[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding

Fri Sep 24 02:04:37 CEST 2010

On Friday 24 Sep 2010 10:50:35 Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2010/9/24 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>:
+> > It may be to our benefit to see if some similar growth models could be
+> > applied to Mageia.
+> 
+> My main reason to applaud the decision to start Mageia and also my
+> main motivation to join this project is the fact that it is community
+> driven and community led. That it is not subject to commercial
+> strategies and/or necessities or even pressure and restraints. I am
+> not interested to face this situation again that some manager tells me
+> what I have to do because of a situation he (or his kind) has created
+> or caused.
+> 
+> If somebody thinks about commercial options I will only agree if these
+> options are under control of the community board, not the other way
+> round, and if this commercial part has a different name and brand.
+> 
+> I've been suffering from this mixture of commercial and half-free and
+> free Mandriva Linux for years, having to correct misunderstandings,
+> unclear descriptions and articles which still today make users at
+> events ask me, "why Mandriva takes money for their distribution while
+> Ubuntu is cost free?".
+> 
+> I don't want that to be repeated with Mageia.
+> 
+> wobo
+
+Now this is really good stuff, we have, between here, the feeling I'm 
+collecting off IRC and the frontpage of mageia.org, the ingredients of a 
+vision and mission statement.
+
+Who do I talk to about setting up a Marketing Mail list
+
+I'll set up a pirate pad in any case.
+
+
+Cheers
+GL
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+Graham Lauder,
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