August 2010 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Software Freedom Day is Coming!
by Michael Loeffler 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

On September 18, it is international Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day aims to celebrate Free Software and the people behind it. It wants to spread the word about Free Software and help people find each other. We, the openSUSE community, of course need to be part of this! So this is a call to you all: mark September 18 in your agenda. Check the Software Freedom Day website [1] and find the meeting in your neighborhood [2]. If there is none, how about setting one up? Go to the Start Guide [3] and get to work. You can organize your own event! Of course, openSUSE will help you. If you plan to go to an event or organize one, get in contact with us at marketing(a)opensuse.org ! If you mail us your information we can send you a package with openSUSE Promo DVD's, a poster and some stickers so you can be an ambassador for openSUSE at your local event. Help us spread the word! Greetings, The openSUSE marketing team [1] http://softwarefreedomday.org [2] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010 [3] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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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FOSS 2010 Conference in Kharkov, Ukraine
by simka 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi, My students prepare for FOSS Conference at our University (KSTUCA), Kharkov, Ukraine. Presumably it will take 2 days - 15th-16th of December 2010 (see http://kmit.110mb.com). We would like to see your suggestions and everyone is welcome to participate ! We will provide excursions and free accommodation, but our resources are limited, so please let me know in advance if you need any. Btw, come and see if we are ready to run EURO-2012 ;-) -- Best regards, Kostyantyn Ovechko aka simka -- 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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Questions and answers
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Dear Ambassadors, As you are the 'openSUSE frontline', you get asked critical questions about openSUSE. The marketing team would of course want to help you with that, answering those questions for you and helping you to find the needed arguments. That is why we set up this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points Would you all be willing to have a look at it and put questions you get on the bottom of that page so we can see them and try to answer them? Thank you very much! Jos Poortvliet

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Event Summary Report?
by Andreas Jaeger 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I've discussed with a few folks on a short event summary report. It should be really brief so that everybody can send it out directly after an event - and later do a more lengthy report if desired. My list currently has: * 1 page only - to send it out quickly * how many DVDs did you take? How many DVDs did you distribute? * how many people where at the event? At the booth? * three most asked questions/topics at booth? * What was the most interesting comment, question, talk you heard? * Will you blog about the event - and where? * Who staffed the booth? * Did you have a talk? Which topic? Will you provide slides for others to use? Do you think this would be usefull? What should get added to the list? I'll put the above tomorrow on the wiki (with your suggested changed) and will invite everybody to update it as fit - and then to use it for sending a brief report. 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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Ambassador programs research
by Barry Nichols 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi all, As discussed in the recent meeting, I have spent some time looking into other projects Ambassador programs, my findings are listed below: Fedora and GNOME both had a great deal of information regarding their Ambassadors and whilst I was unable to find Ambassador programs for other projects, many of them have had talk about starting one. Also QT has a fairly new Ambassador program. GNOME: - Business Cards - Ambassador shirts (uniform) - Event travel sponsorship - Banners, Posters & Flyers - Event box (everything needed to set up an event booth) - Presentation slides Fedora: - Business Cards - Ambassador shirts (uniform) - Event travel sponsorship - Banners, Posters & Flyers - Event box (everything needed to set up an event booth) - Presentation slides and slide templates - Mentors (Ambassadors who have been approved to mentor new and potential Ambassadors) - T-shirts, Stickers, Pens, etc. (and a list of local vendors who can produce them to save on shipping costs) QT: - Allowed to use the ambassador logo - Access to merchandise/giveaways - Ambassador shirt (uniform) - Must have proven QT skills Both Fedora and GNOME had good Ambassador web-pages which make the aforementioned resources very easy to apply for/download. -- Barry D. Nichols E-mail: barry(a)opensuse.org IRC: Barry-Nichols -- 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 Nitin as first Ambassador to Mauritius
by Andreas Jaeger 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

