On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:56 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:04:58AM +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > lb.fedoracommunity.org would be just dandy. After reading the above > > link, my main concern is that it isn't obvious that we can have > > http://lb.fedoracommunity.org point to > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedoracommunity.org/Lebanon. I am > > assuming this is feasible and not against the "we don't provide hosting" > > policy. > > Ah, I had misunderstood that the wiki to which you were referring was > somewhere *other than* Fedora. In fact this may well impact on our > policy regarding fedoracommunity.org. > > One of the major objectives of the fedoracommunity.org domain > structure is to allow communities to build their own content, and not > have that content restricted unnecessarily by official Fedora Project > policies. The use of "fedoracommunity.org" as the domain name helps > to clarify that the subdomains are managed independently and entirely > by Fedora community members. > > To redirect a fedoracommunity.org domain to an official > fedoraproject.org site is technically feasible. But to do that, the > site content would be restricted to only material that can normally be > included on fedoraproject.org sites. This issue is probably something > the Board should discuss: Should we permit a fedoracommunity.org > subdomain to resolve to any official Fedora Project site/page? > > My immediate thoughts are that the fedoracommunity.org subdomain works > best when we get out of a community member's way to provide useful, > localized information for Fedora. The more restrictions we put on its > use, the less useful it becomes. Muddling up the fedoracommunity.org > subdomain concept with the official purposes and policies of the > fedoraproject.org sites is likely to make life more difficult for a > local community that wants to grow its own content. I totally see where you're coming from, and I have no problem not using lb.fc.o until we get our own web site up and running. I just don't have time to set up a web site right now, and I wanted to get the information out there so it's easily accessible. All that to say, I'm ok with whatever way the decision comes down. Jonathan
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