On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:57AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:16 +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > I don't have an issue with the fact there are sponsors, however I think > > KS is important enough and sponsors are aware of this, that selling > > seats to sponsors shouldn't be necessary. > > So SGI will undertake to step up and sponsor KS this year without a > guaranteed slot?
This only works if everyone gets that treatment. It can work -- look at Eben getting funding for the SFLC with no sponsor representation. However, you might expect sponsors trying to influence selection in other ways -- for example, pushing to have their employees as members of the program committee. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
