Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2014-03-05)

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 03/06/2014 03:11 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 03/06/2014 03:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> I certainly did file a complaint against generic-logos which
>>> has a similar problem with Fedora Board which in turn dismissed
>>> my concern and failed to answer my follow up question and I
>>> gave up on it.  That is of course artwork that Fedora itself is
>>> upstream of rather than merely something we package.  One would
>>> hope that the new standard applies to concerns outside of U.S
>>> as well.
> 
>> That's the crux of the issue, "offensive" is really interpreted
>> as "offensive to people in the USA". That just does not make
>> sense for a worldwide distribution, nor even for an
>> international company.
> 
> 
> This statement is blatantly false. Brought to our attention, FESCo 
> would treat similar instances the same way worldwide. I don't want
> to start listing marginalized groups in Europe, Asia and Africa
> (that might be offensive in and of itself), but they exist and
> would be accorded the same courtesy.
> 

(Also Australia, sorry. Not ignored on purpose.) I think I can leave
Antarctica off the list safely, though.
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