On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 16:25 -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > Ian, Karsten, and I were talking earlier today about TOS as a neutral > gathering place where different groups and people came and brought and > talked about their work, and how each group can categorize and keep > track of the things they're doing within the TOS space. > > I'd like to start keeping the Red Hat education strategy stuff I'm > working on as pages on the TOS wiki, and would like to mark them as such > - [[Category:Red Hat]], for instance, and perhaps a wiki page template > with a Shadowman logo and a note at the top that a particular project on > the TOS wiki (for instance, POSSE) is "a Red Hat community service." I > could also see this being useful for other orgs and schools - "Hosted by > OSU" or "an Allegheny project" or "brought to you by Seneca." > > How would people feel about such templates? In suggesting this, I'm > trying to be conscious of both the need for TOS as a whole to remain a > brand-neutral space, and the need for folks to be able to point to their > organization's work *within* that neutral space - would this compromise > be ok? > > If there are no objections in a day or two, we'll try it out and show > folks what it looks like and offer help to other groups who'd like to do > the same.
Hi Mel, I think that what you propose is the opposite of a neutral meeting place. Consider what FreeDesktop.org would look like with such an organization: imagine the pages there each bedecked with "A GNOME Initiative" or "A KDE Community Service" or "An X.org Programme" logo/categorization. fd.o was formed in part to overcome exactly that type of division. Or to think this through another way, wouldn't you (while wearing a Red Hat) feel less comfortable adding significant content to pages under the banner "A Canonical Ltd. Community Service"? I believe that branded content belongs on our own respective sites, whether that of Seneca, Red Hat, Mozilla, Fedora, Canonical, or any other umbrella. We all feel the pressures of branding; one of the main benefits of TOS.o is that I can freely collaborate with others with that pressure minimized. -Chris _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
