August 2012 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE landing page needs immediate updating
by Bryen M Yunashko 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Looking at www.opensuse.org, I realize we are really not keeping up to date. openSUSE 12.2 is coming in just less than a couple of weeks. Yet there's nothing boasting about it on the website. It is still on 12.1. We need to replace the artwork (which is actually run by Countdown) and we need to change the text. Also, we are not promoting openSUSE Conference and openSUSE Summit. I propose we make two small thin banners across the top horizontal and side by side (each clickable to appropriate website) above the current graphics. Can we get this going and then submit the artwork to the appropriate powers that be? Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] REMINDER - August 20th is the last day to apply for openSUSE Conference Travel Support
by Izabel Valverde 19 Aug '12

19 Aug '12

Hello all, August 20th is the last day to apply for sponsorship support to attend openSUSE Conference. Please read http://news.opensuse.org/2012/08/10/opensuse-conference-is-coming-sponsorsh… How to apply http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program Best regards, -- Izabel Valverde openSUSE Travel Support Program http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program http://news.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Multiplikatoren
by Stefan Melzer 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, in Göttingen gibt es eine Gruppe von über 20 Informatik-Lehrern aus dem Raum Südniedersachsen, die sich regelmäßig treffen um neue Inhalte (Schulischer und Technischer Art) vorzustellen bzw. zu diskutieren. Als Organisator dieser Treffen möchte ich Ihnen gerne die Möglichkeit geben, bei diesen Treffen für Ihre Produkte Werbung zu machen. Für mich hätte dies den Vorteil, dass niemand von diesen Treffen mit leeren Händen nach Hause geht, quasi mit dem Gefühl, noch etwas Schönes zum Ausprobieren bekommen zu haben und Sie könnten dabei Ihre Produkte an nahezu jedem Gymnasium in dieser Region bekannt machen. Wenn Sie daran Interesse haben, würde ich mich über eine Antwort freuen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Stefan Melzer Lehrer am Theodor-Heuss Gymnasium in Göttingen Ausbilder für Informatik im Studienseminar Leiter des Netzwerk für Schulinformatiker Göttingen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] A simple report of preparation for COSCUP
by Max Lin 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hi All, You might known we've got COSCUP at 8/18 - 8/19 - and the complete official program list already announced, you can found it at http://coscup.org/2012/en/program/. This mail just want to let you know what is the current state of preparation for COSCUP. COSCUP, the largest FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan, and it keeps grow up. According to statistics from the registration website, this year, COSCUP will over 1200 participants! Collaboration KDE and openSUSE will collaboratively organize a full two-day track at the COSCUP this year. This time we bring a lot of exciting content, Will Stephenson and Aaron Seigo will be cooperation in the keynote talk; Yin-Yyun Qiao who work on Qt at Nokia will talk about new features of Qt5; Michal Chang will introduce what changes from openSUSE 12.1 to 12.2; others topics are cover KLyDE(lightweight KDE pattern), OBS, Akonadi, maintenance model, etc. It sounds nice, isn't it? openSUSE Team & Community COSCUP 2012 is the first conference that openSUSE Team supported since rename from Boosters Team. Will Stephenson and mine to participate COSCUP this year, local community and us would host a booth and brings talk, the important one is we will host a BoF at first night, chatting with local community and obtain the feedback. About booth, we prepared some cool stuff, ex. T-Shirt[1], flyers, stickers, Geeko doll, etc. If the entire venue can see Green Geeko, that will be very cool! Above is what we preparation for COSCUP, I will send a simple summary report after end of COSCUP(with pictures :). See you there and sorry for my poor English! Cheers, Max [1] http://goo.gl/Hj8id - Thanks Ben who are t-shirt' model. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Ambassadors! - Extend your reach globally with instant translation!
by Tony Su 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Was brought to my attention the demo page wasn't working. Is fixed, this technology can be applied to any wiki page (including the openSUSE wiki), wordpress, etc. and can be applied to any web application (The openSUSE Twitter feed is an example). If you send mailers and Tweet to recipients in other languages, this is almost a must! Tony *********************************************************************************************************** Previous Message: Hi Guys, I remember an email list thread awhile back (a year ago?) about mirroring your wikis in different languages. Although it's looking uncertain I'll be authorized to build a mobile application for the openSUSE summit using this technology, I thought some of you might be interested in it anyway... Basically, what this code does is to instantly translate any content from the writer's native language to whatever language the viewer wants... If I use Google's technology, it supports 64 languages. If I use Microsoft's technology, about half that many languages are supported (but still might be better for some situations). So, What can you do with it? - Extend your reach beyond your native language - Any website or wiki you now own can be instantly viewed by practically anyone else in the world in their native language. - A really <cool> thing my code can do is to convert not just static webpages, but dynamic social networking content, too!. Tweet something in Greek, and your audience isn't only Greeks! Russians, Chinese, Japanese Brazilians, Germans and the rest of the Global openSUSE community can read what you're tweeting! - Extend your reach to any mobile device (see list below). No messy configurations to find your content, anyone can point practically any web browser on any device to your URL and "it just works." - Not just to extend your reach, you can now also read others' content - A personal Twitter app can convert any unknown language to your native language immediately and instantly. To illustrate what is possible with Twitter, I've posted a demo on the following page, formatted for mobile devices http://putztzu.github.com/demos/opensuse-translate.html Note that in this live demo people are tweeting in a number of different languages in the openSUSE twitter feed. Now, select your native language and see what happens to those tweets! Tweet something new in the feed to convince yourself it's live! Note that minimal effort has been spent on how this demo looks, the demo simply illustrates translation capabilities, an actual finished app would likely look different. The technologies used for this demo page should allow it to be visible in Chrome or Chromium web browser (any version) Konqueror (Any version) Opera (Latest versions) Firefox (Latest versions) Safari (Any version) Any iPhone or iPad Android 2.2 and later Symbian (latest versions) WebOS (Any version) Blackberry (latest versions) Windows Phone (WinPhone8 supported, YMMV any earlier) Windows 8 Tablet Windows Internet Explorer 9 (YMMV anything earlier, IE6 not supported) I strongly encourage anyone to go ahead and test how the translation and twitter client looks on any smartphone or tablet you have access. If anyone is interested in either enabling their wiki/website for this kind of translation capability or would like to have a twitter client custom built for them, I'm not giving away my time but would charge something nominal(The openSUSE discount!). As I noted, this technology was actually being prepared for a possible openSUSE Summit app which hasn't been authorized. Since this was intended for every attending Ambassador and presenter at the conference and if unexpectedly the app gets a green light, for anything that is built for the openSUSE Summit that duplicates what is built for you would be re-imbursed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Happy Birthday openSUSE Project
by Ricardo Chung 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

