Martín Ferrari dijo [Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:37:43PM +0000]: > Hi all, > > By initiative of Paul Wise, recently there has been some talks about > inviting a LWN journalist to cover DebConf15, by offering travel and > board sponsoring. > > LWN is one of the most respected news outlets in the Linux world, they > have a strong emphasis on free software, and they are known for the > quality and technical depth of their articles. > (...) > Does this seem like a good idea to the wider orga team? If so, I would > then defer this to bursaries and budget team to study the costs and > feasibility. > > Note: this is a public mailing list, so if you have some comments that > should not be publicly archived, please reply directly to chairs@debconf.org YES. I have greatly benefited from LWN's coverage of other Linux- and Free Software- related conferences. Not only it gives much more exposure to our work, but it also helps creating a professional-grade chronicle of what we get. IMO, we would win a lot from this. In this case (and re: one of the topics recently discussed in the Content team), I would perfectly see the reason for a LWN staffer to hold one of the "invited" positions. Even more if we can ask them to deliver a talk as well, which given their technical level, is IMO quite likely.
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