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
>