Re: Covering DebConf18 in Taiwan
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 02:10:10 -0400
Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My name is Louis-Philippe and I'm part of the orga team for DebConf,
> the annual Debian conference.
>
> DebConf18 is in Taiwan this year and will take place from July 29th to
> August 5th 2018. We would like someone from LWN to cover the
> conference.
>
> I previously talked with Antoine Beaupré about this, as he is an LWN
> author and long time Debian Developper. Sadly, his plans changed and
> he cannot make it to Taiwan for the conference anymore.
>
> We have a press budget of 500 USD to help finance a plane ticket and
> we can offer accommodation in a shared dorm on premise and 3 meals
> for the duration of the conference.
>
> Could you ask your authors if anyone is interested in covering
> DebConf18? Ideally, we would prefer if the author is already part of
> the Debian community, but this is not a hard requirement.
>
> More information on the conference can be found on our website [1] and
> on our wiki [2].
>
> Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> [1] https://debconf18.debconf.org/
> [2] https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18
>
It doesn't look like we will be able to get anyone to come to DebConf
this year. It really is a shame Antoine can't go.
--
Rebecca Sobol ris@lwn.net LWN.net
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