On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 03:33:09PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: >> To the larger audience - what are we doing wrong that we're seeing >> several requests each week for a new regional/country/language site, >> independent of the fedoraproject.org site? I was amazed at the list >> in Mo's mockup. I don't feel that directing all our users to dozens >> of different sites is the right approach... Translations and legally >> prohibited content aside, what else is driving this? > > I'm thinking that in fact it's being driven by the *awareness* of the > fedoracommunity.org redesign that Mo is doing. More visibility, and > people suddenly start popping up to say, "Hey, I'd like to get one of > those!" > > What we have to be vigilant about is development of barriers between > the local community and the main Fedora Project. Having local > communities has enabled Fedora to spread around the world. But we do > want to maintain a unified project where everyone, whether they're in > Nicaragua, the Netherlands, or New York, communicates centrally at > some level. I think Matt's question (if it wasn't, feel free to take it as mine) was more like: why are we excluding the possibility of offering few common hosted services for local communities so they all need to reinvent their own wheel? For example, I followed the discussion about forming the "official" fedora-it community and the requirements were: a mailing list, a wiki, some form of CMS and a forum. I guess most other local communities could use more or less the same tools. Fedora already run all of those services (save the forum, but the drupal plugin Mo found lately [1] looks like a commpelling replacement IMHO) and I don't think I need to list the benefits of offering a common set of tools, readily usable and secured by default. Of course I can't dismiss the additional load this would add on infrastructure and a lot of (possibly very important) details are missing, but again, I'd like to hear some convincing reason why we can't offer this kind of service. Cheers G. [1] http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/post-f13-fedora-design-team-status-and-first-meeting/ -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board