Mageia Blog (English)

Mageia made it to SCaLE 14x for the first time in sunny California, with one of our dedicated QA deputy leaders to man the booth.

Bill Kenney, or wilcal as he is known here, did an amazing job running the Mageia booth at SCaLE. This is an extract from his report on the event.

The Mageia booth was located right in the centre of the Pasadena Convention Center on January 22^nd – 24^th. Friday saw the highest traffic, Saturday was quieter, but lots of families came down to see the exhibits, which is always nice to see.
Our booth was next to SUSE’s, and sharing the running of the booths was a great show of community and cooperation between Linux projects.

We had Hewlett Packard Enterprise as neighbors; they were running an almost continuous magic and tricks show which always ensured a big crowd in front of the Mageia booth. I made the decision not to give away some kind of “swag” and that was a good decision as I would have needed thousands of items. Also, I opted to put the Mageia literature (English and French) in displays rather then giving pieces of paper away. Again a good decision, as most people just took pictures of the literature if they wanted a copy.

The principal thrust here was to show the Mageia flag, sharing its history and talking about the present and future status. That was the right message. There were lots of people who simply already knew about the Mandrake → Mandriva → Mageia fork tree and most of the time was spent reminiscing about old times with Mandrake. Many indicated that Mandrake was their first Linux distro.

The organizers of SCaLE 14x were appreciative of Mageia making a presence at SCaLE and are certainly open to us returning next year.

Here’s a picture of the Mageia stand with Bill there.

Here’s an 8 min video that Bill shot of the show. Most of the “footage” was shot before show hours. At times this venue was packed with Linux geeks. Enjoy the show:

As it does every year in March, the German event Chemnitz Linux Days will take place during the coming week-end (19th and 20th of March). And as almost every year we are pleased to attend the event and present our distribution there. Please come around and discuss with us the current release as well the upcoming version 6, which is in preparation right now. We will also have nice USB sticks and other Mageia goodies to hand out 🙂

Beside our booth, you will find many other interesting projects and companies from the open source community. Furthermore there will be interesting talks, workshops and even activities especially for the younger guests.

Please come along to have a nice and informative weekend with us in Chemnitz.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

The 2016 edition of the FOSDEM is approaching, and as usual Mageia will hold a booth there with many contributors and community members. It’s probably the biggest free software event in Europe, and also the event where Mageia has the biggest presence. It’s also our yearly occasion for the General Assembly of the Mageia.Org association which supports your favourite distro, plus the legendary Mageia dinner on Saturday evening where you are of course all very welcome! 🙂

The event takes place in Brussels on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st of January at the ULB Solbosch Campus (Université libre de Bruxelles), and our booth will be as usual at the 1st level of Building K. You will of course find some nice goodies like stickers, flyers, pens, USB sticks and T-shirts, but also have the possibility to discuss with many contributors, get Mageia 5 installed or see a preview of what’s currently boiling in the Cauldron!

If you plan to join us there, don’t forget to put your name in the event preparation wiki page. Even if you’re not planning to help man the booth or register for the dinner, it’s still nice to know who to expect for the event attendants. For those interested in attending to the General Assembly (you are all very welcome!), we will soon post the details about the room and time schedule.

Looking forward to meeting many community members in Brussels!