On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:58 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 9:45 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Honestly, I stand by what I thought at the time -- branding the > > Directory Server as Fedora wasn't the best idea. It's somewhat (but not > > really, because DS has a pretty low awareness level) confused the > > "Fedora as an OS" message. I think it's also had a negative impact on > > FDS being included in other distros, although that's harder to verify. > > > > Also, given Fedora's trademark guidelines, it's a little funky having > > some random software project named Fedora Foo. I'm not really sure how > > it starts to factor in when people start patching, etc. > > Is there another namespace...non-trademarked space..that we can > suggest people use for this sort of thing? Not that I know of. And therein lies the problem. Product naming is Hard (tm). [snip] > Perhaps its a simple as requiring projects have a existing brand > neutral project name, but we allow them to use a tag like: > "Brought to you by the Fedora project", or "A Fedora Project snafu" *shrug* if someone wants to point out that the project is hosted/supported/driven forward by work within Fedora, that's fine, but I'm not sure what a "brought to you by Fedora" really brings. But I could just be missing something Jeremy _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
