[Mageia-discuss] UK user community?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:44, James Kerr
<jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2010 Margot wrote:
>
>> Other countries seem to be organising user communities, but I've
>> not seen anything for the UK. Perhaps it is easier for some other
>> countries as they already had active Mandriva user communities - I
>> never managed to find one for the UK, so perhaps it never existed!
>>
>> Has anybody set up anything for UK Mageia users? If not, would
>> anybody from the UK be prepared to help me to start something?
>
> Could you elaborate on what purpose you see such a group serving?
> Perhaps one never existed for Mandriva is because no one could think
> of a good reason for creating it. :)
>
> It seems to me that geographically based user groups serve little
> purpose. In contrast to language based user groups which clearly are
> needed, as evidenced by the success of Blogdrake and others.
>

I think that local user groups are useful to organize events like beer
tasting or distribution specific install party
However I fail to see the purpose at country level