[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE @ LinuxTag - concept to be discussed
Moin, see attached the draft I made in cooperation with an high profile and very expensive advertising agency. So please handle it with respect. First some back round. The outstanding openSUSE project was accepted to receive a project booth at LinuxTag, Berlin. Those booths are normally rather small as they come at no cost. But the organizer told us, if you come up with a smart concept we may give you a larger space or group you with other projects on a so called island booth (which is of course much more attractive as being locked in a shoe box). Therefor we put up two proposals a) and b). a) is the shoe box and b) a larger booth with a very smart concept. Proposal a) - 3x2 metres - with 2 workstations (called "C" in the draft) - 1 side board to store what ever we have (called "S" in the draft) - 2 openSUSE roll-up sign Proposal b) - 5x2 metres - with 2 workstations (called "C" in the draft) - 1 side board to store what ever we have (called "S" in the draft) - 2 openSUSE roll-up sign - 1 presentation area with screen and 5 chairs Now the very smart concept for that one: - henne and other nobel prize winners will tutor interested people some highly secret stuff such as hacking your first plasmoid, rolling a package in the build service etc.. We think about up to 4 sessions each up to 2h per day - Each day at 5pm will do the well known openSUSE quiz where people can win terrific prizes such as openSUSE t-shirts, openSUSE soccer ball or even a Kicker subscription to stay up to date around soccer - As during LinuxTag the well known and not interesting soccer world champion ship starts wee may use our screen to broadcast soccer games live (provided we conquer any technical hurdles) to attract countless people to our booth. Please let me know what you think about both proposals above. Do I completely miss the point or can we rescue it with some fine tuning. Btw: when I understand the LinuxTag guys correctly we can call out wishes with which project we may be a perfect fit on such an island booth. Please check http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en/visitors/exhibition.html and tell me who might be the perfect fit for us. Best M -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
Hello, on Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010, Michael Loeffler wrote:
see attached the draft I made in cooperation with an high profile and very expensive advertising agency. So please handle it with respect.
Let me guess: you asked "Mr. mirror" who hangs at the wall of your bathroom, and the person you've seen there made it? ;-) Yes, Mr. Mirror is quite expensive, especially when you break him...
Now the very smart concept for that one: - henne and other nobel prize winners will tutor interested people some highly secret stuff such as hacking your first plasmoid, rolling a package in the build service etc.. We think about up to 4 sessions each up to 2h per day
Sounds like a good idea.
- Each day at 5pm will do the well known openSUSE quiz where people can win terrific prizes such as openSUSE t-shirts, openSUSE soccer ball or even a Kicker subscription to stay up to date around soccer
What about a travel to the openSUSE conference? That sounds more inviting to me than a magacine about the (as you write) "not interesting soccer". BTW: IIRC at 5pm lots of booths give away prices. Maybe we should do it 20 minutes earlier or later to have more participants.
- As during LinuxTag the well known and not interesting soccer world champion ship starts wee may use our screen to broadcast soccer games live (provided we conquer any technical hurdles) to attract countless people to our booth.
This has pros and cons: - pro: the booth will be crowded for sure - con: we are there to talk about openSUSE, not about soccer ;-) The soccer viewers will probably just stand in the way, flame the incapable players and hinder other visitors. Oh, and you'll need to give out some beer to the soccer fans. (Needless to say that wine is better.)
Btw: when I understand the LinuxTag guys correctly we can call out wishes with which project we may be a perfect fit on such an island booth.
Hmm, what about Gentoo - and then giving a tutorial like "openSUSE build service. don't waste CPU cycles at home." ;-) Or choose Mandriva(User), CentOS, Debian or *buntu and talk about "openSUSE build service - we also work for our neighbors." *g* Seriously: I'd go for some upstream project - either a big one like KDE, Gnome or OpenOffice, or a smaller one that should be more visible than it normally is. Regards, Christian Boltz -- CD's sind sehr wohl brennbar! Es ist nur eine Frage der Hitze. Allerdings kommt es nach dem Anzuenden doch zu erheblichen Geruchsbelaestigungen, evtl. auch verbunden mit Gesundheits- beeintraechtigungen. Ich wuerde also davon abraten.... Als Unterteller oder Untersetzer eignen sich CD's wesentlich besser, als Brennmaterial sind sie im Prinzip nicht geeignet. [Thomas Hertweck in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Moin, On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:12:37 Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
on Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010, Michael Loeffler wrote:
see attached the draft I made in cooperation with an high profile and very expensive advertising agency. So please handle it with respect.
Let me guess: you asked "Mr. mirror" who hangs at the wall of your bathroom, and the person you've seen there made it? ;-) Yes, Mr. Mirror is quite expensive, especially when you break him...
