Meeting minutes - 16/09/2005

[Rahul Sundaram]

Stuart Ellis wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 21:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 02:01 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
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>>>>* Logo - First round at: http://www.capstrat.com/development/fedora/.
>>>>Infinite freedom isn't decided as the slogan, but the general consensus
>>>>is that the logo is loved. Concentrate on logo feedback today. Color can
>>>>be fixed later (like Legacy or something)
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>>>>Is the 'f' too subtle? Do we need a name? 
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>>>I think the f is far too subtle. The shirt design in particular will
>>>confuse people. It needs to come with the name wherever possible.
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>>>~spot
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>>Tie it up infinitely with the slogan "Infinite Freedom" would fix that? ;-)
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>I dare you to use that slogan in front of an OpenBSD developer :)
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>More seriously, I think that making "free" or "open" the key word has
>potential issues, because although they are important they aren't
>distinctive attributes of Fedora - other groups have claims on them, and
>attach differing meanings. Arguably they have become buzzwords, outside
>of the communities involved.
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>Three different well-known systems (one is not Linux-based):
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>"a free operating system for your computer"
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>"a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open
>source software"
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>"free, secure, and highly portable open source operating system"
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>The idea of "doing the right thing" has come up recently, and perhaps
>that might be another start point - it encompasses licensing, technical
>aspects and community.
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>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-September/msg00045.html
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Yes. I used that as a slogan in the overview page and it has now been 
copied over to the front page too

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraOverview
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

regards
Rahul