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I see a lot of lurkers, +</I>><i> and a decent amount of people who want to join in Mageia but seem to +</I>><i> be a little timid. I think we are attracting many first time +</I>><i> contributors - which is awesome!! But Maybe a bit more hand holding or +</I>><i> other infrastructure would work. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For example, when I joined the packaging team I was welcomed with open +</I>><i> arms, given a mentor, and several places to go to ask questions. It +</I>><i> was in a word, friggin sweet (ok that's 2 words)! +</I>><i> +</I>><i> My point in all of this is I'd love to see something that gives the +</I>><i> average user an "foot in the door" to working within Mageia. As much +</I>><i> as I hate to admit it, this is one thing Ubuntu and to a lesser extent +</I>><i> Fedora do very well. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is the total brainstorming part but maybe it will get the ball +</I>><i> rolling. Why not a mageia-users team/council seat? Marketing of the +</I>><i> viral kind would be amazing for us, and who better to do that than +</I>><i> excited and enthusiastic users? I'm not talking any pay for membership +</I>><i> thing, but for a user to say, my application was accepted to the +</I>><i> mageia-users team means something to many people. I don't pretend that +</I>><i> any of these ideas are particularly good, but just some thinking I've +</I>><i> been doing about bridging the gap between dev/teams/ and community. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'd love to hear ideas and thoughts on this. With Mga 2 coming up, I'd +</I>><i> love to see us making a splash with something more than just download +</I>><i> and visit the forum once in awhile. +</I> +I agree and really everyone who uses Mageia is part of the community. + +There are many ways people can contribute to Mageia without being on an +official team for it. For example when I mentioned IRC cloaks on the +Mageia discuss and marketing mailing lists, I mentioned how someone +should be able to do a lot of Mageia support on IRC and then receive +one. Well when Mageia has the IRC cloaks sorted out with Freenode this is. + +With Ubuntu there's a guy who I assume still helps out a lot in the big +IRC channel, and as far as I know all he did for Ubuntu or mainly, was +IRC support, and as a result of becoming one of the main support people +in the channel, he was able to become a Ubuntu Community Member and get +the IRC cloak for example. + +Another example of contributing to Mageia, but not really as part of an +official team would be what I do with the #mageia-social channel. I +build up the #mageia-social IRC channel, and welcome new users to the +channel, and help keep people interested in the Mageia community. +However really this is done as a team in a way with the other users of +the channel who tend to chat there :), because people in general aren't +likely to stick around for long, if not that much happens in there. + +Someone who uses the channel has even donated money twice to Mageia, and +he doesn't use the distribution at the moment, but he uses the +#mageia-social channel :). + +Mageia can also be mentioned and promoted on podcasts for example by +people, be they on an official team for the project or not. In fact I +went on a podcast for my first time as a guest, to talk about Mageia and +Desktop Linux in general and so on last year, as I was slowly deciding +what I wanted to do for Mageia other than IRC and Identica stuff, before +I joined any official teams. + +Took me quite a while to join any official teams, although I had been +thinking about marketing for a rather long time here and there before I +joined, and talked to Trish on IRC a few times about joining. Plus some +stuff to do with the mailing lists and what email address I would use +before I joined any teams. + +Someone could make tutorial videos for doing things with Mageia just for +fun for example and not be on any official team for Mageia. + +Or someone could type blog posts every now and again about Mageia, +because they like the distro and not be on any official teams for example. + +Someone could also help to build up interest in person in their local +area or country, and not be on any official Magiea teams, yep local +communities. Oh and I suggest watching this video if haven't already +seen it: +<A HREF="http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/Working_with_contributor_communities__round_table_.webm">http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/Working_with_contributor_communities__round_table_.webm</A> + + +Also someone could help to gain interest in Mageia on social networking +sites and not be on any official teams. I did that for a long time +before joining any official teams using Identica, although that was +mainly to make sure news would show in the Mageia group as well, but +still: <A HREF="http://identi.ca/group/mageia">http://identi.ca/group/mageia</A> + +Really everyone who uses Mageia is part of the world wide users +community :). + + From Sebastian sebsebseb + +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-marketing/attachments/20120313/bea2c584/attachment-0001.html> +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000605.html">[Mageia-marketing] Open thoughts for discussion +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000643.html">[Mageia-marketing] Open thoughts for discussion +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#609">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#609">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#609">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#609">[ 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> |