January 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Welcome Mr Sami
by Manu Gupta 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hello All, I would like everyone to welcome Mr Sami Ullah, from Pakistan. Below you can find more about him. > Hello, > > Dear Manu, Kostas & Carlos, > I am from Pakistan, age 25 and employee of Distributor/Solution > Partner of Novell. > I've demonstrated /deployed SUSE/Novell Products in > Institutes/Universities, Banks, Food, Beverage, Chemical, Textile & > many more industries, > I use SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 11 SP1 & openSUSE 11.3 on my > notebook. > > openSUSE is not famous as Redhat/Fedora & Ubuntu in my region, my next > 6months plans for openSUSE are, to promote openSUSE in > institutes/Universities and other different events, I'll coordinate to > institutes/Universities, and plan to arrange events for promoting > openSUSE. > > Contents for event can be: > > Why openSUSE. > Introduction to openSUSE. > Basic Installation & network setup. > Desktop Customization, Basic Commands, YaST, Control Center, Software > Installation, Repositories setup. > Running Guest OS as Virtual Machine, Instant messengers. > > Free Basic Documentation & Media can be provided to audience and also > online links for more help. > > After ending sessions, can be ask for feedback, which definitely will > be helpful. > > > > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? > > Yes, am ready and that's why I contacted you, I will search different > ways for promoting openSUSE, and current ambassador's suggestions will > be also useful :) > > > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? > > Novell, GUI, YaST and wonderful community. > > > * Why do you love to do this? > Because I like openSUSE more than any other Linux distribution and > also to help my region users locally :) > > > * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? > > I'm using Linux since 2005 and openSUSE 2008, started openSUSE because > of my job but after using on daily bases, I am loving it. > > > The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect > the > > ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other > > ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: > > * share with them what you like to do > > * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how > > many people joined > > * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what > > you want to improve > > * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as > > well > > Of course I will do this, It will help me a lot > > > > These questions are informal and a way to introduce you to the > > community. Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your > > country/region, so please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing > list a > > bit about the openSUSE and the FOSS community in your > country/region, > > e.g. what are their needs and also you can help us drive the current > > marketing push. > > Okay, I will work on this, and provide my updates. > > > > > We'd like to send your answers to the opensuse-ambassador list and > thus > > introduce you as new ambassador. Please keep this in mind when > > answering and if you don't agree, please tell us! Once you have > > answered, we will add you to the list. > > Yes, Please > > > > For adding you to the ambassador list at > > http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list, please tell me: > > your country, region/city and your user page in the wiki. > > Pakistan, Karachi, http://en.opensuse.org/User:Samiullah > > > For details of creating a user page, see: > > http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ > > > > We know that openSUSE is very special to you and you might be > tempted > > to give it a capital "O" but that's wrong, so please remember > > openSUSE is always spelled "openSUSE". > > Yes, I know that, in my last e-mailed I have used "openSUSE" and sure > I will not mistake :)) > > > > > On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 13:08 +0500, Mr. SaMi wrote: > > > Hello Dear, > > > > > > Kindly add me to the list of Ambassadors of openSUSE Project. > > > To know about me, you can verify from Novell database, my username > is > > > "samiullah" > > > > > > My linkedin Profile is http://ae.linkedin.com/in/mrsami > > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/usersami > > > > > > I provide support for SUSE Enterprise Linux - Desktops & Servers > to > > > many industries in Pakistan. > > > Also SUSE Certified & provide training of SUSE Linux > Administration & > > > attract my students to openSUSE, now I want to work with openSUSE > > > team, also give me suggestions that in this regards. > > > > I would suggest you to drop at opensuse-marketing channel, join the > > marketing list if you are a marketing person and help us with the > > release of 11.4 by writing articles, doing artwork etc according to > your > > experience. Also, drop at #opensuse-project channel which is the > mother > > of all our channels. Let us know your interest and area of > expertise, we > > can certainly guide you to the right person who will be able to > guide > > you further. > > I'm not a marketing person, but I will join opensuse-marketing channel > and will see if I can provide assistance in this regards, > My expertises are in Linux Technical Support, Trainings and Demo’s... > > Thanks for everything > Let me know if anything is missing or you have more question. > > > Sincerely, > > > SAMI ULLAH, > > Email: mrsami(a)live.com > > http://ae.linkedin.com/in/mrsami > http://www.facebook.com/usersami > > > Cell# +92 321 8991822 > 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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Testmail
by Sascha Manns 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

