Co-branding?

[Nayyar Ahmad]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> Nayyar Ahmad wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram
> > <sundaram at fedoraproject.org <mailto:sundaram at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     JoergSimon wrote:
> >      > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 02:20:03 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> >      >
> >      >> Should there be some
> >      >> of co-branding within the distribution and a prominent hint in
> other
> >      >> places?
> >      >> Something like Fedora - Powered by Red Hat/ Sponsored by Red Hat
> >     or some
> >      >> such.
> >      >
> >      > -1 from me
> >      > Rahul, the 1.April is next week ;-)
> >      > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions <- is this not
> >     enough?
> >
> >     A typical Fedora user wouldn't ever see this and the point isn't
> really
> >     credit but continuity from Red Hat Linux. Long term contributors
> might
> >     and people who are actively involved in the linux community will but
> not
> >     regular end users who just use the distribution which is the large
> >     majority wouldn't. They will just see the bootup screen and
> background.
> >     Even the website is somewhat a secondary audience but since we have
> now
> >     a start.fp.o home page that is more prominent too.
> >
> >
> > btw, what would be the impact if an ordinary Linux user d'nt know about
> > who is the sponsor of the Distro he/she is using?
>
> As I already explained, Fedora releases have a long standing legacy of
> Red Hat Linux releases. We are losing long term users and potential
> contributors who aren't aware of the transition. There are a number of
> sub projects which take advantage of this continuing including EPEL.


there is already too much in media/press about this transition, but if still
somebody is unaware of it, Ambassadors should be asked to promote the
insight during their promotional work.

>
>
> Rahul
>
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