I'd like to welcome Nitin Sookun as new ambassador to Mauritius, below is his introduction, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Hello Andreas, Glad to see your mail. * What have you done already for openSUSE? Well, to start with what I've already done for openSUSE, I'm running version 11.3 on a few computers at two of Indra Cybercafés. I've always been a Linux lover but till now the biggest hurdle to get the young population using Linux was gaming. Recently, we used Wine to run Counter Strike 1.6 on LAN in one of our cybercafés and it was an awesome experience. Many gamers present there found it thrilling and wanted to run the same on their home pc. Now, in Mauritius the average home broadband is of 512kbps and they have limited bandwidths. So, I offered the guys chance to burn DVDs from the images we already downloaded in the cybercafé. Now, two of the cybercafés where openSUSE is already running, many people visit us for advices, or tweaking tips. When we started this "Linux Awareness" we ran openSUSE 11.1, Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10. Among these, openSUSE and Ubuntu were the most liked ones. So, we decided to go ahead with these two distros. I registered my company as a partner with Novell, and also contacted Canonical for Ubuntu. With Canonical it was kind of unpleasant for us because we had to commit a minimum amount of Ubuntu units, which was far too large for a small population of computer/internet users in Mauritius. With Novell it was easier because they had the Silver Partner Level which didn't impose any kind of "commitment" to start business. Our initial idea was to make people aware of Linux and introduce them to these distros. These involved a lot of marketing/time on our side and with a Canonical partnership, this became difficult. However, with Novell we have the chance to provide corporate solutions through SUSE Enterprise Linux and still spread the word about openSUSE without affecting business. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? I'm planning to run openSUSE on all machines in our 3 cybercafés. This will amount to 100 computers running openSUSE, and consequently more people getting used to it. To solve the hurdles of gaming on Linux, we're also contacting codeweavers, to run "crossover games" on PCs intended for LAN gaming. We also provide IT Solutions & Support and have a retail store. We're planning to provide PCs with openSUSE pre-installed and sell openSUSE box packages through the retail stores. The more adventurous Linux enthusiasts will surely like to buy their own copy and experience it! * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Yes. In fact, I already have a bunch of college/university students (regulars of Indra Cybercafé), who upon hearing my idea of openSUSE promotion, are keen to help. They are all Linux lovers and are waiting for the chance when they will receive the "backing" of a great distro! We intend to introduce openSUSE in schools, and government-run 'social welfare centres' where people get free computer/internet access. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? Hmm... I guess that one you're going to teach me ;) * Why do you love to do this? Like I told you, I'm a Linux lover and I just enjoying spreading the word about it. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started something like 10 years ago, during college days. My first Linux experience was with Red Hat 6.0. It was awesome! As time went by I got to know many other distros, and was always keen to test any as soon as it was available for download. Well... I'm comfortable with installation & configs, I can use Terminal and ease and do some enough tweaks and customizations to make my desktop elegant. Linux commands are also fine for me, well most of them. I've created LAN and also wireless networks using openSUSE. Network, files and printer sharing etc. Well, I think I'm good enough to recommend someone using openSUSE and help if they need me :) As soon as you show me the green light I'll start organizing my team here and plan the openSUSE promotion. -- 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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FISOL, Tapachula, Ciapas Mexico - ambassador help needed
by Andreas Jaeger 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

I have the following request in my INBOX, ambassadors from Mexico, could you reach out to him and figure out what's needed and how to help, please? I can send for sure some DVDs... Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Hi Friends From OpenSuse. Date: Monday 23 August 2010, 02:10:29 From: "Jozé Ruiz SolaR." <546890(a)gmail.com> Hi...Good Afternoon > Sorry, I do not know who to write to these issues my name is Jose Ruiz > and I am part of the organizing committee FISOL. The reason for my > email is to invite them to participate in the upcoming festival of > free software, which will be in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas Mexico > on October 15 and 16. We would like to know if OpenSuse is interested > in participating as a sponsor, sending CDS with the latest version of > OpenSuse, this is due to the importance of this distribution in the > world of open source. > OpenSuse mark a very important and indisputable reference for anyone who > wants to start discovering the world linux. > It would be an honor for us to your participation > This email is just to know your opinion, if your answer is positive > will receive all the exact data about this event > Thank you very much. > > If the email addre is wrong, could you give me the right direction please?. > > My apologies, my english is basic and I use a translator. > > Thanks. > > > > *JOZE.RUIZ.SOLAR* > > ----------------------------------------- -- 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 Mauritius
by Nitin Sookun 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Hello friends, I'm getting the support of some fellow linux users to organize an openSUSE marketing event at the University of Mauritius (http://www.uom.ac.mu). I'm getting the collaboration of UoM's students' union. We'll set up a booth with a few laptops with Internet connection. The event will take place inside the university's campus, and we hope to get the attention of mostly students from the faculties of engineering and computer science. Since, as an ambassador this will be my first such experience, I need your ideas and suggestions. I'd like to know how to arrange for flyers, dvds etc. I'll set up a team with the students union who will help us there. Refreshment/snacks will be offered to the marketing team as sponsorship from Indra Co. Ltd. We will however need some flyers with info about openSUSE, need some graphics/logo to prepare invitation cards and posters for the event. We still haven't decided a date, we'll be meeting next week to plan how we're going to proceed. The university's campus comprises of some 10,000 students. This will be a great opportunity to bring openSUSE under the spotlight. I have some friends studying computer science there, and I was told that lecturers recommend them to use ubuntu for testing and experimenting their linux and programming skills, because ubuntu is easily available. So, we can grab this opportunity to introduce them openSUSE and explain that they can get support from openSUSE forums and IRC. That's why I'll arrange for Internet on the laptops. We'll demonstrate everything during explanations. Kind regards, Ish -- 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
by SIBI 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

It's nice to see a person from Mauritius spreading the elegance of openSUSE. Welcome, Nitin! Sibi. On 8/26/10, Bryen M. Yunashko <suserocks(a)bryen.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:34 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> I'd like to welcome Nitin Sookun as new ambassador to Mauritius, below is >> his >> introduction, >> >> Andreas > > Awesome to see more Ambassadors spreading the good gospel of openSUSE! > Welcome, Nitin! > > Bryen > > -- > 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

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Spread openSUSE using twibbon
by Manu Gupta 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi Guys I saw twibbon today. I call upon everyone to use this to promote openSUSE. The more the people hear of us the better it is :) http://twibbon.com/join/openSUSE-Users -- 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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