[Mageia-marketing] Emails lost yesterday

Wed May 2 04:11:16 CEST 2012

On 22/04/12, Patricia Fraser:
+> Hi guys,
+>
+> Hard disk crashed yesterday, so if anyone sent mails to me in the
+> last 24 hours - please resend!
+>
+> Cheers,
+Hi Trish
+
+I am replying to your email later than I would have done for various 
+reasons.
+
+I am having my own hard disk problems at the moment, well partitions 
+really. Something wrong with the partition table. I also can't just put 
+my data easily on a external hard disk at the moment and start over for 
+example.
+
+I could try fixing the partition table, but things are in quite a mess 
+let's put it that way, so on the verge of completely starting over.  
+It's been over a week now as well with these issues, but for various 
+reasons haven't just been able to start over.
+
+I can boot up Windows XP properly, but not a Linux distro, and I can't 
+just go and install one again either, so I am stuck using Live CD's at 
+the moment or Windows when using this computer, until I move data off 
+this computer's hard disk that I want to keep, to some where else, so I 
+can completely start over with the partition table.
+
+I could try fixing the partition table, but I am going to completely 
+start over.
+
+I think you didn't read a email I sent about Saturday 19th May: 
+https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-marketing/2012-April/000856.html
+
+I had this idea to do a time line type talk, how and why I got 
+interested in Mageia, how I got involved and when things happened, and 
+about Mageia itself, however there isn't really time for all of that in 
+only 5 minutes.
+
+I am starting to get some LUG  interest in Mageia and that seems to be 
+going quite well so far :).
+
+Someone gave me some suggestions for the talk from the LUG as well :). 
+For example how every word I say has to be relevant, and basically how I 
+should plan for four minutes, then try and cut stuff down as well.
+
+Oliver sent me a slide show of a talk he did about Mageia.
+
+I would like some proper help from Mageia marketing  and communications 
+team people to plan this talk properly, but also with a slide show, and 
+even with the website description, however it seems that quite a few 
+people have disappeared on us.
+
+It's a 5 minute talk, and since I am going to be going there to 
+officially represent the Mageia project, I want to make sure that I am 
+doing so properly.  To some extent I will also be representing the LUG I 
+guess, because I am down as being from the LUG on the website when it 
+comes to the group. So another reason why this talk should be done properly.
+
+The person from the LUG basically suggested that I need to say what 
+makes Mageia good when compared to other distros, and well indeed at 
+that, but what makes it so good really when compared to other distros?
+
+Obviously when compared to many other distributions the control centre, 
+but what else?
+
+I think my talk should basically be, introducing myself as a Mageia 
+contributor, introducing Mageia, more information about Mageia such as 
+what makes it good for many users, and an ending.
+
+I also plan to put some contact details into the talk itself or at least 
+the slide show.  For example I would like to tell people that they can 
+follow me on Identica a alternative to Twitter where I spread interest 
+in Mageia and that mainly has people interested in Linux using it.  
+Probably something about IRC channels as well.
+
+I think keywords in the talk should be we and our, because I'll be 
+talking officially.  I also think I should introduce myself officially.  
+Something like:  "Good afternoon my name is Sebastian and I am the 
+Mageia marketing and communications team deputy leader, and a member of 
+the artwork and documentation teams."
+
+Or something like "Good afternoon my name is Sebastian and I am the 
+Mageia marketing and communications team deputy leader, and a member of 
+the artwork and documentation teams. I also run Freenode IRC channels 
+for the Linux distribution such as Mageia UK and Mageia Social, and help 
+to spread interest in Mageia on Identica a open alternative to Twitter 
+with mainly Linux users using it."
+
+Or maybe something like: "Good afternoon my name is Sebastian and I am a 
+Linux enthusiast who decided to get involved with Mageia a fork of the 
+commercial Mandriva Linux distribution, which goes back to 1998 when it 
+was called Mandrake. Mageia is a 100% community distribution, with a non 
+profit organisation behind it, and everyone who contributes is a 
+volunteer, and I am the Mageia marketing and communications team deputy 
+leader, and a member of the artwork and documentation teams. On 
+September 18th 2010 it was announced that ex Mandriva employee's and 
+other contributors were going to fork Mandriva into Mageia. Mageia 1 was 
+released on the 1st of June last year, and our second version was 
+released on Tuesday of this week. I also run Freenode IRC network 
+channels for the project such as Mageia UK and Mageia Social."
+
+At the beginning of the talk I think I should  introduce myself, say 
+what Mageia is and how it's a fork of Mandriva and why it forked, and 
+when the announcement of Mageia was and when the first and second 
+release was.
+
+There are various ways I could say it's a fork and something about that, 
+but how do you think I should do it? Another example is this: "On 
+September 18th 2010 it was announced on the Mageia website, that some ex 
+Mandriva employee's and other contributors were going to fork Mandriva 
+into a 100% community distribution with a non profit organisation behind 
+it, because Edge-IT a company working on Mandriva got liquidated and 
+many former employee's got laid off as a result."  Remember I only got 5 
+minutes and wouldn't really want to say to much about the fork and it 
+could use valuable time if I am doing that.
+
+What about FOSDEM and our AGM and that kind of thing? Should I say 
+something like this for example? "Mageia goes to events and our main 
+event is FOSDEM where our AGM happens as well".  Or something like this 
+even?  "Mageia has a presence at events and our main event is when 
+contributors go to Brussels, because of FOSDEM. We have our AGM at 
+FOSDEM for example."
+
+I think it's a good idea to say something like: "Mageia may still be 
+quite a new Linux distribution, but we do have developers who contribute 
+to upstream projects, for example our Gnome maintainer is on the 
+upstream Gnome release team, and our Pulseaudio maintainer develops it 
+upstream."
+
+I think it may be a good idea to say something about contributing and 
+teams, and the council and the board, and how that works, and how each 
+year people vote on who they would like to have as the team leader and 
+deputy leader, and that kind of thing?  In the slide show Oliver sent me 
+there's a diagram that tries to explain that, however also one that may 
+need some updating if going to be used.  Probably should also say in the 
+talk that Mageia has a few founders, but maybe add something in about 
+them not really having a special status as such as a result, because in 
+Mageia we treat people equally?  I think the votes system for teams is 
+worth mentioning for sure, because I like the idea of mentioning it and 
+then saying how as a result it doesn't matter if someone was there from 
+the beginning or not, they can join a team and possibly end up leading 
+it n the future even, which I think is good.
+
+When it comes to the organisation might be worth saying that it's a 
+French non profit organisation, but Mageia is a international project so 
+contributors from loads of different countries.
+
+Also when it comes to releases it may be worth saying something like 
+"Mageia 1 was released with Gnome 2.32 and KDE 4.6 with XFCE and LXDE 
+available in the repos when KDE 4.6 was quite new as well, and Mageia 2 
+has a recent Linux kernel and Gnome 3.4 and KDE 4.6 and XFCE and LXDE is 
+available in the repos as well."  I think maybe something quick to do 
+with that, but nothing to long, since everyone in the audience as far as 
+I know won't be using a Desktop Linux distro as their operating system 
+of choice, even though the audience in general will be quite technical.
+
+P.S
+
+To anyone who reads this message  before Saturday 19th May 2012, please 
+provide suggestions for the talk :).
+