April 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] <idea> Lists of openSUSE local teams
by Alex Rodriguez 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi everyone Some time ago asking about the mailing lists of the opensuse community. The response I got was that the only lists that there are these >> http://lists.opensuse.org/ My proposal is to establish official lists of the project for each country, just as it does ubuntu which has a Local Community for each one of them. https://lists.ubuntu.com/#Ubuntu+Worldwide+LoCo+Teams In this way you can have topics and talks of local communities, closer support and communications of the country. Nicaragua currently have this list suse-ni(a)opensuse.org.ni but we are experiencing a lot of errors as users went from 100 to 350 more or less and where we hosted the mailman (handler list) is blocking and removing members (today I found that the poor list only has 80 members) You can do the admin for the ambassador of that specific list. We push this idea? I think other countries would love the idea. Thanks Greetings -- Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez || @LeX Usuario Linux # 379802 http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexio44 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] FLISOL - Salvador/Bahia - Brazil
by Raul Libório 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hello! The FLISOL Salvador/Bahia was a success. Security was the focus of most lectures. These were: * Estendendo o Inkscape - Aurélio Hackert[1] * Ekaaty[2] 4 Desktop - Cristiano Furtado[3] * HNTool[4] – Ferramenta para Hardening de Servidores - Rafael Gomes[5] e Hugo Dória[6] * “Atacar” e Proteger sistemas de informação utilizando Software livre e uma dose de Pitu - Joaquim Espinhara[7] * Foswiki – Gestão da informação 2.0 - Antonio Terceiro[8] * Explorando Softwares Vulnerabilidades - Anderson Eduardo[9] * Proteja sua Hovercraft: Mantendo sua nave livre dos Sentinelas - Alexandro Silva[10] * Gerenciando servidores com o Spacewalk[11] - Hugo Dória * Pfsense[12] – Solução para profissionais de TIC - Jamson Átila[13] * Varnish[14]: Uma camada de velocidade - Alexan[15] All visitors (~200) came out with a DVD of openSUSE on hand and knowing a little more of the distro. See the photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alexoslabs/FLISOL2010abr24# Thanks ! ======= Refers: [1] http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium/BlogAurium [2] http://www.ekaaty.org/v4/ # Distribuition [3] http://www.cristianofurtado.com.br/ [4] http://hntool.net/ # Tool for hardening in GNU/Linux Servers [5] http://techfree.com.br/wordpress/ [6] http://blog.hugodoria.org/ [7] @jespinhara [8] http://softwarelivre.org/terceiro [9] :( [10] http://blog.alexos.com.br/ [11] http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ [12] http://www.pfsense.com/ [13] http://jamsux.wordpress.com/ [14] http://varnish-cache.org/ -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom openSUSE Member | Linux User #4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] ambassadors list
by S.Kemter 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hello, I send this week a mail to all Ambassadors from the list http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/List I got 3 mailer-daemons back from the following on the persanl page given addresses. <obbolink(a)gmail.com> <amomn0626(a)gmail.com> <leonard(a)thinkersgh.com> So plz change the mail addresses on ur user pages to the actually mail address. I give u a week. br gnokii -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] OpenSUSE DVD's
by Manu Gupta 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

I am Manu Gupta, doing my engineering Manipal Institute Of Technology, Karnataka, India. I am a part of LUG over here and every year around mid august we organize linux install fests. I was hoping as the scheduled release date for openSUSE 11.3 is 15th July, 2010, can I get around 50 DVDs of the same. During this time, we have our new session beginning and we have around 100 freshmen attending our install fest. -- Regards MANU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Special meeting for N/C/S America and Asia
by Bryen M. Yunashko 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

I am concerned that our Marketing Team meetings have been too timezone-centric and that we ended up leaving out North/Central/South America and Asia. And these are all important regions that we must continue to build success on. So, I would like to propose that we have a special meeting next week to fit your timezone a little better. This meeting will be in addition to our regularly scheduled Marketing Team meetings held every two weeks on Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC. For now, I am only proposing one meeting so we get to meet "face-to-face" in IRC. If there is popular support for it, then I will add meetings on a regular basis. Please tell me your preferred time by end of this week and I will announce the special timezone meeting by early next week. Thanks all! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team Lead GNOME-A11y Outreach -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] 11.3 Rally Call to brainstorm
by Bryen M. Yunashko 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Okay folks! May is just around the corner and we are about to hit our busy season. OBS 2.0 is about to be released in June, openSUSE 11.3 is about to be released in July, and our openSUSE Conference will be held in October. This means we'll be busy for sure for the next few months as we address each of these major events. Sascha and Sankar are currently working on the OBS 2.0 Marketing plan and from discussions I have had with them, they're off to a good start. We need all hands on board for the July 11.3 release. That means time to start brainstorming! Let's begin discussion here in this thread about what areas we want to focus on and who wants to lead those specific tasks. Things to think about and open for discussion: - Targets -- What are our target audiences? What audiences have been successful in the past and what other markets have room to grow? How do we address this? - Resources -- Creating resources such as sneakpeeks, videos (screencasts?), slide presentations, links to relevant information, related artwork - Collaboration -- Research to ensure we all have good understanding of the features and benefits of 11.3 -- Creating relationships with various teams working on 11.3, including release teams, GNOME/KDE teams, artwork team, etc. -- Internationalizing our markets (making sure our information is relevant and readable across language barriers.) - Outreach -- Communicating with media outlets -- Use of social media (blogging, twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) -- Launch Party coordination -- Ambassador coordination -- Begin talking about openSUSE 11.3 early on. (i.e., talk about it at upcoming conferences, etc. even before July!) For those of you who have thought about participating in the marketing team and haven't yet, please don't be shy! I don't care if you're not an expert in any area. That's what TEAM is all about and we'll work together to improve each others' skills. Thanks to all, and to all a great 11.3 Release! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team Lead GNOME-A11y Outreach -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] RFC: Quick Intro to openSUSE Build Service
by Andreas Jaeger 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

