June 2012 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE and KDE in COSCUP Taiwan
by Max 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Dear ALL: I am Max from Taiwan -- openSUSE ambassador and GNOME foundaion member too. ^__^ It's midnight in Taiwan. But I really happy to say "openSUSE and KDE will have one track( 2 days - 14 slot Presentations) at 18 - 19 Aug 2012 in COSCUP Taiwan" (I am sorry, I just make sure the date and slot today) What is COSCUP? http://coscup.org/2011/en/ COSCUP is the largest annual FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is interested in cutting-edge FLOSS technologies. The goal is to create a friendly and informative environment for people from different communities to make friends, learn new technologies and inspire each other. Open source software is supported by 3 groups: coders, users and promoters. This conference is aimed at all three groups. No matter whether you are a new user, a passionate promoter, mature developer or anywhere in between, you are welcome at COSCUP, the Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters! for COSCUP | GNOME.Asia 2010 and COSCUP 2011 there are 1,000 people together. ^__^ This Year (2012) openSUSE and KDE will get involved with COSCUP. We will have one individual track with 2 days. (About 14 presentaions) Date: 18-19 Aug, 2012 Country: Asia -- Taiwan We will have both booth and Conference in COSCUP 2012. We need your participate^^. For some good | interesting topic with openSUSE ( Yes, we will send call for paper as soon as possible <(_ _)> ) For booth -- We need your help. For anything else..... good to openSUSE Best regards sakana -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: Any plans for Linuxcon 2012 North America?
by Tony Su 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

