April 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] How to make life awesome for journalists
by Andreas Jaeger 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Zonker invites us to this Fedora classroom session: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2010/04/20/upcoming-fedora-classroom-sessio… how-to-make-life-awesome-for-journalists/ Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE conference 2010 kick-off meeting
by Michael Loeffler 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Moin Ladies & Gentlemen, please join tomorrow's openSUSE 2010 conference kick-off meeting [1] on #openSUSE-project IRC channel (Thursday 22, 4pm UTC [2]). Purpose of the meeting is to create a frame for a successful openSUSE conference and define some topics and look for topic owner. Looking forward having you there. Best M [1] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Conf_2010 [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=22&year=20… -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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 IRC Marketing Meeting 2010-04-20 at 15:00 UTC
by Andreas Jaeger 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

We'll have our IRC meeting today at 15:00 UTC on freenode #opensuse-marketing. For details see http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Meetings Please add your topics to the agenda at http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Meetings/Marketing_Meeting_2010-04-20 Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE @ FrOSCon 2010 in St. Augustin
by jan＠luckylemon.de 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi Marketing team, once again another event is approaching here in Germany :) On August 21st and 22nd once again the FrOSCon[1] will take place in St. Augustin, near Bonn! The call for papers[2] and the call for projects[3] has started! So if you want to spread the word about openSUSE go out and submit your talk, or if you want to help running the booth that openSUSE will hopefully have drop me a note and visit the coordination page in the German wiki[4]. If you want you can also take a look at the pictures from last year[5]. Help spread the word and of course have a lot of fun, Jan [1] http://www.froscon.org [2] http://www.froscon.de/en/program/call-for-papers.html [3] https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ [4] http://de.opensuse.org/Veranstaltungen/FrOSCon/2010 [5] http://picasaweb.google.com/thecode83/openSUSEFrOSCon2009# -- 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 conference 2010 approaching
by Michael Loeffler 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Moin, first refresh your mind and/or get inspired of the openSUSE conference 2009 [1]. And then let's have some starting conversation about openSUSE conference 2010. Most important for the start is a place and a date. As place we think Nürnberg, Germany is a good fit as it is good to reach from where ever you're coming from and its a convenient place to attract as many SUSE/Novell developers as possible. For the venue we're aiming for the same venue we had last year - Berufsförderungswerk Nürnberg [2] - which is perfect from a conference perspective and has 75 hotel rooms on-site with a reasonable price. Downside was internet connectivity (2Mbit) but they meanwhile can offer 4Mbit and work on getting 10Mbit till mid of this year. So, with some luck this downside should be solved till the conference takes place. From a timing perspective we currently have two options for the openSUSE conference: a) week of Sept 6-12 b) week of Oct 18 - 24 I strongly vote for the latter variant b) as in Southern Germany its not just still vacation season, it's still school vacation till Sept 13th or so which means pretty many people are on vacation in reality. Further, most of the preparation work would fall into the globally vacation season which might not be perfect. Last year we had a 4 days conference [3] from Thursday through Sunday which imo was the right duration. My question would be if it should shift days, eg. from Wednesday through Saturday ? For the conference in general I propose to create a team which takes care of everything such as key notes, major topics, content in general, sponsoring, special events, PR, advertising etc.. What about doing a openSUSE conference 2010 kick-off meeting next week on Thursday 22, 6pm CEST [4] on openSUSE-project IRC channel? Looking forward having an effective conference organization and to see you all at openSUSE conference 2010. Best M [1] http://gallery.opensuse.org/Conference%2009/ [2] http://www.bfw-nuernberg.de/admin.tool/_cms/de/Content/na/na/19,0.html [3] http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2009 [4] http://tinyurl.com/y289c3c -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Issue #119 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Hi @all! Issue #119 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/119 [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/119/Translations Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- 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] Issue #119 is ready for translation
by giuseppe gran 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

Thank you Sascha, i've updated the issue with this template. ;-) -- Linux user number 433087 Linux registered machine number 351448 http://counter.li.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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[opensuse-marketing] Going outside our boxes
by Bryen M. Yunashko 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

