[Mageia-marketing] Some ideas submitted for discussion

Wed Mar 21 01:10:57 CET 2012

Hi Josh
+
+In the  blog post I gave you the link for some people had requested 
+their blogs to be added to planets. Email Damien (aka coincoin) about 
+them: dams @mageia.org
+>>
+>> http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/02/18/a-new-planet-had-been-discovered/
+>
+
+As for adding users to the planets I agree, as long as they aren't 
+posting bad stuff. With Ubuntu they have only Ubuntu Community Members 
+in their planet as far as I know and no one else. http://planet.ubuntu.com
+> I don't know that my area has enough mass for a LoCo style team though 
+> :-(
+Of course you can start something for your local area or country, even 
+if it just starts off as a IRC channel like I have done with #mageia-uk. 
+As for how many people there are or aren't, that doesn't matter that 
+much to begin with, just go for it and start something if you would like 
+to :).
+
+There are only a few people from the UK that are interested in Mageia at 
+the moment that I know about, but I expect we will start to have quite a 
+few more when Mageia 2 comes out :).  There are already quite a few 
+people from the USA who are interested in Mageia as well that I know 
+about, and quite a few of them come to my #mageia-social IRC channel.
+
+You may also have a Linux Users Group (LUG) in your area, that you can 
+go to and try and gain some interest in Mageia, like I will probably be 
+doing this Saturday.
+
+This Saturday I am probably going to a pub to go to a LUG for my first 
+time :). It was going to be last month, but then some issues with trying 
+to get there. It turned out people were turning up at different times 
+any way and not that many, so there wasn't a proper meeting.
+
+I'll go to the city to the LUG to meet some other Linux users in person 
+for a first time from this area, wearing one of my black FOSDEM 2011 t 
+shirts, that I bought when going to my first opensource/freesoftware 
+event this year FOSDEM 2012 :). I'll also have some Gnome and KDE, 
+Mageia 1 Live CD's to give out from this year's FOSDEM, and I'll bring 
+some other LInux stuff with me as well.
+
+ From Sebastian sebsebseb
+
+P.S
+
+After sending my previous reply, and reading your email again, I 
+realised that you already knew that Mageia had a planet.
+