If openSUSE is planning on doing anything at Linuxcon 2012 North America in San Diego (Marketing or otherwise), let me know. I'd be willing to help out. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/ Will be on Aug 29-31, 2012 Can assist on planning as well since I think I know what's available in my own city... Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Lust auf eine Kooperation? [Mailcode: 6UR05]
by getDigital.de 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hallo ans OpenSUSE-Team, wir als Team vom Onlineshop www.getdigital.de für alles, was das Geek- und Nerdherz höher schlagen lässt, sind große Freunde von allem, was sich um Open-Source-Projekte dreht. Vielleicht hat sich der eine oder andere von euch ja auch schonmal bei uns mit Gadgets oder Shirts ausgestattet... Neben unserem wachsenden Sortiment an Linux-Fanartikeln in unserem Shop (http://www.getdigital.de/index/searchresult/?search=linux) sind wir immer bemüht um interessante Kooperationen in diesem Bereich. (Wir haben unter anderem auch eine Kooperation mit Klaus Knopper.) Könntet ihr euch nicht auch vorstellen, eine gemeinsame Aktion mit uns zu starten? Ich könnte mir zum Beispiel vorstellen, dass ihr gut zu unserer neuen Aktion passen würdet, mit der wir coole Projekte unterstützen wollen. Unsere Idee ist es, T-Shirts mit euren eigenen Designvorschlägen zum Selbstkostenpreis oder - falls erwünscht - mit Gewinnbeteiligung eures Projekts in unserem Shop anzubieten. Einige Partner verkaufen bereits ihre Shirts über unsere Website (darunter auch das Knoppix-T-Shirt): http://www.getdigital.de/index/partnermotive Betreut wird das Projekt von mir, ich nehme die Designvorschläge entgegen und stelle die gewünschten T-Shirts dann in unserem Shop online. Das ist natürlich nur ein Vorschlag, den ich euch machen kann, wenn ihr andere Ideen habt, sind wir dafür auch immer offen. Falls ihr Interesse an unserem Projekt oder Fragen dazu habt, würde ich mich freuen, von euch zu hören! Viele Grüße aus Kiel, Annalena Kleist -- www.getDigital.de - Your Geek Stuff Supplier Stern & Schatz GmbH, Wellseedamm 18, 24145 Kiel, Deutschland Tel.: +49 (0) 431 / 908855-10 Fax: +49 (0) 431 / 7993964 Geschäftsführer: Philipp Stern, Florian Schatz Registergericht: Amtsgericht Kiel HRB 10491 KI -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] SuSE Geeko Plush
by Ryan Wolf 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Marketing Team: Just joined the list. A pleasure to meet you all here. I do hope to make a valuable contribution. I'm considering doing a little research as to what it would take to make the original SuSE Geeko. I have one from a couple years ago, which my kitten has DECLARED is hers now (I ought to take a picture for promotional reasons, although the plush is starting to come apart...) But, there seems to be a bit of demand for one, and I would like to offer one to help promote my company's new HPC Workstation systems which have SuSE Enterprise or openSUSE installed by default. 1) Does anyone have the original template for the plush? Not the latest version, but the more conservative version that most looks like the logo. 2) Is anyone interested in chipping in funds to have them made, where all proceeds would go to openSUSE for continued development of the OS? 3) Is there a way to analyze the demand for these, so we can justify the costs of them being made? From what I can tell, minimum order is 1000... and there's just over 1000 who looked at the openSUSE website/downloads of openSUSE in the last 6 months. 4) Is anyone else on this list interested in having one? I've considered having a "Silicon Wolf" made for promotional reasons as well. Fandom is important in a brand, and generating interest in it may generate interest in the products. I would have no problem having my company put together the funds necessary to help promote openSUSE, and try to host more merchandise, to include boxed copies of openSUSE for those who really want a "retail package". Thoughts anyone? -- Ryan 'Rootwyrm' Wolf President/CIO Silicon Wolves Computing Society LLC 214 Central Avenue Suite 218 Dunkirk, New York 14048 http://www.siliconwolves.net/ -- Phone: (714)681-2501 _______________________________________________________________________ This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Interesting Facebook Data
by Bryen M Yunashko 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Hey, I was on FB today and noticed a sponsored ad for Archlinux. Made me curious to wonder what an ad would cost for openSUSE Summit. Interesting thing is that it gives you reach data as you click along. What I've found: Following stats are for US only: - 2,200 with an interest in "openSUSE" (as a keyword) - 5,060 with combined interest in "openSUSE" and "SUSE" variations - 52,020 with an interest in "fedora" - 96,140 with an interest in "ubuntu" - 200 with an interest in "archlinux" - 2,460 with an interest in "gentoo" - 130,580 with an interest in "linux" - 21,860 with an interest in "debian" - 55,300 with an interest in "open source" ------ Breakdown of countries with interest in "openSUSE" and "SUSE" variations. Only countries with 200 or more shown: - Australia = 1,440 - Belgium = 2,260 - Brazil = 1,260 - Bosnia/Herzegovina = 2,960 - Canada = 600 - Croatia = 10,280 - El Salvador = 280 - France = 800 - Germany = 3240 - Greece = 240 - Hungary = 320 - India = 2,000 - Indonesia = 2,180 - Italy = 680 - Malaysia = 660 - Mexico = 1,360 - Montenegro = 420 - Netherlands = 260 - Norway = 380 - Pakistan = 220 - Peru = 200 - Phillipines = 2,280 - Poland = 600 - Russia = 280 - Serbia = 4,040 - Spain = 760 - Sweden = 400 - Switzerland = 200 - Turkey = 400 - Tunisia = 260 - United States = 5,060 - United Kingdom = 940 - Venezuela = 200 Remember, this is only for those who are on Facebook. It isn't an equal amount to reality because many in open source don't use Facebook. But nevertheless, the numbers are interesting and some countries had surprisingly high numbers. Anyway, I thought this was some interesting numbers to pass along. :-) Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] COSCUP
by Jos Poortvliet 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Heya all, You might know we've got COSCUP coming - and the CfP is officially closed but we can surely still use a few more proposals to have something to choose from. So if you want to talk about openSUSE at COSCUP in Taiwan, submit a proposal! http://news.opensuse.org/?p=13126 Send proposals to cfp(a)opensuse.org please. I also want to mention that you can ask the openSUSE Travel Committee for financial support for going there - it's why we have a OTC! Especially speakers are very likely to receive travel sponsorship. See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program /Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Release delay - reaction from the press
by Jos Poortvliet 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hi all, I wanted to give an update on the articles that came out in the press after we announced that 12.2 would be delayed due to some much needed internal reflecting. When I heard of it the day before we announced it I was rather afraid the news would be received poorly: "openSUSE 12.2 release delayed as community lacks resources" would have made for a bad headline :( But the real issue was as much that we have TOO MANY new contributors as that we have too few core people - and we managed to get that message across. The coolest headline surely was from ZDNet's Paula Rooney: "OpenSUSE release put on ice as community booms" Made me smile for sure! The total number of articles in just English we got was about 15 or so, including articles on the Var guy, The H, ZDNet, ITNews, InternetNews.com and ITWeb. That is not including the German and other language articles which are also showing up on sites like derStandard.at and Pro-Linux. Last but not least, LWN is writing an article which will be in the next weekly edition (later today or tomorrow?). Pretty much all feedback we got was positive and nice and the discussion is going rather well. These numbers are actually close to what we get when we do a release - very cool to see that the press is interested in what we do, even if we have news for them on such short notice... So all, thanks for the promotion you did - channels like Facebook, twitter and Google Plus depend on your help to be notified! And yes, there, everyone can help - share things on the channels if you can, and if you want I'd happily add you to the list of people who has access to those things. Greetings, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] New
by Geraldo Barros 17 Jun '12

