Re: Guidelines for the sites on fedoracommunity.org

[Antonio Trande]

2012/5/24 Kévin Raymond <shaiton(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;

>  [CC-ing] the Websites team
>
>  On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:53 AM,  <robyduck(a)fedoraonline.it&gt; wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  > I see that there are some local communities who want to be included to
>  the
>  > same local fedoracommunity.org subdomain, such as Indonesia and now
>  Italy.
>  > I'm directly involved in that issue, as webmaster of fedoraonline.it,
>  the
>  > actual it.fedoracommunity.org and greatest italian community. I think
>  this
>  > could be a problem in the future too, so why not discuss about some
>  > guidelines which helps the local communities but also the website team to
>  > define clearly the state of a community?
>  > I'm thinking about a solution like the Ubuntu communities:
>  > obviously, everyone can create a new local community, but only one
>  community
>  > rappresent the single State. I remember there are regular "tests", which
>  > verify the activity of the local community and if the site is just
>  online.
>  > If the test fails another local community site has the right to take the
>  > place of the precedent one.
>  >
>  > Sharing resources is more efficient than spreading users I think, so it
>  > should be obvious that the goal of the fedoracommunity site is to give
>  the
>  > end user a clearly identified local community.
>  
The idea of "local community" is relative.
The freedom of build a new distro therefore should be considered a try to
divide up the GNU/Linux users ?

The main thing is to assicure yourself that all "local communities"
respect, support, share, spread the fedoraproject values by its
representatives.

>  > I'm open to be an active part in finding new guidelines, if you want.
>  
Robert is too of part to be impartial about this issue.


>  I would add that Legal should not approve trademark license agreement
>  to the unknown if the local community already exist.
>  Example if my neighbor ask to register the greatitalianfedora.it, the
>  request should be rejected if the owner is not involved in the local
>  community.
>  
But they need to understand how the local community works.
>  It's not easy, neither fast.
>
>  At least guidelines would help define  a process and prevent end users
>  to ask for his own website reference…
>  
I agree.



-- 
*Antonio Trande
"Fedora Ambassador"

**mail*: mailto:[e-mail] <sagitter(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
*Homepage*: http://www.fedora-os.org
*Sip Address* : sip:sagitter AT ekiga.net
*Jabber <http://jabber.org/>* :sagitter AT jabber.org
*GPG Key: 19E6DF27*