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What are local communities doing?
- representing Mageia at local events
- spreading news about Mageia in their respective language/country
- supporting Mageia users in their own language (forums/wikis,irc,...)
- keeping the contact between the users and the main Mageia project alive
- organizing install parties, get-togethers
Country vs. Language based communities
When looking at the points above, there are some parts that can be handled best by a "language based" local community, like the support via forums, wiki or irc channel.
But there are also things only a "country based" community can do like representing Mageia at local events or organizing an install party or a get together.
In some bigger countries like the USA, it might even make sense to have "region based" local communities.
So I would leave the decision of whether to found a local community on basis of speaking the same language or living in the same country/region to the single communities themselves.
First list of communities
- Country / Language : name - web link, irc chan, forum - contact(s) of representative(s)
- France : MLO (Mageia Linux Online] - web site, #mlo on Liberachat
- Spanish : Blogdrake - web site, #blogdrake on irc.escomposlinux.org server
- Brazil : web site, forum,
- german : forum on forum.mageia.org
- Italy : web site, forum or web site, forum
- Poland : web site, forums
- China : forum
- Greece : web site, forum
- Russian : seb site, forum and seb site, forum
- turkish : forum
What others do
This is an abstract from the local communities round table at FOSDEM
Fedora
Fedora has its ambassador program (FAmSCo).
A Fedora ambassador is a title you have to earn by taking part in a mentoring program, although you can lose it again by being inactive for some time.
You don't have to be an ambassador to take part in any of the above mentioned tasks; ambassadors are a kind of community leader.
FAmSCo is one of the leading bodies of the Fedora project.
openSUSE
openSUSE has ambassadors as well, but at the moment anyone who wants to be an openSUSE ambassador can actually become one. This leads to many people becoming an ambassador simply because they fancy the title.
The openSUSE project is currently searching for A Better Way!
Debian
Doesn't have any central organisation in this respect.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu has many local communities and is evaluating those. Depending on their actions, they are getting the status of an approved local community.
Depending on the status, they get different levels of support by Ubuntu/Canonical.
There is a council of six elected people who keep the whole thing together (e.g. they decide on the status of the local communities).
Ideas for Mageia
obgr_seneca:
My idea is to follow - not in everything, but in general - the Ubuntu example.
We don't need any official title as "ambassador". I would suggest, that we ask all the existing local communities to send a representative to a "local communities team".
The main duty of the local community team would be, to keep the information flow between the different communities alive and to act as a link between the local communities and the main Mageia project.
And also in helping new communities in their creation.
Local communities can decide whether they want to host their own servers (for wikis, forums and so on) like mlo and others do, or to use Mageia infrastructure like the Germans have opted to do.
We can then create a portal page for the local communities as done on http://loco.ubuntu.com/, perhaps not in all that detail though, at least in the beginning.
