I am relatively new to the project but would like to submit this as a comment on co
branding.
Overall co-branding is powerful when a project is on the market and consumers are scared
to test it out. Co-branding gives the consumer a sense of stability by creating a secure
foundation around the product. Basically a new user of Fedora may not be knowledable of
the software and name, but since Red Hat is pretty well known co-branding gives that level
of belief that the product has a great support base and foundation.
However, dont we want Fedora to stand on its own merit and the belief that the very
foundation of this product is the large community of people like us who make this product
work. Co-branding in this case may take away in some aspects from the message we are
trying to put out.
Donnell
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Nayyar Ahmad" <nayyares(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:02:56
To:"For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user
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Subject: Re: Co-branding?
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org
<mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org> > wrote:
JoergSimon wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 02:20:03 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> Should there be some
> of co-branding within the distribution and a prominent hint in other
> places?
> Something like Fedora - Powered by Red Hat/ Sponsored by Red Hat or some
> such.
-1 from me
Rahul, the 1.April is next week ;-)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions
<
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions> <- is this not enough?
A typical Fedora user wouldn't ever see this and the point isn't really
credit but continuity from Red Hat Linux. Long term contributors might
and people who are actively involved in the linux community will but not
regular end users who just use the distribution which is the large
majority wouldn't. They will just see the bootup screen and background.
Even the website is somewhat a secondary audience but since we have now
a start.fp.o home page that is more prominent too.
btw, what would be the impact if an ordinary Linux user d'nt know about who is the
sponsor of the Distro he/she is using?
Rahul
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