May 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Welcome Roger
by Manu Gupta 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hi All Welcome Roger from California :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM Subject: Re: I would like to be an ambassador To: Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> Cc: opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org On 05/08/2011 11:56 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > > Hi > > I am Manu and along with Kostas and Carlos we are the Ambassador > Welcome team. We are > glad that you like to join openSUSE as an ambassador to promote > openSUSE. > > We have a couple of questions for you: > * What have you done already for openSUSE? > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you > want to do the next 6 months. > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? > * Why do you love to do this? > * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? I haven't done much inside the project formally as of yet, just participation on forums, openFATE and IRC. I do however help friends and clients migrate to openSUSE; usually from Windows. I host the Inland Empire Linux Users Group and Workshop, ambassador Drew Adams co-hosts. As openSUSE is my preferred distro, I inevitably evangelize it and have converted three people from Ubuntu so far. Later this month I am hosting a special event as part of a "Day of DIY," Introduction to Linux. I anticipate having a good number of people in attendence since it is for the Saturation Festival crowd. I intend to use that as an opportunity to hand out disks with quick-start pamphlets. The casual Linux user may not know the power of the YaST tools in openSUSE. I think YaST is one of the biggest reasons to go openSUSE. I have used linux lightly over the last three years or so. I learned Bash and Unix via the Mac OSX. My first successful install of a distro was openSUSE. I'm hardly a guru, but I usually know more than anybody else I know. I can usually with time and cursing figure out any problem I or a client is experiencing and fix it. > > The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the > ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other > ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: > * share with them what you like to do > * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how > many people joined > * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what > you want to improve > * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as > well > We have our weekly LUG, which varies in attendance. We are hoping to be able to use the Saturation Festival as a means to boost membership. We are going to make fliers for the LUG/Workshop and place them around local campuses of the Universities and Community Colleges. > > Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so > please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the > openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are > their needs. Linux usage is unusually rare in this region. Frankly not so surprising though. It will take some time to ascertain the full size, establish a community, and then know the needs. There has never been a LUG in this area. > > We'd like to send your answers to the opensuse-ambassadors list and > thus introduce > you as new ambassador. Please keep this in mind when answering and if you > don't agree, please tell us! > > For adding you to the ambassador list at > http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list, please tell me: > your country, region/city and your user page in the wiki. United States Riverside, California. http://en.opensuse.org/User:Shadowolf7 > > For details of creating a user page, see: > http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ > > We know that openSUSE is very special to you and you might be tempted > to give it a capital "O" but that's wrong, so please remember > openSUSE is always spelled "openSUSE". > > Regards > Manu -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcoming Craig
by Manu Gupta 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hi All Please welcome Craig, he is from Provo, USA and give him a warm welcome :) We have a couple of questions for you: * What have you done already for openSUSE? I contribute to opensuse the following packages: google-perftools musescore I run the Provo BuildService, an instance of the openSUSE BuildService, for Attachmate. I belong to the OPS Services team at SUSE, which does the checkins of the openSUSE packages and the builds of the openSUSE media. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. Specifically I'll be speaking at LinuxCon N.A. about the openSUSE BuildService. I'll also be participating in other events, as determined worthwhile and necessary by SUSE. I intend to become the primary SUSE representative for the Ambassadors for North America. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Absolutely. I've been an evangelist of SUSE even before Novell and SUSE merged. I run openSUSE on all my personal systems, as well as my primary desktop machine at the office. (Of course I run SLES on my servers.) * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? It's hard to keep secrets about something that is so good. I've used nearly all the distros, and of course each distro has strengths and weakness. And each distro goes through periods of "goodness" and "badness." openSUSE is the most consistently "GOOD" and "SOLID" distro of them all. Tumbleweed is probably the next awesome thing that won't be a secret for long. * Why do you love to do this? I turned other jobs to work at SUSE. SUSE is simply the best. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I've been running SUSE Linux regularly (and later openSUSE) since 2000, when my company chose to use SUSE Linux as the basis of an appliance that we were building. At the time I was responible for customizing the kernel to be highly I/O performant for our appliance, with some significant configuration customizations and even some changes to the source that my team contributed back to the community. I'm a Linux internals expert, particularly with SUSE. My day to day job involves deep knowledge of all the Linux and openSUSE internals. The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: * share with them what you like to do * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how many people joined * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what you want to improve * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as well Regards Manu -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Campus Ambassador Program - Sri Lanka
by Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hello Fellows, I am thinking of launching a Campus Ambassador Program in-order to strengthen the openSUSE initiatives in Sri Lanka. Therefore i would like to get to know some interesting sharing with you all. If you have any comment please forward me. PLEASE check the following wiki http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Campus_Ambassador The basic Idea is: Select some students from universities and the KIT with them. Via them we can access to the universities. We can organize launch parties, info session and so on. Further I would like to make this as an Initiative to lunch openSUSE and introduce openSUSE to university community. Therefore I would like to create a nice term for that and also a nice logo. Please help me regarding that too. I appreciate your feed back, see you all. Thanks again. -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera openSUSE Ambassador - Sri Lanka -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Teaching Night Course
by Jan-Bart Spang 09 May '11

