fedoraproject.org

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:42 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is fedoraproject.org going to be the new home page for
> fedora instead of fedora.redhat.com. whats the current
> plan regarding managing that website. I would like to
> lin to "community" websites like fedoratracker.org
> fedoranews.org fedorafaq.org fedoraforum.org and so on
> 
> I would enjoy something like redhat magazine
> specifically targetted just for fedora or is that too
> much of a niche?

fedoraproject.org - as a name is registered by stu tomlinson.

the server is at duke. We've been using it for catchall quick one-off
directories, temp locations, clandestine transfers of pre-beta stuff,
etc etc. It's easier to put it there and give people some obscure link
than it is to wait for permission to put things up on a *.redhat.com
site. red hat has all sorts of legal/marketing concerns with  what goes
up on download.fedora.redhat.com and fedora.redhat.com. Those problems
just aren't present on the machine at duke. It's on a very reasonable
connection to the outside world. The machine, while not super-duper
fast, is pretty okay.In short, it's a good spot to put stuff at a
moments notice and we don't have to sift through the red hat legal
constraints to get a change posted.

So I setup the wiki in use at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki. And I set
up the planet implementations at: http://fedoraproject.org/people and
http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/. It's been used for a temp repository
for the x86_64 extras repo that Justin Forbes built. It also has the ppc
fc3 tree that Colin Charles and Paul Nasrat (among others) worked on.
It's just a place to put things quickly. At some point in the future, I
am told, there will be a box at red hat that does some of these things.
And then we'll transfer those services over, possibly the domain. But
that's not up to me. I just take care of sysadmin stuff on the machine
and try to keep it reasonably secure.

fedoraproject.org aka fedora.linux.duke.edu is just a way to let non-red
hat folks(and of course some red hat folks, too) have a place to put
things, easily, that help out misc administrivia. It's a good testing
location for certain web applications and other items.

If you're looking for fedora journalism - you might talk to Thomas Chung
over at fedoranews.org. They've done a reasonably good job at those
items. I think what you might be looking for is something like fedora
weekly news. Colin Charles was doing those excellently for a while but
he's just gotten too busy with other fedora and non-fedora work, I
think. If you're interested in starting them back up, then email him and
talk to him about what it would entail.

Thanks!
-sv