[fab] Legal contact policy and incentives for contributors

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 00:00 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
>  From a long ongoing discussion in 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-July/msg00304.html, 
> a few things came up that needs to be addressed better. I have already 
> send in a mail about improving the integration of Fedora directory server.
> 
> For legal issues, we have had Greg Dek acting as our counsel gateway for 
> a while now. Considering the number of issues that popup (package 
> license approvals, patent concerns, logo, trademark & brand guidelines 
> etc etc), having a single person acting as a gateway might not be the 
> best approach here and since the primary Red Hat counsel is already in 
> this list, we might consider sending a mail to this list for addressing 
> their legal concerns regarding Fedora for issues that can be address in 
> a public list and let Greg Dek handle anything more sensitive off list. 
> If we have consensus, lets make this our new policy.

Umm - Is Greg on board with this? :)


> Another thing that came up is incentives for long term contributors. 
> Thorsten has suggested a few items - A Pen, Sticker, T-Shirt, LWN 
> subscription etc. I think all of our Fedora contributors or alteast our 
> active ambassadors need to be send a bunch of free media kits for them 
> to distribute whenever a new general release of Fedora is out.

ooo - lwn subscriptions. Oh - but I already have one, damn, so I guess I
don't need another one. :)

-sv