[Inpycon] FOSS PyCon (was Re: Post Conference analysis about the performance and future plan)

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:55 PM, vid <vid at svaksha.com> wrote:
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> I dont have strong feelings about getting credit as opposed to my
> volunteer effort being _knowingly_ misused for personal gain. I'll
> explain the "brand value" aspect with my Indian floss experience:
> Members of a privately-controlled-foss--event decide to support a
> "women in linux group" with website hosting but retain control of the
> domain and hosting access for the women's group. While I'd thank them
> for the hosting support ; the unethical aspect, IMPO, is the
> privately-controlled-foss-event-hosts using the
> "I-support-diversity-via-controlling-a-linux-group-for-women" mantra,
> which has tremendous brand value (and hence financial returns today),
> as a means to elevate their status with sponsors. Totally unethical,
[..]

I can see your position.

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~noufal
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