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Re: Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine
- From: Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:41:42 -0200
- Message-id: <2589475.pepTq0GMUI@jostibak>
On Sunday, December 04, 2011 13:08:39 Rajko M. wrote:
I do like the idea of a brochure - sounds a bit like our sponsorship
brochure... We have that one to show off what we, as in openSUSE, do, to our
sponsors. We made one (short) for the openSUSE conference (Izabel did a lot of
work on that) and Henne made a 'press kit' which might also have re-useable
content.
I just had a thought:
These things (both the magazine and this brochure) could simply be based on
news.opensuse.org articles. Why not push the articles there and have the
magazine and this thing be a selection of those articles?
It would guarantee at least some reviewing etc, otherwise it wouldn't go up on
news.o.o :D
To do this, we'd simply have to pick the current articles made for the
magazine, and try to push them on news.o.o one-by-one. In that process they'd
get reviewed and improved, then, combined with some other articles from the
past few months, we'd have something pretty good. Maybe not perfect, but
perfect is the enemy of good (and in FOSS, perfect usually equals 'not at
all').
/Jos
On Sunday, December 04, 2011 11:54:48 PM Manu Gupta wrote:
However, I think you missed my point over here. What I mean to say is
have a small brochure or set of articles in a printed form and send it
to various companies or in corporate conferences where we can actually
show what openSUSE has been doing and ask for sponsorship. Giving
something that can be preserved instead of leaflets maybe a good way.
It may or may not work. Its just a thought byte.
I was thinking in line with original idea of openSUSE Magazine that I
understood more like quaterly report of the most important events and few
high quality technical articles about new stuff in a distribution, but I
like idea of broshure that will be project presentation.
Broshure (10 pages) should fill in place between magazine (30-40 pages) and
leaflets (2 pages).
I do like the idea of a brochure - sounds a bit like our sponsorship
brochure... We have that one to show off what we, as in openSUSE, do, to our
sponsors. We made one (short) for the openSUSE conference (Izabel did a lot of
work on that) and Henne made a 'press kit' which might also have re-useable
content.
I just had a thought:
These things (both the magazine and this brochure) could simply be based on
news.opensuse.org articles. Why not push the articles there and have the
magazine and this thing be a selection of those articles?
It would guarantee at least some reviewing etc, otherwise it wouldn't go up on
news.o.o :D
To do this, we'd simply have to pick the current articles made for the
magazine, and try to push them on news.o.o one-by-one. In that process they'd
get reviewed and improved, then, combined with some other articles from the
past few months, we'd have something pretty good. Maybe not perfect, but
perfect is the enemy of good (and in FOSS, perfect usually equals 'not at
all').
/Jos
(Yes, we have stuff for 40 pages every 3 months :) )
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