Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ambassadors (64 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please check out http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LCA2011 and not the mail 
below, the site is better organized and I fixed some things :D

On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:29:27 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:11:33 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I went to LCA ;-)
> >
> > Did blog about it - pictures can be found on my picasaweb:
> > http://picasaweb.google.com/jospoortvliet/LCA2011Brisbane
> >
> > Event Report LCA 2011
> >
> >     * LCA 2011 happened from mon 24 to sat 29 of Januari 2011.
> >     * openSUSE Ambassadors: Jos Poortvliet, Tim Serong
> >     * Event Details
> >     
> >         o It is a well organized and quite professional conference.
> >         Biggest
> >
> > sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Google. Budget about $700.000, entry fee from
> > $60 to $600 (depending if you're student, hobbyist or professional and if
> > you get early bird registration (50% off). There are about 1000 people
> > there, mostly semi-regulars, few students. Most of them quite technical
> > and experienced. o  Arrived Tuesday night, Wednesday first day of the
> > conference. o  Was 'fairy penguin' sponsor (A$ 1500). This was noticed by
> > a few people.
> >
> >         o  At professional networking meeting got to talk to a few
> >         people,
> >
> > got one in contact with Bretzn team to talk about payment systems for
> > openSUSE's appstore and someone else on OBS.
> >
> >         o  Attended talks, among others by Red Hat/Fedora ppl Learned
> >         about
> >
> > Koji and how it is about 5 lightyears behind on OBS :D
> >
> >         o  Blogged daily about LCA & other stuff (blog aggregated on an
> >         LCA
> >
> > planet) and tweeted several times. Also linked with Facebook.
> >
> >         o  Got in contact with a few local (open)SUSE people, will work
> >
> > with them to set up more of a community in AU.
> >
> >         o  Realized many people want to spread openSUSE but don't know
> >         how.
> >
> > They used to have local Novell contacts but those disappeared (layoffs
> > etc) and now they're stuck. I will try and get them motivated to become
> > openSUSE ambassador. Need to expand our ambassador program, communicate
> > it better and work with the local Novell/SUSE offices, integrate their
> > work with local (open)SUSE people and the ambassador work! This is what
> > Red Hat and Canonical do very well.
> >
> >         o Spoke with keynote speaker Mark Pesce, will try to get him as
> >
> > keynote speaker for Desktop Summit (if not maybe suse conf!)
> >
> >         o Had a meeting with Fedora Project Lead. We discussed
> >         cross-distro
> >
> > collaboration. There will be a discussion panel on that on FOSDEM lead by
> > him and the Debian project lead, I will join them.
> >
> >         o Gave a 90 second lightning talk (24 slides about SUSE Studio)
> >
> > during the closing ceremony which earned me a t-shirt (winner best
> > lightningtalk). Resulted in ppl coming up to me all Saturday, both to
> > compliment with talk and to say they would check out openSUSE and SUSE
> > Studio again.
> >
> >         o Held a booth on Saturday together with Tim, local Novell/SUSE
> >
> > employee. Answered many questions.
> >
> >         o Created 1 A4 poster to get geeks' interest, gave away about 40
> >
> > and used it in booth area
> >
> >         o Gave away 150 DVD's, rest is with 2 local openSUSE ppl now.
> >         o This conference is certainly worth going to but needs more
> >
> > marketing materials and more people, a team!
> >
> > Common questions asked:
> > openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D)
> > Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4
> > poster) How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview
> > with Jeff Hawn)
> >
> >
> >
> > I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
>
> Done: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LCA2011