Guidelines for the sites on fedoracommunity.org

[Christopher Meng]

I think that fedora.xx, which xx means country abbreviation.

On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Andrea Veri wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2012, robyduck at fedoraonline.it <javascript:;> 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.
> >
> > I'm open to be an active part in finding new guidelines, if you want.
>
> From what I remember Fedora has never been in favour of granting the
> 'Official' status to a localized community and that caused in a few
> places the following issues:
>
> 1. multiple localized communities got created having the same
>   objectives, target users.
> 2. "wars" between the localized communities of the same country, like
>   it's happening in Italy.
>
> I agree there should be a proposal since leaving things as they are
> now will just weaken the Fedora community at first and as a
> consequence the localized communities themselves.
>
> cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> P.S I explained my position about this already on the past Board's
> elections as you can see at [1], point 1.
>
> [1]
> http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Board_nominations&oldid=238761#Andrea_Veri_.28averi.29
>


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