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

[Björn Persson]

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

Now the Polynesians are feeling left out because you didn't say
"Oceania". ;-þ

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Björn Persson
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