On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:42 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > Is fedoraproject.org going to be the new home page for > fedora instead of fedora.redhat.com. whats the current > plan regarding managing that website. I would like to > lin to "community" websites like fedoratracker.org > fedoranews.org fedorafaq.org fedoraforum.org and so on > > I would enjoy something like redhat magazine > specifically targetted just for fedora or is that too > much of a niche? fedoraproject.org - as a name is registered by stu tomlinson. the server is at duke. We've been using it for catchall quick one-off directories, temp locations, clandestine transfers of pre-beta stuff, etc etc. It's easier to put it there and give people some obscure link than it is to wait for permission to put things up on a *.redhat.com site. red hat has all sorts of legal/marketing concerns with what goes up on download.fedora.redhat.com and fedora.redhat.com. Those problems just aren't present on the machine at duke. It's on a very reasonable connection to the outside world. The machine, while not super-duper fast, is pretty okay.In short, it's a good spot to put stuff at a moments notice and we don't have to sift through the red hat legal constraints to get a change posted. So I setup the wiki in use at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki. And I set up the planet implementations at: http://fedoraproject.org/people and http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/. It's been used for a temp repository for the x86_64 extras repo that Justin Forbes built. It also has the ppc fc3 tree that Colin Charles and Paul Nasrat (among others) worked on. It's just a place to put things quickly. At some point in the future, I am told, there will be a box at red hat that does some of these things. And then we'll transfer those services over, possibly the domain. But that's not up to me. I just take care of sysadmin stuff on the machine and try to keep it reasonably secure. fedoraproject.org aka fedora.linux.duke.edu is just a way to let non-red hat folks(and of course some red hat folks, too) have a place to put things, easily, that help out misc administrivia. It's a good testing location for certain web applications and other items. If you're looking for fedora journalism - you might talk to Thomas Chung over at fedoranews.org. They've done a reasonably good job at those items. I think what you might be looking for is something like fedora weekly news. Colin Charles was doing those excellently for a while but he's just gotten too busy with other fedora and non-fedora work, I think. If you're interested in starting them back up, then email him and talk to him about what it would entail. Thanks! -sv
