Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (309 mails)

["R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies for fail-mail to the list.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:27 -0700, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
> > > * Miscellaneous Topics which may include:
> > > ** Education/Helping Hands revival?
> > > ** openSUSE Shop
> > > ** Upcoming events
> > > ** Others?
> >
> >
> > Are there any plans for SmeeGo (openSUSE/MeeGo) marketing coming up? From my
> > discussion with FunkyPenguin it seems like SmeeGo is getting to alpha status
> > soon and seems to me like it'd be a good point to advertise to Netbook users
> > (I'd argue Ubuntu's Netbook Remix is the only decent Linux distro for 
> > netbooks
> > right now).
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Thought:
>
> That would be a good topic to discuss building a campaign around as
> well.  I hope Andy can be around to discuss that or we can (probably
> should) set up a dedicated meeting to discuss that compaign (like we did
> for the OBS campaign) and invite all interested parties to discuss and
> plan.  This would be better, I think, than putting into the regular
> meetings which is more about statuses and progress reports.  


Sounds good to me, this will be only my second marketing meeting to attend (or
act like a fly on the wall), still getting a hang of the agendas. Will this be
a meeting planned in similar fashion to the regular marketing meetings? I.e. an
agenda set, time scheduled and a notice sent to the list?


> I'll put it in the agenda for tomorrow to get the team to decide how we
> want to do this.   Thanks for bringing it up to our attention.  This is
> exactly what we need... awareness of the various projects happening
> around the openSUSE community.   Good job, Tyler!

OMG! No problem! (keeping my eyes open in the project is my new hobby ;))

Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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