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On Aug 19, 2012 3:16 PM, Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:
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 believe coverty is/was paid by a branch of the US government to do this in the name of security for key software.
Regards, Martin