October 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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Re: Call for release parties
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

On 25.10.2011 Jos wrote: > Heya all, > > According to our launch checklist on: > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_Checklist > > We need to get a call for release parties out next week! Anyone up > for writing one? Creative things like pizza recipes very welcome :D > > Also, we need sneek preview articles... Stuff about what's new and > coming in openSUSE 12.1. Anyone any suggestions and/or willing to > work on something? See our Product Highlights* for ideas! > > * http://ietherpad.com/12-1-release-notes > > Cheers, > Jos Ping - anyone up for writing something? Stella maybe, you did great with the betapizza partie stuff :D

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Heads up: 12.1 is coming, are you ready?
by Kostas Koudaras 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hey Ambassadors 20 days left for 12.1 to be released and once again we have the greatest Linux distribution to deliver to the world. openSUSE did the best for us so it is once again the time to ask ourselves, what can we do for openSUSE? Are you excited? Do you feel ready to go out there and evangelize our next release? Do you know about the up-coming features of 12.1? Have you blogged or wrote an article about it? Give us a link Did you started preparations for a Release Party? Do you have any fresh ideas we could work on? Do you have any problems or difficulties we can talk about? We are preparing for Google Code-In(http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI), you can contribute there too(http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI_Tasks), either by submitting an idea or by becoming mentor to one of the tasks, what do you think? Can you help? What are your plans? Let everybody know Let's Be Creative Let's Share Thoughts Let's Talk What better time than now? What better place than here? Rock on and Have Fun with openSUSE 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 To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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opensuse.ro problem - Help
by oprea.luci＠gmail.com 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hello, I would like to discuss in private with someone from openSUSE on the opensuse.ro The problem is that a person has acquired this area in 2007 and uses. For openSUSE user community can use it in Romania requested a sum of money (attention: the use and transfer rights not by us). I am interested in the regulator fields in Romania and I understand that the situation can be solved simply if someone from the trademark owner would openSUSE involved by completing an online form. Who can I talk? Best regards, Lucian -- ---------------- Lucian Oprea Telefon: + 40 (0745) 592 602 http://suseromania.ro http://forum.suseromania.ro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome Marina Latini our new ambassador from Italy
by Kostas Koudaras 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hey Ambassadors Italy is getting even more active those days ;-), so please all give a warm welcome to our new ambassador from India, Marina Latini from Milan and Perugia from Manipal. Below you can learn more about her and her relationship with openSUSE as she told us in her own words. We have a couple of questions for you: * What have you done already for openSUSE? I'm a member of FSUGitalia and with Alexjan Carraturo, we promote openSUSE during our events, expecially where schools are involved. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. In the next 6 months... well, we have a lot of events! the first is the LinuxDay on 22th October in Milan. The next ones will be the Document Freedom Day in March and the Software Freedom Day in September. our goals are the schools and the young students. we want to share the philosophy and the importance of using free and open source software so students are important! * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? sure! * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? I believe that openSUSE has nice community. All is clear. if you want to partecipate you can read a wiki and find all the informations. the operating system is stable, full of applications and well organized. * Why do you love to do this? I want to officially promote this distribution also because openSUSE is a great product and in Italy we usually find only Ubuntu or Debian or Fedora. the Italian Ambassadors are doing a great job and I want to help them. * How did you start with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started using openSUSE thanks to another Ambassador, Alexjan. during a software freedom day he organized a meeting of the Italian Ambassador and for me was a pleasure to speak also with Andrea Florio. A great event with a lot of young students! now I'm a good user and I'm trying to discover openSUSE's secrets. I think now I'm ready to talk about openSUSE. -- 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 To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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2012 Table Ready