This is just a testmail. Please ignore -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Electioncomitee openSUSE Marketing Team Packager in Build Service Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.saschamanns.de -- 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 Customs (New Year's Pie)
by Bratsaki Etern4L 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Here in Greece we celebrate the new year except from gifts but also by cutting a New Year's Pie where inside there is a coin hidden. Whoever finds it wins a special gift and is meant to be lucky the new year. A local Linux User Group located in Volos called Volug and LinuxTeam Teilar a Linux Team in Larisa where i live which both teams consist of colleagues had two small parties for cutting the New Year's Pie. I was there to celebrate with those people and inform them about openSUSE and openSUSE community. They were all interedted about openSUSE distribution. I answered many questions about Tumbleweed and Evergreen and informed them about our new 11.4 and OBS as many of them where interested about the work that is done by openSUSE community and by the Greek Community. I had some cds and posters with me which i gave them. In the future we will make some events together. Unfortunately we did not took any pictures. I would slightly have won the hidden coin at the first party but the next person got it :(. Happy New Year All!!!! p.s. Sorry for my bad English George Bratsos aka Etern4L -- 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 Facebook Group and Page administrators
by Helen 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi Folks, I am trying to co-coordinate our Facebook presence. At the moment, there are quite a few openSUSE Pages and Groups with many members. If you are administering an openSUSE Page or Group, please get in touch so we can create a master list and know what belongs to whom. To ensure the openSUSE message gets out there, the Marketing team wants to work on a few key groups and pages, so we can help readers find good pages and community, make sure questions are answered, and keep pages spam free. A forgotten page, gathering dust, is not a nice reader experience. Of course there's no problem with having an 'unofficial' page or group! This is community after all! But please send your URL and contact info so we know which page is yours. (Even if it is only a 'small' page) The main official (English language, general purpose) Group is this one: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2256834487 However Pages are a problem. Admins are not displayed and seem almost impossible to contact. The biggest pages are these: http://www.facebook.com/pages/openSuse-Linux/12783888575 2,500 likes http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenSUSE/16720390225#!/pages/OpenSUSE/1672039… 2700 likes http://www.facebook.com/pages/openSUSE/45393742283#!/pages/openSUSE/4539374… 1500 likes (and well detailed info) It would make most sense to develop one of these strong pages as our main Facebook portal, because they already have so many 'likes'. But to do so we need to contact their administrators and invite them to work with us. So, If you are a page administrator, please email me your contact information, Facebook profile and the page or group URL. Feel free to do this off-list if your Facebook and List personas are separate. thanks for your help! Helen -- 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]
by Kim Leyendecker 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

-- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador powered by openSUSE 11.3 KDE This mail was composed under Linux 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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Texas Linux Fest
by Jos Poortvliet 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hi y'all, I was wondering who'd like to go to Texas Linux Fest. If you set up a page on our events page (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events#2011) using the template, we can coordinate there. I have received a request from TLF to sponsor. I'd rather use the money to support travel and/or hotel costs for our ambassadors but if you're serious about doing something cool at the event we can always talk about it ;-) Any questions? Let me know! Cheers, Jos

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Greek openSUSE community report for 2010
by Kostas Koudaras 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

We just released the Greek openSUSE community report for 2010 at http://amb.opensuse.gr/ Take a moment and give it a look if you can, feedback and comments are more than welcome. 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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ambassador/PR kit
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Hi all, At the office Robert Lihm together with AJ and Michl (on his last few days...) have been working on assembling a nice PR kit which we'll send to our ambassadors. One thing for the kit we thought would be nice was a 'PR-how-to', basically taking some important info from the wiki like a how-to-organize-a- launch-party and other things and putting it on paper. I know that among others Manu and Kostas have been looking at that and working on it, as has Gnokii and others. Would any of those (or someone else) be willing to assemble a few of those things from the wiki (including talking points, the how-to's, FAQ etc etc) in an openoffice doc and send it to me? Just the text would be OK, Robert makes sure it looks good and we put it in the PR kit! Thanks in advance, Jos

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Warlordfff's Election Platform
by Kostas Koudaras 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hello world This is my election platform, please take a look. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2010_platform_warlordfff It's nothing fancy but I think it's interesting and I'm sure it's honest. Your comments and questions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance Kostas 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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northeast linux fest
by Jonathan Nadeau 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hello list, I was hopeing that opensuse could be represented at the Northeast Linux Fest located here http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org It is being held at a collage and there will be many collage students attending and I would like Opensuse to be there to talk about the operaitng system and how to get involved. Please contact me if anyone is interested. Thanks for your time and help. -- 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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