[Mageia-marketing] mageiapeople.org

Donald Stewart watersnowrock at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 21:07:13 CET 2012


On 23 March 2012 19:54, Sebastian sebsebseb <sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Ok got to start my reply some where, first of all as rda put it's ok to set
> up things outside the http://mageia.org website for Mageia.
>
> However I agree with rda certain things may be good to set up outside the
> http://mageia.org website as a test, and then later become part of the
> official project website.
>
> Being clear Josh's idea is to have a separate planet hosted on
> http://mageiapeople.org where many users of Mageia can have their blogs
> being mentioned, and possibly microblogging as well later on in a separate
> section for example.  This planet would/will become rather general, since
> people won't always be blogging or microblogging about Mageia.
>
> For blogs of Mageia developers and people like that http://planet.mageia.org
> makes perfect sense.  The idea was never to compete against
> http://planet.mageia.org or try to, the idea was to just provide a different
> type of planet as well aimed at the Mageia users community, people who are
> just users of the distribution specifically, but contributors could also go
> on this planet as well.
>
> At the moment it's just a new idea that is being tested out on
> http://mageiapeople.org that may become a proper planet for Mageia users
> with many blogs, and possibly some microblogging as well in a separate
> section for example.
>
> I also suggested that Josh took his idea to the Mageia discuss mailing list
> and the forum.
>
> Josh wondered before who ran http://planet.mageia.org so I checked on IRC by
> chatting to Coincoin/Damien that it was indeed him, and got the email
> address, and told Josh it in a previous email to this mailing list, thinking
> he would email Coincoin/Damien about it.
>
> Josh typed:
>
>> The chances of someone single handedly starting up
>> "ilovemageia.com/.org/.net" increase as Mageia's brand grows. Personally I
>> think such fan sites, etc. would be good things to have happen but that's
>> just my opinion.
>
>
> I agree, and I think the more websites there are mentioning Mageia in a
> positive way the better for the project.
>
> I 100% agree that those kind of sites will be rather good to have for the
> Mageia project usually.
>
> I have a prime example for when a unofficial website works very well for the
> project as a whole: http://omgubuntu.co.uk the most popular news and such
> website for the Ubuntu project (or so I believe any way), and by a long way.
>  It is also an unofficial site, it is not made as part of the Ubuntu
> Community or by Canonical.  Really it was just started by a guy who decided
> to start the site and so on from there. However since it's been so popular
> for years, official Ubuntu Community Members have sometimes guest posted on
> it, such as Jono Bacon the community manager who is also a Canonical
> employee and Jorge Castro from his community team at Canonical, and Daniel
> Holbach who I think may also be from it, and that is a Ubuntu Community
> Member.
>
> Official Ubuntu Community Members as far as I know will still post on
> http://omgubuntu.co.uk sometimes as well.
>
> They have also had people such as Seif Lofty the Zeitgeist developer
> blogging on it for example. I think he is a Ubuntu Community Member as well,
> but not sure.
>
> So yes the website is unofficial, but it works very much so for Canonical's
> advantage, and the Ubuntu Community as a whole, however let's be clear about
> that again it's not an official Canonical or Ubuntu Community website. The
> official Ubuntu blogs or kind of thing, would be the ones from Ubuntu
> Community Members shown in their planet: http://planet.ubuntu.com
>
> Do Ubuntu have a planet for users of the distro? Well no not that I know of,
> but they don't really need to either, because there are loads of blogs out
> there that tend to mention it, and the most popular ones are already known
> about by many people.
>
> Josh's idea of having a separate planet for just users
> http://mageiapeople.org whilst still also having the more official planet
> http://planet.mageia.org as well, I think as a community building minded
> person is an absolutely great idea.
>
> Yes ok so if it's on http://mageiapeople.org it won't be seen as being that
> official probably, but that's good for such a planet with loads of blogs
> that will be mentioning quite a lot of other stuff at times as well, not
> just Mageia.
>
> The blogs that are mentioned on http://planet.mageia.org should be mainly
> mentioning Mageia, but for Josh's http://mageiapeople.org idea things will
> be much more general.
>
> As members of the marketing team it is our responsibility to help gain
> interest in the Mageia project, and yes to some extent Josh's
> http://mageiapeople.org idea will help to do this.
>
> From Sebastian sebsebseb
>
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Can you add my blogspot on here or is it not the place.

http://schultzslog.blogspot.co.uk/

Thanks.


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