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Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] Mentioning Debian on the homepage of our website
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> Facts:
>
>   * Tails owes a lot to Debian.
>   * The Debian word does not appear on our homepage.
>   * Debian is mentioned on our About page of our website, where we
>     also state that Tails is Free Software.
>   * We have a Debian swirl in the banner, that will be replaced by
>     another one based on our new logo at the end of the month.

>
> Lucas, acting as the current Debian Project Leader (please keep him on
> the Cc list) has suggested that we explicitly mention Debian on
> our homepage.


If the boss says so... :)

> I think it would be just fair for us to do so. As a Debian user and
> contributor, I've been annoyed for years to see the Ubuntu website not
> doing this, so I get the point: not mentioning it (while we mention
> e.g. Tor) is somewhat suggesting we're building and maintaining
> a distro from scratch, which is untrue: we're a Debian derivative.
>
> OTOH, I don't think this information is relevant for the usecase of
> people visiting our website for the first time, and reading the
> introductory text. So, I'd rather not see it added to that intro.
>
> How do you feel about mentioning Debian on our homepage *somehow*?


I'm not really knowledgeable about the latest trends in term of website
layout but that could find it place in one of those supersized footer,
no? Along with a bunch of other projects we want to acknowledge and
share mutual benefit. We might be willing to do the same with the Tor
logo for example.

> Implementation-wise, my initial idea was to add a footer with this
> information, and maybe more (e.g. the fact that Tails is Free
> Software). But our doc, web and design folks will likely have better
> ideas :)


With ikiwiki you can have custom templates for some page, so that could
appear on the footer of the homepage only.

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sajolida