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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-marketing/2011-March/000180.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-marketing/2011-March/000180.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0d059962d --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-marketing/2011-March/000180.html @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-marketing%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-marketing%5D%20Mageia%20product%20naming/scoping&In-Reply-To=%3C20110316201922.1ac0e214%40andromeda.localdomain%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000179.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000181.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping</H1> + <B>Patricia Fraser</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-marketing%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-marketing%5D%20Mageia%20product%20naming/scoping&In-Reply-To=%3C20110316201922.1ac0e214%40andromeda.localdomain%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping">trish at thefrasers.org + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Mar 16 20:19:22 CET 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000179.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000181.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#180">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#180">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#180">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#180">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Hi, + +I'm conflating answers to package naming and website stuff together, +because I think the two have some cross-over. + +One of the reasons a person new to Mageia will visit the site is to +find out about Mageia and its various flavours/iterations, and +whether they fit the visitor's use case, or appeal to their wish to +join a project. So, whatever we call the "products" <shudder>, we +need to communicate about them really, really effectively. + +><i> Goal of this topic is double: +</I>><i> * study/propose/find a name for the product as such (Mageia? Mageia +</I>><i> something? something?) +</I> +Skirting around this for the moment, except to say that I favour the +style Mageia {flavour} {n}; can our names follow the Mageia-Cauldron +lineage maybe? Alchemy for the one where you have to roll your own +kernel... 8-) I'm afraid I don't find the explication on the wiki +very helpful - are we going to have flavours, for different use +cases, or just what is it we're naming? + +><i> * refine/study/propose/find use cases to confirm existing delivered +</I>><i> products or suggest new ones (new ones may not necessarily be +</I>><i> available for Mageia 1, but will likely be tested just after for the +</I>><i> next run). +</I> +Skirting around his one too, *but*: + +Whatever "products" we have on our list (I hate that word. Can we +find another, less commercial generic term for the various flavours +of Mageia?), something *nobody* does well and we could is: + +- Have a full specifications page on the site for each flavour, + linked from the main list; + - for instance, *why* use the "gamers" or "multimedia" or + "VI Accessible" flavour? What is better about it? What are + the gotchas? What packages do you get on the ISO? What + kernel is in it and what's installed if you just take the + default? What services will run with the default install? + What have we changed in packages from the upstream settings? + etc. etc. etc. + - most of this info should be available from the packagers - + can we ask them to give the comms team a heads-up in some + way when they add/change things, so information on flavour + pages can be updated? +- have a progression from less to more technical/detailed info - links + to package info, for instance, especially the Drak packages and + their derivatives and other Mageia/Mandriva specialist packages - + I've had msec installed for umpty years and I still haven't ever + found decent documentation! +- Include release dates of each Flavour, and links to older versions; + link to the info from the roadmap; make it possible to land on + Flavour info from lots of places including the front page, with + that link right up at the top of the page. +- Link to Forum/ML discussions about particular flavours (if we have + fora/mls dedicated - which we hope we'll get nice and large so we + will 8-)). + +This would add a chunk of data to the website as its currently +envisioned, but it would add a *lot* to the user experience. + +Cheers, + +-- +Trish Fraser, JD9R RQ2D +52.4161N,16.9303E +wo mrt 16 19:57:27 CET 2011 +GNU/Linux 1997-2010 #283226 counter.li.org +andromeda up 2 hour(s), 16 min. +kernel 2.6.33.7-desktop-2mnb +-- +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: signature.asc +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 490 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-marketing/attachments/20110316/ddc717ae/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000179.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000181.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#180">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#180">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#180">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#180">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">More information about the Mageia-marketing +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |