[Inpycon] FOSS PyCon (was Re: Post Conference analysis about the performance and future plan)

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:16, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
> <abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> [..]
>>  FOSS is an abused and overused word in India, for conferences.
>>  Some of the more prominent "FOSS" conferences have typically
>>  little to do with contributing back to the foss community, when
>>  compared to the mileage extracted by the organizers out of it,
>>  if you see where I am coming from.
>
> I agree with you in spirit but if someone really puts his
> time/energy/money into a FOSS event, he has a right to extract atleast
> *some* mileage out of it.

Well, if folks are going to extract financial mileage out of my
volunteer time, which I gave in good faith for a "community" event,
I'd like them to be upfront about it enabling me to rethink my
involvement, et al.

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