[TriLUG] META - Red Hat Censorship?

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Most of the time I'm uncomfortable with such things but given Google's 
motivation and that other folks I approached about a meeting space felt 
the same way...I think we write this one off as a "one off".

Every week orange dominates, we had an Ubuntu talk and we had numerous 
other "not kosher for a red hat internal meeting".  I want to be clear 
that our hosts have been most gracious and we appreciate them.  From 
what I can tell:  NO tech company will EVER let us hold an event that is 
LIKELY a scheme for RECRUITING for ANY other tech company on THEIR 
campus -PERIOD-

-Andy

> Dude, you're way off base.  Consider the following:
> 
> 1) Red Hat is nice enough to sponsor our meetings every month.  They
> don't have to.  We don't pay them.  They just do it because it's nice.
>  It's basically a donation.  Red Hat has every right to say "No,
> thanks."
> 2) This wouldn't have been a regular meeting.  It would have been a
> Google sponsored event complete with schwag, etc.  Google sees this as
> a recruiting opportunity for Lenoir.  Again, Red Hat has every right
> to say "No, thanks."
> 3) Google has essentially dropped the ball on this event, so it looks
> like it's not going to happen anyway.
> 4) Red Hat has no editorial control over our content.  Remember the
> Jeff Waugh meeting?
> 
> MPF


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