{"id":54,"date":"2010-10-02T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/?p=54"},"modified":"2012-11-20T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:13:15","slug":"mageia-some-news-about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2010\/10\/02\/mageia-some-news-about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia: some news about the project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Given all the contribution proposals we received so far, it looks like Mageia has the potential to be a great success! For those who are wondering what is happening right now, here are some news about various subjects:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span>In order to answer the main questions about the Mageia project, a FAQ is now available on the web site. Feel free to comment and ask for more questions if you think some subjects are missing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Mageia association is going to be registered on Monday with an official publication in about 1 month (once reviewed by the french administration), thanks to Severine and rtp<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>A Mageia Manifesto is in progress. We provided a list of items to help Graham Lauder and some marketing &amp; communication guys to work on a first draft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>A sysadmin team has been created by nicolas (boklm), to start working on the new infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>For the hardware infrastructure, we received proposals for servers and hosting. We now have the hardware to be able to setup a build system and host the main services. We already started the setup of a virtual machine offered by gandi.net which we will use soon to host the web sites and blog. Regarding the hosting of the other servers, we have a proposal for one year and are already working on a longer term solution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Misc is working on a planning for the deployment of the buildsystem (roughly, 4\/5 days from scratch without server installation if all goes well)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Olivier (Nanar) should soon announce some plans for the mirrors and a web application to take care of this. We already have many proposals for Mageia local mirrors to host packages and ISOs. But we are still looking for Tier1 mirrors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Buchan is working on the LDAP part of the infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Mageia has been contacted by various newspapers, podcasts, webTV, web Radio&#8230; etc. All these interviews took lot of time for preparation but you will hear about Mageia soon \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Donations are going really well, nearly 5.000 \u20ac and 100 donors! We will publish monthly financial reports so that you can follow how it&#8217;s being used. The first expenses will be hard disk drives, domain names and the Mageia trademark registration<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>You will soon be able to buy Mageia tee-shirts. We don&#8217;t have an official logo yet, but don&#8217;t worry, it is still possible to make fun tshirts without a logo.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>Coming soon on this blog, more news about the general organization of the Mageia project, stay tuned!<\/div>\n<div>Freely<\/div>\n<div>Mageia team<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given all the contribution proposals we received so far, it looks like Mageia has the potential to be a great success! 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