December 2010 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

We owe you a few stories for the past two events
by Jimmy Pierre 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Greetings, Here we go: Software freedom Day Event Date : 16th October, 2010. Event Sponsors : NUI.fr openSUSE Ambassadors : Jimmy Pierre Helpers : Laurence Seigneury, Johnny Castel, Jr. Event Details Tell us about the event, What did you do? : Demonstration of installation of openSUSE 11.3, open office, chess & games, yast, ssh, WordPress, repositories, wi-fi etc. How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 52 How many people were there at the event ? 27 (France was on strike, no petrol, no trains, busses, tramways, flights (http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=29085 ) even against all odds, we were present as scheduled. How did you promote the Event? Facebook : No Twitter : No Others : Usual channels (forums, rss feeds to web sites and our four domain names nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org, jmll.info , no radio, no newspapers as they had other bones to gnaw) Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? : Yes, two people drove 87 kms to come to see us and I learnt later that they heard about us on the radio for the last event 1.e 18th September and kept track of what we were doing. A young man took a dvd for her grandma Myrtha, aged 81. We had a sort of Jam session (not food related, but IT) with chess players who needed Internet for a party. So openSUSE was there for their party. Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. Who staffed the booth? All of the above. Would you go again? Yes, 27th November and 1_th Decembre next. What more can you do to make it better? Swap our 16 or so boxes into laptops because it takes too much time to setup the room. Get hold of goodies. Other Comments like Will you blog about the event - and where? Who staffed the booth? Did you have a talk? Which topic? Would you organize again? We were too eager to go back home. Software freedom Day Event Date : 27th november 2010 Event Sponsors : NUI.fr openSUSE Ambassadors : Jimmy Pierre Helpers : Laurence Seigneury, Nathalie A. Event Details Tell us about the event, What did you do? : openSUSE 11.3, libre office, chess & games, yast, WordPress, wi-fi, smeegol etc. How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 37 How many people were there at the event ? 27 (The thermometer showed 3°C and we nevertheless did not cancel the event). How did you promote the Event? Facebook : No Twitter : No Others : Usual channels (forums, rss feeds to web sites and our four domain names nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org, jmll.info, no radio, no newspapers this time) Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? : Yes, a bunch of students and their teacher popped in and started to touch everything. I distributed some dvds of openSUSE and convinced them to play at home ☺ We fighted with smeegol for a lady who wanted to sync her iPhone, this is another story. We had a young man who has a lot of IT problems and he did monopolized some of us to sort his laptop. Thanks God, it was a Dell, so no esoteric material to configure. Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. Who staffed the booth? All of the above. Would you go again? Yes, 27th November and 18th December What more can you do to make it better? Priority for 2011 : Swap our 16 or so boxes into laptops because it takes too much time to setup the room. Get hold of goodies. Other Comments like Will you blog about the event - and where? Who staffed the booth? Did you have a talk? Which topic? Would you organize again? We were too busy with social problems to do that. As you can see, we had a lot of fun. 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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openSUSE Mentoring Program
by Kostas Koudaras 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hi It started like a proposal but all things show that the openSUSE Mentoring Program will continue since (almost) everyone thought it was a good idea and the responses were good. Now in the ambassadors collaboration day many of you showed interest about it and new users I've talked saw it as something it could help them. So what we need first is to Start a document about "How to be an Ambassador mentor" and of course some people to volunteer for mentors. I know many people who would be the right for this job but they have to be the ones to offer themselves. So let's do some work, who has any proposals about what should have someone to become a mentor please mention it so that we can put some specifications so that we will all be sure that the mentors will actually help new users. Also people who think that are capable to become mentors please sign in for it, also help is needed to create the whole Mentor thing in the wiki, so anyone that could help it would be Great. Kostas "Warlordfff" Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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 University
by Manu Gupta 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

