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[opensuse-project] How to help with openSUSE 10.3 Marketing
- From: "Francis Giannaros" <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:30:28 +0100
- Message-id: <94dc34e40710040130v5865f988l300a3d1bd54f9503@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This is really for _all_ people in the openSUSE community (and in
particular all the developers). I know some people think marketing is
a dirty word, but unless you have a little marketing, even if you have
the most technically excellent and best engineered product, people
either aren't going to know about it, or not know about what it
contains.
So how can everyone help? I've listed three simple ways:
* Blog! Yes, this includes you :-)
I can't stress how important this is for getting news out to the
online open source community. Second only to the village rumour, the
information blogs carry travels faster than the speed of light,.
They're one of the most obvious ways to make a lot of noise about
something great. I often find that it's just too frequently the case
that although SUSE has _great_ presence in open source projects, it's
just not presented as well in open source blog planets. Let's change
that :-)
* Digg the story / +1 the Slashdot firehose entries. These sites are
read by thousands of users.
* Help out new users at release time.
A new distribution release attracts a _lot_ of new users to the
community, some which may or may not be temporary. A lot of the time
users get simple problems at first, which can either make-or-break
their openSUSE experience. Please be kind and try to help them! (IRC,
Mailing Lists, Forum).
openSUSE 10.3 rocks, so let's let others know :-)
Kind thoughts,
--
Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org
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particular all the developers). I know some people think marketing is
a dirty word, but unless you have a little marketing, even if you have
the most technically excellent and best engineered product, people
either aren't going to know about it, or not know about what it
contains.
So how can everyone help? I've listed three simple ways:
* Blog! Yes, this includes you :-)
I can't stress how important this is for getting news out to the
online open source community. Second only to the village rumour, the
information blogs carry travels faster than the speed of light,.
They're one of the most obvious ways to make a lot of noise about
something great. I often find that it's just too frequently the case
that although SUSE has _great_ presence in open source projects, it's
just not presented as well in open source blog planets. Let's change
that :-)
* Digg the story / +1 the Slashdot firehose entries. These sites are
read by thousands of users.
* Help out new users at release time.
A new distribution release attracts a _lot_ of new users to the
community, some which may or may not be temporary. A lot of the time
users get simple problems at first, which can either make-or-break
their openSUSE experience. Please be kind and try to help them! (IRC,
Mailing Lists, Forum).
openSUSE 10.3 rocks, so let's let others know :-)
Kind thoughts,
--
Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org
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