I wanted to hack together a 4 slide version to introduce the openSUSE Build Service and I'm currently at 16 slides ;-( I'd like to share the current content with you and would like to have your feedback on this. I'm not targetting exactly 4 slides but like to condense this a bit more. I guess I leave the competion slides in. The goal of the presentation should be to tease an ISV or an upstream project to ask me: Give me a demo of the Build service and tell me more details. Any feedback on the slides is more than welcome - and I volunteer to put the final slides up on the wiki as "reference material" for others giving presentations. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-marketing] Launch Parties 11.3
by S.Kemter 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello, There are nearly 2 months then would be the next version of openSUSE released. Time to begin organizing Launch Parties for it. The Ambassadors are the local contact persons for openSUSE and should such events organize. What is a Launch Party. Actually thats a good question. Launch Party means only a activity arround the fresh released openSUSE version. What activity its up to the organizator. There are some forms of activity * only a informal meeting in a club, pub or whatever. Target is to get ppl with the same interest (in this case openSUSE or Linux/FLOSS) together. Its the easiest way to make an activity arround a openSUSE release. For this is only a place needed. For the launch of 11.2 strainu from Romania did such a party (http://www.suseromania.ro/proiecte-ale-comunitatii/lansare-opensuse-11-2/) He invited some friends from the floss scene in a trattoria, thats actually a good idea. Because all "geeks" like pizza :D HeliosReds in Japan did the same form of Launch Partie. He invited some openSUSE friends to a dining bar and waited with his guests for the release announcement. This form of activity is really a good first step to build a local community with ppl they are interested in openSUSE. U can discuss with the guests some new features from openSUSE and have some fun. * next form is do a demonstration of the new openSUSE. For this u need a room the size of the room depends of the form of presentation. For a greater demonstration u need maybe a beamer and a screen. There is the possibility to make this demonstration for the local Linux User Group if there one exists. * that form can be extended with more as a demonstration of openSUSE. U can make a event with a row of talks and presentations about openSUSE. There are possible topics like the openSUSE community, SUSE Studio, openFATE, the openSUSE Buildservice (remember the OBS 2.0 is released a few weeks before 11.3) and such things. * next form is to give a workshop for working with free software like OpenOffice, Blender, Gimp or Inkscape or other programs that a normally user needs. Thats the hardest form becaus u need not only a room, u have to organize that all guests can work with the program. There is the possibility that all working with her own computer but for this u have to make sure all have the right version. An other possibility u use a room of a computer school or such thing for it. Last release Andi Sugandi from Indonesia did this form of event. On his launch event was a workshop for OpenOffice and for Blender. * another possibility is to make a Installfest, that means to help people to install the newest openSUSE. For this u need a room with power supply and a internet connection is good for it because u can install security fixes and programs there are not in the repositorys of openSUSE but needed from the persons too. But one thing u should remind u should be really a expert for doing that U can all the forms mix together for an bigger event, that depends of the ressources that u have. One of the important things is to become a good start with an event. The next event would be much easier. There are a few points for it: * less is more then more ;) Dont over estimate. It is better to begin with a small event as with a big one, there is on the end not good * cooperate with other communitys (cyberorg from India cooperate with ubuntu and strainu in Romania cooperated with Mozilla and Fedora) * make marketing for the event is the most important thing - u become no visitors without it. * and dont forget to make photos and write an report after the event, its marketing for the next one! * remember u need some openSUSE stuff. AJ and michl needs some time for organize it and the postal services need particulary 5-6 weeks! So talking early enough about it! For 11.3 I hope that all openSUSE Ambassadors participate and organizing a launch event. For 11.1 we had 16 events and for 11.2 27 events. Thats much better but not good enough. My target for 11.3 are 50 events or more worldwide. On such places like Taipeh we have 4 Ambassadors there should be definitly a Launch Party, Barcelona, Vienna, Jakarta and Singapore too. The early bird catch the worm! So let us begin now with the plannings for the launch events. When we working together we can make more marketing centralized as the page in the wiki. http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.3_Launch_Party_Locations I have some ideas for it. Maybe we can do a twitter wall I organized for the openSUSE Conference with tweets and pictures from the events to show live whats going on. So now is up to u, take the first step and begin to plan ur Launch Party. If u need help then talk to me. If u have ideas, what can be done at such a party so step forward and say it maybe its a really interesting idea. br gnokii -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #120 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi @all! Issue #120 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. You can see/update the status of your language at the "whats ready page" [1]. We collected some FAQ here [2]. After translating, please move your Language in [3] up. [0]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/120 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Translations/Ready [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/FAQ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/120/Translations Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Weekly News: Meeting Time
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Hello Weekly-News Team, we have voted there for an good Meeting Time: http://www.doodle.com/n64at83ynn9mfupt We have two Canidates: * 15:30 UTC * 16:30 UTC What is the best time? cu Sascha -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English)

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