May 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] connect event!
by Jos Poortvliet 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hi all! The openSUSE conference event on openSUSE Connect has been created: http://bit.ly/lTxjLf Join it :D For Desktop Summit fans, there is an event as well: http://bit.ly/kNCnhs Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Ohio Linux Fest
by Bryen M. Yunashko 19 May '11

19 May '11

Are you in the Northeast region of the United States? Want to visit a great FOSS conference and help promote openSUSE? The Ohio Linux Fest is scheduled for September 9-11 in Columbus Ohio. Last year, there were over 1500 attendees and a great reception around the openSUSE Booth. Submit talks too! The deadline for CFP is June 1, so hurry! http://ohiolinux.org/ If you're interested, please contact me and I will discuss the plans with you including any possible sponsorship for travel.. We've been making some great appearances in the United States this year, let's continue that momentum in Ohio! Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- 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] Report:Fosscomm 2011 Patras
by Kostas Koudaras 19 May '11

19 May '11

FOSSCOMM 2011 was held in Patras on the 7 to 8 May from Patras Linux User Group (PLUG) and the Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology (Computer Laboratory / Computer Center), University of Patras. The conference was very interesting with several additional speeches, several parallel events (booths from communities and projects, parallel talks, workshops) and live streaming. The Greek openSUSE community has united to present this two-day conference in Patras. There, we met people from other communities, discussed and promoted openSUSE and FOSS. The community participated at the conference with the following presentations and parallel events: Saturday, May 7, Presentation by Bruno Friedmann, for the openSUSE project and its future. Presentation by George Bratsos for the release of openSUSE 11.4 and the new technologies and innovations brought by the distribution. Presentation by Kostas Koudaras who presented the Greek openSUSE community and their actions, the project dealt with and the events it has organized. Presentation by George Koutsikos, for the Enlightenment Project. Presentation by Athanasios Elias Rousinopoulos about a subproject of openSUSE, the openSUSE Medical, which contains tools used by the branch of medicine. Presentation by Efstathios Iossifidis about the Greek Gnome community and the release of Gnome 3 and the new technologies and innovations. Lighting Talks by members of the Greek openSUSE community about sub-projects with which we participate, but also things that we do all together. Introducing YaST (Efstathios Agrapidis), Add / Remove software in openSUSE (Athanasios - Elias Rousinopoulos), Weekly News - The Greek way (Efstathios Agrapidis), Evergreen Project (George Tsiapaliokas), Tumbleweed Project (George Bratsos), KDE Akokandi (Antonis Tsiapaliokas), Guidelines for mariners, using openSUSE Community tools (Efstathios Iosifidis). Sunday, May 8, Presentation by Efstathios Agrapidis for the revolutionary OBS platform that solves packaging problems. Presentation by Efstathios Iossifidis on how we can create an openSUSE distribution with SUSE Studio. Workshop by Efstathios Agrapidis to create .deb and .rpm packages with OBS. The openSUSE community booth was one of the largest in the organization and except the dvds, posters,, flyers, cheat-sheets etc. we co-hosted the booth of the Greek community of Gnome, the Enlightenment Project and the amazing people of other communities who were there to assist and promote their favorite project and FOSS in general. On Saturday evening the openSUSE community had a Release party for the distribution of openSUSE 11.4 at the hotel where he resided. The party achieved its purpose because, apart from the cake we ate and the beer we drunk, we came closer to people from other communities such as the Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD and OS-arena. At the end of the night Red Hat people visited our party, with whom we shared the same roof (hotel). :P The workshop ended with a farewell message from the organizers of Fosscomm whom we thank for the wonderful organization even though the misfortunes of the second day which left us without power and wifi internet access for the most part. More photos can be found in our group on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=153638841330360&ref=ts -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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] Conference Promotion task list
by Bryen M. Yunashko 19 May '11

