Mageia European tour 2013

Posted on May 18, 2013 by obgr_seneca

Mageia will be present at the major European Linux events this year, as we have done in previous years.

We have already attended FOSDEM, where we held our general assembly.

In the coming weeks, the tour will go on.

The first event will be Linuxtag in Berlin (Germany). Linuxtag is the leading Open Source and Linux event in Europe. This year is the 19th Linuxtag and the 7th that will take place at the Berlin fair grounds. Linuxtag will take place from May 22nd until May 25th.

Mageia will have a booth there, where we will present the project and the brand new Mageia 3 release. You will have the chance to meet us there, and ask us any questions about the project you always wanted to ask!
As usual, we will have a Mageia dinner on Friday evening. If you want to join us there, just come by our booth and ask us about the place and time.

After Linuxtag, we will be at Solutions Linux in Paris (France), which will take place on May 28th and May 29th. You will be able to meet some of the supporters and developpers of your favorite distribution and get some goodies like tee-shirts or stickers… and of course discover Mageia 3 release!

And that’s not all! Mageia people will also attend RMLL in Bruxelles (Belgium), which will take place from July 6th to July 11th at the ULB.

And then we will be at FrOSCon on August 24th and 25th. FrOSCon is organized by the students of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg near Cologne (Germany).

The last event of this year’s tour will be OpenRheinRuhr on November 9th and 10th at the industry museum in Oberhausen (Germany).

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Mageia Days – meeting each other in person

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

On a daily basis, the Mageia community uses a variety of communication tools such as mailing-lists, IRC and forums. In addition to our online presence, we think we definitely need to have direct meetings so that Mageia people can meet each other and speak directly. Knowing each other better in real life can help our daily communication to work better.

So: we are planning 2 Mageia days during RMLL in July. These days will be dedicated to discussions around Mageia’s organization and the forthcoming release. Here are the proposed topics:

  • Technical specifications for Mageia 4
  • Mageia organization: how to improve our current organization?
  • Managing relationships with local communities
  • Packaging training for beginners
  • Bug triaging for beginners
  • QA for beginners
  • Working on Mageia visibility

We are checking at the moment how many people could be around to participate. The date would be 8th and 9th of july in Bruxelles.

If you are interested in it please add your name here:  Mageia Days on the wiki

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Planned maintenance on Mageia servers this weekend

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

An important set of Mageia servers will be taken offline this weekend
for maintenance. Ielo.net, a French network provider, has been sponsoring
the Mageia project by providing hosting for our servers since the beginning
of the project. The room in Marseille where the Mageia servers are
currently located has to be closed, and our servers will be moved this weekend to a
different room in another building. We will take this opportunity to
add more disks to the build system, which are needed to host the new Mageia
releases.

The following services will be unavailable for a few hours this weekend:

The following services will remain operational:

To continue working on the coming release and to contact contributors during the
downtime, please use the IRC channels, as they will be unaffected. A good place
to start is #mageia on irc.freenode.net.

We will update this post to report progress of the operation.

Update: new disks have been added, and servers moved, so everything should be back online. Thanks to maka from Ielo for coming to datacenter on saturday evening and help moving the servers.

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New release date for Mageia 3

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

After some thought and discussions it was decided to delay the Mageia 3 final release until the 18th of May.

We still have some release blocker bugs to fix, meaning bugs which cannot be fixed after release through updates. They are mainly to do with the installer, hardware detection and the installation media.

We could say “Mageia will be released when it’s ready” but we would look like a copycat 🙂

Packagers and QA team are on the case and doing all the hard work so that you have a great Mageia 3 release!

Thankyou for all your testing and bug reports! We are a community and you are an important part of it. You have helped to make Mageia. Feels good doesn’t it? If you would like to get more involved in making Mageia, please do so.  Take a look here for some ideas, there are all sorts of teams to join and you don’t need to be overly technical to get involved. You would be very welcome..

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We are nearly there! Mageia 3 RC is out

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

We are now 2 weeks from the end of the trip! (at least we hope we will have no delay). Mageia 3 RC release is now available for the very last tests. We need your feedback more than ever.

Mageia teams are working hard to fix the last annoying bugs, what we call release critical bugs. How do we qualify release critical one? All the bugs that cannot be fixed through updates, mainly in the isos installer, the kernel, some of the main drivers…

For more information about this release:

Update 2013/04/26:

Live medias now available, with improved detection of broadcom wireless devices,
UEFI boot support from usb stick on x86_64, …

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