Now the very smart concept for that one: - henne and other nobel prize winners will tutor interested people some highly secret stuff such as hacking your first plasmoid, rolling a package in the build service etc.. We think about up to 4 sessions each up to 2h per day
Sounds like a good idea.
- Each day at 5pm will do the well known openSUSE quiz where people can win terrific prizes such as openSUSE t-shirts, openSUSE soccer ball or even a Kicker subscription to stay up to date around soccer
What about a travel to the openSUSE conference? That sounds more inviting to me than a magacine about the (as you write) "not interesting soccer".
BTW: IIRC at 5pm lots of booths give away prices. Maybe we should do it 20 minutes earlier or later to have more participants. Good point. Or maybe we do it even earlier like 3pm or when more people are around.
- As during LinuxTag the well known and not interesting soccer world champion ship starts wee may use our screen to broadcast soccer games live (provided we conquer any technical hurdles) to attract countless people to our booth.
This has pros and cons: - pro: the booth will be crowded for sure and pro: the crowd will have a lot of fun which is a link to openSUSE and pro: the attending crowd is Linux/IT affine. - con: we are there to talk about openSUSE, not about soccer ;-) The soccer viewers will probably just stand in the way, flame the incapable players and hinder other visitors. Oh, and you'll need to give out some beer to the soccer fans. (Needless to say that wine is better.) Important note: We're talking about 3 games in total. So it's not like 4 games a day.
Best M
Btw: when I understand the LinuxTag guys correctly we can call out wishes with which project we may be a perfect fit on such an island booth.
Hmm, what about Gentoo - and then giving a tutorial like "openSUSE build service. don't waste CPU cycles at home." ;-) Or choose Mandriva(User), CentOS, Debian or *buntu and talk about "openSUSE build service - we also work for our neighbors." *g*
Seriously: I'd go for some upstream project - either a big one like KDE, Gnome or OpenOffice, or a smaller one that should be more visible than it normally is.
Regards,
Christian Boltz
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Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 17:24 +0200 schrieb Michael Loeffler:
Moin, On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:12:37 Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
on Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010, Michael Loeffler wrote:
see attached the draft I made in cooperation with an high profile and very expensive advertising agency. So please handle it with respect.
Let me guess: you asked "Mr. mirror" who hangs at the wall of your bathroom, and the person you've seen there made it? ;-) Yes, Mr. Mirror is quite expensive, especially when you break him...
Now the very smart concept for that one: - henne and other nobel prize winners will tutor interested people some highly secret stuff such as hacking your first plasmoid, rolling a package in the build service etc.. We think about up to 4 sessions each up to 2h per day
Sounds like a good idea.
- Each day at 5pm will do the well known openSUSE quiz where people can win terrific prizes such as openSUSE t-shirts, openSUSE soccer ball or even a Kicker subscription to stay up to date around soccer
What about a travel to the openSUSE conference? That sounds more inviting to me than a magacine about the (as you write) "not interesting soccer".
BTW: IIRC at 5pm lots of booths give away prices. Maybe we should do it 20 minutes earlier or later to have more participants. Good point. Or maybe we do it even earlier like 3pm or when more people are around.
- As during LinuxTag the well known and not interesting soccer world champion ship starts wee may use our screen to broadcast soccer games live (provided we conquer any technical hurdles) to attract countless people to our booth.
Dont think on it. univention has a stage there an decided last week to make last hour public viewing there ;)
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Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 17:12:37 schrieb Christian Boltz: Hi,
Hmm, what about Gentoo - and then giving a tutorial like "openSUSE build service. don't waste CPU cycles at home." ;-) Or choose Mandriva(User), CentOS, Debian or *buntu and talk about "openSUSE build service - we also work for our neighbors." g
These sound really cool! Lets spin something around that! regards, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 17:40 +0200 schrieb Klaas Freitag:
Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 17:12:37 schrieb Christian Boltz: Hi,
Hmm, what about Gentoo - and then giving a tutorial like "openSUSE build service. don't waste CPU cycles at home." ;-) Or choose Mandriva(User), CentOS, Debian or *buntu and talk about "openSUSE build service - we also work for our neighbors." g
These sound really cool! Lets spin something around that!
Bad chooses, MandrivaUser means Wobo & Friends they always call Geeko a kiffed reptile ;) Also the other distributions u never make that happend that they choose OBS for work on this way. I would choose gnome or KDE br gnokii
regards,
Klaas
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Moin, Michael Loeffler wrote:
Now the very smart concept for that one: - henne and other nobel prize winners will tutor interested people some highly secret stuff such as hacking your first plasmoid, rolling a package in the build service etc.. We think about up to 4 sessions each up to 2h per day
Great idea, especially with upcoming OBS 2.0 and we could invite people from other projects to see how easy it is to build cross distribution packages with OBS. Besides the fact that hands-on sessions are always are very good idea :)
- Each day at 5pm will do the well known openSUSE quiz where people can win terrific prizes such as openSUSE t-shirts, openSUSE soccer ball or even a Kicker subscription to stay up to date around soccer
Well known? I must have missed something, IIRC at least Tarent was giving away a smartphone at 5pm each day and again IIRC they told me that they are going to do this again, so a different time might be better.
