercial event, it seems pretty obvious.
Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software Posted May 18, 2011 1:30 UTC (Wed) by pzb (subscriber, #656) [Link] I was thinking of events like:
There are tons more, these are just a few that come to mind. I'm not sure if you would call all of these FLOSS ecosystem entities, but all contribute to FLOSS or have large percentages their software running on Linux. Admittedly none of these is really the same as UDS, but Canonical does not run a user conference similar to the above to my knowledge.
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