{"id":2836,"date":"2011-05-30T11:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2011-05-30T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:11:46","slug":"foss-sthlm-the-sixth-the-controversial-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/foss-sthlm-the-sixth-the-controversial-one\/","title":{"rendered":"foss-sthlm, the sixth, the controversial one"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m happy to say that I was the main planner and organizer of yet another foss-sthlm meetup, the sixth<\/a>. Last week we attracted about one hundred eager FOSS hackers to attend to this meeting to which I had found and cooperated a somewhat controversial sponsor.<\/p>\n

We have had a discussion within foss-sthlm<\/a> now due to this event’s sponsor: what kinds of companies are acceptable as sponsor for FOSS events and what are not? It is obvious that we have a lot of different opinions here and several people have expressed that they deliberately didn’t go to meetup #6 simply because of the sponsor’s involvement and relationship to the Swedish defence industry. Do you think a defence manufacturer\u00c2\u00a0or weapon systems creator can also have its good sides and sponsor good activities or should we distance ourselves from them?<\/p>\n

I’m honestly still interested in more opinions on this. We have not<\/em> formed a policy around this subject because I simply don’t think that’s a good idea. We’re not a formal organization and we all have our different views. I think we have our members hand around and participate as long as we stay within a reasonable “boundary”. If we would get involved with the wrong kind of companies, a larger portion of the group would\u00c2\u00a0boycott\u00c2\u00a0the meeting or just plainly leave foss-sthlm. But why would we ever? I’m the one who’s mostly been in touch with sponsors and I would certainly not get involved and ask for money from companies that I believe have crossed the magic line in the sand.<\/p>\n

The meeting was perhaps the most techy and most advanced of them all so far, and I found the talks very inspiring and educating. I’ve not had time or energy to put up a page with pictures or descriptions of them, and I think I’ll just skip it. You should probably try harder to attend next time instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m happy to say that I was the main planner and organizer of yet another foss-sthlm meetup, the sixth. Last week we attracted about one hundred eager FOSS hackers to attend to this meeting to which I had found and cooperated a somewhat controversial sponsor. We have had a discussion within foss-sthlm now due to … Continue reading foss-sthlm, the sixth, the controversial one<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[270,19],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floss","tag-foss-sthlm","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}