September 2010 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Software Freedom Day Report
by Ravindra Aditya 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Dear ALL, Software Freedom Day is being celebrated on 18th of this month at Visakhapatnam,INDIA. the party is awesome and also the responses are over whelming. thanks a lot for the support from OpenSUSE. detailed report has been posted here http://j.mp/a39SNg With regards, Ravindra http://www.opensuse.org/user:rahacks -- 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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Report on Software Freedom Day 2010
by Jimmy Pierre 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Greetings, The car had to be towed to a Dealer because, the windscreen was smashed. OK, SFD 2010, where do I begin? We solicited the Propaganda machine: News papers: Paris - Normandie, Rouen Magazine National Radios : RTL and France Bleue RSS : All LUGs in France Forums: Our usual partners alionet.org Mailing lists : opensuse-fr, interlug, april.org . Posters: printed on A3 in colour Uniforms : no openSUSE t-shirts, we indulged in Novell shirts Banners : Novell Users International DVDs : Thanks to openSUSE 11.3 only as we gave all our stock of 11.1 at RMLL in Bordeaux. Material : 5 laptops with openSUSE 11.3 and in standby 16 Boxes with openSUSE 11.1 - 11.2, WI-FI: Our partners of Rouen-Wireless were there Room for the venue : Rouen City Associations House Logistics, refreshments & food : NUI.fr Participants: NUI.fr, wikimedia France & LANPOWER Websites: nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org jmll.info & softwarefreedomday.org Ranking and web submission : AddWeb We were overwhelmed by the visitors. We distributed 211 openSUSE 11.3 DVDs to the casual visitors and a few SUSE 11 SP1 to people from the Ministry of Education. We started sfd with demonstration of CMS, we showed fresh installation and tweaking of software from http://opensourcecms.com This took a couple of hours because the process was challenging and over a wireless link sometimes falling at 2mb. Coffee break and we struggled our way into FOSS games. The audience was quite interested that you could use Linux to work but also to play games and some of them are "clones" of Windows games. We gave some advice on using Wine, but demonstrated that installation of openSUSE 11.3 alongside with Windows would be their best bet. Dual booting and showing how to configure in Yast. We taught people into installing openSUSE 11.3 (OK we cheated here) on a particular laptop (a fast one). There were a few challengers. Some people deeply anchored into Ubuntu and Debian were a bit cold on doing the big move! One guy even came with his laptop loaded with CentOS not to nag us but to ask advice on wireless. I showed him how easy we were connected with 5 makes of laptops (Asus, HP, Packard bell, Compaq) with wireless. He will give openSUSE a try! We had our usual visitors and fans and in particular the Chess Club of the city. He wants to interface his Chess board with a Linux box. Well, if any of you has some ideas.. We had a debate on Gnome and KDE 4. This does drain your brains because it's like loving automatic car v/s a manual car. Both cars work fine, it's like tea with sugar or just tea. Wikimedia France was there and gave a lecture on wikis, that was interesting, I did learn a few things as well. We showed the wiki of softwarefreedomday.org and we were the *only* LUG in France doing something. We finished the day with practical labs on openSSH, mRemote, Xen, blogs (mainly WP), CSS. Each visitor was given a pen to write our email down and then they could keep it! What a pity, no pens left, not even for me! There were many other stories, but time is of essence, so I'll keep it short. We are now getting ready for the next round 16th October, 2010. We ran out of battery for our camera so here are the pics secured : http://www.nui.fr/linpha/viewer.php?albid=14&stage=1 Best wishes, Jimmy -- 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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Women in Free and Open Source
by Jimmy Pierre 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Greetings, My report on SFD 2010 will be delayed because my car was vandalized last night. However, while waiting for the paperwork, I had this idea: Women in Free and Open Source Most distribution have a women group. How about an openSUSE women group? Hence, women ambassadors? I know many women in France that I can approach on this matter. Just my 2 cents :-) Cheers, Jimmy PS. Enjoy some of the pics of last Saturday : http://www.nui.fr/linpha/viewer.php?albid=14&stage=1 -- 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 tour in Nicaragua Oct. 26
by Agustin Chavarria 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hi! In the community of opensuse in Nicaragua, we're organizing a Tour for all university of Nicaragua, the idea of the tour is promote the use of free software and opensuse. We will have the first event in October, we don't have a confirm date, but it's probable between October 18 and october 20. In this event we will have some conference and workshops. Agenda: 1-Principal Application of opensuse 11.3 2-Why you have to use opensuse? 3-openGarrobito and openGarrobito Zimbra version. we will have only 2 workshops: 1-Mail Server in SLES 11 using Zimbra 2-Graphic design tools in opensuse. The art work is coming soon :P I want to know if opensuse can help us with some marketing material. Like promoDVDs, Banners and T-shirts. Thanks! ;) -- Decks Agustin Fco. Chavarria Miembro internacional de opensuse Embajador de opensuse en nicaragua Dj Carbono14-Miembro de TranceDjsNicaragua "No abro documentos de MS Office, solo ODF tel: 84099002 -- 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 ambassadors at International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece
by diamond_gr＠freemail.gr 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Greek Ambassadors team participated to International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece in association with other organizations. You can check the full report and pictures here http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2010/09/opensuse-team-at-75th-inter…. You can always check our news at http://opensusegr.tk Regards, Stathis -- 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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Business card template 85x54mm for openSUSE Member / Ambassadors
