[opensuse-marketing] linux.pt & opensuse
Hi all, I'm going to share something... In the beginning like around 13 years ago, there was PLUG (Portuguese Linux Users Group), which counted with over 500 members in Portugal and SuSE (back then, I know it's spelled SUSE nowadays) had actually significant representation and was one of the biggest communities after Red Hat and Debian. PLUG was taken down to create LINUX.PT which was a failure since the early days and people just didn't committed. Though this years, linux.pt domain pointed to several ways and eventually no one cared anymore. I've spoken with the person who hold the control of it (infra-structure) and I know in person the sponsor where it is hosted. I'm going to gather soon with this people in order to revamp linux.pt and try to relaunch it, abandoning all the concepts from the past and make it what it should actually be, a platform for distributing information in Portuguese. For Fedora, I'm going to create a fedora.linux.pt host and point it to the official project wiki in European Portuguese. Thus providing a direct ramp from Fedora users to the Fedora Project, where our small representation will be used as a startup ramp to get people involved. We Portuguese will take care of our own and provide them the assistance that many times the project can't due to the work being developed and short manpower. I would like to drop a line and ask how openSUSE Marketing wants us (linux.pt) to deal with the openSUSE visitors. Should we make the same approach? Providing a ramp from linux.pt to opensuse.org ? Whatever you guys point as the way, we will comply with everything we can to help this. In addition, I'm going to approach our sponsor and ask for a 10Gigabit line connected directly to GIGAPIX (GIGA Portuguese Internet Exhcange), the main peering point for portuguese traffic. Currently our sponsor has 40Gigabits there, and he was willing to upgrade the current hardware from 2Gigabit (bonding) to 10Gigabit for hosting a Fedora mirror. So in addition we can also explore this if there is interest from openSUSE in having a powerful mirror in Portugal provided by linux.pt. My question is... how would openSUSE like to place a 'visitors card' in Portugal pointing to their international community? Linux.PT is dedicated to Linux promotion in general, we will refuse to run national communities, but we will assist in all ways we can existing communities and support nationals in engaging them and contributing directly for them. nelson. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:17 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:
Hi all,
I'm going to share something... In the beginning like around 13 years ago, there was PLUG (Portuguese Linux Users Group), which counted with over 500 members in Portugal and SuSE (back then, I know it's spelled SUSE nowadays) had actually significant representation and was one of the biggest communities after Red Hat and Debian.
PLUG was taken down to create LINUX.PT which was a failure since the early days and people just didn't committed. Though this years, linux.pt domain pointed to several ways and eventually no one cared anymore.
I've spoken with the person who hold the control of it (infra-structure) and I know in person the sponsor where it is hosted. I'm going to gather soon with this people in order to revamp linux.pt and try to relaunch it, abandoning all the concepts from the past and make it what it should actually be, a platform for distributing information in Portuguese.
For Fedora, I'm going to create a fedora.linux.pt host and point it to the official project wiki in European Portuguese. Thus providing a direct ramp from Fedora users to the Fedora Project, where our small representation will be used as a startup ramp to get people involved. We Portuguese will take care of our own and provide them the assistance that many times the project can't due to the work being developed and short manpower.
I would like to drop a line and ask how openSUSE Marketing wants us (linux.pt) to deal with the openSUSE visitors. Should we make the same approach? Providing a ramp from linux.pt to opensuse.org ?
Whatever you guys point as the way, we will comply with everything we can to help this.
In addition, I'm going to approach our sponsor and ask for a 10Gigabit line connected directly to GIGAPIX (GIGA Portuguese Internet Exhcange), the main peering point for portuguese traffic. Currently our sponsor has 40Gigabits there, and he was willing to upgrade the current hardware from 2Gigabit (bonding) to 10Gigabit for hosting a Fedora mirror. So in addition we can also explore this if there is interest from openSUSE in having a powerful mirror in Portugal provided by linux.pt.
My question is... how would openSUSE like to place a 'visitors card' in Portugal pointing to their international community?
Linux.PT is dedicated to Linux promotion in general, we will refuse to run national communities, but we will assist in all ways we can existing communities and support nationals in engaging them and contributing directly for them.
nelson.
We definitely appreciate your thinking of us and including a ramp to our site. Yes I think poingting to http://www.opensuse.org is the best way to go. And please, if there is anything we can do to help out in Portugal, whether by ourselves or in conjunction with Fedora or others, let us know. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead GNOME-A11y Outreach lead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 11:30 -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
And please, if there is anything we can do to help out in Portugal, whether by ourselves or in conjunction with Fedora or others, let us know.
I've met yesterday (not in person, but should be soon) Carlos Gonçalves who has organized ENOS[1]. Actually he lives 15 mins away from me by car. I know his reality and he also knows the person which introduced me back then to SuSE 5.2 over 10 years ago. It's a small world. I'm trying to see if I can pick up enthusiasts from openSUSE who want to help and bring more sinergy into the Portuguese community, which actually I'm pleased to see it exists. I think that soon we can advance with a plan and look for better days. Nelson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
2010/7/2 Nelson Marques
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 11:30 -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
And please, if there is anything we can do to help out in Portugal, whether by ourselves or in conjunction with Fedora or others, let us know.
I've met yesterday (not in person, but should be soon) Carlos Gonçalves who has organized ENOS[1]. Actually he lives 15 mins away from me by car.
I know his reality and he also knows the person which introduced me back then to SuSE 5.2 over 10 years ago. It's a small world.
I'm trying to see if I can pick up enthusiasts from openSUSE who want to help and bring more sinergy into the Portuguese community, which actually I'm pleased to see it exists.
I think that soon we can advance with a plan and look for better days.
Nelson
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Hi, If you need help from pt speaker from the other side of the ocean, let me/us know (merging foruns, etc) Regards, Luiz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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Bryen M. Yunashko
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Luiz Fernando Ranghetti
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Nelson Marques