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The New Club Platform Is Now Online!

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The new Club platform is now online! It features some new services, listed below, and more importantly, it will serve as a foundation for additionnal services we will create on demand, depending on your wishes.

You can have a look at the site map here.

New Services

Here are some of the new services available:

Note: Club V1 platform will remain accessible on http://clubv1.mandriva.com until end of August.

Users are builders!

The platform is entirely wiki based, which means you can take active part in the Club evolution. The platform builds upon XWiki - an amazing 2G wikiwiki engine, Tomcat, MySQL, and… Mandriva Linux.

The design of the new Club was humbly inspired by remarks contained in these excellent articles:

Mandriva Community development lies in your hands. You as users - advanced, intermediate or beginner users - play a key role in the Mandriva innovation process, so feel free to express your needs, your ideas, your wishes and grievances!

What's next?

Now that the foundation is in place, we will focus on creating advanced services for helping you take the most of your Mandriva Linux system. Here's a preview of what's coming next:

  • Advanced poll system for getting to know you better, and let you express your wishes democratically (will be online end of August, with a poll about the new services you'd like and the current quality of service)
  • Improved blog space with custom skins
  • A catalogue of user-friendly descriptions of OSS Linux applications, that can get installed easily from the browser
  • A community help desk to get help more efficiently from the community
  • A Club rich client application for improving the user experience in using the Club: the application will consist of a rich editor for editing and browsing the knowledge base, a real-time support module, an integrated application for taking the most of the Club and of the distro
  • A service similar to http://del.icio.us for bookmarking the web collectively, specifically on Linux, Mandriva and OSS topics
So, to sum it up, the main idea of this new platform is to let the collective intelligence of Club members community express its whole potential of creativity!

We thank all of you for your active support during the last years, and we hope you will enjoy the new Club and will be an active part of it!

Mandriva Club Team

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Version 1.48 last modified by Arkub on 22/09/2005 at 22:49

Comments (33)

PDR60 | 17.08.2005 at 05:16 PM
Nice job MDV. I like the look!!! it looks like you guys are getting the club on the right track. Congratulations!!

PDDR60

Titpom | 17.08.2005 at 06:54 PM
Effectivement, c'est du bon boulot ! Clair, rapide, sobre, bravo !
pirnaver | 17.08.2005 at 08:41 PM
It is not clear that "add comment" is at the top. Well I guess will get used to it. :)

Also I wonder why French language is selected by default for a comment.

karim_7896 | 17.08.2005 at 09:58 PM
En effet bon boulot pour ne pas dire excellent boulot… J'aime les couleurs et surtout le design qui ne fait pas mal a la tête
ohan | 17.08.2005 at 10:56 PM
super boulot! Depuis le temps qu'on l'attendait :) Ca bouge du coté de chez Mandriva depuis quelques semaines (nouveau club, nouveau etraining...)
rolfp | 18.08.2005 at 03:33 AM
Is there a way to have login automatically, persistent login? Each time I come to the Home page, it asks me to log in.
crac | 18.08.2005 at 09:32 AM
well done! very nice interface, thx for the improvements!
Arkub | 18.08.2005 at 09:53 AM
Persistent login is enabled, through persistent cookies. However when your IP address changes, you have to log-in again, for security reasons.
rolfp | 18.08.2005 at 02:15 PM
OK, however, other forum sites on which I enjoy the convenience of persistent login, dslreports.com, pclinuxonline.com, mandrivausers.org, do not create the cookie based on ip; after a reboot or getting a new dynamic ip from my isp, there is no need to log in anew. I wonder how this feature is a significant improvement to security.
Rick_Kunath | 18.08.2005 at 04:14 PM
How do you enable the listing of rpm requests and the status as was on the old page?

I found this box a really helpful item to have on the top level page.

