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SponsorshipSponsorshipPosted May 19, 2011 9:30 UTC (Thu) by fb (subscriber, #53265)In reply to: Sponsorship by corbet Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
> In general we have tended to avoid distribution-specific events (or desktop-project-specific events) because we've always figured that somebody from an opposing camp would complain. We can't possibly attend every distribution's conference, so we normally attend none. Perhaps we need to stick to that in the future.
I personally wish that you would _not_ stick to that in the future. The conference reports are, at least to me, useful and interesting.
Please (*please*) don't let (what I see as) jspaleta "trolling on all things Ubuntu" influence LWN policies and choices. I mean, are we to get less coverage on Ubuntu because jspaleta has nothing better to do than post 50 times in _every_ Ubuntu/Canonical story?
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Sponsorship Posted May 19, 2011 10:11 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
Wow....
And again, I'll re-iterate that I'm not complaining about Jake's attendance at UDS. I'm _not_ asking for some sort of sham "fair and balanced" stupidity for event coverage either. I do not expect LWN to try to be at every possible event to cover all bases and all factions. And like you I don't think they should go out of their way to avoid "camp" specific events either.
I do think its better for all of us in the readership that travel sponsorship is disclosed as a matter of policy. And to Jake's credit he added a sponsorship thank you in the newest weekly edition article summarizing the UDS experience, which more than meets any reasonable sponsorship disclosure request I could ask for as a member of the readership.
It could very well be that we need to find more ways to get press sponsored to attend conference events to raise the profile of working going on in the ecosystem. And I have no problem with that, as long as we make it a cultural norm to disclose sponsorship.
-jef
Sponsorship Posted May 19, 2011 14:07 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] And again, I'll re-iterate... Most of us heard you the first time, even if you for some reason feel that one particular commenter didn't. Please do us all the favor of stating your position once as well as you can, and then sitting out unless you have something to say that an intelligent reader wouldn't be able to figure out on their own from a previous post. (Apologies for the off-topic post.)
Sponsorship Posted May 19, 2011 15:44 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
Nope. I will not restrict myself to a single shot at explaining myself. But I will endeavor to limit myself to two additional attempts to restate a point when I feel something may have been communicated poorly.
-jef
Sponsorship Posted May 19, 2011 14:01 UTC (Thu) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]
Definitely. If possible, try and get LWN folks anywhere you can in terms of conferences and meetups. Lots of really cool developments and ideas come out of them, whether they seem to be distro- or desktop-specific.
Also +1 on not letting jspaleta put you off!
Sponsorship Posted May 20, 2011 18:59 UTC (Fri) by Kluge (guest, #2881) [Link]
jspaleta does occasionally seem a little Ubuntu/Canonical/Shuttleworth obsessed. But IMO his comments on this article have been quite constructive. In fact, he seems determined to give Shuttleworth more benefit of the doubt than the interview implies he should have.
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