Guidelines for the sites on fedoracommunity.org

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Andrea Veri <averi at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> From what I remember Fedora has never been in favour of granting the
> 'Official' status to a localized community

I can see why Fedora as a legal entity can not endorse any local site
to be "Official", but I think it's in Fedora's project best interest
to promote aggregation of local communities over a single website;
IMHO that can be done even without blessing the site with an official
tag, it is enough for the project to refer new users (the the most
likely to be confused by a dozen community sites in the same country)
to a single one. The fedoracommunity.org web site seems best suited to
be the jump point between the official Fedora project and the
independent local websites so the question is how do we pick the site
to be linked from fedoracommunity.org? That's where the guidelines
part comes in.

Of  course, we all know there are times when "forks" are necessary and
healthy so these guidelines should not prevent new Fedora related
websites to born and prosper, but until there is an established and
healthy community web site it should be clear from the beginning that
it will continue to be the one referred from fedoracommunity.org.

Now for the guidelines part, my guess is that it should cover (in no
particular order)
* what constitutes a local community site (services, domain, language, etc)
* how to find existing existing local communities (and encourage joining them)
* how to start a new local community when one is missing or not active
* health check procedure (what activities are expected to happen at
the local level)
* requirements to meet before being listed in fedoracommunity.org

I know it seems quite a bit of work to do, but I'm pretty sure it is
going to pay off in the log term, both in terms of participation to
the project and less headaches for all involved parties...

Cheers

G.

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