[fedora-websites] #209: use geolocation to pick default ec2 region on getfedora page

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#209: use geolocation to pick default ec2 region on getfedora page
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  Reporter:  mattdm       |      Owner:  webmaster
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  major        |  Milestone:  Fedora 20
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 With F19, the "launch" page doesn't show up until you choose a region. We
 could default to us-east-1, because that's the biggest and most-full
 featured region, but that may come off as a little us-centric. So, what
 about guessing the closest region based on geoip, for the F20 version of
 the page?

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#209: use geolocation to pick default ec2 region on getfedora page
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 Reporter:  mattdm       |       Owner:  webmaster
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  Fedora 20
Component:  General      |  Resolution:
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Changes (by dustymabe):

 * cc: dustymabe@… (added)


Comment:

 This might be good for an initial splash screen page but I think it would
 be great to have a more detailed page for power users who know what they
 are looking for. A good example of this would be http://cloud-
 images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/ . I you know what you are looking for you
 can filter results with the dropdowns at the bottom of the page.

 Trying to find AMIs using datagrepper is painful
 https://apps.fedoraproject.org/datagrepper/raw?category=fedimg

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#209: use geolocation to pick default ec2 region on getfedora page
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 Reporter:  mattdm       |       Owner:  webmaster
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  Fedora 20
Component:  General      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |  Blocked By:
 Blocking:               |
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Comment (by gholms):

 If it's using geo-IP data for the sake of sorting a list differently then
 I think that makes sense.  I very much recommend avoiding using it to
 ''hide'' things, because that wouldn't match up with the way people
use
 AWS, where people are often cognizant of regions and choose more distant
 one for reasons like preexisting resources in other regions, multi-region
 redundancy, and especially pricing.

 Location alone may also not be the best metric.  For instance, São Paulo's
 pricing is so awful that even Brazilians frequently avoid it, so using
 that region as the default for all of South America just because it is
 closer is not necessarily the best choice.  At the moment I can't think of
 an alternative that is strictly objective, though.  :-\

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