On 11/08/2016 06:01 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> I'm all for investigating possibilities, especially ones which have no >> performance impact and reach. We should do everything we can, and we >> certainly *do* provides stickers and other Fedora swag. We need to work >> on the contrbutions of the desktop visual appearance to our brand >> identity as well. > > I think that being the best GNOME Workstation distributor would go a long > way towards making Fedora the de facto choice for GNOME use, and that would > likely be more effective than slapping non-upstream logos in places. What I think Matthew and I are trying to say is that this is a very limited and GNOME-centric perspective. Fedora is more than just GNOME. It has to be, otherwise what is the point? You can run GNOME on dozens of other distributions. The value of Fedora is more than "well, it runs a vanilla version of GNOME". Fedora's value is that it's a source both of and for awesome open-source software. We want to encourage people to use and contribute to Fedora because *that's how open-source improves*. Fedora is one of the largest *contributor* distributions in the world and we want to continue to grow that. Part of that means that we have to spend time and effort associating the Fedora brand with "cool new stuff". One of the easiest and most effective ways to do this is by ensuring that whenever you see "cool new stuff" showed off somewhere, there's an easy cue to the viewer that it's being done on Fedora. In another email, I think you misunderstood when I talked about presentations. I don't just mean formal, LibreOffice Impress presentations. I mean when someone spins their laptop around on a table to show you something cool. There should be *some* sort of sensory cue that what you're looking at is Fedora. Like I said: Ubuntu accomplished this by establishing Unity as unique to their platform (for better or worse). If you see someone running Unity, you assume that's an Ubuntu system (even if it actually isn't; Unity *does* run on an a couple other OSes). With vanilla GNOME, all you know is that the user is running GNOME. Might be Debian, might be Fedora, might be something else. That's fine and good to positively associate with GNOME. I love GNOME. But it doesn't help *Fedora*, and we need to do that.
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