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Mageia Blog (English) : Mageia at JDLL 2011
1 de Dezembro de 2011, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaThe JDLL took place in Lyon, France on the 18th and 19th of November. Mageia was there.
The JDLL (« Journées du logiciel libre », i.e. “Free Software Days”) are an annual event organised in Lyon by ALDIL (a Lyon-based association promoting the development of free computing): talks, workshops and business and association booths.
Some contributors were there to represent Mageia at our distribution’s booth:
- Adrien Gallou (agallou)
- Rémi Verschelde (Akien)
- Samuel Verschelde (Stormi)
There were also other members of the community, especially Michaël Scherer (misc) on the JabberFr.org booth, and Daniel Tartavel (who helped us with logistics assistance) on the booth of LibrePC. [1]
To help us break the ice with the visitors, we displayed these lines on our demonstration screen:
We wanted to give out free installation CDs (and some DVDs) to the visitors interested in Mageia, to encourage its spreading. We made some with our own stuff, since there are no official materials for Mageia yet.
The CDs given out the first day, burned and designed by Adrien:
The CDs which were distributed the second day, provided by Daniel:
Visitors were quite diverse, ranging from neophytes with no knowledge of Linux to advanced users asking for support on a specific subject.
A local mailing list project was conceived during these two days, dedicated to Mageia users from Lyon and its surroundings. The list aims to ease the process of organising install parties and RPM workshops, and also to enable us to support each other. Some users who were interested in it have already given us their emails so that we can notify them if the project becomes a reality.
Finally, these two days enabled us to spread the word about Mageia and to show it as a major distribution (one of the 4 distributions which were represented, along with Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu), to meet more people from the free software community of Lyon and its surroundings, and to have a good time.
[1] LibrePC is Daniel’s shop in Lyon specialising in Linux and free software.
Mageia Blog (English) : Looking better and better
28 de Novembro de 2011, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaMageia 1 looks quite amazingly handsome, doesn’t it?
Looking back, what we achieved is impressive, especially when you consider the size of the artwork team and how new something like this was to us. It was a bit of a mad scramble to get it all done in time – and somehow we made it, even though there were only a few of us.
Thanks go out to all of the people who helped with Mageia 1. It was very much appreciated – and hopefully will be again soon!
Now we’re a real team, thanks in large part to our leader TeaAge; we have a good structure, and we’re properly up and running.
With Mageia 1 out in the wild, it’s time to turn our attention to Mageia 2. Using what we’ve learned and our new expertise, we aim to make Mageia 2 very pretty indeed.
Our call now is to anyone and everyone who has anything to contribute: please get involved!
No matter whether you have finished artwork, a vague idea, a basic sketch… please share it, so we can all look at each others’ work, finish what needs finishing and build it into Mageia 2. We’re gathering ideas as much as we’re getting the final pieces done, so if your work is still in progress, post it and tell us where you see it going.
We need: wallpapers, icon sets, themes, colour schemes or just your lovely constructive criticism.
What to do and where to go to help:
There’s now a group on flickr where you can post your work.
There’ s a thread on the Mageia Forum.
Check the Mageia wiki for some useful info.
And last but not least, the licensing info can be found here.
We look forward to seeing your work and your ideas.
PS: If you don’t want to sign up to flickr, you can either post links to your artwork in the forum thread (see the link above), or send links to the artwork mailing list.
The Mageia Artwork team
Mageia Blog (English) : Looking better and better
28 de Novembro de 2011, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaMageia 1 looks quite amazingly handsome, doesn’t it?
Looking back, what we achieved is impressive, especially when you consider the size of the artwork team and how new something like this was to us. It was a bit of a mad scramble to get it all done in time – and somehow we made it, even though there were only a few of us.
Thanks go out to all of the people who helped with Mageia 1. It was very much appreciated – and hopefully will be again soon!
Now we’re a real team, thanks in large part to our leader TeaAge; we have a good structure, and we’re properly up and running.
With Mageia 1 out in the wild, it’s time to turn our attention to Mageia 2. Using what we’ve learned and our new expertise, we aim to make Mageia 2 very pretty indeed.
Our call now is to anyone and everyone who has anything to contribute: please get involved!
No matter whether you have finished artwork, a vague idea, a basic sketch… please share it, so we can all look at each others’ work, finish what needs finishing and build it into Mageia 2. We’re gathering ideas as much as we’re getting the final pieces done, so if your work is still in progress, post it and tell us where you see it going.
We need: wallpapers, icon sets, themes, colour schemes or just your lovely constructive criticism.
What to do and where to go to help:
There’s now a group on flickr where you can post your work.
There’ s a thread on the Mageia Forum.
Check the Mageia wiki for some useful info.
And last but not least, the licensing info can be found here.
We look forward to seeing your work and your ideas.
PS: If you don’t want to sign up to flickr, you can either post links to your artwork in the forum thread (see the link above), or send links to the artwork mailing list.
The Mageia Artwork team
Mageia Blog (English) : Mageia 2 Alpha 1 – ready for testing!
25 de Novembro de 2011, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaWe’re all excited today! We’re at the first milestone on our way to Mageia 2 – Alpha 1 ISOs are ready for download.
Now it’s time for everyone to test, test, test and report bugs – so that Mageia 2 will be in great shape for release in May. You will find more info on our freshly migrated wiki:
- alpha1 release notes; in particular, check our known issues and what you can test and report;
- development roadmap
- specifications
- download links
Enjoy!
Juan Luis Baptiste : So long without blogging !!
22 de Novembro de 2011, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaIt has been a while since my last post. After it I got very busy because I was changing jobs and had to travel just after I started the new job, but then I totally forgot :P. Today I thought I should change that and just go ahead and post.
So to do a quick resume, as I was saying, nine months ago I got a new job, working in a completely different area (but not totally unrelated) of what I have always worked before. For the past 10 years I had worked in software development and on the last years on IT Consultancy with some big enterprises products. Now I have gone to work with a CDN company that offers delivery services for static content, delivery of live and on demand streaming and a lot of security services within their CDN. Actually it's pretty cool, and it's not as demanding as my previous job which means more spare time to work on Mageia Linux and other stuff.
I also started to contribute more and more with Mageia Linux (and sadly less with Mandriva, but I suppose that's the natural course of things after all that happened with them last year, and the new direction that they're taking). Leaving aside the packages I maintain, I'm in the mentoring program, mentoring four (and soon five) packagers from the blogdrake spanish community. They have a huge 3rd-party repository for Mandriva and Mageia, but many of their packages don't exist in Mageia and it would be better if they were. So, we have been working with them in fixing their packages to get them to the point of being of enough quality to be imported into our official Mageia repositories. So far we have fixed and imported around 20 of them and we still continue working on others. The list of packages that still need to be reviewed and imported is pretty big and can be found here (the list is not always up-to-date and could be organized better but it's a start) if someone else wants to help us in getting them available for all the Mageia community :D
Well, that's all for now, I will try to start posting more frequently about what I'm working on as I did before on planet mdv, there's some stuff I have been working on lately and deserve a post :)