We’re all excited today! We’re at the first milestone on our way to Mageia 2 – Alpha 1 ISOs are ready for download.
Now it’s time for everyone to test, test, test and report bugs – so that Mageia 2 will be in great shape for release in May. You will find more info on our freshly migrated wiki:
Enjoy!
Initially planned for the 16th of November, our first alpha ISOs for Mageia 2 are postponed to the 25th of November.
They are currently being tested and polished before being released to you all, and we need a few days to do it right. Especially considering that one of the main people working at the production of ISOs is kept busy due to (happy) personal events. 🙂
Be ready to test!
Alien and obgr_seneca
For six years now, the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is inviting to the Free and Open Source Software Conference (short FrOSCon) in August.
Together with the German user community MandrivaUser.de Mageia was present there with a stand and a project room where several talks were done (and where we had the possibility to sleep).
FrOSCon is not really targeting a public audience but is more some kind of family meeting of the German Open Source community as a whole.
So the main point of interest are the talks about a large bandwidth of Open Source topics. The project stands are more used as meeting points for people of different projects to talk to each other.
As every year the social event, a barbecue in the atrium of the University was used to keep social contacts with other projects alive and get to know new people.
Another event in the German OpenSource calendar is the OpenRheinRuhr in November. For the third time now this event took place in the so called “Ruhrpott” in the northwest of Germany.
Mageia was (again) sharing a booth with the German Mandriva user community MandrivaUser.de.
Wobo, Teddy and Alf
And different from the FrOSCon the OpenRheinRuhr is targeting the public audience, so we had quite some visitors at our booth, people already using Mageia as well as people asking for more information about the project and the distribution.
And of course we took the chance to talk to other OpenSource people about various topics.
If you are interested in more pictures, have a look here.
After a very long time the final Mageia wiki is going online today.
As you all may know, we were using a temporary wiki since the announcement of Mageia last September.
We wanted to replace that by some really nice wiki since then but there always was something with a higher priority, so it had to wait.
Now, a few weeks ago, we already had a working MediaWiki instance and the teams were working under quite some pressure to import all the contents that has grown over the months in the temporary wiki, cleaning it up and giving it some structure while doing that.
Of course there’s still much work to be done. The most important goals for now being:
For those two actions we do need your help. Please look at the documentation and the i18n teams’ pages. You will be welcomed there!
“Deep in the west where the sun is dusty…” is the beginning of a German song about a city in the western coal and steel district of the “Ruhrgebiet”. Times change, blast furnaces and winding towers were abandoned. Today one of those industrial buildings in Oberhausen (Germany) serves as a museum of the industrial history of this district.
This industrial museum is the place where the 2011 OpenRheinRuhr will open doors from November 12 to November 13, an exhibition and conference for Open Source projects, communities and ideas. Invited are experts, beginners, interested visitors and users with all their questions. Being a comparatively young event it has already found its friends, like the German Mageia community.
At their stand prominent members of the German Mageia community will present Mageia 1 and Cauldron, they will answer questions and – if you bring a USB key or an empty DVD – you can get Mageia to take home and enjoy. 🙂
We are looking forward to see you there!
