November 2010 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Creation of user pages - cleaning up ambassador list
by Andreas Jaeger 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

I'd like to do the cleanup of the ambassador list that we discussed in the summer and also at the openSUSE conference. We'd like to have every ambassador create a user page so that ambassadors can get contacted. You might have had one in the old wiki but with the move to the new wiki, you need to create a new one as described at: http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ I will go after the 1st of December through the list of ambassadors and remove those that do not have a user page. This way we will remove inactive ambassadors. If I remove somebody that wants to become active again, it's easy to add them again once the user page is created. I will try to email those ambassadors now that do not have a user page (if I can easily find an email address) with this text as well. I'm asking every ambassador to subscribe to the opensuse-ambassador mailing list as well for communication. 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Greek openSUSE community, Our first meeting
by Kostas Koudaras 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Yesterday the Greek openSUSE community had it's first meeting. The purpose of this meeting was all of those who are interesting on participate to decide the next steps of our community together. Me(Warlordfff) and Stathis(Diamond_gr) had no experience on how to organize such a meeting so we made a lot of mistakes,had many difficulties and many things went wrong but finally we managed to make some decisions about certain points and we decided to have another meeting exclusively at IRC this time,sometime next weekend. The topics we talked was: Official translation of 11.4 and the creation of a translators team about it. Two members showed interest about it: Kostas Boukouvalas (who is already a openSUSE translator) Michael Vourlakos Kostas Boukouvalas has created a wiki page about the translation (http://el.opensuse.org/%CE%92%CE%BF%CE%AE%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%9C%CE… ) Forum: Creation of a Greek Section at http://forums.opensuse.org. The members that expressed interest about taking responsibilities on that section were: Stratos Zolotas (Baskinsy) Stathis Iosifidis (Diamond_gr) Kostas Koudaras (warlordfff) Kostas Boukouvalas (Boukouvalas) George (Etern4l) Wiki:We decided all members to contribute by translating parts of the wiki in Greek.Also there was a suggestion about organizing a mini hackfest for the translation of our wiki. LI-F-E: We talked about making a Greek division of LI-F-E incorporating the packages of the Greek ministry of education. OBS:We decided to form a team about OBS,the team will take some packages for maintenance and Support,also to create packages that are not available for openSUSE (such packages are the packages of the Greek ministry of education that we need so that we create our LI-F-E division) Finally we decided to process all that in our mailing list the whole week and talk about all that and more at our next meeting. Kostas "Warlordfff" Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens I gave exams for God , but I failed in miracles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Today is a Great day for the Greek Community
by Kostas Koudaras 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

The Greek openSUSE Team is pleased to inform you that the translation of openSUSE Weekly News issue 150 is a fact, take a look: http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news Today is a Great day for the Greek Community, today after two meetings we made to show all (including ourselves) that we were not just big fat words and that we can make things happen as a team that is bigger than 3 or 4 people. We know we are late, we were not in a hurry, we wanted it done correctly. We made it and we are really proud of it. When we started creating the Greek community many people told us that it would end up a great failure. Today we say to them: -You Are Wrong. We know we have road ahead of us, but Every great journey must start with one small step. Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens I gave exams for God , but I failed in miracles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE: A difficult Distribution or a user-friendly distribution?
by Kostas Koudaras 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

A few days ago a Greek popular site/blog FOSS related asked me to write an article about openSUSE, I came up with that article in order to show people that everybody can use openSUSE. The article had good response at the Greek audience (over 1200 views on 48 hours) and that is why I decided(Rajko M. helped in that decision) to translate it in English. Give it a look and let me know your opinion about it,also I am preparing the second part so any ideas you have would be great. The link to the article in English: http://e-tote-kala.blogspot.com/2010/11/opensuse-difficult-distribution-or-… Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens I gave exams for God , but I failed in miracles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcoming new Ambassadors - Volunteers wanted
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

So far, I have write-protected the openSUSE ambassador list in the openSUSE wiki and ask all ambassadors to write me first - and then send them the questioniare and introduce them here as new ambassadors. Therefore I'm basically the first contact and greeter for them ;) I'd like to pass this job on to somebody else - or a small team - since it takes me far too long to handle these requests. If you're interested, please speak up! 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Attachmate and openSUSE / open source community.
by Jimmy Pierre 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Greetings, I am a bit busy because we are having our Software Freedom Day next Saturday. Questions to be asked: 1. How do the other distros get funded? 2. Use of openSUSE/SUSE on websites, documents etc. Trademarks, rights to use images, logos etc. 3. Support from local Attachmate people? 4. Does Attachmate have a community Manager? I could not find one, so I phoned Seattle yesterday evening. I was handed to Liz an outsourced PR company. 5. What do we tell our members? Does that involve a change of Memorandum and Articles of Association, hence bank account, letterheads, business cards, websites et al? 6. open office is heavily funded by Novell, does that mean that we might less developers? Other developments in progress? 7. Helen is right, what about our pals at Novell? Best wishes, Jimmy President nui.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] OpenSuse Promo materials
by Matt Hayes 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

On 11/23/2010 11:58 AM, Sankar P wrote: >>>> On 11/23/2010 at 10:18 PM, in message > <AANLkTi=P=31tg3dFF4cFFNrDaH8186KDAkmW25B3+eY-(a)mail.gmail.com>, Strainu > <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> 2010/11/23, Matt Hayes <dominian(a)slackadelic.com>: >>> On 11/23/2010 11:09 AM, Alexandre Meirelles de Moura wrote: >>>> Hello People >>>> >>>> How I can get promo materials of OpenSuse for propagate this distro in >>>> my region ? >>>> >>> >>> Hello Alexandre! >>> >>> Please take a look at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_kit >>> >> >> >> Quote from there: >> >> >> If you need promo DVDs and other promotional material >> >> * Contact xyz(as and when Aj lets us know) or send a mail to the >> Marketing ML >> * Promotional materials are DVDs and laptop stickers. We can also >> send tshirts based on availability. But please do not hesitate to ask >> for stuff. You may land up with your own geeko :D >> >> No idea who xyz or Aj is, so... this ML looks like a great idea. :) >> > > xyz = Jacqueline Junghans at: promodvds(a)opensuse.org > > http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/please-note/ > > I will probably ask her to subscribe to the marketing, ambassadors and project mailing lists alone. > > Sankar > I've updated the URL to include Jacqueline Junghans contact for promo info. -Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Novell sold to Attachmate ???
by Alexandre Meirelles de Moura 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Lists, I know the OpenSuse is a community distribution, but, Novell is a greate maintainer of this project, so, I have a question. The fate of OpenSuse Project with this fact? http://lwn.net/Articles/416567/rss -- Se você é capaz de tremer de indignação a cada vez que se comete uma injustiça no mundo, então somos companheiros." CHE GUEVARA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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OpenSuse Promo materials
by Alexandre Meirelles de Moura 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

How to obtain promo materials to propagate OpenSuse in my region ? -- OpenSuse user member OpenSuse ambassador Saiba mais em http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Ambassadors Se você é capaz de tremer de indignação a cada vez que se comete uma injustiça no mundo, então somos companheiros." CHE GUEVARA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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novell and opensuse
by Obelich De Tara 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

he people that follow us. Particularly, we are interested in how will this affect Suse, OpenSuse, GNU and Linux, given that Novell was ratified as the owner of the rights of Unix after winning the infamous lawsuit from SCO. -- Thank you, very much. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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