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From: Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [board-private] Proposed mail for council people
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:02:13 +0200
To: Anne Nicolas <ennael1@gmail.com>

Looks good to go.

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Romain

Le 19 mai 2012 =C3=A0 20:27, Anne Nicolas <ennael1@gmail.com> a =C3=A9crit :=


> Hi there
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> Here is a draft for council people (not using ML but mailing everybody). C=
omment? This should be sent tonight so that we have time to work on this pro=
perly
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> Cheers
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> --------------------
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> Hi everyone,
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> I'm mailing here the mail Romain sent to the board yesterday, following la=
st discussions with Mandriva CEO, JM Croset.
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> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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> so, Anne and me got in a conf call with JM Croset a few minutes ago to get=
 a status.
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> He announced yesterday (Thursday, May 18) http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012=
/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/. So several discussions a=
re popping up here and there. Mageia's
> position has been transferred to some people inside Mandriva, among which P=
eroyvind (see https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?p=3D18041#p18041 - a=
lthough he doesn't have the full story it seems).
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> He will announce early next Monday (22) that Mandriva SA will use Mageia a=
s a tech platform for its business server line, and contribute back. Antoine=
 Ginies (Mandriva engineer in chief for the business server) will get in tou=
ch with us to see how we do this technically.
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> He worries that trolls and discussions may damage Mageia in the coming day=
s (for both news: Mandriva using Mageia as a tech platform for its Business S=
erver line; and Mageia not following Mandriva in its foundation things) beca=
use he realizes that... community stuff sometimes goes out of hand; but he r=
eassured us that, whatever is said, he does mean good for everyone; so it's i=
mportant to play it cool and neutral on our side too.
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> So, here's a suggested plan:
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> * 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 fo=
r its business server line (link) and contribute back.
>   - this double news should make it more obvious that things are not so si=
mple as "Mageia is dumping Mandriva" or "Mandriva is rebasing on Mageia".
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> * this news being published Monday morning, it leaves two full days to pro=
pagate, before we push the Mageia 2 release news (Tuesday evening) - interes=
t about Mageia will have raised a bit in the previous days, and this release=
 news will hide partially the previous news.
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> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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> It's good news for Mageia as it makes Mageia ecosystem grow up. It will ma=
ke things clearer for Mageia community now as many things were told about Ma=
ndriva future and community. Mageia keeps its own governance and organizatio=
n which are now working quite well.
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> So the next step is about communicating on these news. As said by Romain i=
t has to be prepared and be ready very quickly as Mandriva announcement is p=
lanned for sunday evening. Mandriva CEO will send us the draft of its own an=
nouncement so that we can check we all agree on the content.
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> So now we have to work on the Mageia blog post which will be published on m=
onday morning:
> https://pad.riseup.net/p/mdv-foundation
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> --=20
> Anne
> http://mageia.org