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

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:25, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:07 PM, vid <vid at svaksha.com> wrote:
> [..]
>> Well, if folks are going to extract financial mileage out of my
>> volunteer time, which I gave in good faith for a "community" event,
>> I'd like them to be upfront about it enabling me to rethink my
>> involvement, et al.
> [..]
>
> Financial is a different thing. That's like making you work for me for free. :)

Unfortunately, floss has come to acquire grey shades of "finance".

> I'm talking about 'brand value'. I for one don't generally like to be
> an anonymous contributer. I'd like it to be on record that I helped

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,
imho. YMMV.

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