December 2010 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing Collaboration Days
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi Ambassadors, the first collaboration day is targeted at *you*, hope you join it! Andreas -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing Collaboration Days Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 03:18:30 -0600 From: Bryen Yunashko <suserocks(a)bryen.com> To: opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org, opensuse-announce(a)opensuse.org openSUSE Marketing Collaboration Days The openSUSE Marketing Team is proud to host Collaboration Days during the month of December. Each designated day, we will focus on a specifc area related to marketing. The purpose of this is to get some work done on that topic to strengthen our ability to promote openSUSE to the world. It is a day that is meant to be busy and productive for the team as well as an opportunity for non-team members to stop by and offer their perspectives and help out as we hack away. As this is an open process, we encourage everyone to come join us, even if you are not directly related to openSUSE. All perspectives are important and we welcome you all. Planned Agenda: 6 December 2010 Ambassador Support Review (Moderators - Carlos Ribeiro, Kostas Koudaras) Focus: Review existing support materials for Ambassadors and identify key checkpoint materials such as a checklist for booths. Review openSUSE Booth design concepts and strengthen reference materials such as talking points and developing strong presentation/speaking skills. 13 December 2010 Marketing Materials Review (Moderators - Chuck Payne, Bryen Yunashko) Focus: Review current posted materials including, but not limtied to, brochures, slide presentations, talking points, etc. Strengthen existing materials and add new materials where needed. Review placement on our wiki to ensure material is readily available for all who need it. 21 December 2010 PR and Social Media Review (Moderated by Manu Gupta and Jos Poortvliet) Focus: Review our strategy for reaching out to the press/media and our methods for publicizing through social media outlets including blogs, Twitter/Identi.ca, Facebook and other online venues. Document our methods and ensure we have caretakers for all sites. How this works: Think "hackfest." Each day, the moderators of each event will post a list of suggested assignments. You are welcome to select from the list or create an assignment that you feel you can best contribute to. Moderators are there to offer advice and guidance, not to control what you wish to do. it is your chance to express yourself freely and creatively. During the Collaboration Day, you will work either on your own or with partners as you choose. Occasionally, moderators may host brief discussion sessions to review the assignments and status. Where: We meet in the #openSUSE-Marketing IRC channel on Freenode. That's where the list will be hosted. However, you are not expected to put your full attention onto the channel. it is just a place to ask questions and get some advice. The majority of your time you will "meet" in your preferred environment where you feel you work best. Collaboration Days begin at 9:00 UTC and end at 24:00 UTC It's your day, it's openSUSE's day! Let's make the most of it! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org -- 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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Welcome TheMburu as first ambassador to Kenya
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Please extend a warm welcome to TheMburu as ambassador to Kenya, I'm appending his introduction, Andreas -------- Original Message -------- Hi, Find my answers inline: * What have you done already for openSUSE? *Since my inception to Linux I have always been an openSUSE fan and take part in spreading its gospel. I can say I have set it up on people's machines locally help fix issues and ensure they get the maximum from the OS thus sticking or maintaining it.* * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. *I intend to have a section in a computer shop stall within Nairobi where I display openSUSE merchandise or cds or banners and icons and issue to the shoppers for free and distribution as well as offer assistance, as a member of the local tech community I shall be availing the openSUSE merchandise to the local tech team. This is my plan starting now and well over the next 6 months.* * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? *Yes I am.* * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? *Would say how to make the user community afloat on newer and enticing versions, thats my view though would like to know the secret.* * Why do you love to do this? *First I speak Tux with openSUSE as my preference, then most guys locally would like the Linux versions and since they may not all have good speeds to download I want to offer the CD's for free and carry on the promotion.* * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? *I started back with Suse 9.1 when I had no idea of what root or swap was and ended up formatting my entire drive :). I tried other version since then but I ended up sticking to openSUSE for my personal use. I would call myself a Linux engineer having setup critical Linux systems and planning others.* Regards TheMburu -- 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 George as our ambassador
