On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Colin Charles wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:51 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > David Barzilay wrote: > > > http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/346.html > > > > Is there any reason why http://www.fedoraproject.org.cn/ look like the > > old and ugly http://www.fedoraproject.org/, instead of the current > > layout? > > >From what I can see, it just links back to the fp.o site. > > Now, I have a few questions: > > 1. was RH ever going to ask/consult/tell us about > fedoraproject.org.cn /before/ its inception? > > I find this lack of communication not positive. I've said this before and I'll say it again: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The fact is that the Chinese organization runs, as near as I can tell, completely autonomously. They wanted to have a local mirror, so they created one. It's not the prettiest thing in the world, to be sure, but it does the job -- by (a) putting up a local mirror, and (b) linking back to the authoritative content at fp.o with *every other link*. > 2. Is the content there going to be localised? Last I checked, RH > Beijing was hiring ~80 staff (earlier this year), so how important is > RHEL/Fedora there? We're trying to get in touch with the Chinese folks to understand what their plans are. > 3. Competition from Sun Wah Linux and Red Flag linux (I think they're > now a fedora/chinese spinoff) is rife. Thoughts? My first thought is that we need a Chinese CMC. --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
