[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

Marc Paré marc at marcpare.com
Wed Sep 22 21:27:11 CEST 2010


Could you please not break the threads and not top post please. We are 
trying to organize and this is not helping!

You will probably find people will answer you better this way.

Merci de ton aide.

Marc


Le 2010-09-22 15:14, André Machado a écrit :
> As said yesterday on IRC, there was a discussion if all foruns would be centered in only one site (ex: es.mageiaforums.org or fr.mageiaforums.org) or whether each international community had its own and independent. Was decided by this second one.
>
> An user what is mantainer of mandrivausers.com offered himself to turn your forum in the official english-speaking mageia forum and it would be transferred to mageiausers.org. But some issues arose:
>
> 1. currently, mandrivausers.org uses IPB, what is not free as in the freedom, even gratis. However, that's IPB installation is Legal. The issue was: is ethical to use a non-free forum software to be a free software main forum project?
>
> 2. We don't know if mageiausers.org will be the official Mageia forums or only the Mageia english-speakers official forum.
>
> 3. In the event of this site become the official forum, does the IPB license allow changing of Domain name?
>
> Note that I refer to the official forum as that what distro directors and main delevopers will be "aways" present and we will can give our views about many questions and decide Mageia future.
>
> --- sinnerbofh at gmail.com escreveu:
>
> From: Sinner from the Prairy<sinnerbofh at gmail.com>
> To: Mageia general discussions<mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:56:06 -0400
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Romain d'Alverny<rdalverny at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> just to spec. a little things.
>>
>> It's amazing to see all this help coming in. :-) As it's starting to
>> bubble a bit, I would like we share the discussion about forums and
>> hosting them, for the setup.
>>
>> We see two options at this time:
>>   1. hosting forums at forum.mageia.org (or st like that) and
>> delegating management, animation;
>>   2. delegating forums per locale/country/whatever and having
>> forum.mageia.org redirect to each.
> (...)
>
> Romain,
>
> As you know, Spanish-speaking community BlogDrake has joined Mageia.
>
> We already have our own infrastructure up and running. Thus, could we
> get Mageia's Spanish-speaking forum to be redirected to
> http://blogdrake.net ?
>
> Right now, Mandriva's official Spanish-speaking forum is doing just that.
>
> Salut,
> Sinner




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