March 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

This is a wake up e-mail to all the openSUSE Ambassadors
by Kostas Koudaras 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hello Fellow Ambassadors In the past days we had openSUSE 11.4 out. It is actually a really great distribution and it is our duty as openSUSE ambassadors to spread that to the world. So let's all start make events like presentations and release parties in order to have fun with openSUSE and let other people learn about openSUSE and also have fun with it to. If you need any help there are people here that are willing to give you all the help you can get. If you are planning an event be sure to mention it in: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events#2011 If you are planning a Release Party for openSUSE 11.4 let us know at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties_11.4 Get promo material for your events from promodvds(a)opensuse.org (but make sure you send an e-mail at least 2-3 weeks before the planning event so that you surely get them on time) In case you are not sure on how to organize an event go to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Events for more information and, in case I haven't mentioned :-) , feel free to ask here. Go ambassadors Go !!! Hope to hear from all of you 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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by Barry Nichols 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

-- Regards, Barry D. Nichols openSUSE {Member,Ambassador} Barry(a)openSUSE.org Barry-Nichols on irc.freenode.net -- 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 11.4 Release Party (Greek's Edition)
by Kostas Koudaras 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Yesterday we had the openSUSE 11.4 Release Party. We had every reason to celebrate since we have this great distribution that attracted peoples attention from the first day of it's release.The Party was once again awesome. Many beautiful people gathered to Rock 'n' Roll and celebrate the arrival of openSUSE 11.4. Of course The ambassadors and the other members of the community talked to people about the greatness of the openSUSE Project.We had all kind of freebies for the people to take. We had some serious party equipment like balloons and whistles. Of course we also had 11.3 DVD with instructions stickers for upgrade on. Also we burned a few 11.4 and we had stickers, openSUSE cheat-cubes, openSUSE Calendars and various other openSUSE stuff. We proved once again that openSUSE people most of all have fun because openSUSE is more than a more than a product. For more information go to: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2011/03/opensuse-114-release-party-… and for Photos from the Release Party go to: https://picasaweb.google.com/warlordfff/OpenSUSE114ReleaseParty# This is just the beginning, we are planning some more parties and presentations in the near future. We can use some feedback in order to become better, so please do not hesitate to comment if you happen to see anything you might not like. 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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11.4 feature guide/product highlights is done, so is the Portal page!
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hello dear ambassadors and marketing people!!! The openSUSE 11.4 Product Highlights are done: http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights And so is the portal page: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:11.4 They can be translated! But not promoted yet ;-) You can and SHOULD use the feature guide to create articles, blogs etcetera - you can use any screenshots and whatever text you need. The announcement will tomorrow be send to the opensuse-announce mailinglist and a news.o.o article will go out. Henne and AJ will take care of that, they promised during the board/project meeting today :D So, let's have a rockin' release and kick some ass!!! Be sure to enjoy the launch parties: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties_11.4 And if there is none close by you, organize one! you only need a place with beer and coke, then you can invite people on your blog & twitter & create a page on the launch party wiki :D If you need to present openSUSE 11.4 anytime soon, you can find a presentation here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations#openSUSE_11.4 We will work on improving it of course. Cheers, Jos

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Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] 11.4 feature guide/product highlights is done, so is the Portal page!
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

