On Aug 19, 2012 3:16 PM, Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > On 20.01.2011 02:44, Steve Holden wrote: > > Could we consider offering a complimentary PyCon registration to a > > member of the Coverity team as an encouragement to have someone > > around during the sprints? I am sure that much useful informal > > education would take place, benefiting many sprints, if we enable it > > and just let things happen. > > > > Or would this be seen as favoring one vendor? > > I would see nothing wrong with it, and getting this person in > the conference may allow people to chat in person. Coverity > has offered this free service, and even though they also had > promotion of their product in mind, they actually do demonstrate > a real interest in free software.
I believe coverty is/was paid by a branch of the US government to do this in the name of security for key software. > > Regards, > Martin >
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