Re: [Debconf-team] Inviting certain people, Mitnick
Adnan Hodzic dijo [Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:40:29PM +0100]:
> Hey,
Hai!
> As we discussed on our last meeting, I mentioned inviting certain
> people to participate on DebConf11, have a lecture or whatever. All of
> this is to "exploit" whole event so we could get more interest and
> basically introduce ~60million users to this Debian. Also we discussed
> that this would be more of a mention/notification rather then
> invitation. My initial idea was to invite Stallman, after discussed
> this it turned out he's really not a person to invite. Mostly because
> it could stray attention from original idea, and would more harm whole
> event rather then help it.
Umh... I still don't like the idea. DebConf is not meant to attract
attention - Of course, the sponsors (in this case, the government)
want DebConf to be a media hit, as they profit from it... but we want
to be able to work! :) And to have many presentations on interesting
topics nobody outside our very select group would be excited about at
all.
> But another person I was thinking we could notify/invite/whatever
> would be Kevin Mitnick. Only thing we could debate over is would be
> probably "what does he have to do with Debian, or DebConf"? Right now
> I don't have a lot of clue, except the fact that government would
> probably like if we're bringing someone like him, regarding security
> of course. And because then this whole event could be exposed through
> media even more of course.
_If_ the Bosnian gov't wants to fly somebody in (given Holger's mail,
I am basically sure it will not be Mitnick) and give a talk during
DebianDay or something, it should be made with separate funds. I
oppose using DebConf money for bringing in a Debian-unrelated keynote
speaker. We have enough keynote-speaker material in our group, if
that's what you need... Or if you want to push for a politically
recognizable figure, many people are active in Central Europe, much
probably with easier conditions than the people you have suggested.
Still, from a purely DebConf perspective, I'd much prefer not having
to bring in externals.
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