[Mageia-discuss] An introduction from a Marketing guy

Tue Sep 21 16:06:36 CEST 2010

Le 2010-09-21 09:36, Graham Lauder a écrit :
+> This is by way of an introduction and putting my hand up
+> I've been the MarCon (Marketing Contact) for New Zealand for OOo since about
+> 2005 and been around the OOo project since the early days.
+>
+> My original introduction to Linux was Mandrake 8.0 but became a little
+> disenchanted with it around the 10.1 period and I moved to SuSE, however I've
+> always been a fan of many of the features that made it unique.
+>
+> I have long wished for a true community driven, Desktop  RPM distribution that
+> is Simple End-User friendly.  MCC set Mandrake/Mandriva apart for
+> unsophisticated users and I think that forking at this point is great.
+>
+> Obviously my strength is in marketing and training and I'd like to get a
+> Mageia  marketing project of the ground right now, gather together some like
+> minded marketing enthusiasts and take Mageia to a world of new users.
+>
+> A marketing project would be useful to the project at this juncture to create
+> branding, formulate a strategic market plan, source graphic art and build
+> community.
+>
+> If there is general agreement with this proposal, I would then like to request
+> a marketing ML so we can keep the prattling about strategies and branding and
+> logos and all that stuff off the devs list. I have server space available to
+> set up a marketing Wiki and Art repository and for Docs as well if required.
+>
+> Cheers
+> GL
+>
+
+Hi Graham:
+
+You should also join the developper's discussion list on gmane.
+
+mageia-dev:
+http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel
+nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel
+
+mageia-discuss:
+http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.user
+nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.user
+
+Here is a quote from Romain d'Alverny who left this message on that list 
+re: when will job assignations be set.
+
+-----------------
+
+We're setting up a temp wiki to start listing people roles, a blog, a
+basic website and discussing for basic hosting services. We expect to
+post an update by this evening about all this + the org. statutes and
+registration and the following steps. Stay tuned.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+
+-----------------
+
+People should take direction from this.
+
+Cheers
+
+Marc Paré
+Canada
+http://www.mageia.ca
+
+
+