"what's more important – and quite unlike the proprietary world – is that free software vendors need reminding that they're stewards for people's software and ideas. And Linux is the best possible ark for bringing those ideas home." - Graham Morrison (déc. 2010, techradar.com, )

Short talk (30 min.) Questions welcomed at the end or on the booth

Mandriva Linux Since 1998 Nice innovations Great plans (users first) Great community Great distribution Great tools but...

Quite a disturbing experience We will not detail

How to improve on this?

Change the rule Get the community to take control over the whole project Fork

Whole project: code, hardware, hosting, funding, decisions, direction

Control through elected governance bodies: Team leaders, Council & Board

Community: users & contributors (all disciplines, individuals & orgs)

Set of principles

People first Trust Subsidiarity

Learning by experimenting Economic perspective & relevance Practical relevance (not yet another linux distro)

Objectives (1/2) Ease packagers & users life Grow the culture of learning through the project (learning from people, from experience; in technology, sw dev, privacy, artwork, personal data & activities, project mgmt, community & sharing economics) Use technology & economics as trusted tools to empower people Distribute more through the community (subsidiarity)

Objectives 2/2 Get a better understanding of people behaviour regarding computing devices Get a better real-life integration of the distribution (devices, contexts, uses) Experiment a sustainable economic model around the project, matching its core values

Roadmap

Getting things started (expected 1 month, took 2-3 months) Association legal/admin setup Explain the project Design and discuss the governance Gather teams Minimum communication infrastructure Getting everyone to work

Getting a working factory (expected 3 months, took 5) We are here today Clean, independant, owned technical platform (buildsystem) Cleaned up sources Bootstrapped distribution First alpha expected for Feb. 15 th

Releasing a stable distribution (expected 6 months at first, most likely 9 in the end) Stable release planned for June, 1 Each team to have elected leads and reps Fully elected governance components (Council, Board, Teams)

Brainstorming the community (pending, will get a boost after Mageia 1 release)

For an organisation & governance focus, please join us at 16:30 in H.2214 (LibreOffice devroom)

Technical focus Forking process Build system Bootstrapping the distribution

Forking

Facilitating another fork's life or a white-mark derivative

« State of the kitchen » built source packages new media layout (core, nonfree, tainted)

Build system

Bootstrapping the distribution

It's fun! It's started! You are welcome to join! Or... see you next year!

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