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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding</H1>
<B>Graham Lauder</B>
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<I>Fri Sep 24 02:04:37 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Friday 24 Sep 2010 10:50:35 Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
><i> 2010/9/24 Marc Paré <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">marc at marcpare.com</A>>:
</I>><i> > It may be to our benefit to see if some similar growth models could be
</I>><i> > applied to Mageia.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> My main reason to applaud the decision to start Mageia and also my
</I>><i> main motivation to join this project is the fact that it is community
</I>><i> driven and community led. That it is not subject to commercial
</I>><i> strategies and/or necessities or even pressure and restraints. I am
</I>><i> not interested to face this situation again that some manager tells me
</I>><i> what I have to do because of a situation he (or his kind) has created
</I>><i> or caused.
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</I>><i> If somebody thinks about commercial options I will only agree if these
</I>><i> options are under control of the community board, not the other way
</I>><i> round, and if this commercial part has a different name and brand.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I've been suffering from this mixture of commercial and half-free and
</I>><i> free Mandriva Linux for years, having to correct misunderstandings,
</I>><i> unclear descriptions and articles which still today make users at
</I>><i> events ask me, "why Mandriva takes money for their distribution while
</I>><i> Ubuntu is cost free?".
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I don't want that to be repeated with Mageia.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> wobo
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Now this is really good stuff, we have, between here, the feeling I'm
collecting off IRC and the frontpage of mageia.org, the ingredients of a
vision and mission statement.
Who do I talk to about setting up a Marketing Mail list
I'll set up a pirate pad in any case.
Cheers
GL
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Graham Lauder,
OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ
<A HREF="http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html</A>
OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant.
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(International Grades in Open Technologies)
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