Xuropa offers FEL free exhibition space

[Paul W. Frields]

Setting reply-to, we need to track Board issues on the FAB list where
possible.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> 
> Asking Fedora Board's approval to procede.

Snipping to Board-specific area below...  This is a worthy and
interesting project, Chitlesh.

[...snip...]
> Though, with this exhibition strategy, I am obeying all Fedora ground
> rules, I'm requesting again the usage of Fedora trademark to market
> fedora and its packages. Thereby, I also like to precise there will
> only be packages approved and built on our dear koji.

So the trademark is to be used to present a fully 100% Fedora spin, as
approved through the spins process, only on a third-party web site.
Is that correct?

> == Donation feature ==
> 
> Xuropa's cofounder proposes a "donation" paypal feature for which they
> will take a percentage of it. I'm ok with it. My question is, is
> Fedora Board you ok with it ?
> 
> They would then collect funds and wire to "us" 85% of the proceeds
> after expenses (paypal's and hardware and license costs).  This may
> not be very much to start, but it will build over time. However, if we
> are lucky, I guess we will get $100.
> 
> I nominate MaxSpevack to be in charge of all money transaction, since
> he manages Fedora's budget already. IF we do happen to get lucky,
> maybe it would be nice to use "Fedora Scholarship" to get more
> contributors to FEL :)
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship

A couple concerns:

* The donation feature should let people know before they finalize any
payment exactly what percentage is going to Fedora.

* Is it possible that such a donation feature may be more trouble to
track than it's actually worth?  Can we do the site *without* a
donation feature?

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