[Ambassadors] Fedora Local Language Spins

Max Spevack mspevack at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 15:22:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:

>> (1) Getting kickstart files that are approved, have good package 
>> sets, and are updated for the current Fedora release for each event 
>> that we go to on the Fedora Events wiki page.  Consistency here is 
>> very important. I think we should use the work that Rahul has already 
>> been doing, and simply expand it out to French, German, Spanish, 
>> Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, etc. etc.
>>
>> (2) Having a central location where we inventory those spins -- 
>> critically important.
>>
>> (3) For the large events, mass-producing LiveCDs with those spins.
>>
>> (4) Having those spins locally on machines at the events so that we 
>> can take people's USB keys and turn them into localized Fedora 
>> LiveUSBs.
>
> (5) Having long term storage plans for the spins + the sources used to 
> create the spins
>
> (6) Having enough QA heads to wrap around all these new spins that 
> will be popping up of mixed package sets / ages

Indeed.  In fact, I believe those are some of the things that Rahul is 
taking into consideration in his "so you want to make a localized spin 
of Fedora" walkthrough/process document.

--Max




More information about the Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list