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[opensuse-marketing] [Weekly News] Minutes from the Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Our Minutes can be visited under: http://opensuse-community.org/logs/opensuse- newsletter/2009/opensuse-newsletter.2009-10-03-14.31.html. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill

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[opensuse-marketing] [Weekly News] Reminder: Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday Oktober 03 at 14:30 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. All Translators, Editors and other People are invited. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] [Ambassador] Toward improving the Ambassador program
by Graham Lauder 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

> The openSUSE Ambassador program[1] was launched in May and many > Ambassadors are registered on the Ambassador List[2] now. Thanks to > those, who are working hard on promoting openSUSE in their area on a > daily basis ! > > However, there still remains much works to do in order to make this > program more effective and there are some problems to be solved. > > The necessity of improving Ambassador program was discussed in the > latest openSUSE Conference - unfortunately, I couldn't be there :-( - > and some thought, > *"Now is the time to start improving the program !"* > > To start with, some volunteers have organized 'Task Force for Improving > Ambassador Program' and had a kick-off meeting on #opensuse-marketing > channel last Saturday[3]. > > After the meeting, I summarized topics to be discussed hereafter and > some draft plans[4]. Please read through the topics there and join the > task force if you are interested in. > > Note: At this moment, persons who will shoulder a burden - in other > words, who are willing to say "Is there anything I can do ?" - are > strongly needed instead of the persons who just say "Will you do me a > favor". Because the task force itself doesn't mean to offer supports to > each Ambassador. > > The next meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday October 3rd) at > 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[5]. The > meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-marketing channel on Freenode. > > Not familiar with IRC ? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. > This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on > Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. > > Even if you won't be able to join the meeting at that time, you can > still add your comments and opinions to the Q&A Section on the meeting > page[6] or directly to the "Ambassador/Improving Anbassador Program" > page[4]. May I suggest an ambassador's list rather than IRC. Narrow meeting times on IRC always mean that several have difficulty being there. For instance, for me this latest meeting time is 4 am sunday morning local time. IRC is great for chatty stuff but not for meetings that are global in their effect. There is nothing done on IRC that can't be done on a mailing list. Some structures have to be put in place in terms of procedures to make the mail-list work for some things, but that's not hard. Mail-lists make for more fullsome and reasoned discussions, IRC's structure militates against that, it's a chat space not a forum for discussion. Now I'm all for being one of the "doers" but not if it means having to be at the keyboard at 4 am trying to make some sort of sense. Use a mail-list, write up some parliamentary procedures to allow democratic processes (I can do a draft, it won't be "Roberts Rules of Order for mail-lists" but it will be usable) and forget IRC, It's too chaotic, usable time frame is too small, getting a quorum is often extremely difficult if you use proper procedures and if you don't then decision making is ruled by one geographical area. And don't say "Oh we'll spread the meeting times around", from experience with other projects, 0400 UTC means the Europeans don't turn up and the west coasters are too tired 0800 UTC is OK for me and Europe but the US stays away or if people do turn up they always have to be somewhere else very shortly. Cheers GL Graham Lauder, INGOTs Assessor Trainer Moderator New Zealand (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org Mobile +64 27 494 4315 OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] [Ambassador] Toward improving the Ambassador program
by Satoru Matsumoto 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

The openSUSE Ambassador program[1] was launched in May and many Ambassadors are registered on the Ambassador List[2] now. Thanks to those, who are working hard on promoting openSUSE in their area on a daily basis ! However, there still remains much works to do in order to make this program more effective and there are some problems to be solved. The necessity of improving Ambassador program was discussed in the latest openSUSE Conference - unfortunately, I couldn't be there :-( - and some thought, *"Now is the time to start improving the program !"* To start with, some volunteers have organized 'Task Force for Improving Ambassador Program' and had a kick-off meeting on #opensuse-marketing channel last Saturday[3]. After the meeting, I summarized topics to be discussed hereafter and some draft plans[4]. Please read through the topics there and join the task force if you are interested in. Note: At this moment, persons who will shoulder a burden - in other words, who are willing to say "Is there anything I can do ?" - are strongly needed instead of the persons who just say "Will you do me a favor". Because the task force itself doesn't mean to offer supports to each Ambassador. The next meeting will take place tomorrow (Saturday October 3rd) at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[5]. The meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-marketing channel on Freenode. Not familiar with IRC ? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Even if you won't be able to join the meeting at that time, you can still add your comments and opinions to the Q&A Section on the meeting page[6] or directly to the "Ambassador/Improving Anbassador Program" page[4]. I hope more people will become interested in the issue and join the task force. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/List [3] http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/Meetings/20090926 [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/Improving_Anbassador_Program [5] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=10&year=20… [6] http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/Meetings/20091003#Q.26A_Section @Ambassador's Coordinators Sorry, if you feel I have gone beyond my powers. However, in order to stand at the start line, someone needs to push the button. I hope you will be involved in this issue and lead the task hereafter. Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [openSUSE-India] SUSE Studio at Lifehacker.com
by Koushik Nundy 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hi, Came across this in another list. Anyone know the author? -- Koushik Kumar Nundy B.Tech, ECE Final year NIT Durgapur India. http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in http://kknundy.blogspot.com http://en.opensuse.org/ http://twitter.com/kknundy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samyak Bhuta <samyak.bhuta(a)gmail.com> Date: 2009/9/30 Subject: [openSUSE-India] SUSE Studio at Lifehacker.com To: opensuse-india(a)googlegroups.com, linux-gujarat(a)googlegroups.com Hi All, This is a short and sweet article telling'ya what SUSE Studio is for you. http://lifehacker.com/5370209/use-suse-studio-to-build-a-linux-os-from-scra… Cheers, Samyak --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "opensuse-india" group. To post to this group, send email to opensuse-india(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: opensuse-india-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensuse-india -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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