# Statuts Mageia.Org / Mageia.Org Constitution Mageia.org constitution ("Statuts" in French) were written and registered in Paris, France in Fall 2010. The reference version is the French one, available in mageia.org\_statutes_fr.md This is the master version of the constitution of the association. All other reprints should match and keep updated against this one, hosted under [http://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/constitution/](http://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/constitution/). You will find a reference to it from [http://www.mageia.org/en/about/constitution/](http://www.mageia.org/en/about/constitution/) as well. An English version of is made available for a larger reception of it in mageia.org\_statutes_en.md Both are formatted in MarkDown. We will try to maintain the English version as updates occur. ## How to propose an update * post your change proposal patch against the current final version to board-public@ml.mageia.org with the rationale behind the change. * the change will be discussed and approved/rejected by the board after public consideration. ## How to maintain updates * keep a full copy of the current version of the constitution in old/YYYY-MM-DD-mageia.org\_statutes_fr.md * keep a full copy of the new patch to apply in old/YYYY-MM-DD-patch_{summary}. This patch must contain the rationale copy in its headers. * apply the patch to the mageia.org\_statutes_fr.md * same for the English version of course. * please use appropriate tools to do that.