Following the anouncement in December 2008 of an international committee associating Mandriva with its Community, Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux publisher, has completed the setting up of Mandriva Linux Assembly.
The roles, tasks and missions of this comity set out below with the goal of motivating future members wishing to take part in this venture.
The Mandriva Linux community draws together a wide range of participants:
* distribution users who may be actively promoting Open Source and Mandriva Linux possibly within the framework of associations
* development version testers whose aim is to unveil bugs and submit suggestions for improvements
* packagers and developers actively involved in development
* translators of tools and documents whether online or not
* the Mandriva team of developers, webmasters, project leaders
This host of participants forms the strength of Mandriva Linux. And to sustain and to harness these talents and industry it was clear we needed to give them a clear structure to work within.
Mandriva proposes a monthly newsletter delivered through assembly-announce@mandriva.org.
We shall raise points being currently worked upon, the products roadmap, research programmes, global strategy, OEM and enterprise activities. This mailing list can be read by all and will be complemented by assembly-discussion@mandriva.org which will allow Mandriva Linux Assembly members to submit opinions or ask for further information on the points raised.
Mandriva has identified three main groups from which Mandriva Linux Assembly could be drawn:
* Mandriva User Groups (MUGs): 1 representative per country or group of countries.
* Mandriva Cooker: the Mandriva Cooker Chefs will number 5, selected by the Cooker Community
* Mandriva company: Mandriva will be represented by 5 members of which 2 from the French team (Anne Nicolas, VP Engineering, and Frédéric Crozat, France Engineering Manager), 2 from the Brazilian team (Gustavo Pichorim Boiko, Engineer and Claudio Matsuoka, Engineer) and Romain D'Alverny, Mandriva Webmaster for the entire Mandriva Web infrastructure.
Mandriva Linux Assembly will get underway around three working groups :
* MUGs : comprising all MUG representatives and 2 Mandriva representatives. Its mission is to improve communication between the associations world-wide on Mandriva Linux and Open Source in general, but also to promote exchanges on subjects linked directly to distribution use to share local initiatives and help users put forward their needs and propositions
* Cooker Menu: this group will work on the daily management of Mandriva Linux distributions and their future developments. Its members will resresent the three groups listed above : Mandriva (5), Cooker (5), MUGs (5). It should provide the ideal meeting place for end users and designers to exchange ideas, raise specific requests debate technical specifications of future versions...
* Cooker Chefs : this group will be tasked with improving the daily operation of Mandriva Cooker. It will be made up by an equal number of respesentatives of Mandriva and contributors.
