[Mageia-discuss] New Wikipedia Mageia testpage launched (was: page of Mageia in wikipedia (in english) has been deleted)

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Tue May 22 12:20:12 CEST 2012


> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net>
> wrote:
>> On Sunday 20 May 2012 19:56, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
>>> I have therefore created a Mageia page in my own sandbox, that we can
>>> work on. That way it can be moved to the main article when it's ready.
>>
>> And now we have a Wikipedia article, with sources. :-)=
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageia
>
> Excellent. Thanks guys!
>
> Just one note.
>
> "On September 17, 2010, Mandriva S.A. held a General Assembly that
> approved the entry of new shareholders from Russia [6], and also
> decided not to rehire the employees of the Mandriva team (Edge IT in
> France)."
>
> Edge IT liquidation is not related to Sept. 17th GA. Those were two
> separate things. On Sept. 2nd, Edge IT was effectively placed under
> liquidation process by the Paris Tribunal de Commerce; there's a
> 2-weeks delay before it was effective for employees; that meant that
> on Sept. 17th, all Edge IT employees were released.
>
> Sources (in French):
>  - http://www.societe.com/societe/edge-it-444481204.html (it's a
> registry of French companies)
>  - all ex-employees, but that's not easy to quote :)
>
> I'm not sure how to port this into this paragraph though.
>


also, it needs a section on how to pronounce it (the link below already
has some info on that, and i'm sure there's mails in the mailing archives
that deal with those too...

Can we also have a small part on what was problematic under Mandriva
(communication with higher-ups), and our organizational structure, which
is pretty notable on it's own


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