[Mageia-marketing] mageiapeople.org

Sat Mar 24 21:07:13 CET 2012

On 23 March 2012 19:54, Sebastian sebsebseb <sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com> wrote:
+> Hi
+>
+> Ok got to start my reply some where, first of all as rda put it's ok to set
+> up things outside the http://mageia.org website for Mageia.
+>
+> However I agree with rda certain things may be good to set up outside the
+> http://mageia.org website as a test, and then later become part of the
+> official project website.
+>
+> Being clear Josh's idea is to have a separate planet hosted on
+> http://mageiapeople.org where many users of Mageia can have their blogs
+> being mentioned, and possibly microblogging as well later on in a separate
+> section for example.  This planet would/will become rather general, since
+> people won't always be blogging or microblogging about Mageia.
+>
+> For blogs of Mageia developers and people like that http://planet.mageia.org
+> makes perfect sense.  The idea was never to compete against
+> http://planet.mageia.org or try to, the idea was to just provide a different
+> type of planet as well aimed at the Mageia users community, people who are
+> just users of the distribution specifically, but contributors could also go
+> on this planet as well.
+>
+> At the moment it's just a new idea that is being tested out on
+> http://mageiapeople.org that may become a proper planet for Mageia users
+> with many blogs, and possibly some microblogging as well in a separate
+> section for example.
+>
+> I also suggested that Josh took his idea to the Mageia discuss mailing list
+> and the forum.
+>
+> Josh wondered before who ran http://planet.mageia.org so I checked on IRC by
+> chatting to Coincoin/Damien that it was indeed him, and got the email
+> address, and told Josh it in a previous email to this mailing list, thinking
+> he would email Coincoin/Damien about it.
+>
+> Josh typed:
+>
+>> The chances of someone single handedly starting up
+>> "ilovemageia.com/.org/.net" increase as Mageia's brand grows. Personally I
+>> think such fan sites, etc. would be good things to have happen but that's
+>> just my opinion.
+>
+>
+> I agree, and I think the more websites there are mentioning Mageia in a
+> positive way the better for the project.
+>
+> I 100% agree that those kind of sites will be rather good to have for the
+> Mageia project usually.
+>
+> I have a prime example for when a unofficial website works very well for the
+> project as a whole: http://omgubuntu.co.uk the most popular news and such
+> website for the Ubuntu project (or so I believe any way), and by a long way.
+>  It is also an unofficial site, it is not made as part of the Ubuntu
+> Community or by Canonical.  Really it was just started by a guy who decided
+> to start the site and so on from there. However since it's been so popular
+> for years, official Ubuntu Community Members have sometimes guest posted on
+> it, such as Jono Bacon the community manager who is also a Canonical
+> employee and Jorge Castro from his community team at Canonical, and Daniel
+> Holbach who I think may also be from it, and that is a Ubuntu Community
+> Member.
+>
+> Official Ubuntu Community Members as far as I know will still post on
+> http://omgubuntu.co.uk sometimes as well.
+>
+> They have also had people such as Seif Lofty the Zeitgeist developer
+> blogging on it for example. I think he is a Ubuntu Community Member as well,
+> but not sure.
+>
+> So yes the website is unofficial, but it works very much so for Canonical's
+> advantage, and the Ubuntu Community as a whole, however let's be clear about
+> that again it's not an official Canonical or Ubuntu Community website. The
+> official Ubuntu blogs or kind of thing, would be the ones from Ubuntu
+> Community Members shown in their planet: http://planet.ubuntu.com
+>
+> Do Ubuntu have a planet for users of the distro? Well no not that I know of,
+> but they don't really need to either, because there are loads of blogs out
+> there that tend to mention it, and the most popular ones are already known
+> about by many people.
+>
+> Josh's idea of having a separate planet for just users
+> http://mageiapeople.org whilst still also having the more official planet
+> http://planet.mageia.org as well, I think as a community building minded
+> person is an absolutely great idea.
+>
+> Yes ok so if it's on http://mageiapeople.org it won't be seen as being that
+> official probably, but that's good for such a planet with loads of blogs
+> that will be mentioning quite a lot of other stuff at times as well, not
+> just Mageia.
+>
+> The blogs that are mentioned on http://planet.mageia.org should be mainly
+> mentioning Mageia, but for Josh's http://mageiapeople.org idea things will
+> be much more general.
+>
+> As members of the marketing team it is our responsibility to help gain
+> interest in the Mageia project, and yes to some extent Josh's
+> http://mageiapeople.org idea will help to do this.
+>
+> From Sebastian sebsebseb
+>
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+Can you add my blogspot on here or is it not the place.
+
+http://schultzslog.blogspot.co.uk/
+
+Thanks.
+