Fedora's LWN subscription

[bandolerojr91 at yahoo.com]

It seems like a great idea max but maybe you should rinse and repeat it every 4 months. The LWN subscription should be for people willing to dedicate time to the fedora project. Asking for someone to login once out of 4 months cant be that extreme of a request.. Would you all agree??

Thanks,
Joseph Perez
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From: Max Spevack
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Subject: Fedora's LWN subscription

Just over a year ago, we[1] purchased a group subscription to LWN for 75 
accounts.  The purpose of these accounts was to ensure that Fedora 
contributors who might otherwise not have access to LWN's premium 
material would have the ability to access it.

We just renewed the subscription, and this seems like a good time to 
clean it up.

We have been using 73 of the 75 accounts.  Of those 73, there are 18 who 
have not logged in since September 1, 2008 (just over 6 months).

As the administrator of the subscription, I'd like to propose the 
following:

* remove those people's subscriptions, giving us 20 total subscriptions 
free to allocate.

* advertise on Planet and fedora-announce-list to see if there are new 
Fedora folks in the past year who would like a subscription, and 
distribute them.

I'd like to be fair about distribution, so I was thinking to set up a 
wiki page where people could request a subscription, and give it a 
deadline.  Once the deadline hits, have a little lottery if there are 
more requests than there are open subscriptions.

Repeat every 6 months.

Thoughts, comments, or objections?

--Max

[1] The purchase was made from the budget of Red Hat's Community 
Architecture team.

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