Message-ID: <4FB7E61C.1030709@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:27:40 +0200 From: Anne Nicolas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120426 Thunderbird/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: board-private@ml.mageia.org Subject: Proposed mail for council people Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there Here is a draft for council people (not using ML but mailing everybody). Comment? This should be sent tonight so that we have time to work on this properly Cheers -------------------- Hi everyone, I'm mailing here the mail Romain sent to the board yesterday, following last discussions with Mandriva CEO, JM Croset. ================= so, Anne and me got in a conf call with JM Croset a few minutes ago to get a status. He announced yesterday (Thursday, May 18) http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/. So several discussions are popping up here and there. Mageia's position has been transferred to some people inside Mandriva, among which Peroyvind (see https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?p=18041#p18041 - although he doesn't have the full story it seems). He will announce early next Monday (22) that Mandriva SA will use Mageia as a tech platform for its business server line, and contribute back. Antoine Ginies (Mandriva engineer in chief for the business server) will get in touch with us to see how we do this technically. He worries that trolls and discussions may damage Mageia in the coming days (for both news: Mandriva using Mageia as a tech platform for its Business Server line; and Mageia not following Mandriva in its foundation things) because he realizes that... community stuff sometimes goes out of hand; but he reassured us that, whatever is said, he does mean good for everyone; so it's important to play it cool and neutral on our side too. So, here's a suggested plan: * we announce/explicit both news on our side on Monday early morning (CEST) as well, in a single blog post embedding all Mandriva-related news: - on one side, Mageia is not going to join Mandriva foundation project (and why, cold reasons as we gave him), - on the other side, Mandriva is going to use Mageia as tech platform for its business server line (link) and contribute back. - this double news should make it more obvious that things are not so simple as "Mageia is dumping Mandriva" or "Mandriva is rebasing on Mageia". * this news being published Monday morning, it leaves two full days to propagate, before we push the Mageia 2 release news (Tuesday evening) - interest about Mageia will have raised a bit in the previous days, and this release news will hide partially the previous news. =================== It's good news for Mageia as it makes Mageia ecosystem grow up. It will make things clearer for Mageia community now as many things were told about Mandriva future and community. Mageia keeps its own governance and organization which are now working quite well. So the next step is about communicating on these news. As said by Romain it has to be prepared and be ready very quickly as Mandriva announcement is planned for sunday evening. Mandriva CEO will send us the draft of its own announcement so that we can check we all agree on the content. So now we have to work on the Mageia blog post which will be published on monday morning: https://pad.riseup.net/p/mdv-foundation -- Anne http://mageia.org