Open Letter to Thomas Backlund, Dave Hodgins and others current and past members of Mageia

(I’ll be publishing this Open Letter on some sites. I’d like for other Mageia users to express support and add their names/nicks/emails at the end of this text. After this preface, here’s the actual Open Letter)

Open Letter to Thomas Backlund, Dave Hodgins and other current and past members of Mageia

In behalf of Blogdrake, the Spanish-language community of Mageia users, and other Mageia communities and users, we take this opportunity to thank you all for the work you’ve done for Mageia. Also, We’d like to ask you to stay (or come back, if you’ve already left) as part of Mageia.

With your decision to leave Mageia, you’ve left all of us users as orphans. Sure, the current situation is not good or desired, but we believe that by leaving things will only change for the worst, just as Mageia was starting to get excellent reviews and becoming more visible on the Internet.

We can’t promise the situation will get fixed anytime soon, but at least for my side (katnatek) I’m ready and willing to put on extra work to improve the situation. For example, if someone were to provide me with appropriate rights and were to teach me how to do it, I (katnatek) would work to unstick the testing repository updates issue. I (katnatek) would be more proactive with bugs.mageia.org (reviewing bugs with long time of inactivity, for example); those are not just words but personal commitment.

To Anne Nicolas and other founders and past members of Mageia: we don’t believe you’d like to participate in a similar disaster to the one that forced Mageia creation. Please come back, be active once again, even if you feel you can’t do much. At least use some of your time to teach some of us how to take over.

It’s nigh time to end with the complaining and get back to doing.

Sincerely,

katnatek, forum admin in BlogDrake
Jybzz, MLO sysadmin (apply for sysadmin on MGA)
Yuri Chornoivan, i18n team leader on mageia (18n-discuss)
Miguel, member of i18n team on mageia (18n-discuss)
joselp, moderator on BlogDrake, member of atelier team on mageia
javierreta, moderator on BlogDrake
jrespino, member of BlogDrake
drakor, moderator on BlogDrake
SinnerBOFH (sinnerbofh at gmail dot com), BlogDrake member and founder

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Note: Thanks to SinnerBofh for the corrections