Welcome back from the holidays! It seems like we’re all refreshed, we all had a great time and we’re all ready to dive into 2012 and make Mageia even better.<\/p>\n
First up on the events calendar is FOSDEM<\/a>.<\/p>\n FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting. It’s a 2-day conference held in Brussels, Belgium, and it’s to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Held every February for more than 10 years, it’s a major event for the free software enthusiast in Europe. Check out our FOSDEM planning page for 2012 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n We were there last year for the first time as Mageia. Here’s our report<\/a>. On the Mageia stand<\/strong><\/p>\n Like last year, we have been granted a stand in the section dedicated to community projects, alongside other distributions such as Opensuse, Fedora, or projects like GNOME and KDE.<\/p>\n We will be there to answer to questions, present the project, showcase the new alpha 3 ISO, give away Live Mageia 1 CDS and to have a friendly chat with everybody who would like to share with us. Please do come and say hello if you have the occasion, between talks.<\/p>\n If you’re a Mageia person, we’d love to have your help – come and hand out CDs, tell people how you use Mageia, talk to other packagers and developers, or just get a picture taken with your favorite Mageia contributors!<\/p>\n Mageia-related talks<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>And again, like last year, we’re doing our part with the talks and sessions.<\/p>\n Our contributor Misc (Michael Scherer) will do a talk about the distribution, more precisely about the unified login setup that was set up by sysadmins. He will also participate in a round table about the subject of system administration of Linux distribution projects, to share and discuss ideas.<\/p>\n Several other talks are planned, like a cross distribution talk about local team, and there’s a proposal for a session called “Cross distro problem solving” that we might be part of. We’ll update the FOSDEM page on the wiki as we get more info.<\/p>\n Mageia General Assembly<\/strong><\/p>\n Each year Mageia must hold a General Assembly, to elect replacement board members, give a financial report and do some other reporting, and to conduct other business as required.<\/p>\n We’ll be announcing the place, day and time of the Assembly once it’s fixed, as well as announcing the final agenda and the process for nominations and voting.<\/p>\n The Saturday Dinner at FOSDEM<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re starting to put our names down on the list to have dinner on Saturday night. The list is on the wiki page<\/a> – come join us!<\/p>\n How you can help at FOSDEM<\/strong><\/p>\n Come and join the fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back from the holidays! It seems like we’re all refreshed, we all had a great time and we’re all ready to dive into 2012 and make Mageia even better. First up on the events calendar is FOSDEM. FOSDEM is … Continue reading
\nThis year we’ll be a little bit more visible at FOSDEM, because we’ve grown, so we hope it’s a bit easier to find us:<\/p>\n\n