[Mageia-marketing] Open thoughts for discussion

[Josh King]

OK, here are a few thoughts (consider them my planks for running if you 
like, even though that's not my intent). I see a lot of lurkers, and  a 
decent amount of people who want to join in Mageia but seem to be a 
little timid. I think we are attracting many first time contributors - 
which is awesome!! But Maybe a bit more hand holding or other 
infrastructure would work.

For example, when I joined the packaging team I was welcomed with open 
arms, given a mentor, and several places to go to ask questions. It was 
in a word, friggin sweet (ok that's 2 words)!

My point in all of this is I'd love to see something that gives the 
average user an "foot in the door" to working within Mageia. As much as 
I hate to admit it, this is one thing Ubuntu and to a lesser extent 
Fedora do very well.

This is the total brainstorming part but maybe it will get the ball 
rolling. Why not a mageia-users team/council seat? Marketing of the 
viral kind would be amazing for us, and who better to do that than 
excited and enthusiastic users? I'm not talking any pay for membership 
thing, but for a user to say, my application was accepted to the 
mageia-users team means something to many people. I don't pretend that 
any of these ideas are particularly good, but just some thinking I've 
been doing about bridging the gap between dev/teams/ and community.

I'd love to hear ideas and thoughts on this. With Mga 2 coming up, I'd 
love to see us making a splash with something more than just download 
and visit the forum once in awhile.

Thanks!
Josh