Fwd: A question from the Fedora Foundation
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Wed Jan 18 11:37:43 UTC 2006
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:51:12 -0800
"Michael A. Peters" <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:04 -0500, William Yardley wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:02:36PM -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
> >
> > > Any one else get an email from this email address
> > > (sopwith at redhat.com) asking information regarding willingness to
> > > support a fedora 501c3 in the usa?
> >
> > Yes! I got this as well. Why he couldn't email the list directly, I
> > don't know, but I think this is a pretty inappropriate thing to do
> > (harvesting addresses from the list). My reading of the privacy
> > policy on Red Hat's site is that it doesn't apply to people
> > subscribing to the lists hosted by RH.
>
> I don't think it was that big of a deal.
> Had it been a solicitation for money, I might have objected.
This is a start to ask (beg or service) for money, the key is 'are
you willing to donate money'. If this does happen who would decide
how the money is spent, hmmmmmm.......
>
> It is a pretty important decision that will impact the future of
> fedora, a mail to the list would have resulted in a lot of noise on
> the list as everyone would have replied to the list (and replied to
> replies to the list) - each response being sent to thousands of
> subscribers, and some of the responses may not be suitable for public
> viewing.
An announcement on the list with the survey should have been the
starting point. If this was 'approved' by the 'fedora group', there
could have been a filter added and the reply-to and other headers
changed so the replies are redirected so the list in not polluted .
The change could be noted in the email. Then depending on
the response, the survey could have been sent out to individuals.
>
> Anyway, Fedora is about community involvement - and I'm glad they are
> looking for responses from the community about this decision.
>
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