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If you need a local guy to go twist Jon Corbets arm, there are plenty of us
within arms/cars reach. I think this would be the best possible outcome.

Although LWN is primarily subscriber funded, realize that many of those
subscribers are corporate subscribers that provide access to all their
employees. Having "corporate subscribers" in addition to the OpenStack
Foundation is probably key.

I'm not privy to their detailed business model, but that's my experience
and present understanding.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Hugh Blemings <hugh at blemings.org> wrote:

> On 6/05/2015 23:34, James Bottomley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 11:54 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>
>>> Hugh Blemings wrote:
>>>
>>>> +2
>>>>
>>>> I think asking LWN if they have the bandwidth and interest to do this
>>>> would be ideal - they've credibility in the Free/Open Source space and a
>>>> proven track record.  Nice people too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> On the bandwidth side, as a regular reader I was under the impression
>>> that they struggled with their load already, but I guess if it comes
>>> with funding that could be an option.
>>>
>>> On the interest side, my past tries to invite them to the OpenStack
>>> Summit so that they could cover it (the way they cover other
>>> conferences) were rejected, so I have doubts in that area as well.
>>>
>>> Anyone having a personal connection that we could leverage to pursue
>>> that option further ?
>>>
>>
>> Sure, be glad to.
>>
>> I've added Jon to the cc list (if his openstack mail sorting scripts
>> operate like mine, that will get his attention).
>>
>> I already had a preliminary discussion with him: lwn.net is interested
>> but would need to hire an extra person to cover the added load.  That
>> makes it quite a big business investment for them.
>>
>
> Excellent - I think Jon and Co. could bring a great deal to the table here
> and if that means finding a way to provide funding that would be effort
> well spent.
>
> Cheers,
> Hugh
>
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