by Kostas Koudaras 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hey ambassadors We have a new year coming and there is a possibility that some of you already made plans for it, like people that will attend SCALE ;-) So have in mind that table for the Year 2012 is ready for you to add your event, also please do not forget to add your 2011 event's at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events Have Fun Kostas -- 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 To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Hallo, looking new ambassador?
by Alessandro Lorenzi 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hallo all! I am Alessandro "alorenzi" Lorenzi, from Italy and a would become an ambassador! I organize and partecipate as speaker to several events , software freedom day, document freedom day, linux day and some-other-stuff day ;) I am in two groups: GULLP (a local group about GNU/Linux) and FSUGItalia (a free software user group that works in italy). And I am also a OpenSuse user! I think that i can help community to recruit new people :) see ya alorenzi -- Lorenzi Alessandro -- 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 Alessandro Lorenzi, our new ambassador from Italy
by Kostas Koudaras 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hey Ambassadors Please all give a warm welcome to our new ambassador from Italy, Alessandro Lorenzi. Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. * What have you done already for openSUSE? I have installed openSUSE and i've give support to a lot of students in University. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. I'll talk about the distro during other events (next will be in march) and I would organize a openSUSE release party for next release * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Obviously yes! * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? maybe a fantastic version of KDE... I think that gnome 3 has a lot of problems now and unity too... so i think that a lot of people will move to kde, and openSUSE * Why do you love to do this? Talk to public is a great experience, I love it. * How did you start with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I use GNU/Linux since 2001 'cause a friend of mine installed it on an old pc... and openSUSE from 2009. -- 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 To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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BetaPizza Parties at Attachmate
by James Mason 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hello all, I worked with some staff here at the Bellingham, WA Attachmate office and at Attachmate HQ in Seattle, WA to put on BetaPizza parties yesterday for internal staff. Since many Attachmate staffers are new to SUSE, openSUSE (and Linux in general) we decided to do this first party internal only; we plan to invite the community to the next event. Here in Bham, we had a dozen people attend; Seattle had a bit more than twice that. One of the local Attachmate devs (and an openSUSE user) and I did a brief presentation introducing the GNOME & KDE desktops, explaining the live media, going over some specific internal questions (such as how to use Citrix applications), and introducing everyone to bugzilla. After that we split off and did some installs, both live and virtual, as well as some live disc runs. All in all, we had 8 hardware installs, numerous virtual installs (on VirtualBox & VmWare) and 20 people trying out Live CDs. One of the largest issues we had was in virtualization, suprisingly. VmWare does not include 3D acceleration, so GNOME users were "treated" to fallback mode. VirtualBox 4.1.4 (the current release) for OSX crashed when trying to run the beta w/ 3D acceleration. VirtualBox 4.1.4 for Windows presented corrupt video & GNOME Shell crashes when using 3D acceleration. Other than that, things went relatively smoothly, and I even learned a few things myself (like how to install firmware blobs for broadcom wireless), and everyone "ha[d] a lot of fun!" We're looking forward to doing this again for 12.2 :) -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Member 2925 Roeder Ave Ste 300 Bellingham, WA 98225-2065 +1 360 752 6707 james.mason(a)suse.com -------------------- SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Design a logo for SCALE 10X, win a trip to LA!
by Drew Adams 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

I just want to let everyone know that the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is having a contest to "Design a logo for SCALE 10X, win a trip to LA!" In other words they if you can make a cool SCALE 10X logo and they like it, they will pay for you to go to SCALE. There is a lot of skill and creativity in the openSUSE community so give it a shot if you are interested in trying. You can read all about the contest rules and such here: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/design-logo-scale-10x-win-trip-la Good luck, -- Drew Adams Ambassador, openSUSE IRC Handle: Druonysue Skype ID: Druonysus Skype #: +1(714)725-SUSE Phone: +1(951)444-UNIX eMail: druonysus(a)gmail.com openSUSE User Profile: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Druonysus openSUSE Connect Profile: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/Druonysus -- This message sent via Novell Evolution on openSUSE 11.3 with KDE 4.7.2. Get openSUSE completely free at www.openSUSE.org and "have a lot of fun!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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