17 Jun '12

Segue o link do trabalho que eu realizo Embaixador: Geraldo Barros Idioma: Portugues BR Link da informação openSUSE: http://www.fundacaogeracoes.com/news/evento-de-lan%C3%A7amento-do-opensuse-… Atenciosamente, Geraldo Barros E-mail: geraldoweb(a)gmail.com Contato: +55 (19) 9508-7962 Esta mensagem e seus anexos se dirigem exclusivamente ao seu destinatário, pode conter informação privilegiada ou confidencial é para uso exclusivo da pessoa ou entidade de destino. Se não é vossa senhoria o destinatario indicado, fica notificado de que a leitura, utilização, divulgacao e/ou copia sem autorização pode estar proibida em virtude da legislação vigente. Se recebeu esta mensagem por erro, rogamos-lhe que nos o comunique imediatamente por esta mesma via e proceda a sua destruição. Esta mensagem isenta a Geraldo Barros (pessoa física) de qualquer responsabilidade sobre o mau uso e incorreta distribuição das informações contidas nas referidas mensagens. This message and its attachments are addressed solely to the addressee, may contain privileged or confidential information is for the exclusive use of the target person or entity. If your lordship is not the addressee indicated hereby notified that reading, use, disclosure and / or copying without authorization may be prohibited under the legislation. If you received this message in error, we beseech you to immediately report the same path and proceed to its destruction. This message exempts Geraldo Barros (individual) of any responsibility for the misuse and improper distribution of the information contained in those messages. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Chamäleon - Bilder
by Olaf Runge 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Hi, ich weiß nicht, ob ich mit der von mir ausgewählten Mailadresse richtig liege. in meinem letzten Urlaub auf Madagaskar hatte ich Gelegenheit, einige schöne Fotos von Chamäleons dem Logo von openSuSe anzufertigen. als langjähriger Nutzer und Fan der Linux-Distribution openSuSe wollte ich versuchen etwas zum Gelingen des Projektes beitragen und diese Bilder zur Verfügung stellen. Teilt mir einfach mit, ob Interesse besteht, und wie ich diese dann Euch zukommen lassen kann. Ein sehr gelungens Foto füge ich dieser Mail als Anhang bei. Es grüsst Olaf Runge Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Str. 7 53225 Bonn

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 12.2 deserving of attention?
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

On Tuesday 12 June 2012 18:20:24 Genix Info wrote: > IPv6 and DNS: > > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-06/msg00010.html > > I understand. But you said that there needed to be developed to help, I > thought my suggestions of features and bugs would be forwarded to the > developers. This IS the developer list and feature requests go to openFate - fate.opensuse.org or in case of bugs, bugzilla. In any case, sorry if I was unclear. I was looking for input from the developers on what has changed in the release, not asking from users what they would like to see as we're way too close to release to be able to do any of that. ;-)

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