Re: [Debconf-team] About microblogging
martin f krafft dijo [Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 08:50:45PM +1300]:
> (...(
> > I'd just prefer to not promise this to sponsors after DC16.
>
> I spoke to a few sponsors about DC15 twittering their engagements
> for the first time and resonance was neutral-to-positive. Those
> companies who themselves are on Twitter thought it was a nice idea,
> and it's in fact quite common in the conference landscape.
>
> Why would we not promise this? It costs us fairly little and it does
> bring visibility. We also promise an ad in a non-free, printed paper
> that costs us fairly little. And none of this means that we endorse
> the media, or that we don't also service users of the Free networks.
Of course they won't object to us giving them more publicity.
Why I don't like them? Because it leads to further merchandification
to what should be official news channels, with interesting (read,
mostly technical) insight. Turning a Debian account into a (yes, very
low volume, but still) ad source does not feel in any way positive to
me.
Of course, sponsors will have their logos on our conferences' web
pages, and of course, they can confirm our pages stay alive longer
than most. That should be a much bigger carrot than a tweet or such.
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