I think giving the “branding” to the communertys who run the instances is the right aproch. CURRENTLY, most of the codebase have strong, dominant project branding all over them. Yes you can mediate this by putting a lot of work into theming and the are ways to customize this to an extent, that each project douse in their own complex ways.
BUT up front project BRANDING is dominant in the codebase themselves and all our conversations around people using these codebases… this is obviously VERY crap from a user/group/community prospective.
This is pushed in a number of ways:
- common-sense ego of the coders
- this is "common-sense in the #NGO and #dotcons world
- funders push this as a form of sustainability, which it’s not, only use creates this.
- more… please add in the comments