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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'd help! I'm in Poland, but I'd be interested in helping with any UK +</I>><i> English localisation, and supporting and following UK group +</I>><i> activities - including any marketing, because it's my nearest +</I>><i> English-speaking country and my English is UK English, not US +</I>><i> English. I use a UK keyboard, I use Euros and GBP, I use EN-GB +</I>><i> dictionaries and thesauruses... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> While I agree that a complete repo is a good thing, local user/action +</I>><i> groups make it possible to actually organise a large number of +</I>><i> people, and to receive ideas from them in manageable chunks... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Just an idea... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</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 don't think there is anyway around this. Community and Language based +domain sites will exist as these do also cover cultural and +nationalistic boundaries. Human nature being what it is, we all want to +belong to a piece of where we come from. It just depends on how we view +or define ourselves. + +In a perfect world, the Mageia organisers (core group) would have +pre-registered all important domain names and permutations considered +important to the project. Even if "Mageia (Linux)" is called a +community-based project, you still have to approach it from a "business" +model. Organising the domain situation should be (should have been) top +priority. Coordinating the registration of the localised (country-based) +domains for any internet based endeavour (for-profit or non-profit +organisation) should always figure in the initial planning stages. +However, this would have required a considerable amount of financial +outlay at the onset of the project as well as a great amount of +coordination worldwide with cooperating partners -- you cannot register +a country-based domain unless you are a citizen of that country or you +risk being challenged on your ownership and risk losing your domain. + +It would then be reasonable to say that the Mageia project will need, +after all of its initial organizing, to try to coordinate the +cooperation of language and local websites. Being a community-based +distro, it would be imperative on our parts to lend a hand at helping +the project in this way in a non-discriminating way. That is to say, if +we own a domain that is considered a TLD (top level domain) for this +project, we should coordinate closely with the flag-ship Mageia domain +(<A HREF="http://www.mageia.org">http://www.mageia.org</A>). + +Most of the "mageia" domains and permutations that matter have pretty +well been registered. The ones that mattered were well registered by the +end of the day on Sunday. I would suggest that a further name change in +the near future may be necessary if the coordination under the "Mageia" +banner is too difficult to manage for the project. + +In my opinion, the localised magiea.country domains, should, for now, +point to the main site, unless the localised site requires special +language consideration with an obvious link to the main mageia website. +The main Mageia site should make every effort to support language +translation of important materials and organise language support fora +for the different language groups. This, language support fora, should +then be well coordinated so that a clear path of information makes it +way back up to the Mageia structure for policy making. Making all work +together regardless of language barriers is important. The use of Fora +for the project is important, as for most users today, accessing a +"forums" board is quite easily done and the feeling of belonging to the +group is easily achievable. Mailists and NNTP (Usenet) are a little more +difficult to maintain from a practical view for most users. Making it +easy to participate to the community will attract a larger amount of +users. Let's make it easy for users to join and participate. + +This then leads to the topic of the one overriding official language for +the dissemination of Mageia information. We all know that, in the real +intenational business world, the lingua franca is English. I would +propose English as the unifying language for the site for all involved. +This is not to disparage other languages as contributions could still be +done in the particular fora on the site. The dissemination would then, +of course, have to be done as much as possible in all languages +supported by Mageia. + +Marc Paré +Canada +<A HREF="http://www.mageia.ca">http://www.mageia.ca</A> +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100920/5d665cdc/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000266.html">[Mageia-discuss] UK user community? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000223.html">[Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#293">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#293">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#293">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#293">[ 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> |