On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:14:24AM +0000, robyduck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Stefano Mainardi <stefano@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > >In rif: > >http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2012-May/019610.html > > > >Greetings all, I am Stefano Mainardi, one of the founders of ILDN ( > >http://ildn.net) Italian Linux Distro Network, the first Italian and > >European network dedicated to the major GNU/Linux distributions ( > >http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILDN) > > > >After the birth of the network, in 2004, and the success we decided to give > >life to a nonprofit association that has as main objective > >the dissemination of Free Software in Italy through the portals to the > >major Linux distributions and through development and popular > >participation in events in which we are committed to promoting GNU / Linux > >and Free Software. > >The association was founded in February 2006, So let us encourage our users > >to interact and collaborate with the development and > >translation team of linux distributions and open source projects, always > >with a view to giving our main contribution to the growth > >of Linux and Free Software. > > > >And it is this spirit that we have renewed our commitment with > >Fedoraitalia, one of our network portals with which he lives, that > >because of conflicts with one of its founders, then took another road and > >decided to get out of our network, road which then led to the > >closure. > > > >For about two years around the network ILDN has undergone a major restyling > >both technical and graphical features of our portals, > >and we re-started the promoting work of our association by actively > >participating in various events related to the Free Software, we > >were the media partners of PHP-Day 2012 and Codemotion 2012 and this year > >we are in collaboration with the organization of the Conf-SL ( > >http://www.confsl.org). Events in which both seek to introduce Linux and > >Free Software but also forge partnerships with other organizations and > >community that have our same objectives and ideals. > > > >In the last years, mainly thanks to the collaboration of several Fedora > >ambassador, we decided to create Fedora-it.org, a portal for us in the past > >was certainly very important and we want it to be returned. Obviously we do > >not want to be absolutely required a snub or a war to FOL, that after the > >closing of Fedoraitalia is surely become an important reference point in > >the Fedora italian community. But we wants to be just another place for > >discussion and growth both for Fedora users in Italy and the Fedora Project. > > > >Having the "seal" certification by Fedora is important for us to see us > >recognized a little recognition for the work we do every day, and for the > >community. > > > >Thanks to all > >-- > >[image: TWINBIT logo] <http://twinbit.it/> > > > >Stefano Mainardi > >*Twinbit Founder > >* > >*www*: twinbit.it > >*phone*: 0331 924060 > >*mobile*: (+39) 3895122611 > >*skype*: mainardistefano > >*linkedin*: stefanomainardi <http://www.linkedin.com/in/mainardi> > >*twitter*: @stefanomainardi <http://twitter.com/stefanomainardi> > >*blog*: stefanomainardi.com > > The Fedoraproject doesn't distribute any certifications or seals to > the community sites, but incourage the local communities to share > informations and events, instead of spreading users. > The goal of a local community is to unify the local Fedora users, > giving free and open support, not beeing related to commercial > companies... > It would be nice if the Fedoraproject could count on many strong and > unified local communities rappresentating each one a single country. > Lets try to do so, finding also some guidelines which could help at > the one side the fedoraproject, on the other side the local > communities. Although the Fedora Project doesn't distribute certifications to community sites, the Fedora name is a trademark that must be licensed for use in domain names such as "fedora-it.org." Stefano, you'll want to read the following wiki resources for more information about licensing the Fedora trademarks for use on a community web site: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Noncommercial_and_community_web_sites https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Domain_names https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Local_community_domains This is all separate from the issue of whether the Italian Fedora community finds value in more than one community website. Regardless of the answer to that question, a domain name such as fedora-it.org requires a trademark license agreement. -- 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/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
