Mageia on display in Germany

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Coming up on March 19th/20th, 2011, is the annual Chemnitzer Linuxtage, taking place at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany. This public Linux event has been growing year after year and this time is the first time that the number of interested exhibitors exceeded the available space for exhibition booths.

Visitors of the event will have the choice to listen to numerous lectures on all kinds of topics, participate in a lot of interesting workshops such as Dr. Tux, and see a large exhibition of FOSS projects.

Mageia.Org. will participate by sharing a stand with the German user community MandrivaUser.de. This is the first time Mageia.Org will show up at a public Linux event in Germany and we are eager to meet everybody who is interested in our new organisation and distribution. You will find us on the ground floor at stand #601 (floor map with blinking circle at the Mageia stand).

So, on behalf of Mageia.Org and the guys (sorry, no gals this time!) at the Mageia stand, we invite you to stop by, say hello and ask everything you never dared to ask about Mageia!

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Follow Mageia calendar and stay tuned!

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia now provides a calendar so that you can follow everything happening in the project. For now, we’ll use Google Calendar as it was fast to set up but later we will switch to a self-hosted calendar.

Mageia calendars are split into 4 categories:

  • Mageia meetings and organisation: all regular team meetings including Council ones
  • Mageia events: these are international events where Mageia will take part (booth and/or conference)
  • Mageia development planning: you will find here all important dates about development of coming Mageia releases (ISOs, version freezes, test days…)
  • Mageia packaging mentoring and training: register here if you are a Mageia official packager and you want to spend  some time helping beginners on  IRC

All these calendars are public and available to everyone. Only Mageia Board and Council members and team leaders can edit the calendars, except for the mentoring and training category where all official packagers can add/remove the relevant dates.

For any comments, additions, changes to this calendar, feel free to contact us through:

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First Mageia test day coming

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

Mageia Alpha 1 is now available for tests on public mirrors. In order to get as much feedback as possible, the first Mageia test day will be organized on 26th of February. This will be a kind of a test run as we plan to have test days for all development releases.

What do we expect from it?

Mainly feedback about install steps as having a full install media is the only way to test that easily. This is also a good chance to point out any RPM package that should be available by default on the ISOs. And finally it will allow us to check hardware detection during Mageia installation. This is a good time to test how well your hardware is supported in Mageia.

Do I need to be an expert to participate?

Not at all. We’ll provide a test procedure along with a list of all the debugging info needed to fix the issue, and how you can report bugs to the Mageia dev team. Join the party!

I cannot deal with Bugzilla, how can I still help you?

As said above, you will find a Bugzilla HOWTO and configuration for it has been done so that beginners can easily use it. Still if you cannot use it, use the Mageia mailing-lists (mageia-dev or mageia-discuss) or IRC (#mageia-dev on Freenode server) to make your report. Any feedback is always welcome.

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Magic mirror, tell me Alpha2 will be another success!

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

The first Alpha of Mageia has been a great success and all teams are working hard now on the next development release planned for the 15th of March.

While development releases are important for getting as much feedback as possible, we have encountered some difficulties regarding bandwidth. We have already mirrors hosting Mageia and we would like to thank them a lot for that! But still we need some more to be able to give better access to future ISOs and RPM packages.

So if you are interested in this, just check the following URLs out:

If you think you are able to provide Tiers1 mirror (mainly bandwidth criteria), please contact us on mageia-contact at mageia.org.

Thanks in advance for all contributions and enjoy Mageia!

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A new Planet had been discovered

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

It’s called Mageia!
A Planet is a web-based application which aggregates an RSS feed from community blogs about a certain project.

We had promised the Mageia Planet was coming soon, and so here it is: http://planet.mageia.org.
The paint is still wet (theme and customization will follow) but it’s working and you can ask to be part of the Planet of your choice (for now: de, en, es, fr, it, pt) by:

  • Just asking here in a comment;
  • Giving an RSS feed in ONE locale about Mageia (you can use tag or category) only (two locales on the same blog == two feeds)!

All requests will be reviewed by the Mageia marketing team.
Planet Mageia is based on moonmoon.

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