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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/07/2014 11:53 AM, drago01 wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> On 03/06/2014 09:11 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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>>> On 03/06/2014 03:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
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>>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> And I consider this to be blatantly naive. You will always find somebody who
>> complains about something and you will always find situations, which were
>> things are far from being clear.
>>
>> Just consider the "F20 swastika background" and a Fedora release once having
>> been called "Werewulf". As a German, both incidents caused me to "raise an
>> eye-brow", but weren't worth it to make a fuzz about.
>>
>> That said, it would seem common sense to me for FESCO to have contacted some
>> official representative of the "American Indian People" or the "Cherokee
>> Nation/People" and ask for their opinion.
>>
>> Did this happen? What did these representatives say?
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681339#c31

OK, that's better than nothing, but this still is just one individual's 
position and is far from being an official position.

Ralf