Re: [Debconf-team] propostal web watch debconf11 with html5
What I didn't agree is having Twitter #debconf11 hashtag, I don't care
about Facebook or anything else.
Adnan
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 02:58 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>> It is fine if people use facebook/twitter/flickr/youtube/whatever to
>> promote DebConf. If it is clear they are doing it on their own, it is
>> NOT DebConf (or Debian) doing it.
>>
>> But our website should NOT ever include a non-free service. Either there
>> is a free one, then link/use that, or DebConf provides its own. One of
>> the two. If none works, then leave a feature out of the website.
>>
>> (That also includes any kind of JS or whatever which might be
>> included. Either we legally can distribute it, or we should not have it)
>>
>> Sorry, but we are a free conference, promoting free and open - not
>> closed-source stuff.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with Joerg here.
>
> Debian is about freedom. There is already more than enough pressure on
> people to submit to joining centralized, non-free, corporate gatekeepers
> of culture and communications. We should make sure that our work does
> not encourage or support this kind of behavior.
>
> --dkg
>
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