On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:07:51 -0500 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/8/29 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> ...snip... > > We have a free software policy, while we continue to revise it, > > google's search engine is clearly against that policy: > > > > > > http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/csi/free-software-policy/en-US/html-single/ > > AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... http://start.fedoraproject.org/ is using > a Google Search Box... YOU DON'T HAVE THE CODE TO PLAY WITH IT OR > ANYTHING... With "Fedora's engine" I'm giving you the chance of > having something more "opensource" and also more specific and useful > for the fedora users... I appreciate that you are working up ideas here to improve things. :) Please do keep that up. However, as others have pointed out, the only reason the start page is using google right now is a old historical accident. We should change it. There was a thread on the advisory board list not long back about doing that... changing it to the front page of fedoraproject.org or some kind of fedora news site. I think exploring those directions would be more productive. Perhaps the websites team could weigh in on what kinds of things would be better than what we have now? I would like to see things like: - Information on how to join fedora. - Info on how to get help with your fedora install. - Important news in the fedora world - Perhaps a view of the current planet feed or something? I don't think a search engine is that usefull as most browsers have a search function, and a boring search engine box will make most people just change the page to something they use more. All just my 2c worth. kevin
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