Hello Mates, Just to say Happy Birthday openSUSE Projects ! Wishing all of you the best rewards working, sharing, learning, dreaming on new paths to freedom Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Linux & FOSS Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Missing Ambassador?
by James Mason 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hi all, Does anyone know Johan Cabrera ( http://en.opensuse.org/User:Johan_cabrera ) ? He's listed as an Ambassador for Florida, USA; I tried to email him to get some insight into the local users who may be at Summit, but the email bounced. -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Member+Ambassador 2925 Roeder Ave #300 Bellingham, WA 98225-2065 USA +1 360 752 6707 jmason(a)suse.com SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] KDE bug triage for openSUSE 12.2
by Christopher Hofmann 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hi all, we as the openSUSE Team at SUSE thought it would be useful to initiate a KDE bug triage to sweep our bugzilla a bit before releasing 12.2. Currently we habe 671 KDE bugs open in our bugzilla - most of them for quite a while. Means, that maybe a lot of them are already fixed without being noticed. I would need someone to announce that triage on the appropriate channels. We would like to do the triage on 24. and 25. of August - means in about two weeks. Maybe Kim, you would be so keen to take the announcemant part over? Christopher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Ambassadors! - Extend your reach globally with instant translation!
by Tony Su 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hi Guys, I remember an email list thread awhile back (a year ago?) about mirroring your wikis in different languages. Although it's looking uncertain I'll be authorized to build a mobile application for the openSUSE summit using this technology, I thought some of you might be interested in it anyway... Basically, what this code does is to instantly translate any content from the writer's native language to whatever language the viewer wants... If I use Google's technology, it supports 64 languages. If I use Microsoft's technology, about half that many languages are supported (but still might be better for some situations). So, What can you do with it? - Extend your reach beyond your native language - Any website or wiki you now own can be instantly viewed by practically anyone else in the world in their native language. - A really <cool> thing my code can do is to convert not just static webpages, but dynamic social networking content, too!. Tweet something in Greek, and your audience isn't only Greeks! Russians, Chinese, Japanese Brazilians, Germans and the rest of the Global openSUSE community can read what you're tweeting! - Extend your reach to any mobile device (see list below). No messy configurations to find your content, anyone can point practically any web browser on any device to your URL and "it just works." - Not just to extend your reach, you can now also read others' content - A personal Twitter app can convert any unknown language to your native language immediately and instantly. To illustrate what is possible with Twitter, I've posted a demo on the following page, formatted for mobile devices http://putztzu.github.com/demos/opensuse-translate.html Note that in this live demo people are tweeting in a number of different languages in the openSUSE twitter feed. Now, select your native language and see what happens to those tweets! Tweet something new in the feed to convince yourself it's live! Note that minimal effort has been spent on how this demo looks, the demo simply illustrates translation capabilities, an actual finished app would likely look different. The technologies used for this demo page should allow it to be visible in Chrome or Chromium web browser (any version) Konqueror (Any version) Opera (Latest versions) Firefox (Latest versions) Any iPhone or iPad Android 2.2 and later Symbian (latest versions) WebOS (Any version) Blackberry (latest versions) Windows Phone (WinPhone8 supported, YMMV any earlier) Windows 8 Tablet Windows Internet Explorer 9 (YMMV anything earlier, IE6 not supported) I strongly encourage anyone to go ahead and test how the translation and twitter client looks on any smartphone or tablet you have access. If anyone is interested in either enabling their wiki/website for this kind of translation capability or would like to have a twitter client custom built for them, I'm not giving away my time but would charge something nominal(The openSUSE discount!). As I noted, this technology was actually being prepared for a possible openSUSE Summit app which hasn't been authorized. Since this was intended for every attending Ambassador and presenter at the conference and if unexpectedly the app gets a green light, for anything that is built for the openSUSE Summit that duplicates what is built for you would be re-imbursed. Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Linux distro Labs
by Jos Poortvliet 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Heya, Cam Bamber gave me a heads-up about the PCPro, one of UK's biggest PC magazines, which is crowd-sourcing their Linux distro review pages. It's been all Ubuntu until now but they're widening the scope and anyone can help out. If you've got some time, maybe you can help make sure openSUSE gets the attention it deserves... As Cam wrote: "PCPro has a huge readership in the UK and is predominantly Windows centric. But because of the rise of Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi, the horror of Windows 8, and the cost of non-free software affecting businesses at these challenging times - there is renewed interest in Linux for home and businesses." See http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/07/26/help-pc-pro-write-its-linux-distro- labs/ Cheers, Jos

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