On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:17:10AM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [060611 00:03]: > > (Or even, > > IMHO, in whether they should be given travel sponsorship.) > there are very few people who got money purely because they were > presenting. From the top of my head i can only think of one. Why > that person asked for travel sponsorship i cant tell. This goes > into the area of person information and speculation. > otherwise speakers were treated just as normal attendees who > asked for travel support and who got a priority treatment because > we wanted to do our part in making sure that they could appear to > deliver their talk. This being part in "making sure the public > part of the conference can take place before supporting > individuals". Your assumption of "you get money for speaking" is > not correct. I didn't make any assumptions here, it was Holger who posted suggesting that one of the differences between talks and presentations for next year might be sponsorship. (I assumed that he meant *prioritization* of sponsorship, though he didn't say.) > the question of where to ask for a paper and where not were not > really answered, i felt. Oh, I thought I made my opinion clear that asking for papers is always fine, but that they shouldn't be required. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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