On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:52:05AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > On 09/07/2010 08:30 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote: > > As I waded through the moderation queues for various email lists this > > morning, I noticed there was a pending announcement on the > > announce-list regarding a Russian Fedora Remix. I rejected the > > announcement (as it the remix contains non-free software), but in > > hindsight, I think this is probably something that we should discuss > > here on the advisory-board list. > > I support your initial assessment. My common-sense-o-meter tells me > announce-list is not a good or proper venue for items containing > non-fedora (ie, non-free) software. Well, there is a difference between non-Fedora, and non-free. Take for instance the regular announcements by the Cooperative Bug Isolation project at University of Wisconsin at Madison. This project uses a repository of add-ons of specially instrumented software for Fedora, all completely free as in freedom. (There's more information about the project at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/ if you want to read more.) This type of projects is, at worst, not detrimental to Fedora. I'd say it's actually a great use of our remixability, and aims at making free software better. Shouldn't we encourage that kind of project through our announcement list? I agree it's counterproductive for us to announce projects that don't adhere to Fedora's stated mission and principles. I think there are projects well-aligned and associated with Fedora that ought to have some ability to reach our users. The questions I'd personally ask before approving an announcement that is not purely Fedora related would include, "Does this announcement concern exclusively free and open source software?". -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
