Le dimanche 19 août 2012 à 21:15 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :
On 20.01.2011 02:44, Steve Holden wrote:
Could we consider offering a complimentary PyCon registration to a member of the Coverity team as an encouragement to have someone around during the sprints? I am sure that much useful informal education would take place, benefiting many sprints, if we enable it and just let things happen.
Or would this be seen as favoring one vendor?
I would see nothing wrong with it, and getting this person in the conference may allow people to chat in person. Coverity has offered this free service, and even though they also had promotion of their product in mind, they actually do demonstrate a real interest in free software.
I don't know where Steve's message was posted (I can't see it in the archives or in my inbox). It seems this would be not only favoring a vendor, but favoring someone who doesn't participate in the community (unless we have a contributor who is also a Coverity employee). And it would favour one (US) Python conference over other non-US conferences, since typically sprints don't get recorded for remote viewing.
Regards
Antoine.
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