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<blockquote cite="mid:4F5E88B3.1030806@linuxpunks.com" type="cite">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.
<br>
<br>
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)!
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I agree and really everyone who uses
Mageia
is part of the community.<br>
<br>
There are many ways people can
contribute to Mageia without being on an official team for it. For
example when I mentioned IRC cloaks on the Mageia discuss and
marketing mailing lists, I mentioned
how someone should be able to do a lot of Mageia support on IRC
and then receive
one. Well when Mageia has the IRC cloaks sorted out with Freenode
this is.<br>
<br>
With Ubuntu there's a guy who I assume still helps out a lot in
the big IRC channel, and as far as I know all he did for Ubuntu or
mainly, was IRC support, and as a result of becoming one of the
main
support people in the channel, he was able to become a Ubuntu
Community Member and get the IRC cloak for example.<br>
<br>
Another
example of contributing to Mageia, but not really as part of an
official team would be what I do with the #mageia-social channel.
I
build up the #mageia-social IRC channel, and welcome new users to
the
channel, and help keep people interested in the Mageia community.
However really this is done as a team in a way with the other
users of the
channel who tend to chat there :), because people in general
aren't
likely to stick around for long, if not that much happens in
there.<br>
<br>
Someone who uses the channel has even donated money
twice to Mageia, and he doesn't use the distribution at the
moment,
but he uses the #mageia-social channel :). <br>
<br>
Mageia can also be
mentioned and promoted on podcasts for example by people, be they
on
an official team for the project or not. In fact I went on a
podcast
for my first time as a guest, to talk about Mageia and Desktop
Linux
in general and so on last year, as I was slowly deciding what I
wanted to do for Mageia other than IRC and Identica stuff, before
I
joined any official teams. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Took me quite a while to join any
official
teams, although I had been thinking about marketing for a rather
long
time here and there before I joined, and talked to Trish on IRC a
few times about joining. Plus some stuff to do with the mailing
lists and what email address I would use before I joined any
teams.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Someone could make
tutorial videos for doing things with Mageia just for fun for
example
and not be on any official team for Mageia.<br>
<br>
Or someone could type
blog posts every now and again about Mageia, because they like the
distro and not be on any official teams for example.<br>
<br>
Someone could also
help to build up interest in person in their local area or
country, and not be
on any official Magiea teams, yep local communities. Oh and I
suggest
watching this video if haven't already seen it:
<a
href="http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/Working_with_contributor_communities__round_table_.webm">http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/Working_with_contributor_communities__round_table_.webm</a>
<br>
<br>
Also someone could help to gain interest in Mageia on social
networking sites and not be on any official teams. I did that
for a long time before joining any official teams using Identica,
although that was mainly to make sure news would show in the
Mageia
group as well, but still: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://identi.ca/group/mageia">http://identi.ca/group/mageia</a><br>
<br>
Really
everyone who uses Mageia is part of the world wide users community
:).<br>
<br>
From Sebastian sebsebseb<br>
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