[Mageia-discuss] Mageia's strategy

[david]

  I am reading all posts, some very interesting on this new exciting 
project.
But I think that as we say in french : "on met la charrue avant les boeufs".
I think the first thing to do is to establish a strategy (which was not 
clear with mandriva): what are the goals, the values of mageia, who is 
the targeted public (newbies and/or people coming from windows and/or 
geeks and/or professionnals and/or ...), what will the communication 
vectors be, how do we want to stand facing concurrence and other distros 
and so on....
Then you can choose/select logos, colors, window manager(s), software 
included in the distros, development of specific applications... 
depending on the answers to the previous questions.

For example my wish would be a generalist distro (like ubuntu) for 
newbies and/or microsoft users, easy to use, eyecandy, completely 
customized in french, much more ergonomic than mandriva in order to 
propose it for my customers (I founded a company to promote Linux and 
opensource to individuals & professionnals). So i would prefer a gnome 
(or e17 let's be crazy !) , with an eyecandy, sobre and zen theme (for 
example I like Dropline neu for the icons and Unity), with applications 
included like simple-scan and deja-dup (for backups) etc...
These are my wishes but maybe they will not be compatible with mageia 
objectives and final choices. So everyone can see, and hope something 
from Mageia different depending on his sensitivity (one likes kde, the 
other one gnome, the other e17, some like blue themes, green , orange, 
red ...).
If the objectives are not defined yet, maybe would it be nice to open a 
page in order to gather the wishes of the future community, by themes, 
but step by step: first : the objectives - second : the target - third : 
the look ...
On the contrary, if all this is already planned, communicate it in order 
to avoid discussions in all directions in lists and blogs...

In other words it would be usefull to put in place tools to drive the 
project in order that the community and potential contributors can go in 
the same direction and agree to the project.

Maybe am I a bit pretentious, but this is the feeling that I have 
reading all posts in mailing lists.

David.
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