[Aust-NZ] Re: Aust-NZ Digest, Vol 12, Issue 11

Rob Atkinson robatkinson101 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 18:35:28 PDT 2008


I'm happy with this take on the issue.

I'd suggest it would be ideal, but perhaps not practical, to review
proprietary presentations for suitability.  People can always vote with
their feet I suppose, but it still reflects on the organisers IMHO.

Rob

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>   1. Can proprietary products be discussed/promoted at FOSS4G2009?
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> Subject: [Aust-NZ] Can proprietary products be discussed/promoted at
>        FOSS4G2009?
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> While talking up FOSS4G2009 at a recent Australian conference (Qld SSI
> on the Gold Coast) we were asked:
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> "Are proprietary products allowed to be discussed/promoted at FOSS4G?"
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> More specifically:
> * Do we accept presentations about integrating Open Source with
> Proprietary?
> * Do we accept presentations from proprietary vendors about how they can
> integrate with Open Standards/Open Source?
> * Are proprietary vendors allowed to Sponsor the conference?
> * Are proprietary vendors allowed to set up a booth?
> * Are proprietary vendors allowed to participate in an interoperability
> testbed?
>  - To what extent?
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> My take is:
> FOSS4G 2009's theme is "User Driven" and users need to integrate open
> source with proprietary applications.
>
> So presentations and testbeds targeting "Integrating Proprietary with
> Open Source" should be encouraged, Proprietary only is not allowed, and
> at least 75% of the topics should be completely Open Source focused.
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