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RE: [opensuse-marketing] SocNet Discussion during Community Week
by Andrew Wafaa 14 May '09

14 May '09

I'd like us to think about XMPP/Jabber. I know we briefly discussed it in -project (at least Pascal, Stephan, a few others & myself did). To summarise the discussion we had, it was decided that having a medium available with no-one present was pointless and counter productive. One big advantage that XMPP has is thatt corporate firewalls are more likely to allow the traffic through where as IRC is blocked by default. It is also possible to bridge between XMPP & IRC thus giving people a way of joining the regular medium. Personally I like XMPP, but it should only really be used if there is enough demand. Knowing what the preferred medium is in different regions is key. It maybe that one method is preferred in a particular region but not in others. This isn't necessarily ideal but will need looking into as to why (cultural etc). I can setup a poll today to see what people think if tou like? Regards, Andy -- Sent from a Nokia E71 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin -----Original Message----- From: Bryen Sent: 14/05/2009 04:22:59 Subject: [opensuse-marketing] SocNet Discussion during Community Week Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth. We also agreed that we would like to continue the discussion this Friday in a second Community Week session and ensure it is at a time that is accessible for the EMEA and APAC regions. In fact, we most definitely would like to ensure APAC representation at this session. We're in agreement that folks like Sartoru and Vavai would be great for offering insight into the APAC regions. So, we're putting the question to you all... What time would be most effective for everyone to join in a discussion in #opensuse-marketing? I'm willing to get up earlier in my daytime to make sure this happens for you all. Would 10:00 UTC be good for you all? Or earlier? Please let us know ASAP so we can announce a time. So, what did we talk about? 1) Facebook It is clear that we need to address the growing presence of openSUSE supporters on Facebook. There are approximately 4,500 supporters spread out across two groups. And in our opinion, they're neglected and a valuable pool of supporters that we need to bridge. What's also interesting about the Facebook group members is that there seems to be a strong presence of U.S. people. Something we lack presence in most other areas of openSUSE Community. 2) Digg We would like to set up a monthly Digg party where we gather up good and useful articles and everyone diggs those articles. If we can find a method to spread the word to digg a list of articles (not just any openSUSE articles, but good and relevant ones) then we can boost our presence on the web and in google searches. 3) Wiki I will be creating a wiki page that will gather all this information in the next day before our next meeting. 4) Blogging tips We will create a new page that provides advice to our community for how to increase traffic to their sites. Effective plugins that help, tips and tricks, information about SEO, etc. This one could be a bit of a challenge and anyone who has ideas about SEO, please step up and offer your advice. 5) Other areas to look into: Twitter, Laconica/identi.ca, dzone.com, LinkedIn. Any others to suggest? What about social networking services in non-English speaking regions? What can we tap into there? And should we appoint a "guru" for each of the different services? Someone who can study and understand and provide guidance to the rest of the marketing team about a particular service? It is very difficult for any one of us to become experts on all services, but if we divide and conquer :-), we could cover a lot more ground. Looking forward to hearing back from you all and getting to a meeting on Friday! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org -- 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] SocNet Discussion during Community Week
by Andrew Wafaa 14 May '09

14 May '09

When I mentioned creating a poll, it was more to find out what methods in general people prefer. It wasn't solely about XMPP. I agree on the issues it raises which is why I agrreed that it wasn't a priority, but something that should be kept in mind. Regards, Andy -- Sent from a Nokia E71 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin -----Original Message----- From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier Sent: 14/05/2009 14:30:32 To: awafaa(a)opensuse.org Cc: openSUSE Marketing ML Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] SocNet Discussion during Community Week On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Andrew Wafaa <awafaa(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > I can setup a poll today to see what people think if tou like? Just my thoughts on this before we poll: * What problem does this solve that we need to address right now? I see one thing: Corporate firewalls are a problem for potential participants who might be able to connect via Jabber. The counter to this is that there are other services that can do the same thing, and I *think there are probably free Jabber servers with IRC connectors that are available already. So, would we be better off just pointing people to those? Some people don't like IRC but use Jabber. What's our net in terms of additional participants here? * Do we have someone to administer this and actual hardware to run it? Right now, we're still working out kinks in our "official" infrastructure, I'm not sure adding Jabber to the mix w/in the next six months is advisable. * Does this stack up higher than other problems we have on our plate? I'd say probably not, though it's a good idea. My vote would be to put this on the wiki as a future action item to tackle when we have other project infrastructure issues solved. Other thoughts? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] New Marketing Session added to Community Week
by Bryen 14 May '09

