[Mageia-discuss] Interview de Anne Nicolas pour Mageia [french]

Tue Nov 2 19:28:12 CET 2010

Op dinsdag 02 november 2010 18:19:45 schreef Olivier Méjean:
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+> If i am couragous, i will do an English translation
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+google translate to english: 
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+Philippe Nieuwbourg - Hello everyone, welcome to the TV set of open
+world forum, we will now turn to another topic with our
+new guest Anne Nicolas, Hello
+Anne Nicolas - Hello
+PN - So you work for a community called Mageia
+AN - Absolutely
+PN - But then there are our listeners are saying "but never heard Mageia
+speaking, what is it that the promotion of this new thing "is a Mageia
+fork of Mandriva
+AN - quite
+PN - it remembers Mandriva, Mandriva I had left in my head
+a time when there were many financial difficulties, it was not
+well what it was going to give. Tell us a little bit what happened
+and what made you want to create this Mageia fork.
+AN - This fork Mageia came a whole lot of uncertainties that reside in
+Mandriva, I was myself employed by a subsidiary of Mandriva. It was felt
+there had been 12 years of tremendous work performed on this distribution and
+need to sustain this effort and we wanted to abstract from the presence
+a company that had high and low economic level and we
+decided to fork, ie resume distribution Mandriva Linux
+one point from a copy simply because the license allows
+and assembling a new project from there and only Community
+within an association and the project is called Mageia
+PN - so it's very fashionable because ultimately what you have done
+people from the MySQL community did at the time of acquisition by Oracle, they
+accepted the takeover by Sun, they have not accepted the takeover by Oracle, 
+we
+learned yesterday that the OpenOffice community was doing the same thing
+too because they do not agree with the direction of Oracle
+So finally for those who do not know where all these terms, a
+Forking is that you can resume the original source code
+and create for the moment exactly the same thing, a true copy
+?
+AN - altogether, it does not reinvent the wheel, since I
+mentioned earlier, we believe many technology integrated with
+Mandriva Linux, we think it's really a strong point, but
+it would work differently in the development of future
+distribution
+PN-Mageia So it'll be a 1901 association therefore non-profit?
+AN - quite,
+PN - built around the community, developers in fact, it is
+community developers who are members of the association?
+AN - then the members of the association will overlap with the full scope of
+that affect people directly or indirectly to a distribution. It will be
+developers, people who are packaging software, testers
+translators, but also because today what users
+The strength of a distribution is the ability of its community
+users to promote the distribution so they have a
+part quite predominant and essential in the association.
+PN - So it begs the question why an association. You think
+today is the best way to work together on a project
+like this?
+NA - found that the values of freedom today are that it can be
+a little demanding on the necessity of sharing the sustainability of the 
+software,
+etc.. and given the history and challenges of the time
+Mandriva has been estimated that a community project was more appropriate and
+the association is only there to regulate the use of resources
+organization, so yes there is a community project but
+organized in a lasting way.
+PN - At the same time we must live, you were employed by a company that
+working on Mandriva, you may have wanted to find a job and
+back wages
+AN - yes it would be nice
+PN - it must be that all that great, how is what generates the income
+fully associative structure?
+AN - then the association is one thing, it produces a product that
+Mageia which is called a distribution, we can consider a perfectly
+commercial structure that will act in the periphery of the association and 
+will
+based on the distribution called Mageia and will offer a whole
+lots of service as support, consulting, development, thereby
+help the company take this product has tremendous community
+strength and integrate it into its array of solutions it may have.
+PN - So now you're faced with a number of needs
+urgent first need we will try to answer them all is to make
+a bit of noise around Mageia because nobody knows.
+AN - Nobody knows the outdoors in the little world of open source
+I admit that we were very pleasantly surprised by the return because not
+Mandriva only the present community has reacted to the announcement and
+acceded but also because people using Mandrake at the time and
+returning because he believes it is a little more to their
+expectation that they and their vision of an open source distribution
+PN - Be careful what is called the navel syndrome which
+that people who know you and you know how difficult it is to
+ensure that those who do not know you have the reflex to go
+see Mageia rather because he must say things very clear shot of you
+become a little competition from Mandriva?
+AN-quite
+PN - How is what you do to try to promote this
+new brand, because it costs money as all that?
+AN - is finally starting very small since the initiative was made very
+short time, we launched an appeal for donations which currently meets
+extremely well, we had solutions to enable us to host
+our entire infrastructure, and we will try to sustain it in
+companies adhering to the association, and finally it becomes
+account that there are many users who understand that the
+Free software is not necessarily free and that I can to support the
+distribution rather than put a little money every month by
+example since I know that this money will be used so
+transparent and maintaining a number of value. We have many
+returns on that front.
+PN - And do you think that you will generate enough money
+eventually pay people who will permanently work
+distribution?
+NA - Immediate not within the Association, cons in
+a business structure that offer services can be more
+Traditional here we can actually generate income and that income
+may possibly be used to fund developments
+additional distribution
+PN - Very good transition, is what you have already thought about it
+should evolve within Mageia that it continues to meet
+required? At the same time Mandriva was in trouble for some time that
+therefore may be missing a bit of development, is what you want
+do new things?
+AN - So yes, there are plenty of things we want to do lots of things.
+Among others there is a huge strength is the control center, the
+Linux Control Center and now it's to change the
+rejuvenate because it's true that it is a little older and then
+Why not move towards architectures that are increasingly
+used as shelves for example, and can also switch to
+openness to services like cloud, etc.. so all that they are
+guidelines that will define in the coming weeks.
+PN - You have a real functioning associations, participatory?
+AN - quite,
+PN - you will meet regularly?
+AN - While meeting a little bit special as they will
+because the virtual community Mageia is international, ie
+it's a lot in Europe, South America, so in these cases we do
+can not do real meetings, the fact remains that these are people who are
+accustomed to working in that way, remote, so yes it will
+meetings, as each interest group, we will have a board to manage
+the association to make a strategic decision, especially so many
+communication, perhaps what we missed.
+PN - Okay, we hope to have made our small contribution, good luck
+in this project
+AN - thank you
+PN - we will continue elsewhere if we want to know more the website is
+AN - mageia.org
+PN - thank you very much Anne Nicolas
+AN - Thanks
+