Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (130 mails)

["Carlos Ribeiro" <CRibeiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply Requested by 6/24/2010 (Thursday) **

Welcome aboard Nelson


We are all so glad to Have you working with us, We will be so proud if
our openSUSE community will be successful in help you with your academic
and professional needs.


> > > Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx> 24 Junho, 2010 >>>
> Dear all,
>
> My name is Nelson and I'm finishing my University degree on Marketing
> Management by IPAM[1] in Portugal.
>
> I used SuSE Linux from 5.2/5.3 to 7.0 on my personal computers
> (somewhere since 98 to 2001) and used Red Hat on work (worked as
> sysadmin for a company that now is part of GFI International[2] and
PT
> Inovação S.A.[3] in Mobile Networks Services, the research and
> development unit from Portugal Telecom).
>
> Currently I use Fedora 13, where I'm also a contributor for Fedora
> Marketing Team.
>
> I've joined this list after being pointed by Andreas on the Fedora
> Marketing lists.
>
> The reason why I'm writting this email is because I plan to submit a
> paper which is also based on previous Fedora Marketing list traffic
> which suggested that in many things We could work together.

Sure your papers will be more than welcome and also help the event be
more valuable to everyone


> To be honest, in a way due to the purpose of my work (academical,
> scientific or work related), I fit better in the audiences targeted
by
> openSUSE than exactly by Fedora. This are the two Community
> Distributions I admire the most, due mainly to the background relation
I
> Have with both.


> SuSE GmbH in 2001 sponsored one event I organized under PLUG
> (Portuguese Linux Users Group, now extint in favor of the walking
corpse
> Linux.PT[4], where I was responsible for Documentation in
Portuguese).
> This event gathered aroud 400/500 visitors during 2 days on a
February
> weekend.


Really, Really good to know... Can you share this materials with me,
sorry because I didn't had introduced myself to you, but in general
lines, I'm working on openSUSE marketing for Brasil Linux ecosystem and
communities, then ... We Have a lot of words and materials to exchange
to each other - nao é mesmo meu amigo!



> I've also translated some Documentation (kernel frame buffer devices
> mainly) into Portuguese to the POLI Project, which is another project
> that died from lack of activity.

> My perspective over FOSS isn't shared by many, when I'm actually one
of
> the big defenders of the importance of commercial software for
several
> reasons. This is mainly due to my head being formatted in a Marketing
> Management way, and not exactly on a FOSS way.

> I plan to build my paper based on several topics which Have not been
> yet decided, though I plan to Have the following:

> 25% of available time to activities with the audience > to establish
> two basic things:
>  # Promote the out-of-the-box concept present in all of us, many
times
> ignored by pre-formated ideas. Very exploited in Marketing.
>  # Establish a dynamic about 'the concept of Marketing' > and how We
> should actually face it. There is no right or wrong, on the contrary,
> there exist lots of perspectives. I would like to share those that
> better fit in the scope of Community Linux Distributions (no sales,
but
> still a trade happens), alongside with the very basic concepts of
> Marketing Mix and eventually Communication Mix.

> 25% of time > Subject: The importance of Marketing in FOSS
Communities
> and Products. Won't approach 'services' (products are generally seen
as
> tangible, while services are intangible).

> Remaining 50% > Present a set of ideas that can be developed around
> possible cooperation between different Distribution Communities in
order
> to promote our products through cooperation and sharing audiences (We
> all know that Fedora and openSUSE target different 'user bases', We
are
> promoting different things, but We can still work together as
Marketing
> contributors just like the upstream contributors do). One example of
> maybe a success on this field is eventually the Project started by
Red
> Hat Inc[5] aiming to providing easier usage Networking on Linux
> (NetworkManager[6]) which many of us use today. Novell[7] and
> openSUSE[8] also Have given very important steps to fulfil this goal,
> for example, KNetworkManager[9] can be a fine example of cooperation
on
> this field.

> I would like to thank Novell and openSUSE to place very positive
> synergies on the FOSS community through one of the best products
> (non-commercial Linux) that I know, and that for a long time had a
> comfortable place on my Desktop/Workstation, and of course all their
> community contributors.

Very good and interesting point, At this moment We are talking just
about some of the above topics you pointed and your thoughts will be
much valuable to the project.


by the way... 
openSUSE Board and its Strategy Team Have worked on three strategic
proposals to define the direction of openSUSE*s future, as a Project,
Community and distribution.  Each strategy proposal includes the same
community statement.  We will therefore discuss the community statement
and the three strategies separately.
http://news.opensuse.org/2010/06/17/a-strategy-for-the-opensuse-project-proposals-and-discussions/
 
Your contributions will be much appreciated.


adding more value to our first first ;-) I would like to invite you to
participate in our marketing irc meetings At
http://news.opensuse.org/2010/02/24/opensuse-marketing-irc-meeting/
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings


Our openSUSE Marketing Team page Have some interesting informations
that can help you to be more involved and contribute more effectively
with openSUSE project.
http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing/Team


If you Have any specific point you wish to start to talk about right
now...
hands up and
... Have a lot of fun!

Let's start to speak and help each other and make Collaboration across
Borders turns to real !
http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010

About your papers, you can submit they here
http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/31/opensuse-conference-2010-call-for-papers-2/

ou em portugues ;-)
http://pt.opensuse.org/Conference_2010
http://pt.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers


Muitiiiisimo obrigado
keep in touch
CarlosRibeiro






Thanks all,

nmarques.


References:
[1] - http://www.ipam.pt
[2] - http://www.gfi.pt
[3] - http://www.ptinovacao.pt
[4] - http://www.linux.pt
[5] - http://www.redhat.com
[6] - http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
[7] - http://www.novell.com
[8] - http://www.opensuse.org
[9] - http://en.opensuse.org/KNetworkManager


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