[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding

Fri Sep 24 05:08:00 CEST 2010

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:29:35PM -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
+> 
+> However, we are lucky in that are just at the start of organizing
+> the community and it gives us the luxury of trying to plan a
+> rational growth path for the distro.
+> 
+> Mageia is starting off from the community end of things. We should
+> then be looking at models where communities have grown from that end
+> then. A good example that I can think of is the Moodle application
+> where it started out as a community driven project and its
+> commercial end is now doing quite well. The planning for the
+> commercial end came a little after the Moodle community became
+> popular and the commercial end followed. Their logo and name are
+> quite known now in educational circles, both on the community OSS
+> side and the corporate side. This assures the community a little
+> more financial independence with support coming from the corporate
+> side.
+> 
+> It may be to our benefit to see if some similar growth models could
+> be applied to Mageia.
+
+I think there is a difference between Mageia selling DVD's, access to
+dedicated download mirrors, t-shirts and coffee mugs in order to raise
+some cash to support its operations and running a commercial distro that
+aims to earn money by only offering the commercial deal.
+
+It would be unwise IMHO to focus on getting Mageia as a commercial and
+corporate entity. For one, the people who now have generously donated will
+feel (rightly so I'd say) quite miffed at their donations being used to
+make others a profit.
+
+If this is what Mageia would want, then that should have been part of the
+initial announcement. Uptake, enthusiasm and support would have been
+different in that case though. Should anyone want to operate a Mageia
+based commercial Linux venture, then that is of course for them to decide,
+but Mageia or its board should not be influenced by this or profit
+considerations.
+
+Remco
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