> I'd like to ask if will be a section in mageia.org for local communities or >will remain the same way as in forum.mandriva.com with redirections to the >locale forums (except french that is integrated in the official forum)
I think that it's important for a community to have a central gathering point, in our case: www.mageia.org As we're from all the corners of the world, it's nice so that everyone could have a custom gathering point (ex. the site's localization in all those languages). I think, if you look at it like a service offered, mageia.org must offer a standard package that includes website, forum, blog, wiki and mailing list in localized languages. For most of us is enough and we know when we're donating money for what we're doing it (infrastructure cost are also covered). > What will be the needs for a local community ? > The wiki will be in the mageia.org, the central page (blog) will be > translated >as now, so we will need only a forum and/or a blog (for announces,articles >about local events/issues) ? > That's a good question. What a local community needs could be that the "standard package" do not satisfy them? The only thing I can think of is if the local community intend to keep its own fanzine/magazine/gazette, its own package repositories or translations (ex. specific translations that do not fit/agree with the upstream). But once again, it'll be better to concentrate the effort and publish this in English so that all Mageia community may benefit. It's better to stay united, it's easier for the project governance and overview. Doing things locally brakes this unity and make forks and separation much easier. For Mandriva it's different because they have a business model based on franchise, letting local partners to organize things in their own way, based on Mandriva's products and support. This is not the case here to justify separated local Mageia communities. But I may be wrong... Best regards, Florin Catalin RUSSEN Romanian Translation Team