crac | 18.08.2005 at 04:54 PM
probably because you could cheat by sharing your cookie with friends … ?
carlit | 18.08.2005 at 07:17 PM
Nice new interface. But probably 90% of club members have dynamic IP addresses, so they'll have to log in manually most of the time…
rhakios | 18.08.2005 at 10:10 PM
Well, there's one good thing about the new club. At last I get to be rhakios here as elsewhere and not the drippy daft name I was alotted when I joined up.
rolfp | 18.08.2005 at 10:54 PM
I guess you could cheat by giving your login to friends?
pirnaver | 18.08.2005 at 11:26 PM
Yes, that would prevent being logged in with two IPs at the same time. But perhaps better solution would be to log last two IPs and request new login only if new IP is the same than the first (previous IP), i.e. if IP was changed back to the old one.
EGLER Eric | 19.08.2005 at 09:59 AM
Bravo ! C'est encore mieux que l'ancien. Cela, c'est encore plus clair, plus sobre. C'est facile à utiliser et etc… Je vous encourage à continuer l'amélioration de Mandriva club. Encore bravo !
geceo | 19.08.2005 at 12:04 PM
Kaj nun la retejo haveblas en Esperanto! Dankon al… mi! :)
peco | 19.08.2005 at 02:51 PM
¡¡Felicidades y buen trabajo!! Excelente idea lo de basarlo sobre tecnología Wiki (por cierto, creo que el paquete xwiki no está en los repositorios de Mandriva ;-)
geceo | 19.08.2005 at 05:45 PM
Kia honto! :-)
Arkub | 19.08.2005 at 07:00 PM
Rick, The list is currently unaivalable. But we will re-add the RPM feed on the home soon indeed. Arkub
kempelen | 19.08.2005 at 11:56 PM
Or the system could store only first 2 or 3 digits of the IP, thus restricting it to the same ISP. 111.111.., dunno if XWiki can do that.

Anyway, I _always_ set the "all cookies are session cookies" to avoid websites tracking my online activities, that worths much more than having logged in automaticly.

Congratulations for the new GREAT club website!

Dirk26 | 20.08.2005 at 12:10 AM
Nice, a professional look with easy access, I'm looking forward to use this new toy...

Thanks Mandriva...

Dirk

looksystems | 20.08.2005 at 08:48 AM
Or check IP + SESSIONID if a session is currently active (session automatically expire after N minutes). If session expired, allow persistent login from any IP.

Further security could be added by setting a magic cookie value to be checked when the next persistent login is requested. If the value isn't correct, then don't allow auto login.

Obviously, persistent login will then only work with one browser/computer combination.

micro420 | 20.08.2005 at 08:04 PM
I like the new look and layout of the Mandriva Club! Keep up the good work!
050608-9D0XN9-9409 | 20.08.2005 at 08:43 PM
Ouais super :-( Je suis membre Aluminium au lieu d'argent, je ne sais même pas si c'est au moins équivalent.Ni ce que c'est.

Je ne peux pas accèder aux Forums ("vous n'êtes pas autorisé...") L'ancienne version ne me laisse pas me connecter...

Et en plus, je ne m'appele plus Dan66 mais 050608-9D0XN9-9409, ce qui est plus original mais je n'aime pas.

Comme windows au fond, joli et inefficace !

Arkub | 21.08.2005 at 12:41 AM
Salut Dan66, Désolé pour l'impair. J'ai modifié votre pseudo sur https://my.mandriva.com, et votre compte est maintenant Silver mais je n'ai pas retrouvé votre n° de facture. Pourriez-vous nous le faire parvenir via le formulaire de contact svp? Merci! Ark
Ivanonof | 21.08.2005 at 03:11 PM
Hi Nice new design. I have problems accessing and downloading many rpm-packets, and that pisses me off because I need to install them now. I get 404 error from your Tomcat server when can I expekt it works again?

Ivanonof

Arkub | 21.08.2005 at 09:20 PM
Hi Ivanonof, The RPMs are momentarily unavailable. The service will be up again this Tuesday. Please accept our apologies about that. Arkub
crac | 22.08.2005 at 04:07 PM
my whish: plz remove IP based cookies … thats really not necessary!
yehudil | 22.08.2005 at 04:56 PM
Does not quite add up as my IP address does not change.......
kevcosgrbu | 22.08.2005 at 06:07 PM
Like the others are saying, "nice job".

I do have a question though. The older style voting page would let me vote for a number of applications at one time. The newer page requires that I click through each application, and vote for one at a time, which is quite a bit slower for me. Is there a chance that the checkboxes for voting could come back?

Thanks!

nickbower | 23.08.2005 at 09:52 AM
This is the second time the RPM downloads seem broken after a Club upgrade.

http://www.mandrivaclub.com/mirror/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib/subversion-1.1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm

returns 404 from apache/tomcat

Rick_Kunath | 25.08.2005 at 01:44 PM
How about re-enabling the "comments" as a link right after the "read more" link on the main page summary block of the articles?

Once I have read the article, it used to be handy having "comments" as an actual link so that you could click it and go direct to the comments, to follow the discussion.


 


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