[Mageia-discuss] mandrivausers.org

Sun Sep 19 07:24:09 CEST 2010

I do not represent Mageia in anyway. :)
+I completely, and unequivocally represent mandrivausers.org board (MUB)
+(I'm the owner, administrator, founder, etc)
+
+Agreed, whether a community forum is required or not should be discussed
+here (the mailing list) and decided here, by either a) those who do
+represent Mageia, or b) the entire community.
+
+Having said that, I'm happy people like Herman are evangelists of
+mandrivausers :)
+
+The community forum discussion thus far is this:
+I was given direction by a user (tux99) that I should register the name
+mageiausers.org (which I have)
+I then spent a few hours in the IRC channel, and openly offered my support
+of the project.
+The people I spoke to in the channel were overwhelmed with work (surprise
+surprise :) ) so thanked me for my offer, and suggested we could talk more
+in a day or two.
+
+I (as I'm an action based person) have since started discussions on
+mandrivausers about what this means to our community, with all the response
+thus far being positive; all users suggest offering our unfettered support
+is good for both the MUB community, and the developing Mageia Users
+community (MUC ?? :) )
+
+I'd be over the moon if I could help, as would all the MUB people.
+I've got stacks and stacks of infrastructure thanks to osuosl.org (Oregon
+State), which has diminished into nothingness over the last 2 years as
+Mandriva Support has died out.
+
+Thanks Herman, I'll buy you a beer for your enthusiasm if we ever meet :)
+
+Paul Willard.
+A.K.A. TerminalAddict
+
+-----Original Message-----
+From: mageia-discuss-bounces at mageia.org
+[mailto:mageia-discuss-bounces at mageia.org] On Behalf Of Remco Rijnders
+Sent: Sunday, 19 September 2010 5:02 p.m.
+To: Mageia general discussions
+Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] mandrivausers.org
+
+On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:35:14PM -0700, herman wrote:
+> Please sign up at mandrivausers.org and move the discussions there.
+
+Hi Herman,
+
+I feel trying to move discussions away from this mailinglist and on to a
+forum is not in the best interest of this new project. This list was
+specifically created by the project leaders to foster discussion on how the
+new project should operate and how to best interact with the hopefully
+abundant user community. As such, the discussion on having a forum is a good
+one to have here, I just feel that the unilateral creation of such a forum
+might be a bit premature. Perhaps it is more useful to provide a pointer to
+this mailinglist on said existing Mandriva fora.
+
+Just my 2 cents worth. Thanks for your enthusiasm!
+
+Kind regards,
+
+Remco
+
+PS. I do not represent Mageia in any way, other than being an interested
+outsider :-)
+
+