by Bruno Friedmann 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

During the preparation for frOSCamp I've build a template for business card to distribute to visitor. Here the base svg : (Take care about the legal stuff of using the logo : see the wiki for licence) http://linux.ioda.net/openSUSE/opensuse_member_ambassador_buisness_card.svg And the result I used ( this is a 96dpi export ) http://linux.ioda.net/openSUSE/bf_opensuse_member_ambassador_buisness_card.… Hope this help some of you. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member User www.ioda.net/r/osu Blog www.ioda.net/r/blog fsfe fellowship www.fsfe.org tigerfoot on irc GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 -- 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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frOSCamp 2010 / Zürich - Event report
by Bruno Friedmann 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hi all, I've just published the Event ambassador report All is here http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/09/19/froscamp-2010-zurich-the-day-after-e… Comments and report welcome on lizard or here. ps : try to reply only to the mailing list. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member User www.ioda.net/r/osu Blog www.ioda.net/r/blog fsfe fellowship www.fsfe.org tigerfoot on irc GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 -- 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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How to respond to the Novell rumors
by Bryen M. Yunashko 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Folks, Several of you have contacted me requesting aec on how to respond to questions about the rumors of a Novell sale. Below, you can read my talking points on this subject which should help you give proper answers. Please note importantly that this talking points is from me as Marketing Team lead, *NOT* as Board Member. The Board has no official statement and has not discussed this topic at all. Thanks and please read below. If any questions to clear up on these points, ASK! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team lead THE “OFFICIAL” WORD: By now, many of you have heard the rumors from the New York Post that a sale of Novell, Inc. is impending. As there is currently no official statement from Novell, there is also no official statement from the openSUSE Board nor the Community it represents. We have no official information on this matter. As such, statements from the Community should be viewed as speculation and not official declarations. - Most, if not all, openSUSE Community members who are also employed by Novell do not have access to any such draft agreement that may exist with the Novell, Inc. executives. As such, do not attempt to seek inside information from these individuals. Even if they did know something,they are not authorized to divulge it and attempts to get information would just be a waste of both your time and theirs. You should direct all inquires to Novell's PR Director, Ian Bruce, at ibruce(a)novell.com. - Even if the NY Post article is true, and a sale is imminent, the timeframe offered by the Post should not be construed as an expectation from any of us as to when we will know anything. It could be 4 weeks from now, or it could be months from now, or maybe even never. WHERE WE STAND: - openSUSE Project is an organization that is independently-driven by its Community. Novell has been an important and valued partner in the openSUSE Project, and we look forward to continuing or building upon that relationship with Novell's successor, if one exists. - The openSUSE Community continues to strengthen its Project, as it has done for the past few years and shall remain a project that grows and propels itself on community-driven initiatives. - It is "business as usual" for us in the Community. Whether Novell does sell or not, we continue to perform our daily tasks and initiatives within the Project. We do not view sale as changing the way we do business nor whether openSUSE will continue to exist in its current form. - If you are concerned about whether such a sale will adversely affect the Project, the best thing you can do is to get involved and be a contributor to the project. The more we contribute to and drive the Project, the more successful we will become and the more viable we will be as an independent and strong Project. Each positive contribution outweighs any negative impacts that may occur, whether real or perceived. Moreover, Novell is not doing it's openSUSE work out of charity but because they believe it is better for SUSE Linux. Any organization who would buy Novell would, in 6-12 months, start to re-evaluate this and see how successful our community is. The only smart choice would be to keep investing in the openSUSE community, to continue working with us. We remind you also that openSUSE has been an integral part of the Linux strategy of Novell and the rumours mention a "strategic buyer". A strategic buyer would believe in the Linux story including openSUSE. A selling of Novell would be a change but nobody right now knows whether it would be a positive or negative one - and in which areas. Therefore, it is premature to attempt to react based on unofficial news reports. -- 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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FSFE organizes Linuxday in West Austria - who's interested in going?
by Jos Poortvliet 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi all, The FSFE wants to organize a Linuxday in West Austria. Any german-speaking ambassadors interested in setting up a booth there? They've asked if we were interested (Tigerfoot just notified us on IRC). Link here: http://www.linuxday.at Apparently all major distro's will be there and so should we ;-) The CFP runs until the end of September so we actually don't have that much time left... Who's up for it? Cheers, Jos

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Ambassador Pics
by Manu Gupta 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi All Please share with us your favorite moments as ambassadors of openSUSE. We can use some of them for our portal page http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Ambassadors Regards Manu Gupta :) -- 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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