Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (169 mails)

[Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/11/9 Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tuesday 09 November 2010 05:15:17 Kostas Koudaras wrote:
> > First of all the title is a bit ironic.
> > Well I started thinking about it after what I read on a previous
> > marketing list post with subject "Wrong marketing OBS".
> > So now I would like to discuss the parts of openSUSE project because I
> > feel a bit confused about it and I believe I am not the only one. I
> > mean as I know parts of the openSUSE project are the SUSE Studio, the
> > openSUSE distribution, openSUSE LI-F-E and the OBS.
> > -Is there something else?( I don't know if we can include Yast in all
> > this)
>
> I normally speak about these pillars:
> * distribution
> * community
> * communication
> * tools
>
> Btw. we have no formal definition what an openSUSE sub-project is ;)
>
> > > -When you make a search for openSUSE project in our wiki in order
> > to find out what the openSUSE Project is you get that
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Project , where you read: The openSUSE
> > project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux
> > everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux
> > distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly
> > manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software
> > community.
> > Nowhere you read about the other parts of the project than the
> > distribution,at list that is what I think except if I'm missing
> > something and if I do is it enough?
> >
> > I recommend to talk about what should we find in an openSUSE project
> > booth other than information about the distribution and organize teams
> > to create that kind of information(at least for the parts we don't
> > have) and material.
>
> good idea.  So, what do others would add for a large booth:
> First:
> * distribution
> * OBS (main part of tools) and SUSE Studio
> * community
> * communication
>
> Second - lower prio:
> * YaST
> * libzypp/zypper
> * openSUSE Education (LI-F-E)
> * openSUSE Medical
ok,but you still haven't told me what is the available promotional
material about all this.
> > I see people making great work in a variety of things around the
> > openSUSE project (OBS,LI-F-E and more) but because of lack of
> > promotion it gets behind and all we promote is the distribution. Well
> > we are not Ubuntu(it is just an example due to its popularity, I don't
> > mean anything else) and our goal should not be to become because I
> > believe we are something different and better and the distribution is
> > and should be a part of the whole idea around our project.
> > Let us don't leave distribution choke the Project.
>
> Will you collect the responses and take care to present this on the wiki,
> please?

Well I could try,so far I've never made a wiki page(although I
translated a few).At the end of the discussion I'll write the article.
> Andreas
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