[Mageia-marketing] Some ideas submitted for discussion

[Sebastian sebsebseb]

Hi Josh

In the  blog post I gave you the link for some people had requested 
their blogs to be added to planets. Email Damien (aka coincoin) about 
them: dams @mageia.org
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>> http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/02/18/a-new-planet-had-been-discovered/
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As for adding users to the planets I agree, as long as they aren't 
posting bad stuff. With Ubuntu they have only Ubuntu Community Members 
in their planet as far as I know and no one else. http://planet.ubuntu.com
> I don't know that my area has enough mass for a LoCo style team though 
> :-(
Of course you can start something for your local area or country, even 
if it just starts off as a IRC channel like I have done with #mageia-uk. 
As for how many people there are or aren't, that doesn't matter that 
much to begin with, just go for it and start something if you would like 
to :).

There are only a few people from the UK that are interested in Mageia at 
the moment that I know about, but I expect we will start to have quite a 
few more when Mageia 2 comes out :).  There are already quite a few 
people from the USA who are interested in Mageia as well that I know 
about, and quite a few of them come to my #mageia-social IRC channel.

You may also have a Linux Users Group (LUG) in your area, that you can 
go to and try and gain some interest in Mageia, like I will probably be 
doing this Saturday.

This Saturday I am probably going to a pub to go to a LUG for my first 
time :). It was going to be last month, but then some issues with trying 
to get there. It turned out people were turning up at different times 
any way and not that many, so there wasn't a proper meeting.

I'll go to the city to the LUG to meet some other Linux users in person 
for a first time from this area, wearing one of my black FOSDEM 2011 t 
shirts, that I bought when going to my first opensource/freesoftware 
event this year FOSDEM 2012 :). I'll also have some Gnome and KDE, 
Mageia 1 Live CD's to give out from this year's FOSDEM, and I'll bring 
some other LInux stuff with me as well.

 From Sebastian sebsebseb

P.S

After sending my previous reply, and reading your email again, I 
realised that you already knew that Mageia had a planet.