Mageia : A New Linux Distribution

• Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux, supported by a not-for-profit organisation of recognized and elected contributors. 
• Further than just delivering a free, secure, stable and sustainable operating system, the goal is to set up a stable and trustable governance to direct collaborative projects

Forking Mandriva Linux? Yes.

Forking an existing open source project is never an easy decision to make, and forking Mandriva Linux is a huge task.
It was not an impulsive decision. We all spoke a lot before: former employees, Cooker contributors and users' communities. We collected opinions and reactions in the past weeks as we needed to get some kind of global agreement and to gather, before going ahead.
We believe a fork is the best solution and we have decided to create a new distribution: Mageia.

Community.

We understand the Mageia community as:

• users,
• makers (designers, developers, packagers, translators, testers, etc.),
• advocates.

Those can be individuals, organizations, companies from all over the world.
There are challenges here; so many countries, so many languages, so many cultures, so different needs. And that's great.
We've seen with the Mandriva Assembly experiment that it's not an easy task. We believe we can make it better yet.

Credits: http://www.mageia.org/en/about/2010-sept-announcement.html