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[opensuse-marketing] Marketing at Nicaragua
by Alex Rodriguez 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

A local design for t-shirts and banner http://opensuse.org.ni/index.php?title=Arte the transduction is ================================= tshirts >> In Nicaragua I use openSUSE Linux ================================= ================================= banner >> Believe in Free Software, Free Yourself, choose Linux You will never be alone Join us >> www.openSUSE.org.ni Powered by NOVELL ================================= All this work to spread openSUSE Linux at SFD08 and any other event =) Greetings -- Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez || @LeX Usuario Linux # 379802 openSUSE 11.0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] New o.o-frontpage
by Robert Lihm 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hey! During Hackweek 3 Andreas Demmer and I made a new frontpage for opensuse.org, which will replace the 3-Box-Page we currently have on http://www.opensuse.org . The goals of the new page are: * pickup the visitor at the front-door * offer more information about the openSUSE-Project on a centralised page (more; not to much, many, etc., just a overview!) * stay conform with the openSUSE.org screen-design * make it easy for newcomers to dig into the openSUSE-Univers. About the page-design: The content is always placed in two columns (1/3 to 2/3) and the page is divided into two halves. In the top is the eye-candy logo with a short description (we are still looking for a better/shorter text) of the openSUSE project and the good old three main sections: software, wiki, build service. Links to all other o.o-pages are offert at the bottom of the page as hotwords, so they can be easily found with the filter in your browser or by scrolling ;-) The search bar above the the categories is not fully implemented jet. We plan a selection box (dropdown) in front of the input-field where you can select the section which should be searched (e.g. like Firefox search in the top/right corner). The placement of the search box is carefully chosen. It has a optical connection to the three sections but there is enough white-space between the search and the section-chunk to display that they are not siblings. It's in the upper-right where the most people look for a search (it's in these area on all o.o-pages). The lower part of the page contains, in the bigger column, informations like upcoming events, etc. ... what ever is hot :-) The smaler column contains the last 5 headlines from news.o.o (updates every hour), help informations and a link to shop.o.o. We made a small admin interface to change the content without the code- hacking and deploying dance. A localisation is implemented, too. But not deployed now. You can check out the draft at http://www.suse.de/~rlihm/index.shtml. We are looking forward to hear your opinions and suggestions. Best, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - Build Service Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] irc meeting - some comments
by ¡ElCheVive! 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi Zonker and all! During our first meeting (marketing team) I said that the information for translator are spread over the openSUSE wiki, we don't have a central point, ok we have the Teams page, but we have one page for the distro translation (i18n.opensuse.org), another for the wiki translation (http://en.opensuse.org/Translation_Team) and a third one for documentation (http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team) been the last one is with less translations, just english and deutch. And if I or we want to translate the manuals we have to have a medium knowledge to get the sources, extract it, convert the .xml to .pot files or edit the xml itself, translate it and repacking again or create an OBS account to do that (and learn how to use it)... And another thing that I can't found for translation are the man pages for openSUSE especific programs like zypper, yast, locks, and so one... Regards, Luiz Fernando Ranghetti -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] New o.o-frontpage
by Robert Lihm 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

On 28.08.2008, at 15:51, Bryen wrote: > Hey, where'd the page go? I was looking at it briefly earlier and > wanted to go back into it just now to give some feedback, and > there's a > 404. I didn't know the open comments period was so short. :-) > We changed few things and get into trouble with the sync-mechanism of the server. The page will be available again soon. So long you can take a look on a screenshots I even uploaded to the wiki: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/8/8f/OpenSUSE.org_FrontpageFF3.png Thank you for the hint! Cheers, Robert > Bryen > > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 13:57 +0200, Robert Lihm wrote: >> Hey! >> >> During Hackweek 3 Andreas Demmer and I made a new frontpage for >> opensuse.org, which will replace the 3-Box-Page we currently have >> on http://www.opensuse.org >> . >> >> The goals of the new page are: >> >> * pickup the visitor at the front-door >> * offer more information about the openSUSE-Project on a centralised >> page (more; not to much, many, etc., just a overview!) >> * stay conform with the openSUSE.org screen-design >> * make it easy for newcomers to dig into the openSUSE-Univers. >> >> About the page-design: >> >> The content is always placed in two columns (1/3 to 2/3) and the page >> is divided into two halves. >> In the top is the eye-candy logo with a short description (we are >> still looking for a better/shorter text) of the openSUSE project and >> the good old three main sections: software, wiki, build service. >> Links to all other o.o-pages are offert at the bottom of the page as >> hotwords, so they can be easily found with the filter in your browser >> or by scrolling ;-) >> The search bar above the the categories is not fully implemented jet. >> We plan a selection box (dropdown) in front of the input-field where >> you can select the section which should be searched (e.g. like >> Firefox >> search in the top/right corner). >> The placement of the search box is carefully chosen. It has a optical >> connection to the three sections but there is enough white-space >> between the search and the section-chunk to display that they are not >> siblings. It's in the upper-right where the most people look for a >> search (it's in these area on all o.o-pages). >> >> The lower part of the page contains, in the bigger column, >> informations like upcoming events, etc. ... what ever is hot :-) >> The smaler column contains the last 5 headlines from news.o.o >> (updates >> every hour), help informations and a link to shop.o.o. >> We made a small admin interface to change the content without the >> code- >> hacking and deploying dance. >> >> A localisation is implemented, too. But not deployed now. >> >> You can check out the draft at http://www.suse.de/~rlihm/index.shtml. >> >> We are looking forward to hear your opinions and suggestions. >> >> Best, >> Robert >> >> --- >> >> Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - Build Service Team >> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg >> Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de >> ____________________________________________________________ >> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) >> ____________________________________________________________ >> SUSE - a Novell business >> > --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - Build Service Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] IRC Meeting Tuesday, August 26 @ 15:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi all, I didn't see any major objections, so I'm setting our first official, real-time meeting for 15:00 UTC on Tuesday, August 26. I'm putting together the meeting page + agenda now, and will send that URL before Monday. If you have any other agenda items, please send them along soon. Have a spiffy weekend! Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] IRC meeting next week
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Greetings openSUSE marketeers! :-) I'd like to have an IRC meeting next Tuesday at 15:00 UTC in the openSUSE-project channel on freenode. Does anyone have an objection to this time? I'd like to have as many opensuse-marketing participants involved as possible. I know that this is during Hack Week, but I'd like to start having regular meetings as soon as possible. Also, please send any items you'd like to include on the agenda. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Boxed Edition delivery
by Graham Lauder 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

