External websites and Fedora's Foundations

[Rex Dieter]

On 04/11/2014 09:01 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> ... Therefore, I'd like to appeal
>> to our Friends foundation. I hope we can find a middle ground instead of
>> staking out extreme positions.
>
> Coming to the middle, I'd like to suggest what I suggested in yesterday's meeting (which was completely ignored).
>
> Gnome could use a menu in the 'All Settings' menu that would allow users to add their own links as well as add some predefined links (such as Google apps and Facebook).  These would be disabled by default but the user could easily activate them and include them on their system.

It wasn't ignored. In fact, that was close to what I had suggested too, 
and I was (and am) in favor of it.  However, it seemed us 2 were the 
only ones in favor it, and at least 2 explicitly mentioning being 
against that (iirc)


In the spirit of Matthew's post, something that I appealed for in the 
meeting was that each board member try to outline as best the could what 
positions they could support as well as those they could not.  Given 
something like that, one can try to formulate something that has a 
chance of getting some semblance of consensus support/approval.  Worst 
case, it would help identify that there is not any potential to reach a 
consensus.

-- Rex