19 May '11

We now have a wiki page detailing the items we need to take care of for promoting the conference at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Promotion_2011 Some parts are still WIP, but there's a number of items that y ou can already volunteer to pick from. If you have any questions or feel there are items to add/modify/delete, please feel free to do so! 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] Need Lizards for FrosCon 2011
by Jan Krings 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hey Lizards, on August 20th/21th, there is the "Free and Open Source Software Conference" in St. Augustin near Cologne (Germany). Until now, without openSUSE. I have no problem to organize the booth, but atm. I'm the only person from the openSUSE Community, who want to go to the FrosCon. And alone, it makes no sense. The deadline for the Call of Projects is the 23th May 2011. So we have not much time to decided if there is a openSUSE booth or not. If there is another person who wants to helps me I'm happy. More are of course better. http://www.froscon.de/index.php?id=41&mid=154&ret=15&L=1&L=1 Greets Jan Krings -- 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] physical banner
by jdd 18 May '11

18 May '11

Do you know we can have real banners printed for a very small fee? This one, for my LUG: http://dodin.org/piwigo/picture.php?/44057/tags/377-culte_linux was paid less than $30 (adress as PM only) I would like to make one for the french group, similar to this one: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Banners So, I need the original vector one (svg?) Where can I find it? Of course I will have to ask for autorisation, as it will be translated, but I will first discuss translation content with the french people. thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- 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] Interesting ... Fwd: Linux Expo to Sponsor Software Freedom Day Activities
by Izabel Valverde 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hello everybody, Hi Tony, Hi Drew, Did you get this? :-) Izabel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Linux Expo of SoCal <scale-announce(a)socallinuxexpo.org> Date: 2011/5/13 Subject: Linux Expo to Sponsor Software Freedom Day Activities To: valverde.izabel(a)gmail.com The Linux Expo of Southern California, parent organization of the popular Southern California Linux Expo, announced today that it will sponsor events during the observation of Software Freedom Day 2011, to be held Sept. 17, 2011. By doing so, the Linux Expo expands its efforts to popularize the use of Free and Open Source Software beyond the Southern California Linux Expo, which is held annually in February. The Linux Expo will accept proposals from Southern California groups for events observing Software Freedom Day, and will issue five grants of up to $500 each to support each event. The funding may be used for space rental, media duplication, printing costs or other expenses related to their event. Groups from San Luis Obispo County south to the California-Mexico border, and from the Pacific Ocean east to the California-Nevada border, are encouraged to apply. Interested groups can send their proposals to press(a)socallinuxexpo.org. All proposals must be received by July 31, 2011. -- 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] Some Questions about openSUSE
by Stuart Tanner 17 May '11

17 May '11

All I am looking for a suitable answer to this question. Can you explain the genius behind the all software created named ‘openSUSE’? -- 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-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Spread the Conference word via Facebook!
by Bryen M. Yunashko 17 May '11

17 May '11

As you all know, today we formally announced the openSUSE Conference 2011 as seen here:http://news.opensuse.org/2011/05/16/opensuse-conference-2011-to-be-cre… I've created a Facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202207046487042 Please visit the page and invite as many people as you think might be interested to attend this event. We will add more invitationals on other social media sites soon, but for now, we have Facebook to start with and let's move forth. The more people know about us, the more we can expect an awesome event. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- 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] Introduction.
by Richard Clinker 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi there. Nelson (ketheriel) suggested I join this mailing list after I responded to a forum thread about contributing to openSUSE. (http://forums.opensuse.org/english/other-forums/community-fun/surveys-polls…) Well, I've put together the start of what could be an article something along the lines of what ketheriel had in mind. You can find it at http://bumblebee.homelinux.net/openSUSE-article.odt. I'd be grateful if those with the appropriate contacts could forward it on to maybe get some responses that'd go toward the finished piece so it can then be published wherever you see fit. I hope it's a useful contribution. Best Regards, Rich (skaterich on the openSUSE forums.) http://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardclinker -- Sent from a PC running openSUSE 11.4, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.10. Please virus scan any attachments. They will not have been scanned by me! -- 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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