As you can read from Eitan's latest post http://monotonous.org/2010/04/15/gnome-accessibility-at-csun-more-thoughts/, openSUSE's presence had an unexpected major impact at the CSUN Accessibility Technology Conference. I bring this up because its important, as we begin to shape our marketing team goals for this year and thereafter, that we should think outside of the box. The CSUN conference was not a FOSS-related conference, and yet the presence of FOSS proved to be very important at this conference. Each and every one of us in FOSS is ultimately tasked with growing our community. And we hope we have new people coming into the FOSS community as a result of our presence at this conference. It is very important that we continue to attend and represent openSUSE at FOSS-related events. But, we should all begin to look beyond these types of events and build presence at other events that we traditionally have not gone to. When you think outside of the box, you'll be surprised at how much overlap exists with FOSS and the rest of the world and that our presence at non-FOSS related events is appropriate and worthy. Just giving you all something to think about. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko -- 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] Texas Linux Fest
by Chuck Payne 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Guys, Here is my report for the Texas Linux Fest. I showed up at 7am, because I was told what when we could set up. Vendor couldn't set up until 9am. So since I was early didn't have a lot to do. I helped out set up tables and anything else they asked me to do. Once we got everything set up, I got the table set up. Doors opened at 10am, we had over 300+ people. I had over 400 11.1 disc and 110 11.2 DVD, some t-shirts, stickers and ipod cord holders. I was able to pass out all them by 5:00pm. In between handling out stuff. I answer a lot question about openSUSE. Here are the most poplar questions that were asked... * When is 11.3 coming out? * Why should I try openSUSE over Ubuntu? * What makes openSUSE stand out over the other Distros. * What is the differences between openSUSE and SLE. * Webyast vs. Webmin ( only because they were their) I had other questions, a quick summary... what is open Li-f-e, Autoyast vs. Spacewalk, drivers for media, and can you help with NV Drivers. This was the first Texas Linux Fest and the folks did a great job. When the event was over, I went to dinner with folks from IBM, Webmin, and TLF. Next year if I get to go back, we are talking about doing a birds of the feathers for openSUSE users. I have posted some photos on my facebook page and I will be adding a video shortly that a summary of the day. -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.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] M5 Release Notes published.
by James Mason 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Release Notes for openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 are (finally) up on News.o.o. : http://news.opensuse.org/2010/04/14/opensuse-11-3-milestone-5-the-community… Please head over to the Annoying Bugs list and make any necessary updates: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles… ----- openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by James Mason Milestone 5 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by significant contributions from both the openSUSE Community, and the larger Linux community. We’ve added some interesting new packages, made some updates to core processes, and participated in a coordinated multi-distribution upgrade of a major multimedia component. Over 50 bugs were fixed and 8 new features were implemented. Release News: * Update to Perl 5.12 (release notes) * Update to parted 2.2; M5 has a complete toolkit for supporting 4K phyisical sector disks. (openSUSE-factory list) * KMS integration for Intel and Nvidia (via nouveau driver) graphics, and the ability to disable it. (bugzilla 591400) * Update to PackageKit 0.6.2, requiring revisions to KPackageKit (openSUSE-factory list) * Added librcd and librcc, which provide on-the-fly language translation/detection, from the RusXMMS project. (openSUSE-factory list) * Added xdiskusage, a visual disk-space analyzer. (openSUSE-factory list) * A bug in OpenOffice.org that caused crashes when copying spreadsheet cells has been resolved. (bugzilla 588957) * Access to the official SUSE manuals has been improved. (bugzilla 586682) * Documentation has been corrected for the smbfs to cifs changes. (bugzilla 561993, bugzilla 578621) * The installation slideshow now talks about version 11.3 instead of 11.2. (bugzilla 588396) * Lithuanian keyboard layout added. (bugzilla 569554) * Encrypted swap volumes no longer need to be formatted during install; YaST will prompt for LUKS volume passwords. (bugzilla 581341) * A locking issue with reiserfs has been resolved and no longer prevents installs. (bugzilla 591807) * An M4 annoyance with udev init scripts has been fixed. (bugzilla 592445) System Administrators: * ssh now shows a visual fingerprint on all relevant activities, and the .ssh/known_hosts file is hashed for increased security. (openSUSE-factory list) * cron has been replaced by cronie, which ships as cron-1.4.4 (openSUSE-factory list) * pam_mount updated to the latest stable version (1.2.4, libHX 2.7). (openFATE 305351, bugzilla 438457) * KVM/qemu SDL windows no longer freeze. (bugzilla 586260) Developers/Packagers: * Update to rpm 4.8.0 (release notes) * Update to zypper 1.4.1 resolves issues with ‘zypper ref’ and ‘zypper up’. (bugzilla 586979, bugzilla 591760) * Update to NetBeans 6.8 in Java:packages. (bugzilla 593600) * rpmlint properly finds RPM_BUILD_ROOT again. (bugzilla 584952) Multimedia Authors: * The JACK team is coordinating with openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian, among others, to upgrade to jack 1.9.5 (JACK2) during the spring/summer release cycle. (openSUSE-factory list) * lilypond is now in multimedia:apps, to support rosegarden4. (openSUSE-factory list) GUI Users: * Update to X11 7.5 & xorg-server to 1.8.0. (openFATE 306903, bugzilla 586157, bugzilla 586350, bugzilla 587514, bugzilla 576481, bugzilla 593878) * Added nouveau driver for Nvidia graphics. (openFATE 307588) * VMWare mouse drivers are functioning again. (bugzilla 574857, bugzilla 592193) * Update to gutenprint 5.2.4 with support for many new printer models. (openFATE 309091) * An hplip update resolves deprecation issues related to udev. (bugzilla 577035) * Update to PCManFM’s (a lightweight file manager) libfm-0.1.9beta resolves some file access issues. (bugzilla 591731) * xscreensaver-recommended only installs a recommended subset of screensavers, and is selected by default instead of xscreensaver-extras. (openFATE 308474) * iwl3945 (an Intel Wireless LAN driver) no longer needs to be reloaded after NetworkManager startup. (bugzilla 586711) * Gnome 2.30 ’About Me’ no longer looses information. (bugzilla 588172) * gnome-keyring works properly under LXDE. (bugzilla 580043) * Update to gnuplot 4.4. (bugzilla 592563) * Update to seamonkey 2.0.4. (bugzilla 592587) Mobile Users: * Update to pm-utils to 1.3.0; power management utilities now use udisks/upower and have no dependencies on HAL; video quirks are included. (openSUSE-factory list) * NetworkManager has support for PEAP with Generic Token Card (PEAP-GTC). (openFATE 309158) * Uacklight controls are working in MacBooks with Intel graphics. (bugzilla 581474) Gamers: * Added Dungeon Crawl (a nethack clone) to the Games repository. (openSUSE-factory list) Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone release, 11.3 M5 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. Some of the most critical bugs are listed on the wiki. Get Milestone 5 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today! ----- - James Mason 'bear454' -- 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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