[Mageia-artwork] logos and guidelines for the italian mageia forum

Tue Feb 22 17:51:09 CET 2011

> Hi,
+> 
+> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 17:17, Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it> wrote:
+> > except this, i would like to ask you if it's possible to have the 
+guidelines
+> > and the logos/backgrounds of mageia in order to setup the italian mageia
+> > forum.
+> 
+> Those are not finalized yet, so we can't provide them at this time.
+> Especially, there is no specific guideline yet for the community logo.
+
+ok, when you finished them, if possibile let me know it : )
+> 
+> > i'm planning to do it with the ILDN team, a non-profit organisation that
+> > hosts all the major distro forums for italy and that can provide an 
+excellent
+> > quality work and a good visibility for mageia.  thank you
+> 
+> > PS= i've already heard Romain and he said it's ok, trust about me : )
+> > PPS= the website should look like this www.mandrakeitalia.org
+> 
+> That's a related, but separate issue, but then, we'll assign the
+> "mageia-it" or "mageia-italia" name to this, to designate the local,
+> italian chapter of Mageia community.
+
+ildn has already bought the "mageiaitalia.org" domain, is it ok?
+ 
+> Using this name will imply several things, among others (and that's a
+> draft to design as well) (taking the Italian case here, but valid for
+> other countries as well):
+>  - following artwork and guidelines provided by the artwork team,
+> without altering these without the team validation;
+>  - linking back to http://mageia.org/it/ as for the official
+> Mageia.org Italian website (from there we will link back to mageia-it
+> local resources);
+>  - http://forum.mageia.org/it/ will redirect to your website;
+>  - (btw, would be nice that mageia.it redirects to mageia.org/it if
+> you have a hand on it - the local Italian community url should be
+> http://mageia-it.org/ instead);
+>  - not trying to impersonate the "project as a whole" identity;
+>  - cooperating within the local communities team in the project.
+> 
+> That may sound too strict, but these are important items to keep
+> things square and organized for the future.
+
+this doesn't sound too strict, i agree with you. using the ILDN infrastructure 
+will allow italian community also to join the great platform they provide, i 
+think it's one of the best i've seen so far.. 
+> 
+> Cheers!
+> 
+> Romain
+
+cheers,
+Marcello
+