[fab] slashdot rough draft

[Max Spevack]

> Would be good to point out that the current board is transitioning. We 
> are also moving towards having all the board members being elected 
> members with the exception of the the lead. Also the number of Red Hat 
> vs community members are not set in stone.

Added a line or two about that.

> Might consider pointing out the RPM is a lower level layer and that we 
> are using Yum and graphical interfaces on top for the end user.  We are 
> likely to get silly RPM vs Apt-get comparisons otherwise.

Added a bit about that.

> Worth pointing that Fedora doesnt have any pressure to compete as a 
> commercial product with Vista directly.

I'm not going to put that line in -- perhaps we're not under pressure in 
terms of *sales* to compete with Vista, but that doesn't mean that Fedora 
doesn't compete with MSFT for mindshare, new users, etc.

> Web exploits in IE might more relevant to Firefox compared to viruses.

Yep, made that change.

> We do have a objectives page now at 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives linked from the wiki overview 
> and FAQ.

Used that.  We did work on that page today.

> Link to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions. Also 
> mentioning derivatives like say Planet CCRMA and K12LTSP and that we are 
> working on integrating and coordinating with them, open to others is 
> probably more relevant than CentOS

Done

> RHEL is a subset of Fedora which has packages that Red Hat integrates 
> into a commercial product while the Fedora universe is and can be more 
> much larger.

Added.

> Partially the reason is that Fedora directory server was a proprietary 
> product and needs to be complete Free software and work on Free stack 
> such as GCJ with full functionality before being integrated into Fedora 
> Project.

Not going to add that -- this is long enough, I don't think this detail 
matters particularly.  It sounds like an excuse.

> Its not just the website but the infrastructure such as the I18N one 
> which is taking its time.

got it.

thanks Rahul,
Max