[fab] fedora in brazil

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 20 15:52:26 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:49 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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?

There were a post in fedora-list earlier asking if they have the
permission to translate announcements. We might clarify the copyright
license on announcements to allow this.

Rahul




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