[Mageia-marketing] Mageia IRC cloaks and @mageia.org email addresses

Tue Feb 28 02:00:10 CET 2012

Hi
+
+I have been meaning to email about the IRC cloaks for quite some time.
+
+The Mageia Linux organisation has existed for over a year, but on IRC 
+none of the Mageia contributors have Mageia IRC cloaks. Ubuntu, Fedora, 
+OpenSuse, FSF, Wikipedia, (and of course Freenode,) but also many other 
+projects that have their channels on Freenode have IRC cloaks for their 
+project. Mageia still lacks this. I wonder why that is? Is the Mageia 
+organisation properly registered with Freenode yet?
+
+I think that Mageia IRC cloaks would be a great way to promote Mageia 
+when people with a cloak join other channels on the network and show 
+people their cloak.
+
+I think Mandriva still has IRC cloaks.
+
+In the case of Ubuntu, people become community members, if they have 
+made a  significant and sustained contribution to the project, and then 
+one of the things that they get is a IRC cloak whilst they are a 
+community member. For more info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership
+
+It depends on the project and why, who gets a IRC cloak and email address.
+
+Who gets a IRC cloak and @mageia.org email address and why, is something 
+that I think should be discussed and sorted out as a project.
+
+People with IRC cloaks are also likely to have a @ the project email 
+address, depending on the project and how things are done. I have 
+noticed with Mageia that certain people have @mageia.org email addresses 
+already, but it seems to me, that they also tend to be packagers.
+
+As a community I think we should discuss rules for getting and keeping a 
+Mageia IRC cloak and @mageia.org email address.
+
+Sometimes people decide not to have a project IRC cloak or email 
+address, when they would be entitled to them. Some people have a IRC 
+cloak that also mentions another project that they are contributing to.
+
+I think that Mageia IRC cloaks and email addresses should only be given 
+to people who are contributing quite lot to Mageia or trying to, for 
+example to a official team. There are many ways that I think people who 
+are contributing to the Mageia community should be able to receive a 
+cloak and email address. For example someone could help with the Magiea 
+community a lot on IRC or the forum via end user support or helping to 
+build up IRC channels such as #mageia-social and then helping to keep 
+people interested in the Mageia community using this channel.  People 
+could also start local communities for Mageia.
+
+Oliver Burger (obgr_seneca) took part in a talk at FOSDEM 2012 ( 
+http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/02/19/mageia-at-fosdem-2012/ ) with 
+people who were representing other distributions about local 
+communities, and I highly recommend that you watch the video, if you 
+didn't see the talk already in person or via video. 
+http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/Working_with_contributor_communities__round_table_.webm
+
+With enough people hopefully in the future, I would like to start a 
+local community for the UK, and I registered the #mageia-uk IRC channel 
+very soon after the September 18th 2010 announcement of Mageia. Local 
+communities are meant to have events for Mageia, for example they could 
+have a release party soon after a new Mageia release.
+
+ From Sebastian sebsebseb
+