09 May '11

Thanks for that knowledge, Andreas.. It just goes to show home much I still don't know about the openSUSE organisation.. Jan-Bart On Saturday, May 07, 2011 14:36:31 Stuart Tanner wrote: > Dear Jan-Bart > > I dont have any slides, all i have are the books that are included with the > distrobutions. I don't know how much you are intending to charge for your > teaching class, or if indeed your even making any money from it, but if you > are interested I can send some stock to you of the retail boxes, retail > price of €70, trade price of around €50. > > If you are teaching complete newbies, then these books are ideal because > they cover: > > Installation Quick Start > KDE Quick Start > Gnome Quick Start > LibreOffice Quick Start Those are part of the public openSUSE repository and are also online at docs.opensuse.org. Stuart, which of these are printed in the retail box? > As for support each box comes with 90 days telephone technical support from > open-slx and of course additional technical support from myself as much as > possible. > Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj(a){novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Teaching Night Course
by Stuart Tanner 09 May '11

09 May '11

Dear Jan-Bart I dont have any slides, all i have are the books that are included with the distrobutions. I don't know how much you are intending to charge for your teaching class, or if indeed your even making any money from it, but if you are interested I can send some stock to you of the retail boxes, retail price of €70, trade price of around €50. If you are teaching complete newbies, then these books are ideal because they cover: Installation Quick Start KDE Quick Start Gnome Quick Start LibreOffice Quick Start As for support each box comes with 90 days telephone technical support from open-slx and of course additional technical support from myself as much as possible. I admit the only person who asked for technical support was asking detailed questions about programing in Fortran which was above me..I refered him to KDevelop, Eclipse, Netbeans or something other IDE related. Stuart On Saturday 07 May 2011 13:16:01 you wrote: > Thanks for the replies, guys. > > Good point, Daniel.. I will keep that in mind.. I can always bring the > repo's for ATI and Nvidia along to the class on a number of DVD's.. > They're not so big :-) > > Johann, I hope to get a few more people interested in openSUSE and Linux > in order to start a LUG around here. They will probably be every day > users like myself. At least I hope so since I am no programmer, server > guy and would probably not be able to help them. Yes, they can phone me > at home between 5 and 9 if they run into problems. > > I will be keeping it short since there will only be so much talking I > can do. I will be showing people how to install, set-up partitions, dual > boot with Windows, explain the different desktops, to set-up restricted > formats, email, multimedia, burn cd's, edit audio and video, Skype, > etc... everything the average computer user may need. > > Stuart, do you, or indeed anyone, have any slides for the above subjects? > > Regards, > > Jan-Bart Spang > openSUSE ambassador Ireland > > On 07/05/11 04:59, daniel tan wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > Try to get desktop instead of notebook or laptop with graphics card > > such as ATI or NVidia. Reason why, sometimes when a certain card is > > not supported, you need to help them to work around. That will cause > > you to stop and out of schedule and focusing on the graphic install > > instead. > > > > danieltanz > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Johann Els <jels(a)novell.com > > > > <mailto:jels@novell.com>> wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > > > I have done training / workshops on SUSE. There is a couple of > > things you have to think about, > > > > > > What do you want to achieve? > > > > Who is the audience technical or user? > > > > When they run into problems when installing at home can they phone > > you? > > > > > > When you talking to techies you must start slow show a lot of yast > > etc then later go command line etc. > > > > When you deal with users have everything setup Printers, movie > > players etc that you can compare how easy SUSE is to use that MS > > > > > > Keep the session short max two hours. > > > > > > Johann > > > > >>> Jan-Bart Spang <jb.spang(a)iol.ie <mailto:jb.spang@iol.ie>> > > > > 5/6/2011 9:12 AM >>> > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I may have the opportunity to teach Linux/openSUSE at a local > > school as > > a night course. It would be 6 - 8 weeks long and a total of 12 - > > 16 hours. > > I was wondering if anyone else out there has done the same and would > > have a bit of a lesson plan? I have never done this before and am > > a bit > > lost at where to start with this. > > > > Regards, > > > > Jan-Bart Spang > > openSUSE ambassador Ireland > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > > <mailto:opensuse-ambassadors%2Bunsubscribe@opensuse.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org > > <mailto:opensuse-ambassadors%2Bhelp@opensuse.org> -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux Delivering openSUSE Retail to the UK 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44-1204-410474 Mob: +44-7868-028028 www.bolin.org.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcoming Daniel Tan
by Manu Gupta 09 May '11

