Empowering Fedora sub-communities

[Christian Schaller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora community advisory board" <advisory-board at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 3:14:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Empowering Fedora sub-communities
> 
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 04:58:51AM -0400, Christian Schaller wrote:
> > I actually like this idea a lot, although what I would have us do in such
> > a scenario is make 'Fedora' the output of the Base working group.
> > 
> > And then have any products set themselves up with a new brand and identity
> > and just have a 'powered by Fedora' subline or something like that.
> 
> I think this is an interesting possibility as a final state, and I don't
> think it would be bad for Fedora to go in this direction. However, in the
> big picture right now, I think fragmentation and lack of cohesive
> communication across the project are much bigger issues than individualized
> branding. We have to get that in order, and guarantee that we still feel
> part of a common cause. When we have a solid foundation there, this becomes
> more of a possibility without risk of everything falling apart.

No I do agree, if we can rally around the 3 products as a common cause that would
for sure be the best solution. My suggestion was more in the context of the discussion
of alternative solutions and the risk of things deteriorating until we are back to 
101 things pretending to be a singular thing called 'Fedora' state we where in 
before Fedora.Next

Christian