[Mageia-marketing] Some ideas submitted for discussion

[Sebastian sebsebseb]

Hi Josh

A planet is a good idea, but well Mageia already has planets and in 
different languages as well, however your email reminded me about that :).

I don't see a planet link on the main website though, and there should 
be one really.

http://planet.mageia.org/en/

http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/02/18/a-new-planet-had-been-discovered/

Indeed at point 2 and Oliver Burger (aka obgr_seneca) took part in a 
discussion at FOSDEM 2012 ( 
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/02/19/mageia-at-fosdem-2012/ ) about 
local communites and so on. I highly recommend that you watch the video 
if you haven't already seen it: 
http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/Working_with_contributor_communities__round_table_.webm

Much more recently Oliver has also started a WIKI page about local 
communities: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Working_with_local_communities

I have also emailed about the IRC cloaks and @mageia.org email 
addresses. For the IRC cloaks this still needs sorting out with 
Freenode.  For the @mageia.org email addresses it seems to be up to the 
leaders of the remaining teams that don't have them, to get it sorted out:

https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20120228/006610.html

https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20120304/006627.html

https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20120304/006628.html

 From Sebastian sebsebseb

On 19/03/12 20:06, Josh King wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I mentioned I had some ideas I was working on and would present to the 
> group. Well here are 2 of them
>
> 1) a Planet feed for mageia users. Users blog about Mageia and 
> interesting this as well, so why not have their own planet? Along with 
> that is making sure all the packagers are on planet mageia - there 
> have been many new ones added to the group but not added to the 
> Planet. IMO, planets are a great way for people to follow along with 
> whats going on in the community as a whole, who's doing what, or even 
> to identify where problems may be. I think this gives a bit more of a 
> sense of ownership to the average user as well. Any inputs on this? I 
> assume this would have to be coordinated with the web team?
>
> 2) Official titles for those who are evangelizing Mageia (Ubuntu has 
> LoCo teams, Fedora has Ambassadors). We reply on our users to help get 
> the word out, and they deserve something in return for this effort. 
> I'm not sure how we decide what this looks like for us or how to 
> determine what criteria need to be met (posting a review? submitting a 
> news/blog post to a major news site?) So this idea is much less 
> concretely formed and I'm open for any suggestions.
>
> The point of all of this is to work on community building. Yes, by 
> using Mageia anyone is a member of the community. But adding something 
> a bit more official to strive for I think only helps to strengthen the 
> brand. I've worked in community building with several projects before, 
> and the most successful ones always offer ways to become "official" 
> members to regular users. I just see we are doing a great job in many 
> areas but I think this one could be improved somewhat. Anyone have any 
> other ideas, thoughts or comments?
>
> Thanks!
> Josh
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