[fab] fedora in brazil
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Apr 20 15:49:48 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:37 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> o They are setting up a huge mount of local infrastructure to do CD
> distribution inside of the country. They have a form set up so you can
> request a CD and the person that's closest to you puts it in the mail.
> The local mail here is apparently slow at times.
>
> http://www.projetofedora.org/
We were going to be hosting it here a while ago - I setup the vhost on
fedoraproject.org and was setting up a wiki instance then something
happened with them getting the name registered - I don't remember all
the details - maybe elliot or greg know. I didn't realize they'd set
something else up. Or maybe I did and I didn't remember.
> o They have no idea what's going on with the board or how Fedora relates
> to Red Hat. For example, there's rumor going around that we're dropping
> KDE completely. Which is of course not true. I explained some of that
> "wanting to get KDE maintained by the KDE community" but I don't think I
> was telling the right people. Not sure if they understood all of that;
> the language barrier was large.
Are they reading the mailing lists? Do they speak english well enough to
be willing to translate the board minutes to Portuguese?
> Oh, and the word "Fedora" in Brazil is very close to the word for
> "skanky." Thought everyone might want to know that.
sounds about right.
-sv
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