September 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine
by differentreality 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Hi all! One of the ideas that popped up during the marketing hackfest here today was that of making an openSUSE magazine with focus on the conference proceedings and the cool stuff that happened since the last conference. The magazine would contain articles on the main highlights of the past year (Year is the time period between two conferences), interviews with key people, reviews and articles about the current conference etc. We would like to get a feedback on the idea and a few key topics that you think should be covered. Any authors who want to help with articles, please say so on the mailing list as we need more people to work on the articles. The topics, however, should focus on either key events that took place since last conference (like tumbleweed, evergreen, connect etc) or should be an article about oSC11 (or any particular session of it). We would also like a few miscellaneous topics that relates to openSUSE and linux at large. I hope all of you would like the idea and would contribute to our efforts to make openSUSE even more famous and awesome. Please let us know your thoughts (& your willingness to help). For additional info you can reply to the mailing list or send an email to differentreality(a)gmail.com ( plz use as subject: openSUSE magazine ) Regards, N.B.Prashanth - nbprash.mit(a)gmail.com Stella Rouzi - differentreality(a)gmail.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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] easy task: - etherpad-lite
by jdd 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Le 27/09/2011 11:38, Firas Yahia a écrit : > Hello, > There is a login restriction on the Pad you can make it private or > public. Only member assigned can open and modify in the pad. yes, I beg so, but this install is just a demonstration that it can be done, not a pad to work really with :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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-artwork] Re: Poster]
by James Mason 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

2nd draft on my poster for the flip side of the open source calendar. This draft includes elements of the 12.1 theme, as well as evoking the choice and flexibility of openSUSE. I've always wanted to make reference to the Chameleon as a concept not just a logo, finally got that chance here. I'm still working out whether or not to do the QR thing... http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/45811217 Thoughts? P.S. I *love* Inkscape. -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Member 2925 Roeder Ave Ste 300 Bellingham, WA 98225-2065 USA +1 360.752.6707 james.mason(a)suse.com ---------- SUSE ---------- Great Minds UnITe - BrainShare 2011 - Register at novell.com/brainshare -- 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] ANNOUNCE: I call it a beta
by jdd 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

don't know if it will reach the list jdd -------- Message original -------- Sujet: [opensuse-project] ANNOUNCE: I call it a beta Date : Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:22:53 +0200 De : Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)suse.de> Pour : opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org Hi, We had a short go/no-go meeting on #opensuse-factory and decided that the fuser problem may be the cause of all evil and now that it's gone, we can go forward and release beta1. We even managed to get most of the artwork updated in the days slippage. If you come around it, I will upload build315 to the mirrors tomorrow morning. When to announce publically I leave to the marketing guys, I'll be mainly off the internet till tuesday as monday is public holiday for me and I'm told publishing news on friday is bad - but I'll make sure the ISOs are available for interested testers. I hope that's ok for the team. Now the interesting question is what about the RC1. We didn't really loose time in development as we checked in almost everything that came in during the time we waited for the fixes - this includes e.g. kernel 3.1rc7. But we can't hold the schedule as it is - the original deadline for RC1 checkins is october 7th - that's around 4 days after public announcment of the beta and even before the pizza party. With the new factory work flow we have some more flexibility in terms of checkin deadlines, so let's make use of that. My proposal would be: Move RC1 from October 13th to 21st for release date - checkin deadline would be 18th. Move RC2 from October 27th to November 3th - checkin deadline would be October 28th (November 1st and the monday in front are blackout in Nuremberg and we rely too much on Nuremberg to move the date where it's perfect ;( ) Move Final release from November 11th (who set that date anyway? :) to November 16th. GM would be on 11th. Note, that I don't want to move the final date too much and if we all agree to some discipline, RC2 will already be perfect and we only apply some polishing up to GM. I know that shuffles our usual weekdays for release a bit and I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes in my proposal, so please feel free to give ideas of yours. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+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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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Weekly News 195 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 195 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 :-) -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns http://saigkill.homelinux.net -- 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] Sponsorship for small community computer lab?
by Roger Luedecke 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

I work with a small group in my city called the Blood Orange InfoShop (BOIS). I host my Linux Users Group, and Linux workshops at that location. They generally call themselves an Anarchist Collective. They believe in Do It Yourself Culture, thus they hold workshops and discussion groups in order to educate one another and fortify the community. Frankly, its hard to define them since they are simply based abround the idea of community mainly. In any event, they are moving to a larger location soon and want to have a computer lab. We intend to have classes on computer literacy and productivity, Linux and FOSS, and courses on how to participate in open source projects as well as basic programming courses. I am hoping to find some degree of sponsorship... any help is welcome. Even just posters would be good (I'm an Ambassador, so I could use some propoganda). Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador -- 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] about the pads
by jdd 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hello :-) I think we have to manage a bit better our pad work. iehterpad do not make this easy, as there don't seems to be notion of sub pages. I see several marketting tasks not to be confused, even if often they cross * Long term/permanent ones: * news.o.o * Magazine * artwork team connection Temporary ones * 12.1 delivery organisation (forgive me for the ones I forgot, add them) pad are spread everywhere. I just had 15 minutes to find back the release notes pad! right now I try to list all of them here: http://jdd.ietherpad.com/marketting-tasks simply because this was the first page I had at hand :-). I made it public to let out the registering process What I can propose is to prefix any of the page name by the task (News-, Magazine-...) and make a Task-toc as first page to copy there a link to any page you write. May be add a number (News070- for articles about this news version)? any idea welcome, I do not pretend to lead anything thanks jdd NB: one of the advantage of pro pad account is that you get a list of the pads you are working on -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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] poll about color for 12.1
by jdd 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hello, The artwork team need to have a clue of what is the desired direction we have to take about color in 12.1. The delay is extremely small. So we setup a very fast poll (end on September 27, 2011 - don't know if connect think end of the day or beginning and what hour) https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/jdd/14743/do-we-want-blue-or-gre… we don't ask for a real decision, but for a direction. many examples have been made on the artwork mailing list and an indicative vote made there, but we are not a sufficient number to do this alone http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-artwork/2011-09/ thanks you for getting a look. NB: It's the first poll I write on connect, I'm not sure of how this thing works. any hint welcome) NB2: Robert Lihm was charged to make the choice by the artwork team during OSC 2011, so chance is it's him that will make the final decision 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] github?
by jdd 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

I'm far from being a git expert! But browsing about etherpad-lite, I find the github site: https://github.com/ much more frienly than our gitorious one they say "free for opensource" waiting for our own one, may be this could be better? there is even a wiki associated to the git account, âckages seems to be individually dowloadable. but this only a 5 minutes scan :-( jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin (envoyé de Montpellier) -- 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] easy task: oS release notes - GNOME 3.2
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

I just noticed the release notes for GNOME 3.2 are ready for translation. That also means we can include them in the openSUSE 12.1 release notes now! So, all it takes is to take these notes by finding the link in the blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2011/09/16/way-to-gnome-3-2/ and moving them to the current release notes. Izabel, Kostas, JDD - you should know the link to that, I don't - please reply it here :D Then when they're moved in there, they need to be shortened to about 2-3 paragraphs with the highlights. However, if you don't feel certain about that, just copying them in there is already a big help!!! This of course needs to happen for many other things as well so if you want to make sure we properly talk about what's new in XFCE, LXDE, Krita, GIMP, Inkscape etc - find the release notes of the major release which will go in 12.1 and copy them in! Jos

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