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Perhaps it is easier for +</I>><i> >> some other countries as they already had active Mandriva user +</I>><i> >> communities - I never managed to find one for the UK, so +</I>><i> >> 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> > Could you elaborate on what purpose you see such a group +</I>><i> > serving? Perhaps one never existed for Mandriva is because no +</I>><i> > one could think of a good reason for creating it. :) +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > It seems to me that geographically based user groups serve +</I>><i> > little purpose. In contrast to language based user groups which +</I>><i> > clearly are needed, as evidenced by the success of Blogdrake +</I>><i> > and others. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Jim +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It may be useful to create a mageia-uk structure to promote and +</I>><i> regroup users in all the United Kingdom, but only a website +</I>><i> portal then, because the anglophone forum would be the +</I>><i> international one in english. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> There could also be a mageia-us website portal, linking to the +</I>><i> same anglophone wiki and forum. Yet, an independant portal would +</I>><i> help informing local users of local news and events, in addition +</I>><i> to the worldwide news and events. The aim is to help UK and US +</I>><i> users to also have local news according to their territory and be +</I>><i> able to organize and avertise about Mageia events in the UK or +</I>><i> 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 +</I>><i> are) are language-dependant. But I think that a website portal +</I>><i> can be community maintained and can be dependant on a territory +</I>><i> to be able to offer specific news and events as well. +</I>><i> Non-anglophone countries do have their own portals and local news +</I>><i> and events, I see no reason for UK and US communities to not have +</I>><i> their own, despite linking it to the anglophone/international +</I>><i> forum. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Well, that's just an idea... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Skiper. +</I> +Several reasons why I thought a UK user group would be useful: + +1) The international language of computing is English, but WHICH +English? A UK group could check documentation and make sure that it +is understandable to UK users and does not use words or phrases +which mean one thing in UK English and something completely +different in other varieties of English (the pants/trousers +problem!). + +2) Making it easier to organise a physical presence to promote +Mageia at UK computer/FLOSS/Linux events. + +3) Identifying (and, with any luck, finding some way of fixing) any +problems with interfaces between Mageia and UK-specific devices or +services - for instance, the UK government seems still to be going +ahead with DAB radio while the rest of the world is using something +else. + + +-- +Margot +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +**Otford Ducks Computers** +We teach, you learn... +...and, if you don't do your homework, we set the cat on you! +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000238.html">[Mageia-discuss] UK user community? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000266.html">[Mageia-discuss] UK user community? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#260">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#260">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#260">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#260">[ 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> |