wiki masters henne and manugupta can surely tell you how/what/where :D On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:02 AM, opu.r.kabir(a)gmail.com <opu.r.kabir(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear ambassadors, > I am from Bangladesh and our whole community is eagerly waiting for openSUSE > 11.4 to come. Already i am requested by around 50 people to send then DVD > which I will do as soon as it is out. We share the news through our online > forum and blog. It would be very nice if I can translate the portal page and > product highlights in Bengali. Can you please tell me from where i can start > translating that page. I think there is no Bengali section in the wiki, so > what should I do. > Thanks. > > Rashedul Kabir > openSUSE Bangladesh > http://opensuse-bd.org > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello dear ambassadors and marketing people!!! >> >> The openSUSE 11.4 Product Highlights are done: >> http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights >> >> And so is the portal page: >> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:11.4 >> >> They can be translated! But not promoted yet ;-) >> >> You can and SHOULD use the feature guide to create articles, blogs >> etcetera - you can use any screenshots and whatever text you need. >> >> The announcement will tomorrow be send to the opensuse-announce >> mailinglist and a news.o.o article will go out. Henne and AJ will take >> care of that, they promised during the board/project meeting today :D >> >> So, let's have a rockin' release and kick some ass!!! >> >> Be sure to enjoy the launch parties: >> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties_11.4 >> And if there is none close by you, organize one! you only need a place >> with beer and coke, then you can invite people on your blog & twitter & >> create a page on the launch party wiki :D >> >> If you need to present openSUSE 11.4 anytime soon, you can find a >> presentation here: >> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations#openSUSE_11.4 >> >> We will work on improving it of course. >> >> Cheers, >> Jos > > -- 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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Fw: [opensuse-ambassadors] good news my friends :D
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:16:49 To: Jos Poortvliet<jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Subject: Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] good news my friends :D Yes first three 11.4 will ship them next day delivery as soon as Stefan gets them to me!! Hopefully wednesday for thursday. One of them is attatched to Oxford University!! One to scotland and one to wales. Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:02:53 To: <stuart(a)bolin.org.uk> Cc: <opensuse-ambassadors(a)opensuse.org>; <opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org> Subject: Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] good news my friends :D On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, <stuart(a)bolin.org.uk> wrote: > I sold three boxes yesterday :) Nice, the first 3 openSUSE 11.4 I suppose? so far none today. But its a good start. > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:44:59 > To: Jan Krings<liquidsky42(a)googlemail.com> > Cc: <opensuse-ambassadors(a)opensuse.org> > Subject: Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] good news my friends :D > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Jan Krings <liquidsky42(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> Am Samstag, 12. März 2011, 00:27:27 schrieb Jos Poortvliet: >>> I will push an article about this soon, but just FYI: >>> >>> openSUSE has done EXTREMELY WELL with the 11.4 release! So everyone, >>> stand up, give yourself a pat on the back - because this is your work! >>> >> On German newssited I've read so far, only positive reports about openSUSE >> 11.4. >> >> I made this nice screenshot from distrowatch today. We are the top 2! of >> disto's (at the moment). :D >> Nice work geekos! >> >> Greetings and a nice weekend with 11.4 >> >> Jan >> > > That is so awesome we were number a month ago. > > -- > (678) 636-9678 > ----------------------------------------- > Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. > ----------------------------------------- > openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup > openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member > skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup > freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein > Register Linux Userid: 155363 > > 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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good news my friends :D
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

I will push an article about this soon, but just FYI: openSUSE has done EXTREMELY WELL with the 11.4 release! So everyone, stand up, give yourself a pat on the back - because this is your work! Not just the hard work in the last 2-3 weeks, but also the work you have been doing as ambassadors around the world. Telling people about openSUSE is extremely important!!! Some numbers: well over 100.000 people have downloaded 11.4 within the first 24 hours! That is almost twice as many as 11.3!!!!! over 12.500 used bittorrent, over 90.000 via download.opensuse.org - and we're not counting those who upgraded by themselves or used susestudio.com!!! Awesome work ;-) I also had a look at our openSUSE statistics on opensuse.org/Statistics. Surprisingly, openSUSE is about 50% larger than fedora - I would've expected them to be bigger in terms of users... Compare for yourself at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics I wish Ubuntu would have numbers somewhere, they quoted between 6 and 8 million in the past (which makes them about as big as openSUSE) And I was thinking all that time openSUSE was lucky to be in the top-3 of distro's... But in reality, my friends, openSUSE is bigger than Fedora and might very well be bigger than Ubuntu!! Feel free to tell others about that ;-) Cheers and enjoy your weekends, you deserve it! Hugs, Jos

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Portuguese Forums....
by Nelson Marques 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Dear all, I would ike to inform this group that the Portuguese Forums will be launched soon and that the current team is composed of 3 members: 1. Nelson Marques (openSUSE GNOME Team contributor); 2. João Matias (openSUSE GNOME initiate); 3. Nuno Dionísio (no affiliation); With such resource available and taking advantage of the expertise of the veterans of the Forums team, I see this resource and one of the main pillars for the unification of the openSUSE users in Portugal, and my only goals are simple: 1. Establish a 'Portuguese Community' and make from this resource the main converging point to support them; 2. Develop the required means to make sure that at least 10% of the nominal community can qualify for openSUSE membership, thus increasing the number of contributions and strength of our voice in the International Community. Though as Ambassador I haven't done much, this is the first visible aspect of my commitment! As a heads up, I would also like to inform the community that me and João Matias have contacted the 'Universidade Fernando Pessoa' in Porto and that we're planning to develop a small event there in July organized by the rising 'Portuguese openSUSE Community'. As a community, I expect to build also bridges with our geographical neighboors in Spain so that we can take advantage of the geographical proximity and cultural resemblances of our two communities to work together for Iberian Domination. More will be reported in the future, as I have no plans to expose my strategy yet, but I do have one, and my word on it is the only assurance I am willing to give. Best regards, NM -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page
by Jimmy PIERRE 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

On 10 March 2011 19:44, Jimmy PIERRE <jimmypierre.rouen.france(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. >> >> Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without >> any problems (at least that he saw). >> >> Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install >> Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, this means >> that although installing most Linux distros likely will require the >> Hyper-V Linux Compatibility tools add-on (Similar to VMware tools, >> etc), it's unnecessary when installing openSUSE. >> >> Hurrah for one less step and less complications! >> >> As for "natively" -- It does seem that whoever used that word needs to >> explain what he means. >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Matt Hayes <dominian(a)slackadelic.com> wrote: >> > On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote: >> >>>>> Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? >> >> >> >> What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really >> >> not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! >> >> >> >> Tricky hey? >> >> Best, >> >> Jimmy >> >> >> >> PS Have you started tweeting yet? >> >> >> > >> > >> > The last I recall openSUSE was fully supported on HyperV.. not sure >> > about new releases etc. >> > >> > -Matt >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> > >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org > Great! Thanks Tony, Maybe if we can share our vitualised images (Xen, VMware, VirtualBox) for people to test? Something that Microsoft does already, they have Windows X images as well as Echange and other applications, just off the shelf and here you go. Cheers, 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page
by Tony Su 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

A fine line in terminology, When images are created for distribution, they're often then referred to as "appliances" particularly when they're pre-configured for some purpose (eg a LAMP stack). For example, 3 years ago I created a VMware appliance using 11.1/GroundworkOpensource/Nagios bundled with my own custom configurations for network monitoring in a Windows network. Distributing an appliance like that typically saves weeks if not months, instead typically you can be in Production within 30 minutes after pushing the "On" button. If the person has the DVD install, it takes only about the same amount of time to build your own base image compared to exchanging gigabyte files (typically about 1.5G compressed in my experience) over WANs. Also, it's probably not that useful to simply test whether the image launches (it almost certainly should unless it'a corrupted) but directed and organized testing could be useful... ie. special peripheral support in VMware, benchmarking (useful benchmarks require knowhow). IMO, Tony On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jimmy PIERRE <jimmypierre.rouen.france(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. >> >> Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without >> any problems (at least that he saw). >> >> Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install >> Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, this means >> that although installing most Linux distros likely will require the >> Hyper-V Linux Compatibility tools add-on (Similar to VMware tools, >> etc), it's unnecessary when installing openSUSE. >> >> Hurrah for one less step and less complications! >> >> As for "natively" -- It does seem that whoever used that word needs to >> explain what he means. >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Matt Hayes <dominian(a)slackadelic.com> >> wrote: >> > On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote: >> >>>>> Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? >> >> >> >> What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, >> >> really >> >> not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! >> >> >> >> Tricky hey? >> >> Best, >> >> Jimmy >> >> >> >> PS Have you started tweeting yet? >> >> >> > >> > >> > The last I recall openSUSE was fully supported on HyperV.. not sure >> > about new releases etc. >> > >> > -Matt >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> > >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org > > Great! > > Thanks Tony, > > Maybe if we can share our vitualised images (Xen, VMware, VirtualBox) for > people to test? Something that Microsoft does already, they have Windows X > images as well as Echange and other applications, just off the shelf and > here you go. > > Cheers, > 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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