Mageia wiki finally online

Posted on November 14, 2011 by obgr_seneca

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:

  • creating some real end-user documentation and other content for our users.
  • creating wiki instances for other languages so the translators team can start making the information available to people not being fluent in English.

For those two actions we do need your help. Please look at the documentation and the i18n teams’ pages. You will be welcomed there!

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Mageia at the 2011 OpenRheinRuhr (Germany)

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

OpenRheinRuhr“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!

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Translation bug hunting days

Posted on November 9, 2011 by obgr_seneca

It’s now five months since Mageia 1 was released so it is time to clean up our translations.

The time the i18n teams had before the release was quite short and especially the smaller teams were in quite a hurry. So you might have seen, that not everything is translated to your language or you might have stumbled upon buggy or awkward translations.

So now we call upon you: Search the Mageia tools (the draktools you find in the control center) and the installer for errors in the translations and tell us.

Just go to our Bugzilla and file a report about them.

Please do assign those translation bugs directly to the i18n team (mageia-i18n@mageia.org) and – even better – join the i18n team of your language to help us, straighten those bugs out.

The i18n people will then do their best to fix them so we can have updates for our translations before Christmas.

Please do report translation bugs to us in the next two weeks (until November 20th).

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New planning for Mageia 2

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia 2 release will be delayed a bit.

After the announcement of the release dates for major projects like GNOME or KDE, we decided to postpone the final release of Mageia 2 to 2012 May, 3rd so that we can integrate the last stable versions and provide better quality for your favorite distribution.

So here is our new planning:

  • Alpha 1: 2011 Nov. 16th
  • Alpha 2: 2011 Dec. 14
  • Alpha 3: 2012 Jan. 12
  • Beta 1: 2012 Feb. 21
  • Versions freeze: 2012 Mar. 7
  • Development String freeze: 2012 Mar. 7
  • Artwork freeze: 2012 Mar. 10
  • i18n freeze: 2012 Mar. 10
  • Beta 2: 2012 Mar. 15
  • Releases freeze: 2012 Apr. 7
  • Release Candidate: 2012 Apr. 10
  • Final Release: 2012 May 3

See you then for the first alpha in 3 weeks!

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Translators rise and shine!

Posted on October 13, 2011 by obgr_seneca

Hi guys!

We know how frustrating it can be when your favorite distribution is not localised in your language, or half-translated, and that’s why we translators aim to provide a fully translated Mageia with as many supported languages as possible.

We also know that Mageia is a community-driven project, and therefore the contributors try to communicate as much as they can through the blog, the website or the wiki. Still, those bits of information should not be reserved to the English-speaking users, and we must translate this content to reach as broad an audience as possible.

You got it: as an international Linux distribution, one of the values of Mageia is to be accessible to everyone, despite the barriers of language. That is the purpose of Mageia’s internationalisation team (i18n).

So, you always wanted to return something to the OpenSource community as a whole but couldn’t think of a way to do it?
You can read English texts easily and you have fun writing well-phrased texts in your native language? Or you are not confident enough to translate from English but you would like to review your peers’ translations to make sure they are properly phrased and spelt?

If this is you, look at the translators’ wiki page and contact the i18n team via its mailing list or on #mageia-i18n on Freenode’s IRC network.
Feel free to hunt down the i18n team leader Oliver Burger – obgr_seneca on IRC – and his deputy Rémi Verschelde – Akien on IRC. They will always be happy to answer any of your questions.

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