Op dinsdag 02 november 2010 18:19:45 schreef Olivier Méjean: [...] > If i am couragous, i will do an English translation
google translate to english: Philippe Nieuwbourg - Hello everyone, welcome to the TV set of open world forum, we will now turn to another topic with our new guest Anne Nicolas, Hello Anne Nicolas - Hello PN - So you work for a community called Mageia AN - Absolutely PN - But then there are our listeners are saying "but never heard Mageia speaking, what is it that the promotion of this new thing "is a Mageia fork of Mandriva AN - quite PN - it remembers Mandriva, Mandriva I had left in my head a time when there were many financial difficulties, it was not well what it was going to give. Tell us a little bit what happened and what made you want to create this Mageia fork. AN - This fork Mageia came a whole lot of uncertainties that reside in Mandriva, I was myself employed by a subsidiary of Mandriva. It was felt there had been 12 years of tremendous work performed on this distribution and need to sustain this effort and we wanted to abstract from the presence a company that had high and low economic level and we decided to fork, ie resume distribution Mandriva Linux one point from a copy simply because the license allows and assembling a new project from there and only Community within an association and the project is called Mageia PN - so it's very fashionable because ultimately what you have done people from the MySQL community did at the time of acquisition by Oracle, they accepted the takeover by Sun, they have not accepted the takeover by Oracle, we learned yesterday that the OpenOffice community was doing the same thing too because they do not agree with the direction of Oracle So finally for those who do not know where all these terms, a Forking is that you can resume the original source code and create for the moment exactly the same thing, a true copy ? AN - altogether, it does not reinvent the wheel, since I mentioned earlier, we believe many technology integrated with Mandriva Linux, we think it's really a strong point, but it would work differently in the development of future distribution PN-Mageia So it'll be a 1901 association therefore non-profit? AN - quite, PN - built around the community, developers in fact, it is community developers who are members of the association? AN - then the members of the association will overlap with the full scope of that affect people directly or indirectly to a distribution. It will be developers, people who are packaging software, testers translators, but also because today what users The strength of a distribution is the ability of its community users to promote the distribution so they have a part quite predominant and essential in the association. PN - So it begs the question why an association. You think today is the best way to work together on a project like this? NA - found that the values of freedom today are that it can be a little demanding on the necessity of sharing the sustainability of the software, etc.. and given the history and challenges of the time Mandriva has been estimated that a community project was more appropriate and the association is only there to regulate the use of resources organization, so yes there is a community project but organized in a lasting way. PN - At the same time we must live, you were employed by a company that working on Mandriva, you may have wanted to find a job and back wages AN - yes it would be nice PN - it must be that all that great, how is what generates the income fully associative structure? AN - then the association is one thing, it produces a product that Mageia which is called a distribution, we can consider a perfectly commercial structure that will act in the periphery of the association and will based on the distribution called Mageia and will offer a whole lots of service as support, consulting, development, thereby help the company take this product has tremendous community strength and integrate it into its array of solutions it may have. PN - So now you're faced with a number of needs urgent first need we will try to answer them all is to make a bit of noise around Mageia because nobody knows. AN - Nobody knows the outdoors in the little world of open source I admit that we were very pleasantly surprised by the return because not Mandriva only the present community has reacted to the announcement and acceded but also because people using Mandrake at the time and returning because he believes it is a little more to their expectation that they and their vision of an open source distribution PN - Be careful what is called the navel syndrome which that people who know you and you know how difficult it is to ensure that those who do not know you have the reflex to go see Mageia rather because he must say things very clear shot of you become a little competition from Mandriva? AN-quite PN - How is what you do to try to promote this new brand, because it costs money as all that? AN - is finally starting very small since the initiative was made very short time, we launched an appeal for donations which currently meets extremely well, we had solutions to enable us to host our entire infrastructure, and we will try to sustain it in companies adhering to the association, and finally it becomes account that there are many users who understand that the Free software is not necessarily free and that I can to support the distribution rather than put a little money every month by example since I know that this money will be used so transparent and maintaining a number of value. We have many returns on that front. PN - And do you think that you will generate enough money eventually pay people who will permanently work distribution? NA - Immediate not within the Association, cons in a business structure that offer services can be more Traditional here we can actually generate income and that income may possibly be used to fund developments additional distribution PN - Very good transition, is what you have already thought about it should evolve within Mageia that it continues to meet required? At the same time Mandriva was in trouble for some time that therefore may be missing a bit of development, is what you want do new things? AN - So yes, there are plenty of things we want to do lots of things. Among others there is a huge strength is the control center, the Linux Control Center and now it's to change the rejuvenate because it's true that it is a little older and then Why not move towards architectures that are increasingly used as shelves for example, and can also switch to openness to services like cloud, etc.. so all that they are guidelines that will define in the coming weeks. PN - You have a real functioning associations, participatory? AN - quite, PN - you will meet regularly? AN - While meeting a little bit special as they will because the virtual community Mageia is international, ie it's a lot in Europe, South America, so in these cases we do can not do real meetings, the fact remains that these are people who are accustomed to working in that way, remote, so yes it will meetings, as each interest group, we will have a board to manage the association to make a strategic decision, especially so many communication, perhaps what we missed. PN - Okay, we hope to have made our small contribution, good luck in this project AN - thank you PN - we will continue elsewhere if we want to know more the website is AN - mageia.org PN - thank you very much Anne Nicolas AN - Thanks
