John (inode0),

I would like to read the current opinion of *those* in charge of taking care of the brands. Maybe in the past it was too risky to try the blue hat thing, but things have changed. I think a blue hat helps more than harm.

Mathieu,

As we can see from my previous e-mail, the word *Fedora* is internationally recognized as *that* specific type of hat. Regardless of the attempts of other languages to make up a word in that language, the word Fedora remains used and acknowledged.


2013/6/23 Mathieu Bridon <bochecha@fedoraproject.org>
In such a circumstance, wearing a hat would pass as the same thing as wearing some fisherman boots: people wouldn't associate anything special to it, they'd just think it's weird you're wearing that indoors.

It's nonsense to repeat it to you, but I will politely do.
Wearing a red hat will be straight clear for people aware of the company, as much as wearing a blue fedora will be straight clear for people aware of the hat.

If you want to count the number of people who know Red Hat and compare to the number of people who know the name of the hat, I think that more people will know the name of the hat. In a technology event, though, I'm almost sure more people will know the company. However, who are Fedora ambassadors talking to usually? Not really tech people.

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