I wanted to throw out the idea of setting up a spot on the wiki to provide information about distribution of Fedora, particularly expanding upon information for distributors. At current, there are no readily-available guidelines for OEM companies who are interested in distributing Fedora Core. There also isn't much information for companies interested in preparing and selling Fedora in packaged forms. Working for an OEM vendor, I know this kind of thing is sought after. I would like to change things. I propose http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution be used to provide information about obtaining and distributing Fedora Core. I would like it to be a resource for both companies and end users. For companies, it can provide guides and guidelines for the legal distribution of Fedora Core in assorted media formats, including pre-installed systems. For the end user, it can provide information on how to properly obtain, install, or upgrade Fedora Core, including how to find vendors locally or online. It would be nice to provide a page to list local vendors. Currently, the vendor list at f.r.c is limited to online vendors. At least for now, this section would largely be linking to the disparate resources on f.r.c and in the wiki. This section could be linked with the Fedora Marketing Project, and with smaller projects like the LiveCD effort. It could provide a central point to tie these various aspects of Fedora distribution together. It might be nice to back this effort up with a mailing list et al. Providing a framework for vendors to introduce themselves and request listings would be a must. I'd love any feedback on this idea. If there are no real objections, I'd love to get this started. I've sent this message to both fedora-devel-list and fedora-marketing-list to field the opinions of all who this most immediately concerns. For those of you who subscribe to both, I apologize for the duplication. Further discussion should probably be directed at fedora-marketing-list. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx www.n-man.com --
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