Hi, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:41:20PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: [...] > > My feeling here is if folks want to run a raffle, and sponsors are > willing to give > raffleable swag, I don't think it hurts. I know in the not so recent > past companies > have donated laptops/netbooks to DebConf and those were somehow given > to attendees. > > If people want to sleep-in they always can. (Realistically I am not so sure I > buy that this will work as an incentive to get people to come to early slot if > they are night owls anyway , but I think a raffle that doesn't conflict with > talks, can't hurt.) I agree with you here, I may have expressed myself badly. I'm fine with it if the raffle doesn't disturb any official event/space (including hacklabs) and if it doesn't take much energy from the localteam to negociate it with sponsors. Also, I don't like the idea of publicizing the raffle as a motivating factor to attend DC events. I can't find words now to express this, but it sounds to me a kind of legitimation of laziness, DebConf officially tolerating the fact that a small chance to win a random gadget is more motivating to attendees (who're mostly sponsored) than the opportunity to join a presencial discussion relevant for the project. Regards, -- tiago
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