Author Archives: Anne Nicolas

Mageia joins Open Invention Network

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia.org has just joined Open Invention Network as a licensee. Software patents are a threat to Free Open Source Software development and to free innovation at large. OIN‘s goal is to minimize/eliminate software patent threats within the Linux ecosystem. It … Continue reading →

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Happy new Mageia

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

First, let’s get the niceties out of the way… the Mageia team would like to wish you all a very happy New Year, for you and your families :D. We really hope that 2011 will be the Mageia year for … Continue reading →

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First packagers meeting for Mageia

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Anne Nicolas

The first packagers’ meeting took place the last Wednesday on the #mageia-dev IRC channel on Freenode. About 25 people attended, and many proposed to help both experienced and beginner packagers. Almost 2 hours of constructive discussion, here’re the logs and … Continue reading →

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They speak about Mageia

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Anne Nicolas

While the Mageia team is working hard on making the build system available for packagers and teams are being setup, thanks to volunteers, various media are already speaking about our project. They asked some Mageia team members to give some … Continue reading →

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Translators on the track

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Anne Nicolas

Thanks to the tremendous efforts of the core team, we will soon be ready to start real work on Mageia. Time to get the supporting teams together. Last Thursday the international i18n team had its initial meeting. Topics were the necessary organisational steps … Continue reading →

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