by Kostas Koudaras 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi Please welcome our newest ambassador George. Here is a bit more about him in his own words. Hello,I will introduce myself. I am George Bratsos. I am 19 years old. I was born in Tripoli, Greece but now i live in Larisa,Greece because of my studies. My Wiki Page http://el.opensuse.org/Χρήστης:Etern4L . OpenSUSE is a great distribution and has great community. I promote openSUSE in several events like install fests and workshops. Also i participated in Fosscomm a great event here in greece which me and George Koutsikos (ambassador) promoted OpenSuse. I also am proud member of the Greek Opensuse Community and the Greek Translation Team . As for my plans i plan to continue promoting openSUSE in several events in Greece help opensuse users solve their problems and the Greek Community to evolve. The best secret of openSUSE is in it's community which is awsome and pursuaded me to apply for ambassador and generally work with openSUSE. I started with Linux 1 year ago when i entered university. I changed several distros like debian, kubuntu but opensuse pursaded me to work with more than the other. I think i am a middle range user who uses/promotes Linux and also search to learn how his system works an more details about it in order to help in future problems. That's all about me! -- 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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Welcoming Fabian
by Manu Gupta 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Hi all Please welcome our newest ambassador Fabian. Heres a bit more about him in his own words > "What have you done already for openSUSE?" > I'm new to this community, so I haven't done anything for openSUSE so far. > > > "What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you > want to do the next 6 months." > I'm honestly: > I'm 17 years old and a student of a higher technical institute for information technology, so I haven't much possibilities to promote for openSUSE e.g. on various events. > So I would promote for openSUSE in diverse companies or schools in the immediate vicinity as far as I have the time and the possibilities as a student. > > > "Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE?" > Generally yes, I'm ready to start promoting for openSUSE, but how I've already said, I'm 17 and student so I'm not a man who is everytime available for promoting. > > > "What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE?" > I think openSUSE is like a blossom which has to flourish so promoting is a really important fact. > On my mind, openSUSE has a magical effect on people who use it. It's full of possibilities and professional features, and it's free. > > > "Why do you love to do this?" > I think "love" is a little bit disproportionate. OpenSUSE becomes more and more important this times I think because of these thinks i said one question above. > Promoting is an important fact, and I want to be a small piece of this community, not a big piece, but a small one, small but nice. ;) > > > "How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience?" > I collected my first experience with openSUSE 2 years ago, in school during my programming lessons. > We programmed in C with openSUSE 11 these times. In higher grades, we changed to Java and C#, our teacher is a fan of windows but I stuck to a linux operating system (Ubuntu) > using "MonoDevelop" and "Eclipse". > Our school is orientated to computer networks, so we have a lot of lessons about network engineering like "local networks", "global networks", "network security", > "network managment", "network programming" and so on. We do a lot of Windows stuff in this lessons, but parallel we do the same things (DNS, DHCP, sser and group management, and a lot more) > with linux operating systems (CentOS, Oracle Solaris, Red Hat). > Private I use Mint Linux and Ubuntustudio with a real-time-kernel for audio- and video-editing. > > > > How I said, I'm only 17, a stundent, I have not much possibilities to promote and I'm a really "unmighty" person for promoting but I hope I have answered your > questions as you expected and I could be a small piece of this community in future. > > I also have a question if you allow me to ask: > What espacially do you expect from an openSUSE ambassador? Are there any special things? > I have read a lot of this issue, but there is so much information that it seems a little bit confusing to me so I hope you don't care if I ask you this question. > I have a lot of information about the ambassador project, so I hope I do not misinterpret this. > When this case comes true, that I'm false with my expection of the ambassador project, I hope you won't be angry/sad about my precipitous acting and stopping the procedure becoming an ambassador. > > > Cheers > Fabian 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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Meeting some friends from the Community
by cheperobert 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Sharing with friends. On Sunday 28, we met with some members of the community of users openSUSE of El Salvador, to discuss some issues and share experiences. Among the topics discussed were: * The development of events "Free Software" for 2011 by the openSUSE community of El Salvador. * Support for migration from Windows to Linux openSUSE, for owners of cyber-café in one of the cities of country (to be held on 12 December which will involve lectures on installation, system services, offimatica, Software audio, video, etc) * Keep watch for changes in the openSUSE project. * Support for other SL communities in the country. * Buy a server for applications that we own. I leave some photos we took. http://picasaweb.google.com/efrain.estevez/ReunionDomingo28# Greetings, cheperobert -- Linux codigo abierto: Millones de personas en el mundo con mentes abiertas no pueden estar equivocadas -- 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-ambassadors] Ambassador Welcome Team
