Original quoted in part. On 12/09/2010 04:57 AM, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
Mageia won't happen/grow/succeed without a cohesive lot of committed people. It is a community thing. It's not the founding members + a few versus all the rest; it's not an organisation versus all the other people. It's a whole. Its governance has been designed so that the very control of the project/association will go to those that will have been recognized as the best ones for that job. Wobo said it, it's a 2-way thing.
Ok, it may sound as "we won't recruit/encourage anyone to join, they just have to prove themselves"; but that's not that: as I said _it is a grain of salt_. We do, we have to encourage people to join for good reasons (that's even the very first big thing the marketing team has as a target), contributors first. We hope Mageia as we exposed it and managed it to this day is a good set of great reasons. That's how/where we're learning at this time. That's why this postmortem is crucial (and that we expect to do one after each significant release/action). For it to work, we've go to accept to listen to open point of views, even harsh ones - that does not prevent us to defend our own points. We all have to take these from a distance to better understand the whole picture. In this, your point of view is very valuable as well as others (provided the language/timezone/whatever barriers, let's do it quietly and carefully).
Well said Romain. I am strictly a user. Very limited technical ability. I have been using Mandrake/Mandriva since 2002. As a home user I have found it to be an excellent, user friendly, mistake forgiving program. Community support has been excellent. There has always been someone to help me address my problems.
I have been following the progress on the discussion list and am eagerly awaiting the first program. I want to sincerely thank all the contributors/community that are working hard to provide me, the end user, with a product that will continue the Mandriva reliability and usability features.
Thanks, Gary