- As during LinuxTag the well known and not interesting soccer world champion ship starts wee may use our screen to broadcast soccer games live (provided we conquer any technical hurdles) to attract countless people to our booth.
Although I think it is a good idea and might attract people, I do have some concerns: Isn't there something like GEMA or GEZ that we have to pay a fee to show this in public, I had an issue like that happening with something similar and well it is expensive if you don't start it right.
Please let me know what you think about both proposals above. Do I completely miss the point or can we rescue it with some fine tuning.
I think both proposals are good, I do hope that we get proposal b) as it seems to be much more fun :)
Btw: when I understand the LinuxTag guys correctly we can call out wishes with which project we may be a perfect fit on such an island booth. Please check http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en/visitors/exhibition.html and tell me who might be the perfect fit for us.
Tough! When reading the list there is one Project/Company that I know uses openSUSE as there operating system (I saw it at CLT) which is GeneSZ, they are developing software that helps with model driven development. The folks from MandrivaUser.de are always fun to hang out with at events, maybe they would be a match. KDE could also be a perfect fit. Is there a number of perfect fits we should achieve? My 2 cents, Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Moin, On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:44:43 Jan Weber wrote:
Moin,
Michael Loeffler wrote:
Now the very smart concept for that one: - henne and other nobel prize winners will tutor interested people some highly secret stuff such as hacking your first plasmoid, rolling a package in the build service etc.. We think about up to 4 sessions each up to 2h per day [...]
- As during LinuxTag the well known and not interesting soccer world champion ship starts wee may use our screen to broadcast soccer games live (provided we conquer any technical hurdles) to attract countless people to our booth.
Although I think it is a good idea and might attract people, I do have some concerns: Isn't there something like GEMA or GEZ that we have to pay a fee to show this in public, I had an issue like that happening with something similar and well it is expensive if you don't start it right. Damned, that's a real big nearly non-doable hurdle ;-) I consider it more a bureaucracy hurdle which needs a bit work and a few bugs to spend.
Best M
Please let me know what you think about both proposals above. Do I completely miss the point or can we rescue it with some fine tuning.
I think both proposals are good, I do hope that we get proposal b) as it seems to be much more fun :)
Btw: when I understand the LinuxTag guys correctly we can call out wishes with which project we may be a perfect fit on such an island booth. Please check http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en/visitors/exhibition.html and tell me who might be the perfect fit for us.
Tough! When reading the list there is one Project/Company that I know uses openSUSE as there operating system (I saw it at CLT) which is GeneSZ, they are developing software that helps with model driven development. The folks from MandrivaUser.de are always fun to hang out with at events, maybe they would be a match. KDE could also be a perfect fit.
Is there a number of perfect fits we should achieve?
My 2 cents,
Jan
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Hello, on Freitag, 7. Mai 2010, Michael Loeffler wrote:
On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:44:43 Jan Weber wrote:
Michael Loeffler wrote:
- As during LinuxTag the well known and not interesting soccer world champion ship starts wee may use our screen to broadcast soccer games live (provided we conquer any technical hurdles) to attract countless people to our booth.
Although I think it is a good idea and might attract people, I do have some concerns: Isn't there something like GEMA or GEZ that we have to pay a fee to show this in public, I had an issue like that happening with something similar and well it is expensive if you don't start it right.
Damned, that's a real big nearly non-doable hurdle ;-) I consider it more a bureaucracy hurdle which needs a bit work and a few bugs to spend.
www.jugend.rlp.de/public_viewing.html should give you some insights about the paperwork and fees... (IANAL, therefore no warranty for correctness of the information - but I hope the "Landesjugendring" knows what they are doing ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Actually the _real_ "minimal package set" is having no package at all because having no package at all resolves all dependencies of the packages and there is no package left someone might claim to be unneeded. [Robert Schiele in opensuse-factory] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hello,
Although I think it is a good idea and might attract people, I do have some concerns: Isn't there something like GEMA or GEZ that we have to pay a fee to show this in public, I had an issue like that happening with something similar and well it is expensive if you don't start it right.
Damned, that's a real big nearly non-doable hurdle ;-) I consider it more a bureaucracy hurdle which needs a bit work and a few bugs to spend.
GEZ isnt the problem because SUSE Linux pays it anyway. GEMA isnt from interest there. From this side it isnt a problem
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