Let’s have a round-the-world party!

Mageia 3 release is coming up in around one month – who wants to join in the celebrations around the world?

We’ll be emailing everyone who registered on the Mageia Communities page on the wiki, but if you’re not on that list, don’t worry – we still want to hear from you!

If you need any help to give your release party a lift – artwork for posters or CDs, for instance – just let us know. And you can also use the comments to this post, the Mageia community on G+, @mageia_org on Twitter, or our Facebook page – or on the mailing lists, forums or IRC.

We’d also love to blog about release parties and events everywhere, and give everyone a chance to see the Mageia folks having a good time in other countries. So, please post or comment if you’re planning an event – or email press@mageia.org, so we can make sure your event is covered.

Let’s have a great time celebrating our third release together!

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Mailing-lists migration in progress

logo_sympaWhen the Mageia project was started, it didn’t have any server. Fortunatly people from zarb.org proposed to host the basic project infrastructure (mainly the website, wiki and mailing lists) until the project can have its own servers.

Mageia.Org now has a few servers since October 2010 (thanks to donations for the servers and Lost Oasis and Gandi for the hosting), but until now the existing mailing lists hosted by zarb.org had not been migrated to the Mageia mailing lists server. It is now time to do it.

The following mailing lists are going to be closed and replaced by a mailing-list in Mageia mailing list server:

  • mageia-announce@mageia.org -> announce@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-artwork@mageia.org -> atelier-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-bugsquad@mageia.org -> bugsquad-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-dev@mageia.org -> dev@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-discuss@mageia.org -> discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-i18n@mageia.org -> i18n-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-marketing@mageia.org -> atelier-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-sysadm@mageia.org -> sysadmin-discuss@ml.mageia.org
  • mageia-webteam@mageia.org -> atelier-discuss@ml.mageia.org

The new mailing lists have also been created to receive bug notifications from bugzilla assigned to different teams :

  • atelier-bugs@ml.mageia.org
  • i18n-bugs@ml.mageia.org

The new mailing lists require a Mageia Identity account for subscription :

  • if you have an identity account using the same address as subscribed on this mailing list, you should be automatically subscribed to the new mailing list and should have received a subscription notification
  • if you don’t have an identity account yet, or with a different email address, you need to manually subscribe to the new mailing list

You can find more details about mailing lists subscription and available lists on the Mageia wiki.

The archives for the old mailing lists are available on http://archives.mageia.org/. Links to old messages in the archives should continue working.

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Mageia 3 beta 4 is waiting for your tests

Mageia-Default-800x480After all the delays in our Mageia 3 planning,  we’re very pleased to be able to announce the beta 4 release.

Packagers and the QA team have worked hard to fix as many bugs as possible. We are now one month from Mageia 3 final release, so your tests – and reports! – are more important than ever.

This beta release comes with nearly all the designs for Mageia 3 integrated – many thanks to Leo who made the background image for Mageia 2 and then worked again on the Mageia 3 design. Our thanks to him for his patience and for his contribution!

For more information about this release:

Initially we’re releasing the i586 and x86_64 DVDs and dual CD using the classical installer; work is still in progress on the live ISOs. We’ll announce them as soon as they’re ready.

Enjoy – and don’t forget the feedback and reports!

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Mageia’s 2013 General Assembly and the new Mageia board

As usual, Mageia.Org’s general assembly was held during FOSDEM in Brussels.

During the general assembly Anne Nicolas (ennael) presented the associaton’s moral report to the assembly. During and after the presentation participants raised their questions about it, answered by ennael and others.

The report and the meeting logs, written by Oliver Burger (obgr_seneca) can be found here.
Since the treassurer of the association, Romain d’Alverny (rda) was not able to come to FOSDEM, and to give as many people as possible a chance to participate, it was decided to organize the vote on both reports – financial and moral – remotely.

After FOSDEM, all Mageia teams held elections for their respective team leaders and deputy team leaders. You can see the results of the team elections here.

At the same time, the association held the board elections. You can see how the Mageia Board works here.
Romain d’Alverny left the board and his position as treasurer, since he doesn’t have enough time for it any more.
We thank Romain for all the work he did for the project in the years until now, and hope to still see him around, as he left the board, but not the project as a whole.

According to the Association’s statutes, we had to re-elect one third of the board, which consisted of six people last year.
It was decided to extend the board to seven members, requiring three new people. We had three candidates for the three open positions: Nicolas Vigier, who had previously stepped down from the board temporarily, but was able to be a candidate again, Claire Robinson and Patricia Fraser.
All three were elected.

As its first official action, the new board had to elect someone among its members to replace Romain as treasurer. Nicolas Vigier was elected as treasurer and Patricia Fraser as assistant treasurer. Since the chairwoman and the secretary – Anne Nicolas and Oliver Burger – were elected last year, they still have two years to go, before those positions have to be voted upon again.
We welcome the new board members and congratulate them upon their election.

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Mageia 3 beta 3 is finally out!

As we said in a previous blog post, Mageia 3 planning was modified to give us some more time – for one beta release more, and to enable us to hunt more bugs. We finally had to face quite a lot of them during the QA tests of beta 3 isos,  and it took more time than expected to fix it. We’ve been working really hard, and now we have beta 3 ready for you to start testing.

So! Here are the LiveCD ISOs for downloading; the ISOs using the classical installer should be released in a very short time, and we’ll post again as soon as that happens.

We need you more than ever – please, download, install and test, test, test.

More details about this release:

If you need some help with testing and bug reporting, please do contact us on IRC, on Freenode server, #mageia-qa or #mageia-dev channels.

Enjoy this new release!

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