Given all the contribution proposals we received so far, it looks like Mageia has the potential to be a great success! For those who are wondering what is happening right now, here are some news about various subjects:
- In order to answer the main questions about the Mageia project, a FAQ is now available on the web site. Feel free to comment and ask for more questions if you think some subjects are missing.
- The Mageia association is going to be registered on Monday with an official publication in about 1 month (once reviewed by the french administration), thanks to Severine and rtp
- A Mageia Manifesto is in progress. We provided a list of items to help Graham Lauder and some marketing & communication guys to work on a first draft
- A sysadmin team has been created by nicolas (boklm), to start working on the new infrastructure
- For the hardware infrastructure, we received proposals for servers and hosting. We now have the hardware to be able to setup a build system and host the main services. We already started the setup of a virtual machine offered by gandi.net which we will use soon to host the web sites and blog. Regarding the hosting of the other servers, we have a proposal for one year and are already working on a longer term solution.
- Misc is working on a planning for the deployment of the buildsystem (roughly, 4/5 days from scratch without server installation if all goes well)
- Olivier (Nanar) should soon announce some plans for the mirrors and a web application to take care of this. We already have many proposals for Mageia local mirrors to host packages and ISOs. But we are still looking for Tier1 mirrors.
- Buchan is working on the LDAP part of the infrastructure
- Mageia has been contacted by various newspapers, podcasts, webTV, web Radio… etc. All these interviews took lot of time for preparation but you will hear about Mageia soon 🙂
- Donations are going really well, nearly 5.000 € and 100 donors! We will publish monthly financial reports so that you can follow how it’s being used. The first expenses will be hard disk drives, domain names and the Mageia trademark registration
- You will soon be able to buy Mageia tee-shirts. We don’t have an official logo yet, but don’t worry, it is still possible to make fun tshirts without a logo.
Coming soon on this blog, more news about the general organization of the Mageia project, stay tuned!
Freely
Mageia team
“There was a man on a horse galloping swiftly along the road. An old farmer standing in the fields, seeing him pass, called out ‘Hey rider, where are you going?’ The rider turned around and shouted back, ‘Don’t ask me, ask my horse!’” (Chinese story)
Merci! Et bonne chance !!
Thanks for the news!
The Mageia project is taking shape and that’s just awesome.
That’s good news.
Bonne chance aussi
from belgium 🙂
I love one (proposal) LiFo teeshirt :
“Fork me”
this looks like a circumstances t-shirt 🙂
“Fork me, I’m famous” 😀
+1
Great! I vote for that!
Thank you so much for the hard work! It’s worth underlining the energy people are putting in such a young project…
I wonder on what criteria the final logo will be chosen, apart of the basic rules written in the wiki for it to be read and printed easily.
Soun like you guys have made awesome progress in a short time. Thanks for your dedication !
merci pour le boulot
que vive l’esprit de mageia !!!!
Bon courage à toute l’équipe.
Je ne suis qu’un débutant “un peu avancé”. Je présente linux en général sur Netlog. Je parle de votre distribution dans mon forum, en demandant à mes visiteurs de l’essayer quand elle sortira, et de venir donner leur impressions.
http://fr.netlog.com/groups/maduxantojban/manage/forum/view=addTopic
Long live Mageia.
good luck from a slackware user and a linux lover! I think you are very brave guys! 😀
Mageia:
A star saying “Fork me”!
Congrats for the huge and very enthusiastic effort but, I’ve recently tried Mandriva 2010 Spring (free, one and dual) and I think, this is not only THE BEST Mandriva ever, but the BEST LINUX DISTRO too, so, how exactly do you think to make the best better yet? Most of developers, contributors, etc. responsible for the latest Mandriva success (I’m really impressed, really) is out of Mandriva project and joined to Mageia: Just only Magic could make perfection even better. Kind regards ;D
Great! There’s something going on in Distroworld. Surely will be “my” distro :o).
Andi, Germany
Bonnes nouvelles tout cela.
Bonne chance !
Wow, thats great!
Making a star saying “fork me”, this just shows the world Mageia’s real deal: Foot over Mandriva’s head to be great! That’s the spirit, trolling we will conquer the world!
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A “Fork me” T-Shirt seems like a teenage boy’s sneer- not just towards Mandriva, but towards everything “adult”, “professional”, or “traditional”.
Not a good way to introduce people to Mageia. Just my opinion, of course.
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