Am Sonntag, 29. Dezember 2019, 10:28:46 CET schrieb Stasiek Michalski:

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 00:17, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

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What are your thoughts? Who's in?

Could we maybe call a meeting sometime in January? It would be nice to get a bridge for #opensuse-marketing room before then, for the sake of convenience. We have a lot of marketing to discuss, not to mention Leap 15.2 in May.

Fully support this idea! Please dont forget Doug in that context! Cheers Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

Hi everybody! I have some experience in print and publishing and would like to do some work for the opensuse project. For example flyer, posters, small give-aways like buttons. In a limited scope I can also assist in coordination. Best regards, Simon Am 30.12.19 um 00:21 schrieb Bernd Ritter:

Hi Vinz and fellow chameleons,

really great idea! What about a possibility for internet content to be published on openSUSE? Like my game reviews or distro articles on openSUSE as a gaming platform might be relevant for these marketing efforts.

For example this base article on opensuse gaming: https://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/wiki/opensuse

or the article on

"how to turn opensuse into a gaming machine" article for leap 15.0: https://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/news/opensuse_leap_15_als_linuxsystem_f%C...

Beside the fact that these articles are in german they might be interesting for a wider opensuse audience.

Wasn't opensuse planet some kind of blog aggregation for this purpose?

All the best, Bernd

Am So., 29. Dez. 2019 um 00:17 Uhr schrieb Vinzenz Vietzke :

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Hi all!

Watching openSUSE from being not involved in development I get the impression that it keeps acting like a poker player:

Having a full deck of cards at hand including four aces but not showing to anyone just because the position of his sun glasses could… possibly… eventually… under circumstances… be optimized.

That's something I want to change and want to revive the marketing team and get arts people involved. So I started to take notes:

1) Create content - present tools - continuous reports about developments going on - do interviews with different people/teams about their work in oS - ask people running booths to report - show how cool oS features are - draw pictures, memes and such - create video demos of various oS features

2) Create buzz - push stuff from 1) to any platform online - push shop-o-o with monthly product - make raffles of stickers etc. - invite to chats, forums etc. to discuss things

3) Keep following up - run regular onboarding events for new people interested to help - tailor events for special interests ("how to work with oS as a web dev")

I am willing to step up and coordinate the whole thing a bit. But this all needs a few more people. Anyone wanting to help with this is welcome. Also please keep in mind that the things I mentioned are just ideas and discussion is very much welcome.

What are your thoughts? Who's in?

Regards, vinz.

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 00:41, Alex Christoph Bihlmaier wrote:

Am 29.12.19 um 00:17 schrieb Vinzenz Vietzke:

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That's something I want to change and want to revive the marketing team and get arts people involved. So I started to take notes:

1) Create content

Also a refresh of desktop backgrounds is a good idea in my mind (https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Artwork)

We do that every 4 years, following the Leap cycle and TW/Leap wallpapers are meant to be complementary. If there was a solid enough wallpaper proposal before then, I would probably reconsider ;) LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Jason, On 12/30/19 4:38 PM, Jason Evans wrote:

I think this is especially important. Some of the open source projects that I follow do a terrible job with this. I would be interested in helping. These can be online or in-person.

In-person on-boarding sessions can be organized during the openSUSE conference and summits. Regards, Ish Sookun -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 6:38 AM Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

Am Montag, 30. Dezember 2019, 15:00:47 CET schrieb Ish Sookun:

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In-person on-boarding sessions can be organized during the openSUSE conference and summits.

Yes, but I'd like to see them happen more often similar to sprints at KDE. There are companies around that offer their office rooms and infrastructure, as well as schools, universities etc. Often it's even free (gratis) as they want to support community work.

Regards, vinz.

Hi Vinz, Count me in in this initiative. I believe many people already did these "marketing" activities but maybe in un-coordinated way. Me and Indonesia community doing this since a while ago. We even maintain our web/blog presence [1], twitter account [2], telegram group [3], mirror repositories [4,5], and countless community gathering. Of course we did that in our free time, thanks to friends, sponsors and openSUSE. [1] https://opensuse.id [2] @openSUSEID [3] t.me/openSUSE_ID [4] https://repo.opensuse.id [5] https://twrepo.opensuse.id Regards, -- Edwin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

Thank you Vinz. I'll be there! v/r Doug On 1/3/20 1:55 AM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

Hi,

thanks all for the interest you showed and your feedback! I'm really happy to see people wanting to help.

*Meeting*

I condensed the points you mentioned into a rough agenda. If I missed something please feel free to add it. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting

For meeting date and time I'd place it at Jan. 8th at 19:00h UTC unless someone objects within the next days. If this does not work out for you please let me know so we can find a solution. You can check your local time here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200108T19

*Communication*

Besides the already existing IRC channel we now have - Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#opensuse-marketing:matrix.org - Discord: https://discord.gg/opensuse - Telegram: https://t.me/openSUSE_Marketing

They all are already bridged together. For the IRC channel I am still trying to get bridging done. So you can join any of it and will see all conversations going on anywhere else. Feel free to drop by there and have chat!

Regards, vinz.

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