by Steban Baez 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Ok, thanks Chuck. I will be removing my doubts, Facebook channel I have it added. Other contacts now I will campaign to organize here. Thank you very much -----Mensagem Original----- From: Chuck Payne Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:16 PM To: Steban Baez - Ymail Cc: opensuse-ambassadors(a)opensuse.org Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Ambassador Welcome Team On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Steban Baez - Ymail <stebanbaez(a)rocketmail.com> wrote: > As I said before, > I will not disappoint! I'm working on projects for openSUSE Edu-Life in > conjunction with the town of my city for the new year. :) > > Thanks for all! > > -----Mensagem Original----- From: Andreas Jaeger > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:34 AM > To: opensuse-ambassadors(a)opensuse.org > Subject: [Bulk] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Ambassador Welcome Team > > I've edited the wiki pages to use the new ambassador-welcome address now > and I also > started going through my INBOX and answered those people that I haven't > answered with the new team in CC so that they can start right away. > > I have some messages from new ambassadors in my INBOX that I will answer > over the next few days - Steban was the first of those few in my INBOX. > > Looking through my INBOX, I'm grateful that others take over this > responsibility now ;) > > Cheers, > AJ > -- > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org > > Steban, Welcome to the family. If you need any help, please feel free to reach out. We are here to help. You can find a lot of help on our wiki, many of us are on Twitter/FriendFeed/Identica so please ask to follow. We are also on Facebook. If you have visited Planet SUSE (www.planetsuse.org) please do, there you will find a lot feeds from your fellow openSUSE family members. Pup -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- 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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Ambassador Welcome Team
by Andreas Jaeger 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

As discussed here, let's have an Ambassador Welcoming Team consisting of some active openSUSE ambassadors and I nominated one from US/Europe, one from Asiapacific and one from South America: * Kostas Koudaras * Manu Gubta * Carlos Ribeiro I will setup an email address (ambassador-welcome(a)opensuse.org ) to reach the team so that new ambassadors can contact them. The goal of the team is to welcome new ambassadors, inform them about the project and ambassadors, add them to the ambassador list and bring each new ambassador together with a more experienced ambassador that mentors the new ambassador. I'm glad that so many people stepped up and wanted to join the team. I think a small team will get the job done and I encourage the others that volunteered to start as mentors for new ambassadors - and suggest you all discuss how mentoring can work best. Btw. the page of the Welcome Team is: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_kit I apologize that it took me so long to answer to all of this, the last week was more hectic than I expected ;-( - and it showed that we really need a team handling this instead of single point of failure (like me;( ), 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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Welcome Steban Baez as ambassador to Brazil
by Andreas Jaeger 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

I've just added Steban as ambassador to Brazil, see below for his introduction. Andreas -------- Original Message -------- Hi Andreas! :) To Ambassador list: I live in the city do Marechal Candido Rondon, state of Paraná, Brazil Country http://pt.opensuse.org/Utilizador:Baezesteban * I work in an educational institution, we are implementing the distribuition machines in school. * Within 6 months ahead, we will be spreading the openSUSE edu li-fe, by means of a robotics project that is associated with activities of the city where I live. * And I'm promoting, I have two more friends to be ambassadors. One Paraguay is. * Organization! and Fun! we have found in the event Latinoware 2010. * I love free software and open source! the ideology of sharing cultures is very good, meet people who are with you in the fight to bring knowledge to everyone!. * I started to use Slackware in 1998, after helping others contributed local and international communities, I have Fedora Ambassador for 3 years, I stopped contributing to Fedora for personal reasons, currently I have a digital marketing company, programming in Java and Qt. I am interested in working with people to develop openSUSE in my spare time. I will be collaborating and sharing my experiences with everyone, is very rewarding to work for the education and above all to present on openSUSE Linux. From already thank you very much!!! -- 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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