[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

Thu Feb 10 03:17:04 CET 2011

I ran that page through Google Translations and it looks quite good.
+
+The initial paragraph translates as:
+Mandriva Linux is a free operating system. It can be freely modified
+and improved by its users and members of the community of this system.
+The spirit of this system is summarized in a manifesto.
+
+To me, this does not fully explain the use of "free" in the context of
+Mandriva/Magia. This topic (free as in beer/free as in freedom) is
+always one of much debate in any FOSS community.  I propose:
+
+Mandriva Linux is an operating system based primarily on Open Source
+code and licensed in a way to provide users and developers with
+greater freedom than proprietary, restricted code.  It can be modified
+and improved by its users and members of the community of this system.
+The spirit of this system is summarized in a manifesto.
+
+Nice job otherwise, although it could be more concise since it's
+supposed to be an introductory page. It will take me a while to digest
+it fully.
+
+On 2/9/11, Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Le 09/02/2011 21:22, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>> Le mercredi 9 février 2011 21:20:13, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+>>> Hi,
+>>>
+>>> I was given the task to write a contributing howto, so that we could link
+>>> to it from the alpha download page (and from other pages if considered
+>>> useful).
+>>>
+>>> However, I'm sure I can delegate this task so that I can keep working on
+>>> other matters.
+>>>
+>>> That's why I'm sending this to the mailing list : what should we say in
+>>> this page, what layout, etc. ? If someone wants to propose a detailed
+>>> outline for such a page that we could discuss, it would greatly help !
+>>>
+>>> Thanks in advance.
+>>>
+>>> Regards
+>>>
+>>> Samuel
+>> I forgot to say what was implicit for me but could have to be precised :
+>> this
+>> is meant to be the starting point for people wanting to help, whatever
+>> their
+>> skills. The goal is probably to explain what kind of help people can give,
+>> then explain how they can give this help once they have chosen one or
+>> several
+>> areas of interest.
+>>
+>> Samuel
+>
+> I have started to work on this on the Mandriva wiki, still in french,
+> and I could not finish it yet in french. But the basics are there.
+> Perhaps we could use this in the next wiki for Mageia and complete it
+> for every language.
+>
+> http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/Les_diff%C3%A9rentes_fa%C3%A7ons_de_contribuer
+>
+> Thomas.
+>
+
+
+-- 
+Hoyt
+