On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Nayyar Ahmad wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram@fedoraproject.org <mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
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>     JoergSimon wrote:
>      > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 02:20:03 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
>      >
>      >> Should there be some
>      >> of co-branding within the distribution and a prominent hint in other
>      >> places?
>      >> Something like Fedora - Powered by Red Hat/ Sponsored by Red Hat
>     or some
>      >> such.
>      >
>      > -1 from me
>      > Rahul, the 1.April is next week ;-)
>      > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions <- is this not
>     enough?
>
>     A typical Fedora user wouldn't ever see this and the point isn't really
>     credit but continuity from Red Hat Linux. Long term contributors might
>     and people who are actively involved in the linux community will but not
>     regular end users who just use the distribution which is the large
>     majority wouldn't. They will just see the bootup screen and background.
>     Even the website is somewhat a secondary audience but since we have now
>     a start.fp.o home page that is more prominent too.
>
>
> btw, what would be the impact if an ordinary Linux user d'nt know about
> who is the sponsor of the Distro he/she is using?

As I already explained, Fedora releases have a long standing legacy of
Red Hat Linux releases. We are losing long term users and potential
contributors who aren't aware of the transition. There are a number of
sub projects which take advantage of this continuing including EPEL.

there is already too much in media/press about this transition, but if still somebody is unaware of it, Ambassadors should be asked to promote the insight during their promotional work.




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