[Mageia-discuss] UK user community?

[Anshul Jain]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Le 20/09/2010 11:44, James Kerr a écrit :
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Jim
>
> It may be useful to create a mageia-uk structure to promote and regroup
> users in all the United Kingdom, but only a website portal then, because the
> anglophone forum would be the international one in english.
>
> There could also be a mageia-us website portal, linking to the same
> anglophone wiki and forum. Yet, an independant portal would help informing
> local users of local news and events, in addition to the worldwide news and
> events. The aim is to help UK and US users to also have local news according
> to their territory and be able to organize and avertise about Mageia events
> in the UK or the US, and also have some Open Source news form these
> territories.
>
> The forum and the wiki that are still in construction (if they are) are
> language-dependant. But I think that a website portal can be community
> maintained and can be dependant on a territory to be able to offer specific
> news and events as well. Non-anglophone countries do have their own portals
> and local news and events, I see no reason for UK and US communities to not
> have their own, despite linking it to the anglophone/international forum.
>
> Well, that's just an idea...
>
> Skiper.
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The same would go for India...I'm considering a mageia.in domain and
adding Mageia specific articles in the local languages. Although for
India, we have close to 28 official languages (each with their own
scripts) and of course- English. But it could be manageable with help.

-Anshul