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And some distros might +</I>><i> still work together. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's worth mentioning here that what matters to us is the end-user experience. +</I>><i> It matters more than the technical implementation. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> *** Background *** +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Nearly all distributions are slowly moving towards making it easier to deal +</I>><i> with applications, and get information about those. The Ubuntu Software Center +</I>><i> is a good example of work being done here. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> At the moment, many of us are working in our own corners, while we could +</I>><i> certainly all move much faster if we worked together, especially since we're +</I>><i> all targetting mostly the same result. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We do want content to be provided not just by us, distributors, but also by +</I>><i> the users: their experience with an application can inspire other users to +</I>><i> install it too. +</I>><i> The goals of this meeting is to see what can be put in common and harmonized +</I>><i> between various distributions, from the end-user point of view. +</I>><i> ----- End of quote ----- +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The meeting will occur in Nürnberg, Germany from January 19th to 21st +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We don't know yet what the outcome of this 3-days meeting will be, but it may +</I>><i> be a great opportunity. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For the mageia side, the participants will be : +</I>><i> - Michael Scherer (misc) +</I>><i> - Olivier Thauvin (Nanar), author of Sophie, the cross-distribution RPM +</I>><i> database, +</I>><i> - Samuel Verschelde (Stormi), for the mageia-app-db project. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Best regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I>Great ! + +This sounds like a very good idea, such a move would be great to improve +interaction between distributions and divide the needed effort to +produce for each distribution. + +As far as I’m concerned, I’m sorry the schedule is a bit too tight for +me, I won’t be able to attend this meeting. Besides, the cost of the +ticket won’t make it possible either. + +I’m eager to know what will come out of this meeting, have a good trip ! +:<i>-) +</I> +Regards, +-- +Rémy CLOUARD +() ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail +/\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 230 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110109/50489262/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003350.html">[Mageia-discuss] a cross-distribution meeting about software installers +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3349">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3349">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3349">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3349">[ 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> |