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+Message-ID: <4FB7E61C.1030709@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:27:40 +0200
+From: Anne Nicolas <ennael1@gmail.com>
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+To: board-private@ml.mageia.org
+Subject: Proposed mail for council people
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+
+Hi there
+
+Here is a draft for council people (not using ML but mailing everybody). 
+Comment? This should be sent tonight so that we have time to work on 
+this properly
+
+Cheers
+
+--------------------
+
+Hi everyone,
+
+I'm mailing here the mail Romain sent to the board yesterday, following 
+last discussions with Mandriva CEO, JM Croset.
+
+=================
+
+so, Anne and me got in a conf call with JM Croset a few minutes ago to 
+get a status.
+
+He announced yesterday (Thursday, May 18) 
+http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/. 
+So several discussions are popping up here and there. Mageia's
+position has been transferred to some people inside Mandriva, among 
+which Peroyvind (see 
+https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?p=18041#p18041 - although he 
+doesn't have the full story it seems).
+
+He will announce early next Monday (22) that Mandriva SA will use Mageia 
+as a tech platform for its business server line, and contribute back. 
+Antoine Ginies (Mandriva engineer in chief for the business server) will 
+get in touch with us to see how we do this technically.
+
+He worries that trolls and discussions may damage Mageia in the coming 
+days (for both news: Mandriva using Mageia as a tech platform for its 
+Business Server line; and Mageia not following Mandriva in its 
+foundation things) because he realizes that... community stuff sometimes 
+goes out of hand; but he reassured us that, whatever is said, he does 
+mean good for everyone; so it's important to play it cool and neutral on 
+our side too.
+
+So, here's a suggested plan:
+
+  * we announce/explicit both news on our side on Monday early morning 
+(CEST) as well, in a single blog post embedding all Mandriva-related news:
+    - on one side, Mageia is not going to join Mandriva foundation 
+project (and why, cold reasons as we gave him),
+    - on the other side, Mandriva is going to use Mageia as tech 
+platform for its business server line (link) and contribute back.
+    - this double news should make it more obvious that things are not 
+so simple as "Mageia is dumping Mandriva" or "Mandriva is rebasing on 
+Mageia".
+
+  * this news being published Monday morning, it leaves two full days to 
+propagate, before we push the Mageia 2 release news (Tuesday evening) - 
+interest about Mageia will have raised a bit in the previous days, and 
+this release news will hide partially the previous news.
+
+===================
+
+It's good news for Mageia as it makes Mageia ecosystem grow up. It will 
+make things clearer for Mageia community now as many things were told 
+about Mandriva future and community. Mageia keeps its own governance and 
+organization which are now working quite well.
+
+So the next step is about communicating on these news. As said by Romain 
+it has to be prepared and be ready very quickly as Mandriva announcement 
+is planned for sunday evening. Mandriva CEO will send us the draft of 
+its own announcement so that we can check we all agree on the content.
+
+So now we have to work on the Mageia blog post which will be published 
+on monday morning:
+https://pad.riseup.net/p/mdv-foundation
+
+
+-- 
+Anne
+http://mageia.org