09 May '11

Hi All, Welcome Daniel from Malaysia :). Below you can find a brief introduction of him Hi Manu * What have you done already for openSUSE? Since i know openSUSE from version 10, i start to get more people using it. How do i do that, i did ever organized my self for installation that took place in my country Malaysia an island called Penang. Doubts the response was not that good, at least a small bunch of ppl consist of 6 persons attended and i share with them how to install and configure and use openSUSE as part of their daily use instead of windows. Since my job related to Novell SLED, I did ever convert a lawyer firms users that using windows to SLED including lawyers and i managed to gain their trust and we successfully convince them and they used it. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. I would happy to promote it to secondary school in my island. The first school that i'm planning to go into it was my previous ex secondary school. To bring awareness to all the students how and what is openSUSE to compare with Windows. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Yes I Do. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? * Why do you love to do this? Something that i would like to share with all people out there and i do realized my country people most of them are still inside the box and they don't even know what linux is all about. Thus linux is available in many many flavors but to me, openSUSE will be the best for them to get to know and learn and what's the best part is, its a free of mind software or OS that they can count on. Would like most of them to accept linux instead of windows that giving me more and more headache from day to days * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? Knowing linux from fedora core when i started to join this company where i worked with. There is a box of SUSE version 9 and it was never being open together with the documentation and it was a full box. I brought it back and installed it and since that on ward i reformatted my laptop and started with openSUSE 10 and from there 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 beryl and compiz and openSUSE 11 and until now openSUSE11.4 64bit. Malaysia, Northern Region, Penang user : danieltanz On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I am Manu and along with Kostas and Carlos we are the Ambassador > Welcome team. We are > glad that you like to join openSUSE as an ambassador to promote > openSUSE. > > We have a couple of questions for you: > * What have you done already for openSUSE? > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you > want to do the next 6 months. > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? > * Why do you love to do this? > * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? > > The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the > ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other > ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: > * share with them what you like to do > * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how > many people joined > * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what > you want to improve > * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as > well > > Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so > please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the > openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are > their needs. > > We'd like to send your answers to the opensuse-ambassadors list and > thus introduce > you as new ambassador. Please keep this in mind when answering and if you > don't agree, please tell us! > > For adding you to the ambassador list at > http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list, please tell me: > your country, region/city and your user page in the wiki. > > For details of creating a user page, see: > http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ > > We know that openSUSE is very special to you and you might be tempted > to give it a capital "O" but that's wrong, so please remember > openSUSE is always spelled "openSUSE". > > Regards > Manu -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Teaching Night Course
by Jan-Bart Spang 09 May '11

09 May '11

Thanks for the replies, guys. Good point, Daniel.. I will keep that in mind.. I can always bring the repo's for ATI and Nvidia along to the class on a number of DVD's.. They're not so big :-) Johann, I hope to get a few more people interested in openSUSE and Linux in order to start a LUG around here. They will probably be every day users like myself. At least I hope so since I am no programmer, server guy and would probably not be able to help them. Yes, they can phone me at home between 5 and 9 if they run into problems. I will be keeping it short since there will only be so much talking I can do. I will be showing people how to install, set-up partitions, dual boot with Windows, explain the different desktops, to set-up restricted formats, email, multimedia, burn cd's, edit audio and video, Skype, etc... everything the average computer user may need. Stuart, do you, or indeed anyone, have any slides for the above subjects? Regards, Jan-Bart Spang openSUSE ambassador Ireland On 07/05/11 04:59, daniel tan wrote: > Hi There, > > Try to get desktop instead of notebook or laptop with graphics card > such as ATI or NVidia. Reason why, sometimes when a certain card is > not supported, you need to help them to work around. That will cause > you to stop and out of schedule and focusing on the graphic install > instead. > > danieltanz > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Johann Els <jels(a)novell.com > <mailto:jels@novell.com>> wrote: > > Hi There, > > > I have done training / workshops on SUSE. There is a couple of > things you have to think about, > > > What do you want to achieve? > > Who is the audience technical or user? > > When they run into problems when installing at home can they phone > you? > > > When you talking to techies you must start slow show a lot of yast > etc then later go command line etc. > > When you deal with users have everything setup Printers, movie > players etc that you can compare how easy SUSE is to use that MS > > > Keep the session short max two hours. > > > Johann > > > > >>> Jan-Bart Spang <jb.spang(a)iol.ie <mailto:jb.spang@iol.ie>> > 5/6/2011 9:12 AM >>> > > > Hello all, > > I may have the opportunity to teach Linux/openSUSE at a local > school as > a night course. It would be 6 - 8 weeks long and a total of 12 - > 16 hours. > I was wondering if anyone else out there has done the same and would > have a bit of a lesson plan? I have never done this before and am > a bit > lost at where to start with this. > > Regards, > > Jan-Bart Spang > openSUSE ambassador Ireland > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse-ambassadors%2Bunsubscribe@opensuse.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse-ambassadors%2Bhelp@opensuse.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Event with Opensuse
by ben.henderson＠planet.nl 07 May '11

