{"id":1894,"date":"2012-09-17T06:34:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T06:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2017-04-06T05:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:55:07","slug":"mageia-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/09\/17\/mageia-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Where did the time go? We&#8217;re 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September 2010, when Mageia was born, we had big dreams for our baby distro. \u00a0It&#8217;s great to be able to say: our dreams are coming true!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happened since our first birthday?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We released <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/05\/22\/mageia-2\/\">Mageia 2<\/a>\u00a0and have started preparing <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_3_development\">Mageia 3<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Our permanent <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Main_Page\">wiki<\/a>\u00a0went live, and is under constant development;<\/li>\n<li>Artwork, Marketing and Webteam merged into a single team called <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Atelier_team\">Atelier<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>We got to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?s=%22They+make+Mageia%22\">know some of our contributors<\/a> even better;<\/li>\n<li>We attended <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Events#2012\">events<\/a> and talked to people about Mageia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happening next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mageia 3 will be released before our next birthday! Look here to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_3_development#Development_Planning\">timeline<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re re-doing our <a href=\"http:\/\/mageia.org\">website<\/a> and wiki to make them easier to navigate &#8211; your feedback is crucial, so please do look and comment!<\/li>\n<li>All sorts of interesting things are happening with development and packaging &#8211; check in on IRC (#mageia-dev on Freenode)\u00a0and on the mailing list, and join in the fun!<\/li>\n<li>Atelier is looking for more people, come over to IRC (#mageia-atelier on Freenode) and join the <a href=\"https:\/\/ml.mageia.org\/l\/info\/atelier-discuss\">list<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>QA also needs more people! They&#8217;re on IRC\u00a0 at #mageia-qa on Freenode, and the mailing list is <a href=\"https:\/\/ml.mageia.org\/l\/info\/qa-discuss\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are we doing to celebrate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out this hashtag: <strong>#mageiabirthday2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Come by <strong>#mageia<\/strong> on Freenode IRC and say hi! We\u2019ll be there from 12:00 UTC on Tuesday 18th through to 12:00 UTC on Wednesday 19th.<\/li>\n<li>Post something anywhere with the #mageiabirthday2 tag (twitter, identi.ca, G+, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube\u2026) and send us the links!<\/li>\n<li>Party! Post your pictures and send us some links;<\/li>\n<li>Tell us what this means to <strong>you<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thank you everybody!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mageia is growing up to be a great distro: a big thank you to everyone in our community!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a moment to appreciate everyone who makes Mageia: developers, translators, documenters, sysadmins, packagers, testers, bug squad members, forums contributors, the atelier people who do all the pretties and very importantly, Mageia users from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks also go to all of you, whose interest in the project has helped to push us up the Distrowatch charts; your support is the reason Mageia people are still having a great time making it, just as well as we possibly can.<\/p>\n<p>Onwards to Mageia 3 and our third birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September 2010, when Mageia was born, we had big dreams for our baby distro. \u00a0It&#8217;s great to be able to say: our dreams are coming true! 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