Live Fedora start page proposal

[Rahul Sundaram]

Donald Fischer wrote:

>  * Fedora-tuned search features.  For example, we can make it easy to
> search for Creative Commons licensed content, a feature that should be
> especially interesting and relevant to Fedora users. 

Is this a commercial deal with Creative Commons or just something we are 
doing because our interests are aligned to the extend it is?

>  * Opportunity for ad-subsidized sponsorships.  Fedora's large user
> audience is potentially valuable to web search providers whose
> business is to display contextual text ads next to search results.

Are you thinking of putting ads in the home page itself or just the 
usual ads on search results that we aren't directly involved with?

> We put together a working prototype in order to make the discussion
> concrete, which you can try out here:
> 
>    http://start.fedoraproject.org
> 
> That design and functionality there is definitely not set in stone,
> but gets the basic idea across and would be a serviceable starting
> point for user testing.

The Fedora 7 link should be fedoraproject.org instead of 
fedora.redhat.com FYI

Rahul