May 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] banner for cheap
by jdd 16 May '11

16 May '11

It's a very good addon when building a boot to have a banner. You can find an example here (including photos of the actual banner) - the banner is printed on heavy material, the one made specially for banners and with eyelets. You have to give a pdf ith the good L/l ratio: http://dodin.org/opensuse/artwork/ there are both jpg and svg (source) to allow localisation. In France, I ordered from: art2creation(a)hotmail.fr the cost of one banner, 200x40 centimeters, including all costs (package and delivery) is *23* euros which I find extremely cheap. Just a note: the above e-mail is said to be from France, but the delivery is from "Farra Company, Aleppo, Syria" (that may be a problem for some people). But may be you can find similar prices elsewhere (I found it on e-bay) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- 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: Publicity Material for Southwest Computer Conference
by Jos Poortvliet 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi all!!! See attached, anyone able to come up with something on such short notice? ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Publicity Material for Southwest Computer Conference Date: Tuesday 10 May 2011, 01:29:44 From: Orv Beach <orv(a)orvsplace.net> To: "Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks(a)bryen.com> CC: jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com I just realized we're only 3 weeks away from SWCC. You've volunteered to help create marketing materials, and I appreciate that! What we need is: - Larger posters (suitable for putting on a media tripod) - perhaps ANSI C or ANSI D sized. These would have some basic info about FOSS software (WHY you'd want to use it, WHAT it does for you, WHERE to get it, etc.) Maybe 2-3 with varied info on them. - Some handouts with more detailed info on them. Either 8 1/2 x 11, or larger if it's in trifold format. Note - all of the info should be focused on desktop use. This is a desktop users' conference :-) Feel free to use color if you like. Although it's way more expensive to print, it will be better received and I actually have a real printing budget for SWCC this year :-) Whatever you come up with I can have printed locally, so we don't have to worry about shipping anything. Digital formats would be fine (I assume PDF, but anything format Kinko's can handle will work). And, whatever you come up with, I'll need by about May 30th, so I have time to get it all printed and collated, if necessary. Thanks for whatever you can do for us! Orv -----------------------------------------

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[opensuse-marketing] Non-standard compliant website list
by Roger Luedecke 16 May '11

16 May '11

One thing that keeps people from adopting Linux is the problem of websites being designed using MS only technologies, or that block non MS browsers or OSes. Would it be feasible for us to set up a list of commonly used / important websites that do this, and lobby those sites to adopt modern stadards, and to blitz whatever reviews possible to indicate their failure and lower their ranking, thus pressutring them to adopt standards? -- 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] Monthly Meeting Reminder: 17-May-2011 15:00 UTC
by Bryen M. Yunashko 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi All, this is a reminder of the monthly team meeting for the Marketing Team at 15:00 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday.) Our meeting topics will focus on the following two areas: 1. Upcoming events: Review of upcoming events and what resources we need to prepare for those local events. This will take no longer than 15 minutes. 2. The remmainder of the meeting will focus on promoting the upcoming openSUSE Conference. A formal announcement is very imminent and we are going to need to focus a lot of energy on promoting the conerence since we don't have that much time left to the conference date and the things that need to be done in the interim. See you all tomorrow at 15:00 UTC. See http://bit.ly/mQCZFu for the time in your local area! 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] Wiki Blitz
by Roger Luedecke 15 May '11

15 May '11

A frustration for me was often the lack of content in the wiki. I think we should have a sprint to fill in or migrate a large amount of articles in the wiki. Friends and clients often bemoan forum trawling to try and find solutions (Ubuntu users). Even if its just a copy and paste to start with, thats better than keeping it all blank. -- 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 marketing - Web Widget Advertising?
by Tony Su 12 May '11

12 May '11

Wondering if openSUSE has an online ads, similar to Google Adsense (banners, etc) Aside from my personal preference to further provide openSUSE exposure deploying standardized images that send people directly to openSUSE, I'd sure like to deploy something other than the largely monopolistic Google Adsense that has bought up all the competition is sight. TIA, Tony -- 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 175 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 175 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun :-) -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- 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-project] Enlightment Derivative from openSUSE
by Manu Gupta 11 May '11

