[Ambassadors] Legal requirements for the Multi-Desktop Live media

[Jesse Keating]

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On 10/19/2010 04:21 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 19.10.2010, 00:12 -0700 schrieb Jesse Keating:
> 
>> You're just not getting it.  The Fedora Desktop Edition is not a spin.
>> It is not an alternative version of Fedora, it /is/ Fedora.  
> 
> So the spins are not Fedora?

The spins are alternative versions to the default Fedora offering, which
is the Desktop.

> 
> All that remains of the definition is "alternative version". There is a
> default and thus there are alternative versions, but that hardly
> qualifies as a definition. The terms "spin" and "live media" are used
> synonymous all over the Fedora websites.

This is plain wrong.  Just because it is wrong in many places does not
mean it needs to be continued.  In fact we've had spins in the past that
weren't Live media.

> 
>> The spins
>> are the alternative to the Desktop.  A Gnome spin could be an
>> alternative to the Desktop configuration, with a pure gnome setup, using
>> only gnome software, such as epiphany.
> 
> Point taken.
> 
>> Again, the Desktop is not a spin.  People need to stop assuming that
>> Live == Spin.
> 
> I'd like to ask the board members: How many times have you been to an
> event and did booth service there?

I'm not on the board anymore, but I have been to numerous events in
North America where I've done booth duty, well before I worked for RHT.
 I have handed out media since Fedora 1.

> 
> When we distribute Fedora on an event, the FAQ are:
>       * "What is this media?"

I've had that question.

>       * "Why is this media different from the others?"
>       * "What desktop is on this media?"
>       * "Does this media contain all desktops?"
>       * "Can I install KDE from this media too?"

I've never had those.  The most frequent question I get is "what arch is
this media" and that's about it.


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Jesse Keating
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