[Mageia-discuss] mandrivausers.org

[herman]

The Mandriva distribution has been dying by degrees over the last few
years.  The forum activity drying up is a reflection of the reduction in
the number of new users.

The news around the fork is bound to generate a new round of enthusiasm
and new users should be encouraged.  New users of course like web
forums, since it doesn't require any setup and a user with a problem
sorely needs an easy to use web forum.

So, all new users coming here to figure out what the fork noise is all
about, should be steered to the regular Mandriva downloads and
mandrivausers.org.  They should not be discouraged from using Mandriva.

H.

On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 22:24 -0700, Paul Willard wrote:
> I do not represent Mageia in anyway. :)
> I completely, and unequivocally represent mandrivausers.org board (MUB)
> (I'm the owner, administrator, founder, etc)
> 
> Agreed, whether a community forum is required or not should be discussed
> here (the mailing list) and decided here, by either a) those who do
> represent Mageia, or b) the entire community.
> 
> Having said that, I'm happy people like Herman are evangelists of
> mandrivausers :)
> 
> The community forum discussion thus far is this:
> I was given direction by a user (tux99) that I should register the name
> mageiausers.org (which I have)
> I then spent a few hours in the IRC channel, and openly offered my support
> of the project.
> The people I spoke to in the channel were overwhelmed with work (surprise
> surprise :) ) so thanked me for my offer, and suggested we could talk more
> in a day or two.
> 
> I (as I'm an action based person) have since started discussions on
> mandrivausers about what this means to our community, with all the response
> thus far being positive; all users suggest offering our unfettered support
> is good for both the MUB community, and the developing Mageia Users
> community (MUC ?? :) )
> 
> I'd be over the moon if I could help, as would all the MUB people.
> I've got stacks and stacks of infrastructure thanks to osuosl.org (Oregon
> State), which has diminished into nothingness over the last 2 years as
> Mandriva Support has died out.
> 
> Thanks Herman, I'll buy you a beer for your enthusiasm if we ever meet :)
> 
> Paul Willard.
> A.K.A. TerminalAddict
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mageia-discuss-bounces at mageia.org
> [mailto:mageia-discuss-bounces at mageia.org] On Behalf Of Remco Rijnders
> Sent: Sunday, 19 September 2010 5:02 p.m.
> To: Mageia general discussions
> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] mandrivausers.org
> 
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:35:14PM -0700, herman wrote:
> > Please sign up at mandrivausers.org and move the discussions there.
> 
> Hi Herman,
> 
> I feel trying to move discussions away from this mailinglist and on to a
> forum is not in the best interest of this new project. This list was
> specifically created by the project leaders to foster discussion on how the
> new project should operate and how to best interact with the hopefully
> abundant user community. As such, the discussion on having a forum is a good
> one to have here, I just feel that the unilateral creation of such a forum
> might be a bit premature. Perhaps it is more useful to provide a pointer to
> this mailinglist on said existing Mandriva fora.
> 
> Just my 2 cents worth. Thanks for your enthusiasm!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Remco
> 
> PS. I do not represent Mageia in any way, other than being an interested
> outsider :-)
> 
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