Hi
Serious question; Should the Fedora logo be changed?
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120507#news
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The Fedora website provided fairly positive results. Everyone was able
to find an appropriate download link for the Fedora ISOs. Likewise,
people were able to find the documentation to walk them through an
installation without too much trouble. What I found a bit amusing was
that almost a third of the participants thought Fedora was some sort of
Facebook plugin or application instead of a full operating system, due
to the project's logo. This is one of those things people inside the
Linux community would probably never consider, but there's a bit of a
confusion over the brand (apparently) where outsiders are concerned."
Rahul
"The Fedora Project is preparing for the final release of Fedora 17 with
the beta version of their cutting edge distribution. Dubbed Beefy
Miracle, the release of the beta was delayed for three weeks while
further testing and bug fixing was done to meet the stringent
requirements set down by the team.
"This development version brings with it a number of new features and
upgrades, all of them to show off the very latest, and upcoming, open
source software."
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/fedora-17-beta-review-miraculously-beefy/
"The Fedora Project is still trying to clarify its process of naming
major releases, a process that has been met with calls for revision
within the Fedora community.
"To address the problem, Fedora Advisory Board member Toshio Kuratomi is
working to build a new naming process that will avoid some of the
pitfalls of the most-recent naming concerns."
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/276036/fedora-project-naming-n…
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 01:39 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I've put up a wiki page that tries to summarize the answers to the first two
> questions that I've seen circulated on the advisory-board mailing list and a
> link to the only proposal I currently know of (mizmo's proposal to use
> a single theme for all of the new Fedora releases).
I didn't see a link to the wiki page here or elsewhere in the thread so:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Future_Release_Naming
If you are interested please add your name to the list so we can move
forward.
~m
Toshio,
I would be happy to participate in the meetings so I can provide insight
into what may be more or less successful methodologies from a clearance
perspective.
Pam Chestek
On 5/9/2012 4:39 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> At the last Board Meeting, the Board looked at the poll results asking
> whether people felt like continuing to name releases. The results seemed
> to show that many people do like having a name associated with Fedora
> releases. However, the discussion before and after has shown there is
> a desire to improve upon the current method of selecting the names.
>
> The Board decided that it would be worthwhile to come up with a new
> procedure for selecting the name for the Fedora 19 release and beyond to
> attempt to solve some of the issues that have been brought up. The Board
> is looking for volunteers who would like to do two things:
>
> (1) Answer the following questions:
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> * What benefits does the Project get from the current release naming
> process?
> * What changes do people want to see in a revised process?
>
> (2) Come up with at least one proposal and analyze it according to the
> answers to the previous questions.
>
> If anyone is interested in coming to a weekly meeting to work on this,
> please feel free to contact me. If anyone would like to champion this,
> please contact me ASAP so I know whether there is someone else who's going
> to champion this or if I need to lead the effort.
>
> I've put up a wiki page that tries to summarize the answers to the first two
> questions that I've seen circulated on the advisory-board mailing list and a
> link to the only proposal I currently know of (mizmo's proposal to use
> a single theme for all of the new Fedora releases).
>
> Thanks,
> -Toshio
>
>
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On 05/02/2012 05:16 AM, Marius Catu wrote:
> Dear Sir,
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> I contact you on behalf of the company I work for- ALTEX ROMANIA -
> largest systems integrator in Romania. I want to preinstall and
> redistribute Fedora operating system on all our brand new desktop PC and
> notebooks that we produce. Please tell me that we are allowed for doing
> this.
Fedora has guidelines regarding OEM pre-loads of unmodified Fedora software:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#OEM_pre-loads_of_…
Assuming that you are compliant with those guidelines, you may
preinstall and redistribute Fedora on your PCs.
If you have questions, please feel free to direct them to me.
Thanks,
Tom Callaway
Fedora Legal