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Perhaps it is easier for some other +</I>>>><i> countries as they already had active Mandriva user communities - I +</I>>>><i> never managed to find one for the UK, so perhaps it never existed! +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Has anybody set up anything for UK Mageia users? If not, would +</I>>>><i> anybody from the UK be prepared to help me to start something? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Could you elaborate on what purpose you see such a group serving? +</I>>><i> Perhaps one never existed for Mandriva is because no one could think +</I>>><i> of a good reason for creating it. :) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> It seems to me that geographically based user groups serve little +</I>>><i> purpose. In contrast to language based user groups which clearly are +</I>>><i> needed, as evidenced by the success of Blogdrake and others. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Jim +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It may be useful to create a mageia-uk structure to promote and regroup +</I>><i> users in all the United Kingdom, but only a website portal then, because the +</I>><i> anglophone forum would be the international one in english. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> There could also be a mageia-us website portal, linking to the same +</I>><i> anglophone wiki and forum. Yet, an independant portal would help informing +</I>><i> local users of local news and events, in addition to the worldwide news and +</I>><i> events. The aim is to help UK and US users to also have local news according +</I>><i> to their territory and be able to organize and avertise about Mageia events +</I>><i> in the UK or the US, and also have some Open Source news form these +</I>><i> territories. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The forum and the wiki that are still in construction (if they are) are +</I>><i> language-dependant. But I think that a website portal can be community +</I>><i> maintained and can be dependant on a territory to be able to offer specific +</I>><i> news and events as well. Non-anglophone countries do have their own portals +</I>><i> and local news and events, I see no reason for UK and US communities to not +</I>><i> have their own, despite linking it to the anglophone/international forum. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Well, that's just an idea... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Skiper. +</I>><i> _______________________________________________ +</I>><i> Mageia-discuss mailing list +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">Mageia-discuss at mageia.org</A> +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss</A> +</I>><i> +</I> +The same would go for India...I'm considering a mageia.in domain and +adding Mageia specific articles in the local languages. Although for +India, we have close to 28 official languages (each with their own +scripts) and of course- English. But it could be manageable with help. + +-Anshul +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000237.html">[Mageia-discuss] UK user community? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000260.html">[Mageia-discuss] UK user community? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#238">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#238">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#238">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#238">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |