On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:15 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > I've made two posts on this list in the past couple of days regarding > the rising ACL effort and my concerns about it. > > I *desperately* want this kind of grass-roots enthusiast community > effort. I do NOT want to kill it. But I've learned from Fedora user > groups that allowing any random stranger to start up a group, using our > Trademarks, to promote whatever message comes into their head, is > *going* to bite us in the butt, sooner rather than later. >
I haven't been involved with Fedora in a long while, but there were in early days a real struggle for how to control messaging and who could speak for Fedora, and how events could be handled, etc. Did the community own it or did Red Hat? Fedora had (at least back then) a relatively scalable and self-policing group called the "Ambassadors" that leveraged messaging and collateral provided by the Fedora Marketing Project to talk about Fedora in a unified fashion. There were requirements about prior activity and some barrier to entry to become an Ambassador, but it belonging to that group seems somewhat analogous to membership at the ASF (you had to have been involved in some other aspect of Fedora, you had to demonstrate some knowledge of Fedora's principles, etc) So perhaps being 'sponsored' or 'championed' by a member is the threshold for running an event. Any problems that arise can be policed from there because we know there's a member we can talk to. YMMV - I have no idea the current state of the Ambassador program at Fedora and whether it's considered a success of failure. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
