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Also, I should note, that the alleged pandering has not helped them much, if at all, so far. -Ross. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Richard, Joel M <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> I feel this whole situation has tainted things somewhat. :( >> > > Let's not blow things out of proportion. The aforementioned > wrong-doing actually seems pretty innocent (there is backstory in the > IRC channel, I'm not going to bring it up here). There is a valid > case for advertising interest in your talks (or location, or t-shirt > design, etc.), especially in an extremely crowded field, and we've > never explicitly set a policy around what is appropriate and what > isn't. I think a simple edit on the part of the "accused" would clear > up any ambiguity of intention. > > Our one "known" incident was handled privately, but didn't really > cause us to address the potential for impropriety. > > We seem to have quite a bit of support for the splash page. If people > will help me draft up the wording -- ideally something we can point to > when we want to guide people in the right direction in other forums -- > I think we can put this issue to bed. > > -Ross.