1. I am Sebastian, the Deputy Leader of the Mageia marketing
and communications team and an artwork and
documentation teams member.
You can follow me on Identi.ca a open alternative to Twitter
(with mainly Linux users using the website).
identi.ca/sebsebseb
You can also chat to me in #mageia-social and #mageia-uk
on the Freenode IRC network.

2. Introduction
Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux that is a 100% community
distribution with an international users community, and a
French non profit organisation behind it.
Mandriva used to be known as Mandrake Linux which was
founded in 1998.
The official announcement of Mageia was on September 18th
2010.
The first release was on June 1st 2011 and for months it has
been in the top 10 most popular distributions on
distrowatch.com.
Mageia 2 will be released on Tuesday, next week.

3. Mageia 1 Screenshot

4. Mageia 2 Screenshots

5. Control Centre Screenshots

7. Events
Mageia has contributors that go to events and the main ones
are FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developers European
Meeting) in February near Brussels, and Linux Tag in
Berlin in May.
Linux Tag 2012 is next week, and German community
members and some other contributors will be there as
well, such as Anne Nicolas (ennael) the president of the
Mageia board and our main Mageia project founder.

8. Photos of some of the Mageia contributors that came
to FOSDEM 2012:

9. Contributors
Mageia may still be quite a new Linux distribution, but we do
have contributors who contribute to upstream projects that
are used by many other Linux distributions as well.
For example our Gnome maintainer Olav Vitters is on the
upstream Gnome release team and Our PulseAudio
maintainer Colin Guthrie (coling) contributes to it
upstream. Colin is also one of the Mageia founders.
If you would like to, there are various ways that you can
contribute to the distribution such as by joining an official
Mageia team.
Companies can be part of the Mageia community as well,
and there are many ways that a company can contribute to
the Mageia project.

10. Thank you
Thank you for listening to my talk and please feel free to try
out Mageia, and get back to me about what you think.
I can be contacted on Freenode IRC in channels such as
#mageia, #mageia-social and #mageia-uk and on Identi.ca
http://identi.ca/sebsebseb and via email:
sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com
You can also find me at Bristol and Bath Linux Users Group
meetings.