11 May '11

Can we have a news item for this? Encouraging derivatives is a good idea in my opinion also ask the author his permission to do this The only problem is it is not named openSUSE but I think that can be ignored Regards Manu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ricardo Chung <amon0.thoth1(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Can we get on this To: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:36:32 AM Kostas Koudaras wrote: > 2011/5/6 Per Jessen <per(a)opensuse.org>: > > Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > >> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:26 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > > http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a- > > usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/ > > > >>> 128Mb RAM is too little I suspect. I don't think YaST will run in > >>> less than 196M. > >>> > >>> Anyway, decent secondhand PCs with comparable performance are > >>> available on ebay for about USD25, maybe a little more. :-) > >> > >> As it ships pre-installed I doubt we need a full fledged yast around > >> this to get an installer running. It's rather 'fixed' hardware, so a > >> simple dd before shipping the sticks might very well be worth it. > > > > Good point. The question (perhaps) is, how do those ARMs perform? I > > have some 5-6 year old laptops with 1.5GHz Celerons and 512Mb RAM - > > with 10.x, they were still a very capable work platform, but with 11.4, > > they're much too slow. > > What about if we install 11.1 or 11.4 with Enlightement? > we could try and experiment on it, I have some people that would like > to try it and see if it's possible, I will send an e-mail to see if I > can buy one or two so that we can experiment on that. Maybe you could try with http://sites.google.com/site/petitelinux/download wich is based on openSUSE 11.4 with Enlightenment. Petite Linux is an openSUSE build, created using susestudio.com, featuring the Enlightenment (e17) Desktop Environment Features: Fits on a (live) cd, just insert the cd, reboot, try it out No need for choices, it works as-is No clutter, just functionality > > If something like that is possible we could organize a hackfest inside > the oSC, what do you think about that? > > > /Per > > > > -- > > Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2°C) > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org > > Kostas -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 video drivers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] Re: I would like to be an ambassador
by Roger Luedecke 09 May '11

09 May '11

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 -- 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] Thoughts on openSUSE Conference Name
by Jos Poortvliet 08 May '11

08 May '11

On Saturday 30 April 2011 03:34:49 Helen South wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > But let's wait a bit until the location is announced - one of the > > options (which I hope turns out to be possible) would offer > > opportunities for an entirely different and cooler conference slogan :D > > That makes sense. Also I'm thinking that from topics that people > propose, something will emerge - whatever people are generally most > interested in right now and things they are working on, there might be > a bit of a trend. > > Someone mentioned Cloud - yes, it's something we're maybe hearing too > much of but it is still in the ascendant so there could be something > there. > > Any artwork ideas we generate in the process can always be repurposed. > Loved Robert's concept too. I thought it was more 3D 8-bit than Lego, > but there are many possible connections there with 'old fashioned' > ways of doing things, three dimensional stuff, construction, > simplification (Factory?) Hi all, Next monday we still have time to print a cool poster for LinuxTag. So we need to decide on a theme sunday. As you've seen in the mail to -project, we have a conference location. I am putting information on the wiki right now (Klaas, didn't you promise to do that? I need to keep beating on you, don't I?). So, what should we do? Just say - most like RWX^3 so let's go ahead with the poster stuff??? Or does anyone have a better idea based on the information on the location we have (see project ml)? Unless somebody has a better idea, Robert prints the RWX themed poster and we get ahead with that. One thing on that poster, btw - Robert, I do agree with some here that the 4th character on the design - well, I have no idea what that is supposed to depict... But having ppl check the site to find that out is fine with me too. Your call. Which needs updating too, who is up for modifying the http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Conference page? You can take content from our current call for papers draft We could also create a http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ConferenceMobile page. Please get content from what I'm writing on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP and http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011 Cheers, Jos

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