[Mageia-marketing] Some ideas submitted for discussion

[Josh King]

Hey all,

I mentioned I had some ideas I was working on and would present to the 
group. Well here are 2 of them

1) a Planet feed for mageia users. Users blog about Mageia and 
interesting this as well, so why not have their own planet? Along with 
that is making sure all the packagers are on planet mageia - there have 
been many new ones added to the group but not added to the Planet. IMO, 
planets are a great way for people to follow along with whats going on 
in the community as a whole, who's doing what, or even to identify where 
problems may be. I think this gives a bit more of a sense of ownership 
to the average user as well. Any inputs on this? I assume this would 
have to be coordinated with the web team?

2) Official titles for those who are evangelizing Mageia (Ubuntu has 
LoCo teams, Fedora has Ambassadors). We reply on our users to help get 
the word out, and they deserve something in return for this effort. I'm 
not sure how we decide what this looks like for us or how to determine 
what criteria need to be met (posting a review? submitting a news/blog 
post to a major news site?) So this idea is much less concretely formed 
and I'm open for any suggestions.

The point of all of this is to work on community building. Yes, by using 
Mageia anyone is a member of the community. But adding something a bit 
more official to strive for I think only helps to strengthen the brand. 
I've worked in community building with several projects before, and the 
most successful ones always offer ways to become "official" members to 
regular users. I just see we are doing a great job in many areas but I 
think this one could be improved somewhat. Anyone have any other ideas, 
thoughts or comments?

Thanks!
Josh