On 05/20/2016 10:44 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote:

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:03 PM, James Bishop <james@jamesbishop.ca
<mailto:james@jamesbishop.ca>> wrote:

    Over the past several weeks, the marketing team has been working on a
    way to publicize "Fedora Affiliates", or projects that are using Fedora
    as part of their work.


I think this idea is fantastic, but I'm a little concerned about the
name "affiliate".  That word is often used to represent a financial
relationship between a company and another person or company who helps
the first company get more sales in exchange for a percentage of the
sale.  Since there's no financial relationship here, might it make sense
to look for a different name to describe the relationship?

-Jared

I think that's a valid concern. An alternative that immediately comes to mind is "Friends of Fedora", but I'm not sure if that's too cliché or if it's been used in the past. It might also make sense to do this to tie it into our Four Foundations too.

Some other alternative names could be...

* Partners (maybe the same problem)
* #FedoraLive (or something similar, insinuating Fedora being "live" in the field)
* #WeAreFedora (taking from #WeAreRedHat a little, empowering people / organizations using Fedora)

Just a few ideas. Let me know if any of these sound better!

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7@gmail.com