07 May '11

Hi Ambassadors of Opensuse, First thx`s for the Opensuse promo material. I going to use it in a Linux workshop for beginners on the 5th of july 2011 in Rotterdam. Herby the link to this event, later in august there wil be also a Opensoftware day only the exact date is not there yet. http://www.volksuniversiteit.nl/rotterdam/compu_zomerworkshop_linux.htm Greetings Ben Henderson -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Teaching Night Course
by Jan-Bart Spang 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hello all, I may have the opportunity to teach Linux/openSUSE at a local school as a night course. It would be 6 - 8 weeks long and a total of 12 - 16 hours. I was wondering if anyone else out there has done the same and would have a bit of a lesson plan? I have never done this before and am a bit lost at where to start with this. Regards, Jan-Bart Spang openSUSE ambassador Ireland -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: Our Plan and require help for openSUSE China work.
by Thomas Schmidt 03 May '11

03 May '11

On 03.05.2011 05:16, Haowei wrote: > Hello all, > > As I am the first ambassador of openSUSE, I am trying my best to set up and organize the work of openSUSE in China. Now, I can see some of > them I have settled since I have looked into everything here for openSUSE Chinese. > > > *Our Member now* > I have got 3 members in openSUSE Chinese Group of connect.opensuse.org <http://connect.opensuse.org> who are still active,and willing to > continue to contribute for openSUSE in China. Of course, this is not enough, I will pay effort to call and organize more members and opensuse > users in China to join us. > > > *Our recently Plan* > ** > *Ambassador work* > 1. I will organize the existed 3 members to form as the initial openSUSE Chinese team, and go to develop and call for ambassador recruiting work > in our China. > 2. Will open ambassador-chinese mail list when it is availabe for us. > 3. I will go to contact exsited ambassadors in HongKong and Taiwan to see if we could collapse as a whole team so that we can work for openSUSE > in China effectively and I do think it will be more easy for us to keep in touch and communicate. > > > *Marketing work* > 1. I will go to open one twitter account for openSUSE China as twitter.com <http://twitter.com> is so popular in the worldwide. This will help > all Chinese openSUSE users in the worldwide to know what we are focusing on. > 2. I will also go to open one local Chinese twitter account on t.sina.com.cn <http://t.sina.com.cn>, which is the most popular and influencial > local Chinese twitter site in our China mainaland. Before I decided to do this, I have looked into it and found that there were plenty of active > Chinese openSUSE users. I am certainly believe that I could arrange and call for and open ambassador recruiting work with the help of this local > Chinese twitter site. > > > *Community work* > 1. I am willing to set up and organize one community online for our openSUSE Chinese users as I found there was no one Chinee openSUSE > community until now. With the help of this community, I can call for all existed acitive users to join us and users in China could get a place > to communicate and help each other in this community. > > 2. Will go to contact members both in HongKong and Taiwan to see if we could organize and collapse openSUSE community there into it so that this > online community could be the one which could lead all community work of openSUSE in China. > > 3. Additionally, I think I could see the possiblity recently to set up our initial openSUSE China community team if we could set it up with the > help of your official team. > > > > *Need help from openSUSE team* > > 1. I am not sure if openSUSE team could help to provide us a website host for setting up our Chinese community as none of us existed member > could provide it. > > 2. I am not sure if we could ask for setting a sub-domain for this community. Here I suggest to put this online Chinese community under > zh.opensuse.org <http://zh.opensuse.org>. If you think it is ok, please put this online community could be visited at zh.opensuse.org/community > <http://zh.opensuse.org/community> > > > > At last, I should say openSUSE work in China is just starting, and not so many members here at present. Maybe some of your team member will > think that there no need to do such things. However, everything will have the period when it just started. As I am the first ambassador of > openSUSE in China, I am looking forwad that your official team could offer these help and give a big push for us. Thank you all very much. > > Look forward to seeing your team reply. Than you from the bottom of my heart. > Hi Haowei, I suggest that you start creating pages for your community in the already existing chinese wiki at: http://zh.opensuse.org/ There also is a chinese mailinglist available: opensuse-zh(a)opensuse.org Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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