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SponsorshipSponsorshipPosted May 19, 2011 10:11 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: Sponsorship by fb Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
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
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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
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