[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] openSUSE night in Milan: What type of event?

2012/1/27 Chuck Payne :

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Alexjan Carraturo wrote: [cut]

Alexjan,

Sounds awesome. I wish you the best, takes some video and photos. Give a us some feed back, what people like, don't like, what are their top ten questions. Things we can build on.

I'll do.

If you don't want to call it a Launch Party, you can do a mini linux fest, or one that I got a lot of good feed, "openSUSE Geekos Dare to Compare", the theme is where you dare others that don't use openSUSE to take a DVD try it for a week, compare to their current linux and give you five reason they would not switch. Ubuntu users hate this one, Fedora and other distro user will try. It better than install fest because you can present why openSUSE is one of the "Best Distro". Because you can present what is new and cool to the masses, dare people to take the week test drive, and install for those what one.

Seems to be a very good idea. If will be possible I would try to do something similar.

It does work because when I got back to my LUG, people remember it more than "Launch Party", because they came up to me and told me what they like, what didn't worked for them. Trust me this was really hard because my LUG is so pro Ubuntu. I know it style works because the Fedora Ambassador and a Arch user copied me.

Interesting.

By the way, you want the number one reason people most the people who tried openSUSE for a week didn't switch. Because they were too lazy to move off Ubuntu. I only got one, one negative comment, it was "I don't see all the apps I see with Ubuntu and openSUSE does have a good package manager", but when I showed them OBS and zypper, they didn't have anything negative to say.

I'm not really so sure about this; during Cerea Fair, a lot of Ubuntu user come to us, and makes a lot of question about openSUSE because they don't like Unity and would like to change. A lot of people use only Ubuntu because know only Ubuntu. I use a lot of distro, day by day, and I think that people can use event like this to know that alternatives exist. When people see "yast" they likes a lot. Than, there are lazy people too, as you said. I'll use "install fest" way for the wiki, but I'll try to do something similar to what you have described before. Thanks for the adivces Alexjan. -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org) Fedora/openSUSE Ambassador member of FSFE Italian Team Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org