This is to hand out a very large bouquet to the despatch people who send out the OpenSuSE boxed edition. When I do presentations to SeniorNet groups in NZ (http://www.seniornet.co.nz) I often get asked about printed manuals. I tell them there is one available in the boxed edition. However that's all I've been able to tell them because obviously I use the download version because there is no local supplier(how do I go about becoming one is another question for another thread?). In order to be more informed I splashed out the $NZ100+ and ordered it online. I put the order in on Friday afternoon local time (1:00am Friday Utah time), the box arrived afternoon post on Monday!! By comparison Amazon orders take three weeks. It's actually faster than ordering from Fishpond, (the local competition to Amazon) VERY very impressive and an excellent piece of info for future presentations. Kudos to the despatch people. Cheers GL -- Open Opportunities Ltd http//:www.openopportunities.co.nz Open Technologies Migration and Change Management Consultants Front Office ICT Training and Certification Web Presence Management Consultancy SuSE Linux Enterprise and OpenOffice.org specialists INGOTs Assessment training and Certification Grayburn House, Tokoroa Phone +64 7 886 0656 Mobile +64 27 494 4315 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] A openSUSE project banner design
by Alex Rodriguez 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Here at Nicaragua, the local opensuse group is forming a design team First we had mede some t-shirts, and stickers with our local logo =) But now we want to have a "official openSUSE banner" That we use every event, or every meeting Can you provide me some ideas, or a sketch for the design team We want to keep the SUSE official art-work Greetings :) -- Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez || @LeX Usuario Linux # 379802 openSUSE 11.0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE @ Perspektive Open Source / Systems 2008
by Marko Jung 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Hi, [I am writing this mail as Free Software Community Manager of LinuxTag e.V. not as SUSE employee.] Like before there will be an area called 'Perspektive Open Source' (short POS) at Systems [1] dedicated to Open Source and Free Software. The event will take place October 21st-24th in Munich awaiting about 40.000 trade visitors. [2] Messe München decided to hand over the selection of free and open source projects for this area to LinuxTag e.V. Therefore I am asking the openSUSE marketing team if the openSUSE project is interesting in getting a small demonstration point within POS. Messe München and LinuxTag e.V. offer free of charge * one demo point for a laptop and a large poster * power supply * internet connection therefore we await * a fully staffed demo point during all visitor hours * well prepared demonstration concept * no advertising for commercial products and services (except a small adequate mention of sponsors) Cheers, Marko [1] http://systems.de/ [2] http://systems.de/link/en/19255006 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE @ FrOSCon - call for volunteers
by Marko Jung 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi Marketing-Team! In about four weeks a quite nice free and open source conference (FrOSCon) [1] will open it’s doors for the third time and in my opinion openSUSE should not be missed there. Hence I asked the organizers if they can provide the openSUSE project some space for an openSUSE booth and generously they agreed to this. Now I am looking for volunteers from the openSUSE community to support me driving the booth. You should have solid knowledge on openSUSE, be an outgoing personality and enjoy to share your know how with visitors. To get an impression how much fun FrOSCon will be, have a look at more than 600 photos from the initial two events at flickr [2]. I know no other event that offers for example a bouncing castle [3], free drinks for pre-registered visitors and a 5 Euro Kölsch-Flatrate [4] at the social event [5]. If you have some spare time during the weekend on August, 23rd to 24th and would like to come to Sankt Augustin (nearby Bonn/Germany), you should not miss the possibility to participate at one of the coolest free software events in Germany. So hurry up and drop me a few lines and add yourself to the event coordination page in the openSUSE wiki: http://de.opensuse.org/Events/FrOSCon/2008 Unfortunately nobody submitted a talk on openSUSE and the call for papers of course is finished, because the program [6] is already published. Fortunately there will be some lightning talks where we should participate in. Cheers! Marko [1] http://www.froscon.org/ [2] http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=froscon&m=tags [3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/quendor/1250691365/sizes/m/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/quendor/1251648496/sizes/m/ [4] http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortendk/1239800958/sizes/m/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortendk/1238932059/sizes/m/ [5] http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortendk/1239800086/sizes/m [6] http://programm.froscon.org/2008/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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