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Paris, oct - 2010

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Hello everyone, welcome to the TV set of Open World Forum

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We will now turn to another topic with our

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new guest Anne Nicolas, Hello

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(Anne Nicolas)  Hello

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So you work for a community called Mageia

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Absolutely

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But then there are our listeners are saying

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 "but never heard Mageia speaking, 

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what is it that the promotion of this new thing"

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is a Mageia fork of Mandriva?

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Quite

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It remembers Mandriva,

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Mandriva I had left in my head a time when

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 there were many financial difficulties,

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 it was not well what it was going to give.

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 Tell us a little bit what happened

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and what made you want 

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to create this Mageia fork.

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This fork Mageia came 

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a whole lot of uncertainties that reside in Mandriva, 

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I was myself employed by a subsidiary of Mandriva. 

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It was felt there had been 12 years 

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of tremendous work performed on this distribution 

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and need to sustain this effort

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 and we wanted 

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to abstract from the presence a company 

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that had high and low economic level 

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and we decided to fork, ie 

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resume distribution Mandriva Linux

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one point from a copy simply 

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because the license allows

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and assembling a new project from there and only Community

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within an association 

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and the project is called Mageia.

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So it's very fashionable because ultimately what you have done,

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people from the MySQL community did 

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at the time of acquisition by Oracle,

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 they accepted the takeover by Sun, 

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they have not accepted the takeover by Oracle.

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We learned yesterday that the OpenOffice community 

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was doing the same thing too 

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because they do not agree with the direction of Oracle.

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So finally for those who do not know 

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where all these terms, a Forking 

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is that you can resume the original source code

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and create for the moment exactly the same thing, a true copy?

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Altogether, it does not reinvent the wheel,

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 since I mentioned earlier,

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 we believe many technology integrated 

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with Mandriva Linux,

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 we think it's really a strong point, 

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but it would work differently 

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in the development of future distribution

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Mageia So it'll be a 1901 association therefore non-profit?

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Quite

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built around the community, 

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developers in fact,

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 it is community developers 

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who are members of the association?

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Then the members of the association will overlap

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 with the full scope of that affect people

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 directly or indirectly to a distribution. 

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It will be developers, people who are 

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packaging software, testers translators, 

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but also because today what users. The strength

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 of a distribution is the ability of its community

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users to promote the distribution 

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so they have a part quite predominant and essential 

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in the association.

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So it begs the question

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 why an association?

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 You think today is the best way 

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to work together on a project like this?

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Found that the values of freedom today 

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are that it can be a little demanding 

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on the necessity of sharing 

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the sustainability of the  software, etc.. 

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and given the history and challenges of the time,

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Mandriva has been estimated that a community project 

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was more appropriate and

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the association is only there to regulate 

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the use of resources organization, so yes there is a 

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community project but organized in a lasting way.

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 At the same time we must live,

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 you were employed by a company 

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that working on Mandriva, 

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you may have wanted to find a job and back wages

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Yes, it would be nice.

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It must be that all that great, 

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how is what generates the income fully associative structure?

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 Then the association is one thing, 

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it produces a product that Mageia 

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which is called a distribution.

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We can consider a perfectly

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 commercial structure that will act in the periphery of the association and 

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will based on the distribution called Mageia and 

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will offer a whole lots of service as support,

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 consulting, development, 

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thereby help the company take this product 

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has tremendous community strength 

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and integrate it into its array of solutions it may have.

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So now you're faced with a number of needs,

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urgent first need we will try to answer them all 

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is to make a bit of noise around Mageia 

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because nobody knows.

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Nobody knows the outdoors in the little world of open source.

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I admit that we were very pleasantly surprised 

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by the return because not Mandriva only the present community 

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has reacted to the announcement and acceded 

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but also because people using Mandrake at the time

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 and returning because he believes 

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it is a little more to their expectation that they and their vision 

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of an open source distribution.

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 Be careful what is called the 

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navel syndrome, which that people who know you and 

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you know how difficult it is to ensure that those who do not know 

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you have the reflex to go see Mageia 

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rather because he must say things very clear shot of you

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become a little competition from Mandriva?

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 How is what you do to try to promote this new brand, 

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because it costs money as all that?

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Is finally starting very small 

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since the initiative was made very short time,

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which currently meets extremely well, we had solutions 

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to enable us to host our entire infrastructure, a

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nd we will try to sustain it in companies adhering to the association,

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 and finally it becomes account that there are many users who understand 

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that the Free software is not necessarily free and 

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that I can to support the distribution rather than put a little money 

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every month by example 

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since I know that this money will be used so transparent 

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and maintaining a number of value. 

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We have many returns on that front.

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 And do you think that you will generate enough money eventually 

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pay people who will permanently work

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distribution?

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Immediate not within the Association, 

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cons in a business structure 

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that offer services can be more traditional 

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here we can actually generate income 

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and that income may possibly be

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 used to fund developments

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additional distribution

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Very good transition, is what you have already thought about it

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should evolve within Mageia that it continues to meet required? 

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At the same time Mandriva 

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was in trouble for some time that therefore

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 may be missing a bit of development, 

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is what you want do new things?

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So yes, there are plenty of things we want to do, lots of things.

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Among others, there is a huge strength is the 

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control center, the Linux Control Center 

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and now it's to change,

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the rejuvenate because it's true that it is a little older and then

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why not move towards architectures 

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that are increasingly used as shelves for example, 

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and can also switch to

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openness to services like cloud, etc..

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 so all that they are guidelines

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 that will define in the coming weeks.

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You have a real functioning associations, participatory?

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You will meet regularly?

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While meeting a little bit special as they will because the virtual 

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community Mageia is international, 

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ie, it's a lot in Europe, South America, so 

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in these cases we do can not do real meetings, 

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the fact remains that these are people who are accustomed 

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to working in that way, remote, 

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so yes it will meetings, as each interest group, 

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we will have a board to manage the association 

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to make a strategic decision, 

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especially so many communication, perhaps what we missed.

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Okay, we hope to have made our small contribution, 

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good luck in this project.

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Thank you

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We will continue elsewhere if we want to know more the website is

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mageia.org

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m-a-g-e-i-a

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Anne Nicolas, thank you very much.

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 Thanks