Search Engine Proposal

[Jared K. Smith]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> However, as others have pointed out, the only reason the start page is
> using google right now is a old historical accident. We should change
> it.
>
> There was a thread on the advisory board list not long back about
> doing that... changing it to the front page of fedoraproject.org or
> some kind of fedora news site.

Yes.  The Board has discussed this several times, and the consensus is
to work with the marketing team to try to come up with something that
is more useful than the current start page.

> I think exploring those directions
> would be more productive. Perhaps the websites team could weigh in on
> what kinds of things would be better than what we have now?
>
> I would like to see things like:
>
> - Information on how to join fedora.
> - Info on how to get help with your fedora install.
> - Important news in the fedora world
> - Perhaps a view of the current planet feed or something?

Those are the exact kinds of things we were discussing.

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Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader