December 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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translating openSUSE brochure
by Jos Poortvliet 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello friends, Below is a link to a document which contains the text of a flyer we have developed for openSUSE marketing. If you're able and willing to translate this in your language of choice and send it to me, I make sure it gets integrated in the flyer so we can put these online for you and others to download and print as well as for us to print and send to our ambasadors! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/openSUSE%20Brochure%20final%20text.odt The sooner these gets done, the bigger the chance we can print a bunch. However, we'll focus on the 'bigger' languages and countries where people usually don't know English very well first. Thanks in advance, Jos

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SCALE - why openSUSE is cool
by Jos Poortvliet 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

Heya, Orv asked me who would be able and willing to present/promote openSUSE on the Linux Beginners course. You'd have to present openSUSE and explain why it is worth trying out our distro to the audience. Could be a good opportunity to refresh our talking points :D http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points /Jos -- 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 our new Ambassador from Poland!
by Richard Brown 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hi Ambassadors Please welcome Szymon Strutyński, our new ambassador from Poland. Below is a little about Szymon in his own words -- OK, I tried to stick to the list answering your questions, but somehow first two positions became one. *Not much for the bigger scale. My biggest achievement is that I convinced almost whole my family to use openSUSE instead of Windows OS. Same about couple of friends. I helped them with installations and all stuff associated with migrating to new OS. Nowadays I'm really serious about organizing launch/install party. For the beginning small one, because of lack of experience. I've convinced a owner of a small coffee shop to give me space and network access. Problem is that there are only 15 sitting places. I've got also projector, so I'm going to give some presentations. Already I have list of 13 people who will appear at the party for sure. If the idea will work out (and I'll earn some experience!) I'm going to ask at my university about some bigger room and organize bigger event. I've registered the event on the openSUSE Launch Party page. Also I am going to start small group of people just starting with openSUSE to make it easier by starting together. Work-name of the "group" is "openSUSE coffee lovers". * I think I am. * In my opinion it's painless during migration from Windows OS. It is big simplification to configure your system with YaST, not by "complicated commands copied from some Internet forum". * Maybe because I've noticed how people are grateful after I've helped them with changing OS. * I've started with Slackware (best option for PC I had in 2000), than Debian (due to the amount of information that could be found in the Internet). In the beginning of 2010 I realized that all I need is something easy, not to heavy and something less time consuming to configure. That is how I've started with openSUSE. I'm not high experienced. I've never took part in any open-source project. I'm studying IT, so I'm experimenting a lot with my OS. I'm from Warsaw, Poland. http://en.opensuse.org/User:Sstrutynski Regards, Szymon Strutyński -- Welcome to the Team! Richard Brown Systems Engineering Team Leader City College Brighton and Hove This Christmas, why not provide a loved one with the perfect opportunity to learn a new skill, make new friends, earn a qualification that could lead to a change in career or impress their current employers? City College Gift Vouchers, redeemable against any of our exciting range of Part-time and Adult Community Learning courses, are available at the Finance Department, 2nd Floor, Central Campus, Pelham Street, Brighton. www.ccb.ac.uk -- 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 our new Ambassador from Brazil!
by Richard Brown 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hi Ambassadors Please welcome Ricardo Valverde, our new ambassador from Brazil. Below is a little about Ricardo in his own words -- So, I work with openSUSE since the beginning, in fact since before the openSUSE user it was SuSE 4.2. Today, i have one called ESEEI University with a great history with Free Software graduating students with openSUSE 2 times a year, have courses in IT and Media environment with 100% Free openSUSE and Software for all courses. We formed many important people in this process as an example people like Aurelio Marinho Jargas , Alessandro Binhara (MONO) and many others who contribute much to the process. Every year we do events like the Install Fest and many others. I am brother of Isabel Valverde, currently responsible for organizing events openSUSE team. I currently work with virtualization, kernel, Cloud Security, and I am involved in several projects with embedded development, Arduino, Android and various other things. I was responsible for developing and deploying the entire environment of ESEEI all these years. I've done several lectures at major events in the region, the most recent being the Third Technology Forum on Free Software and SERPRO LatinoWare 2010 where I gave a lecture on Augmented Reality with openSUSE. I wish I could contribute as ambassador openSUSE in my area, as we have only one reference in the region and this is very far here from the capital. Curitiba has a host of Mandriva (Conectiva), so we are very hidden in this region. I love openSUSE, I use a lot OBS and SuSE Studio a lot to promote openSUSE and now with the Mirall and snapper it will be even better. I have a lot of credibility for the work accomplished, but do not have visibility so great that it could further help the openSUSE Time. I believe that being an ambassador would have more visibility and credibility in the region to help openSUSE for sure. I'm still preparing for this week at an event in ESEEI to brings out the launch of our new version 12.1 is considered by me as the version with the most incredible highlights news this year. Well, that it, I hope to continue helping as I always do, and perhaps now with an even more support, it was a pleasure to meet you. Lucky for all of us this coming year a big hug, Ricardo C. Valverde. -- Welcome to the Team! Richard Brown Systems Engineering Team Leader City College Brighton and Hove This Christmas, why not provide a loved one with the perfect opportunity to learn a new skill, make new friends, earn a qualification that could lead to a change in career or impress their current employers? City College Gift Vouchers, redeemable against any of our exciting range of Part-time and Adult Community Learning courses, are available at the Finance Department, 2nd Floor, Central Campus, Pelham Street, Brighton. www.ccb.ac.uk -- 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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Invite to the Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON)
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Friends, Find below an invite for the openSUSE community to POSSCON, Columbia, USA! Erin is in CC, you can ask her any questions you have. /Jos Hello, My name is Erin Tyler and I am with the Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON), one of the largest open source software conferences on the east coast. I am writing to request contact information for the person at openSUSE who is responsible for conference participation. We would like to invite OpenSuse to participate in POSSCON 2012, scheduled for March 28 and 29 in Columbia, SC. Thank you for any consideration, Erin Tyler Coordinator, POSSCON 2012

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POSSCON 2012
by Erin 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Hello, I want to follow up on an email forward sent to you by Jos Poortvliet. We would like to invite OpenSUSE to participate in POSSCON 2012, scheduled for March 28 and 29 in Columbia, SC. Participation can be in the form of attending, proposing a speaker, or being a sponsor at some level. This will be the fifth annual POSSCON event, and the 2011 conference was a tremendous success with more than 500 people attending from 24 states. In addition, some of the biggest names in Open Source participated/spoke and some of the biggest companies in the US sponsored and participated, including IBM, Red Hat, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Verizon Wireless, HP, Digium, Talend, GitHub, Time Warner Cable, OpenLogic, and many more. One more thing… we’ve just confirmed a very big name in software that will be keynoting the 2012 event (we’ll be announcing it very soon). Because of this, we anticipate attendance and media attention will increase significantly. Let me know what you think and if you have questions. I have attached the POSSCON Prospectus for you to review. We hope to see you in Columbia next year! Thank you for any consideration, Erin Tyler Coordinator, POSSCON 2012

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openSUSE 12.1 PromoDVD
by Andreas Jaeger 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

The openSUSE promodvd is currently produced and once we've done that, I'll make a call for orders. You can download the ISOs from this location as well to burn yourself an image: http://widehat.opensuse.org/opensuse/promodvds/ Each version contains: * the installable GNOME LiveCD * the installable KDE LiveCD * a normal DVD install image (with 1 GB less data than the normal image) So, this is a great media to show case openSUSE and give it away at events. If you just want to install openSUSE on your own system, I suggest to download one of the images via software.opensuse.org. Since for most users downloading the specific media is better, we're not putting the promodvd on our mirror network and you have to download it from our widehat.o.o server. Andreas P.S. I'm currently uploading the DVDs, it will take a few minutes for both to show up -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE @ FOSDEM
by Pascal Bleser 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

On 2011-12-01 12:19:09 (+0100), Henne Vogelsang <hvogel(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > On 01.12.2011 00:07, Richard Brown wrote: > > I'm volunteering to co-ordinate an openSUSE stand at FOSDEM this February > Cool :) > > > Even if you're not coming this year, I especially welcome advice and > > guidance from FOSDEM veterans. What worked in previous years? > * Bring the Touchsmarts, people like to grope things. > * Bring 12.1 DVDs, stickers and folders, people like to snatch things. > * Bring Beer and T-Shirts, sell them for 1€ and give the proceeds to > the university. They will love you. (Pascal knows whom to give it to) > * Have 2 guys, you can rely on at any time, to be on the booth. People > like to wander off into the awesome program. One minute it might seem > that you have a gazillion people on the booth and the next one it's > deserted because RMS speaks. True, but I'd even plan a bit more than 2 people if possible. Thing is, there will probably be around 400 sessions during the weekend, with more than 20 in parallel at all times and, hence, it's very likely that people will want to see a few talks as well. Ideally, have people check the schedule once it's available, find their "must see" talks, and make a schedule. Only gotcha: the schedule will be published really late (that's inherent to the way FOSDEM works, projects arrange their own schedule for the devrooms). Henne, as you won't be able to be there (*sad* :(), will someone else take care of travelling with the openSUSE stand and touchsmarts and stuff from Nürnberg to Brussels, as usual ? Are you coordinating on the Nürnberg side of things, or is someone else ? If so, whom ? :) > * Try as hard as possible to avoid that people leave their shit on > the booth. The corridors are narrow, the boths are small, there are > more and more people each year. If they all leave their Jackets, > laptops and bags on your booth there is no room to operate anymore. Well actually, we (FOSDEM) will move the stands to a different location, into a new building, which means that the corridors won't be narrow :) It won't be a lonely spot either, as there are several interesting devrooms in that building, as well as one of the main track rooms. > > what do I need to know? > > * You get two tables and a couple of chairs in a windy corridor No windy corridor :) > * It's friggn cold and drafty Not any more :) > * Don't try to plan anything, it's chaotic. Yeah, it's definitely a *very* busy place, with insane amounts of people going around, and most of them will be people who already contribute to FOSS projects, so they're more likely to ask what's specific about openSUSE as compared to others, how the community is working/like, about OBS, openQA, etc... -- rather than "oh, what's this Linux thing ?" ;) > * Have Pascals number on speed dial. He's the man. I'll broadcast it around to a few people who will go to FOSDEM in due time. Generally speaking, exchange phone numbers before going there, because you don't just randomly run into the people you want to see, it's too much crowd for that :) > * Get drunk as early as possible :-) Be *very* careful at the beer event on Friday, or with belgian beer in general, and I'm not kidding, it's really strong stuff. Actually, I rather had in mind that we (openSUSE people going to FOSDEM) will coordinate to go some place for food on Friday evening, before going to the beer event and then possibly some quieter place too. I can take care of arranging things, but I will need to know how many people will show up. And we'll prolly do the same for Saturday evening too. (No one is forced to, just a proposal :)) I'll send an email to the project list in due time (mid January). > > what do I need to avoid? > * Belgian "Beer". At any cost. Well, definitely consume with great care, it's not the kind of coloured water they sell in Germany ;) I recommend Tripel Karmeliet, Delirium Tremens, Kwak, ... :D Oh, and if you haven't booked a hotel yet, definitely do that ASAP. Due to the large amount of people, and Brussels being a tourist and business hot spot anyway, several hotels are already booked out. For low budgets, one option that works surprisingly well is couch surfing: http://couchsurfing.org As of which hotel to pick, it's not that important as the venue is a little bit off the historic center and you'll have to travel by public transport or cab anyway (not an issue, explained at http://fosdem.org/2012/transportation) If there are any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with me, by email or on IRC (I'm "yaloki" there). cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf

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