14 May '09

Folks, Tomorrow, 13-May-2009, at 19:30 UTC, the Marketing team has added a new session "Maximizing Social Networking for openSUSE." We'll be discussing our existing efforts with various services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg, etc. and how we can improve our presence on those services. This should prove to be a very interesting session and I think something that we all can join the conversation on. See you all in #opensuse-marketing on the Freenode IRC Channel! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- 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] [Weekly News] Issue #71 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi @all! Issue #71 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. You can see/update the status of your language at the "whats ready page" [1]. We collected some FAQ here [2]. After translating, please move your Language in [3] up. [0]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/71 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Translations/Ready [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/FAQ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/71/Translations Have Phun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com -- 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] Community Week Schedule: Marketing
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi all, In case you're not checking the Community Week schedule (though I hope you are, as well as blogging and Tweeting/Denting about it!) I wanted to send a heads-up to the list for this week. We've got a few items on the schedule for marketing, in particular from 13:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC Tuesday, to work on the launch plan for 11.2. http://en.opensuse.org/Community_Week/Marketing_Schedule What I'm hoping is we can work throughout the day to create the launch plan on the wiki. If you can't be available during that time, no worries -- send ideas to the mailing list, add discussion to the wiki, etc. And the discussion will be logged. Also - if other marketing team members want to set up sessions, feel free to do so - I only added the time I could reasonably plan to be in channel. If anyone else would like to lead a discussion or session, feel free to add it to the schedule on the wiki and run with it. Thanks, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] Help translating the openSUSE Newsletter into German
by Sebastian Schöbinger 10 May '09

10 May '09

hi I am 16 and I am a volunteer for translation for the newsletter (maybe wiki too)to German. I maybe also start to write articles, but my time is limited, so I think I can't make everything. I am also programming C++ with Qt and can also some other languages. http://de.opensuse.org/Benutzer:STS301 that's me ;) Sebastian -- 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] OpenSUSE Weekly News contribute to Community Week
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hello Mates, the OpenSUSE Weekly News Team plans to contribute to the Community Week. Our Meetingpoint is #opensuse-newsletter @ irc.freenode.net . Schedule: Wed 13/05/09 12:00 UTC - 20:00 UTC Workshop "How to make a Newsletter": we plan to make a Special Edition on that Day. Thu 14/05/09 12:00 UTC - 14:00 UTC Workshop "How to do an translation from EN to $LANG" Sat 16 05 09 14:30 UTC - 15:30 UTC Weekly News Team Meeting in #opensuse-newsletter. Visitors welcome. Our Community Week Website: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Community_Week . @Translators: Please translate this Email to your Language and send this to opensuse-$LANG(a)opensuse.org -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] [Weekly News] Contributing the Community Week
by Satoru Matsumoto 09 May '09

09 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Raul, Raul Libório wrote: > Hello Satoru, > > I saw their presentation and was really very good:) > In order to improve even more, did some changes. I hope you enjoy:) > Big hug my friend > > Changes: > * Alignment of sub-titles > * The size of the slide was also reduced from 809KB to 642KB > * Reducing the size of the Geeko (the original was huge¹) > * Addition of the head of Geeko in the pages of sub-title > > > the original was huge¹: Images are very large when resized without > reducing its original size, giving an appearance of the serrated edges > In these cases, we should use images with the proper size. If it > should be small, we must reduce in scale the image so that no real > need to resize the presentation. > > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 07:42, Satoru Matsumoto <helios_reds(a)gmx.net> wrote: > Satoru Matsumoto wrote: > >>>>>> In addition, I'd like to: >>>>>> >>>>>> - make a presentation for translating Weekly News (in the case of >>>>>> Japanese) > I've made the presentation. > http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/5/5f/Community_Week_OWN_Translate.odp > PDF: > http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/e/e1/Community_Week_OWN_Translate.pdf > > Since I used many fonts in the presentation, you might not see original > OOo Impress file properly if you haven't installed the same fonts in > your system. In that case, please see the PDF file. :-) > > Comments, suggestions and improvements are welcome. ;-) > > Best, Thank an awful lot ! They look great. :-) I've replaced the files on files.o.o with the new polished ones by you. 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 _/_/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoFwhgACgkQXnHIfHE6+z0HvQCfdRt/6pw4KWaiUo8d77Z3Cul2 RjkAoImR4+zA5pJzzxLjINC+HcVlBbaJ =kQI3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] [Weekly News] Contributing the Community Week
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hello Mates, i've made just an little Proposal for our contributing at the Community Week. You can find it out under: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Community_Week If you have Proposals or Ideas, you can add this in the Page. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com

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[opensuse-marketing] Froscon Call for Projects
by Inga Herber 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hello Opensuse, we would like to invite you to take part in the next Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon 2009). FrOSCon is a two-day conference on Free Software and Open Source, which takes place on 22nd and 23rd August 2009 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn- Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany. Focus of the conference is a comprehensive range of talks about current topics in Free Software and Open Source. We also have an exhibition area, where Free Software projects can present themselves and a few rooms we can offer to Free Software projects to organize developer meetings or even their own program. As you can see there are various ways to participate at this year's FrOSCon. If you want to give a lecture visit http://www.froscon.de/en/program/call-for- papers.html for further information. The Call for Papers will end on 23rd May 2009. If you as a project want to participate, please visit https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ and sign up for a room or booth, depending on your needs. Since the demand for developer rooms and exhibitors exceeds the number of rooms and booth we can offer, we need a short summary (1-2 paragraphs) of what you plan to do. On the basis of this text we will choose the projects that appear most promising to us. The deadline for submission of projects is 31st May 2009. If you have questions concerning the developer rooms feel free to contact projects(a)froscon.org. For questions concerning a booth contact exhibitors(a)froscon.org We hope to see you at FrOSCon. Kind regards, Inga The FrOSCon Team -- Address: FrOSCon e.V. c/o FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Grantham-Allee 20 53757 Sankt Augustin E-Mail: projects(a)froscon.org Homepage: http://www.froscon.org -- 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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