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But Maybe a bit more + hand holding or other infrastructure would work. + <br> + <br> + For example, when I joined the packaging team I was welcomed with + open arms, given a mentor, and several places to go to ask + questions. It was in a word, friggin sweet (ok that's 2 words)! + <br> + <br> + My point in all of this is I'd love to see something that gives + the average user an "foot in the door" to working within Mageia. + As much as I hate to admit it, this is one thing Ubuntu and to a + lesser extent Fedora do very well. + <br> + <br> + This is the total brainstorming part but maybe it will get the + ball rolling. Why not a mageia-users team/council seat? Marketing + of the viral kind would be amazing for us, and who better to do + that than excited and enthusiastic users? I'm not talking any pay + for membership thing, but for a user to say, my application was + accepted to the mageia-users team means something to many people. + I don't pretend that any of these ideas are particularly good, but + just some thinking I've been doing about bridging the gap between + dev/teams/ and community. + <br> + <br> + I'd love to hear ideas and thoughts on this. With Mga 2 coming up, + I'd love to see us making a splash with something more than just + download and visit the forum once in awhile. + <br> + </blockquote> + <br> + <style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { }</style> + <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I agree and really everyone who uses + Mageia + is part of the community.<br> + <br> + 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.<br> + <br> + 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.<br> + <br> + 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.<br> + <br> + 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 :). <br> + <br> + 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. <br> + </p> + <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">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.<br> + </p> + <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Someone could make + tutorial videos for doing things with Mageia just for fun for + example + and not be on any official team for Mageia.<br> + <br> + 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.<br> + <br> + 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> + <br> + <br> + 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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://identi.ca/group/mageia">http://identi.ca/group/mageia</a><br> + <br> + Really + everyone who uses Mageia is part of the world wide users community + :).<br> + <br> + From Sebastian sebsebseb<br> + </p> + </body> +</html> |