This was discussed in the ambassador list and I am continuing this over here The thread is here http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-ambassadors/2010-12/msg00069.html I agree with both Aj and P Sankar that this proposal requires a lot of human effort, dedication and other logistics. Its indeed a very difficult job. Some of us might be familiar and some of us might not be with Helping Hands Project in which we used to have irc sessions to teach people about openSUSE. Here experts at their respective domain would help people with their first landing steps. I will give you an example Suppose, I use GNOME and want people to know about GNOME I can take an irc session on using Gnome comfortably. If I am good at OBS, IRC sessions on OBS to help people out. This project was good and was successful but failed because we did not have a lot of human resources. Certifications and creating training materials would even make a notch more difficult. I would suggest, lets re initiate Helping Hands. No Certificates, nothing but rather teach them and we achieve our objective let people know about openSUSE. Regards Manu -- 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 Weekly News, Issue 152 in Greek is out!
by Kostas Koudaras 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Although we were a little late this time the issue 152 is ready in Greek Language,enjoy Kostas 'warlordfff' Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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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LinuxNewMedia Award
by S.Kemter 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi, Actually the LinuxNewMedia open the voting for the Award they give yearly away. This year is a little bit different. The award was always given away from a jury. This year the Award for the best Linux distribution can be voted online, so get out and vote. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Products/Events/Linux-New-Media-Award-Favourit… Linux-Distribution-2010 br gnokii -- 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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Awesome first day
by Bryen M. Yunashko 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Yesterday, the Marketing Team held the first in a series of Collaboration Days planned for December, with a focus on gathering up all our existing and new materials to help Ambassadors do their job. This first day proved just how important openSUSE is to so many of us and why we take the time to work together to promote openSUSE. We have a long list of ToDo's and many things were accomplished. What didn't get done will continue to be worked on and I'll leave it to yesterday's moderators, Kostas and Carlos to list what's left to be done and discuss where we are at now. Three important thiings happened yesterday: 1. We got work done 2. Our existing teams of Marketing and Ambassadors showed up and worked 3. Many new faces came to Collaboration Day and pitched in. It was a day that proved that when we need to get some work done, we can all focus in on it. Thank you all and don't forget, our next Collaboration Day is this Monday, 13-December. We'll be working on polishing up our marketing materials. Great job Kostas and Carlos! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team lead -- 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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[Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] Reminder: openSUSE Collaboration Day Monday-13 @ 9:00 UTC]
by Carlos Ribeiro 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Dear @ll openSUSE Ambassador I would like to remember all ambassadors that your time and help will be more than welcome again for the next openSUSE Monday's Collaboration Day. I finished few minutes ago our report/page about our openSUSE Ambassadors Collaboration Day, and fr sure I so glad to be part of this awesome team. We showed to our self that when we join powers and energy with high focus, we can speedy up some activities and task to be concluded. The link for Ambassadors Day Report will come in response of another thread to not mix topics ;) So, as said by Bryen we need to keep the lights on and as Ambassadors give another hand to the whole Marketing team to help to make possible to have this great momentum going on! See you there CarlosRibeiro Mnday Em Sex, 2010-12-10 às 12:25 -0600, Bryen M. Yunashko escreveu: > We're on our way to the second of three openSUSE Marketing Collaboration > days with the next one coming up on Monday, 13-December at 9:00 UTC and > ending at 24:00 UTC. This will be in our usual #opensuse-marketing IRC > channel. > > The focus of Monday's Collaboration Day will be reviewing Marketing > material. See [1] and [2] for more details if you're not already > familiar with our Collaboration days. > > We had good success and lots of new faces showed up on the Ambassador > Day this past Monday. Let's keep the momentum going! > > Bryen M Yuanshko > openSUSE Marketing Team lead > > [1] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/12/10/opensuse-collaboration-thrives/ > [2] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/12/02/marketing-collaboration-days/ > > -- 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 university
by Johann Els 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hi All, Here is an idea.... I had seven delegates yesterday in a workshop installing and configuring openSUSE 11.3, What happed was that the delegates was doing their A+ and N+ certification... They told me that they got more information in the workshop than in a regular training campus and they want more hands on workshops. So this made me think is there a way we can create a sort of University where School leavers and Graduates can do a Certificate in openSUSE and from there they can springboard to a CLA/CLP/CLE certification? What is your view? Johann

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Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Welcoming E-1
by Jos Poortvliet 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

On Thursday 09 December 2010 03:57:59 Mohd Hidzuan wrote: > Thanks bro.. I'll try my best to spread the ultimate of solution from > Geeko.... > > Gecko Power!!! Go Green :D That's the spirit... > ;-) > > > > - > 102D A12B F078 CF46 39A6 B276 7A01 9650 7FEA A5B1 >

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Welcome Vadim,our First ambassador From Belarus.
by Kostas Koudaras 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hi Please welcome our Newest ambassador and the first ambassador of openSUSE at Belarus Vadim. Here is a bit more about him in his own words. Lets start. Answers: * What have you done already for openSUSE? I talk to my social circle about openSUSE and help some of them migrated to openSUSE from MS Windows(this process doesnt stop for a minute). Mostly i help to SLE testing and i come to openSUSE from SLE, so i dont see any big work from my side to openSUSE, but * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. I will tell you briefly, because detailed descriptions take up much space. The main thrust will be participating in conferences (at this moment i can speak about 2 of them, if i'm not mistaken, may be more, but that doesnt depend on me), organization of lectures on engineering faculties of universities(hope that will), and also a promo on the belorussion part of internet. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? I'm already promoting, when its possible. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? This is certainly an excellent work "from the box". * Why do you love to do this? I like free/open source software ideology and want to help. Why openSUSE? I think its the most quality distribution now. * How did you start with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started with Fedora Core 1 at 2004, then tried other linux distros(except SUSE and some others) and FreeBSD, but in 2007 come back to Fedora. At 2009 i had to use SLES and SLED at work and from this moment i started using openSUSE at home. -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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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