Fedora's LWN subscription

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 11.03.2009 16:30, Max Spevack wrote:
 > [...]
> 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?

Just wondering: What about the opposite direction? E.g. people that 
still log into their Fedora-sponsored lwn.net account but stopped to log 
in/contributing to Fedora?

CU
knurd