On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Lottmann <[email protected]> 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. > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss >
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 _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
