On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 08:49 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi Bryan,
Helping Hands is a series of live discussions by experts in various areas of openSUSE GNOME and applications that run on GNOME. We hope this becomes a weekly event. For one hour, an expert will present on his/her topic of choice and answer questions from users.
Great idea -- we need to publicize these pretty heavily.
The Ubuntu folks have done pretty well with their "open weeks" or whatever -- we might want to think about organizing something like that very soon after 11.0.
Eventually, while this is clearly GNOME-centric at this time, I hope to see this program expand to other areas of openSUSE, including KDE, CLI, etc. What a great way to grow our openSUSE family!
I'd be happy to do a Vim session ;-)
Once we're ready to go in about two weeks, I hope we, the Marketing Team, can work together to spread the word. We want users to visit us and experts to volunteer their time. It is only an hour of their time and a great way for them to promote their project.
As I am the coordinator of this project, I could really use your help in finding ways to make this an even better and sharper marketing tool for openSUSE.
When you have the schedule and whatnot in place, we can start promoting it. I'd put the word out on opensuse-announce, news.o.o (well enough in advance to make it in openSUSE Weekly News for at least one week) and also promote it to any publications likely to run an announcement.
(Might also invite a couple of friendly community journalists to attend and see if they might write or blog about it)
Any other ideas how the Helping Hands project might reach more users?
Best,
Zonker
Eventually, I envision a system where Helping Hands has a more top-level role in openSUSE. Each section would manage its own Helping Hands program, because obviously each section knows its users better. Each would manage its own schedule. But at the top, it would be more globally coordinated to ensure all Helping Hands "chapters", if you will, be adequately publicized and unified. I'd be happy to work on setting that up, if there is a global interest expressed. Getting new users and KEEPING them is the cornerstone of a great distribution, in my opinion. As soon as a schedule is determined this week, I'll let you all know about it. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org