<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/24 inode0 <<a href="mailto:inode0@gmail.com">inode0@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> In recent days Planet Fedora has been littered with purely partisan political diatribes which project the image of Fedora as if it were an arm of one particular political party in North America. If I want to read the Daily Kos I know where to find it. If I want to read about Fedora activities I would rather not have to wade through and filter out the Daily Kos material on Planet Fedora. Regardless of the associations being projected (it would be equally obnoxious if the posts were of a different persuasion), they seem to me to be presenting an image of this project as something it isn't and I really don't care to be bombarded with discussions about macro economic blame theories or arguments about whether one candidate should be impeached or not on Planet Fedora. While I didn't agree with the board's actions to quash discussion of the GPL on the fedora mailing list I find the incongruity between that and Fedora's willingness to syndicate political rants on Planet Fedora stark. If I as a Fedora ambassador am expected to read Planet Fedora and if Fedora would like me to encourage other ambassadors (and others in general for that matter) to read Planet Fedora I would encourage you to consider facilitating a feed that doesn't contain political messages that are irrelevant to the Fedora project or at least in some way discourage them. These do not in any way promote Fedora and most likely will alienate people from the Fedora project for no good reason. John</blockquote><div> The planet gives a view into the contributors lives, they have a right to say anything they might feel is important. Please do not try to hamper free speech, it is after all one of the cornerstones of Fedora. - David </div></div></div>