[Mageia-discuss] Contributing Howto : need help

[Hoyt Duff]

I ran that page through Google Translations and it looks quite good.

The initial paragraph translates as:
Mandriva Linux is a free operating system. It can be freely modified
and improved by its users and members of the community of this system.
The spirit of this system is summarized in a manifesto.

To me, this does not fully explain the use of "free" in the context of
Mandriva/Magia. This topic (free as in beer/free as in freedom) is
always one of much debate in any FOSS community.  I propose:

Mandriva Linux is an operating system based primarily on Open Source
code and licensed in a way to provide users and developers with
greater freedom than proprietary, restricted code.  It can be modified
and improved by its users and members of the community of this system.
The spirit of this system is summarized in a manifesto.

Nice job otherwise, although it could be more concise since it's
supposed to be an introductory page. It will take me a while to digest
it fully.

On 2/9/11, Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 09/02/2011 21:22, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
>> Le mercredi 9 février 2011 21:20:13, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was given the task to write a contributing howto, so that we could link
>>> to it from the alpha download page (and from other pages if considered
>>> useful).
>>>
>>> However, I'm sure I can delegate this task so that I can keep working on
>>> other matters.
>>>
>>> That's why I'm sending this to the mailing list : what should we say in
>>> this page, what layout, etc. ? If someone wants to propose a detailed
>>> outline for such a page that we could discuss, it would greatly help !
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Samuel
>> I forgot to say what was implicit for me but could have to be precised :
>> this
>> is meant to be the starting point for people wanting to help, whatever
>> their
>> skills. The goal is probably to explain what kind of help people can give,
>> then explain how they can give this help once they have chosen one or
>> several
>> areas of interest.
>>
>> Samuel
>
> I have started to work on this on the Mandriva wiki, still in french,
> and I could not finish it yet in french. But the basics are there.
> Perhaps we could use this in the next wiki for Mageia and complete it
> for every language.
>
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/Les_diff%C3%A9rentes_fa%C3%A7ons_de_contribuer
>
> Thomas.
>


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Hoyt