Questions about domain

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:42:58PM +0200, Pierros Papadeas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:02:55AM +0200, Efstathios Iosifidis wrote:
> >> Dear Sirs,
> >>
> >> The reason I'm writing to you is because I didn't understand something
> >> on the site.
> >>
> >> First of all I would like to inform you that I'm co-founder of GreekLUG
> >> (http://www.greeklug.gr). We also run a forum http://forum.greeklug.gr
> >> (my user name there is diamond_gr).
> >> Our team, wants to grow the Greek Fedora community. So after a
> >> brainstorming, there was an idea to make a forum under a domain
> >> http://fedora.greeklug.gr. This way we will be able to help users that
> >> do not speak English, to find solutions to their problems.
> >> Since I recently joined the ambassador program, I told the team that I
> >> better ask my mentor if this is legal and my mentor pointed me to
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Local_community_domains . I read it and
> >> didn't understand if our idea is described there. So that is the reason
> >> I write you.
> >> My questions:
> >>
> >> 1. Is it legal to use http://fedora.greeklug.gr? If not then can you
> >> propose us something else?
> >> 2. Is it legal to use the Artwork in the forum (as far as I understood
> >> from what I read there is no problem to use the Artwork)?
> >
> > Efstathios,
> >
> > I would like very much to see additional resources for Fedora
> > Ambassadors and users in Greece.  I am copying this message to
> > Dimitris Glezos and Papadeas Pierros, to ensure we're all working
> > together to achieve that goal.
> >
> > The domain you proposed above does not require special licensing,
> > because it is using the Fedora name *above* the organizational name
> > "greeklug.gr".  As I explained elsewhere, our artwork is CC BY-SA 3.0
> > and it may be reused and remixed freely according to that license.
> > This does not include the Fedora trademarks like the logo, which have
> > specific requirements around their usage.
> 
> Thanks Paul for cc me on that.
> 
> I am hoping this is a misunderstanding on behalf of Efstathios, since
> we already have the fedoraproject.gr and we can work on this.
> 
> We shall resolve this matter locally, as we cannot have our local
> Fedora Community "trapped" inside a local LUG (eg GreekLUG)
> 
> Thanks again for your time

No problem Pierros.  I thought the case might be something like that.
We definitely want to encourage togetherness in the Greek community to
help it grow and collaborate faster and more effectively. 

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