May 2011 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Event Report: RedRat Computer Market - Sheffield
by Stuart Tanner 03 May '11

03 May '11

Dear All On Sunday 1st May 2011 I attended the monthly Sheffield Computer Marketing organised by RedRat Computer Fairs Ltd. As the only person in the room promoting linux I thought this time I would try something different to previous months, so I took my 42" Samsung FullHD TV along for the ride. Along side the Retail versions of openSUSE from Open-SLX I also took along some old promo dvd's I had for 11.3. Main interest was photography, individuals looking to move away from Commercial Software for photography. Recommended ShowPhoto as a photo editor and when displayed on screen, the individual was astounded how much information was available when in the past he has had to pay for Adobe addons to obtain the same level of detail in an image - lens information etc. Another query came from an individual whom uses Team Viewer for remote desktop support, I pointed out that Team Viewer was available to download for openSUSE and even navigated to the rpm download from the main site. One young man asked about Flight Simulators - I installed Flight Gear Flight Simulator (FGFS) however it only displayed a blank screen when i tried to load it. I promised to try and get it working for next month. A returning customer whom had previous obtained openSUSE 11.3 from me was having difficulties mastering dual-boot - he said after installing openSUSE, Windows XP was unable to power down the computer. Also he wasn't happy with the delay between openSUSE defaulting, I advised him to contact Open-SLX or Myself and we would be happy to discuss changing priorities and default booting options. However he said he was opting for a removable hard disk caddy and was going to install xp on one hard disk and suse on the other and run both single boot. He claimed that openSUSE had overwritten bios settings during installation and this was the cause of XPs problems, I again suggested he check with support but doubted the likelyhood of this. A second repeat customer was asking about a specific printer which isn't supported, I talked about "Windows Printers" and how such devices that do not have a standard engine tend to be harder to get working. Overall responce was good, lots of interest, lots of promo dvd's and leaflets given out. -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux Delivering openSUSE Retail to the UK 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44-1204-410474 Mob: +44-7868-028028 www.bolin.org.uk -- 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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Fwd: Our Plan and require help for openSUSE China work.
by Haowei 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hello all, As I am the first ambassador of openSUSE, I am trying my best to set up and organize the work of openSUSE in China. Now, I can see some of them I have settled since I have looked into everything here for openSUSE Chinese. Our Member now I have got 3 members in openSUSE Chinese Group of connect.opensuse.org who are still active,and willing to continue to contribute for openSUSE in China. Of course, this is not enough, I will pay effort to call and organize more members and opensuse users in China to join us. Our recently Plan Ambassador work 1. I will organize the existed 3 members to form as the initial openSUSE Chinese team, and go to develop and call for ambassador recruiting work in our China. 2. Will open ambassador-chinese mail list when it is availabe for us. 3. I will go to contact exsited ambassadors in HongKong and Taiwan to see if we could collapse as a whole team so that we can work for openSUSE in China effectively and I do think it will be more easy for us to keep in touch and communicate. Marketing work 1. I will go to open one twitter account for openSUSE China as twitter.com is so popular in the worldwide. This will help all Chinese openSUSE users in the worldwide to know what we are focusing on. 2. I will also go to open one local Chinese twitter account on t.sina.com.cn, which is the most popular and influencial local Chinese twitter site in our China mainaland. Before I decided to do this, I have looked into it and found that there were plenty of active Chinese openSUSE users. I am certainly believe that I could arrange and call for and open ambassador recruiting work with the help of this local Chinese twitter site. Community work 1. I am willing to set up and organize one community online for our openSUSE Chinese users as I found there was no one Chinee openSUSE community until now. With the help of this community, I can call for all existed acitive users to join us and users in China could get a place to communicate and help each other in this community. 2. Will go to contact members both in HongKong and Taiwan to see if we could organize and collapse openSUSE community there into it so that this online community could be the one which could lead all community work of openSUSE in China. 3. Additionally, I think I could see the possiblity recently to set up our initial openSUSE China community team if we could set it up with the help of your official team. Need help from openSUSE team 1. I am not sure if openSUSE team could help to provide us a website host for setting up our Chinese community as none of us existed member could provide it. 2. I am not sure if we could ask for setting a sub-domain for this community. Here I suggest to put this online Chinese community under zh.opensuse.org. If you think it is ok, please put this online community could be visited at zh.opensuse.org/community At last, I should say openSUSE work in China is just starting, and not so many members here at present. Maybe some of your team member will think that there no need to do such things. However, everything will have the period when it just started. As I am the first ambassador of openSUSE in China, I am looking forwad that your official team could offer these help and give a big push for us. Thank you all very much. Look forward to seeing your team reply. Than you from the bottom of my heart. Haowei.Lee -- 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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LinuxWochen Wien 5th to 7th of May seeks somebody to showcase openSUSE
by Andreas Jaeger 02 May '11

02 May '11

Is anybody in Wien, Austria this week and has time to speak about and showcase openSUSE 11.4? In that case, please contact me *directly* Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj(a){novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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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Welcoming Cyrus Evans
by Manu Gupta 02 May '11

02 May '11

Please welcome Cyrus aka haowei to our group all :) He is our first chinese speaking amabssador :D Hello all, Thank you very much for viewing the letter. This is Haowei from China, who is a professional IT editor and English interpretor. As I have gained more than 3 years' experience of localizatioin work and so much experience open source software (including Fedora, mybboard, smf etc.). As an experienced contributor, I have seen that SUSE Chinese work somehow are nice translation but failed of promotion in China. I write this letter to apply for joining the ambassador team of China mainland with the hope to organize promotion and ambassador work in China. I hope that I can get your reply. My IRC name: Haowei My Gtalk: haowei.us(a)gmail.com My Novell system name: susechina (definitely it is new, but I will keep working for SUSE) My Work Experience Interpreter and Translator (5 Years) Be responsible for translations and interpretation materials of IT for customers Deal with the business translation or interpretation in dailylife Translate some scientific materials and some papers assigned by boss Canadian Consulate in Chongqing (Intern Ship for 1 year) Business Assistant Do some translation or interpretation Help it with activities or lectures in universities in Chongqing Deal with other things assigned ChinaByte Technology Co.,Ltd (Most Famous IT website in China) (2 years) Operate Manager Be a leader of community of Yesky.com, responsible for administration of all daily community affairs Be responsibility of contact other websites InternetBrands Inc. (Lead Media and Internet company in US) (4 years) Contribute Support staff Be responsible for its community support work in China Be responsible for customer support and troubleshooting Product Improvement Windows Live Butterfly Joined this group in 2008 and be responsible for feedback bugs and advises for Windows Live Products My Contributing Experience Fedora Ambassador Be responsible for Fedora Chinese Community and hold chief administrator position Be responsible for launching Chinese event related with Fedora Lead Fedora promotion work in China vBulletin (InternetBrand Co.Ltd in U.S) Lead of vBulletin China Be responsible of feedback and consulting work for customers Translation work of vBulletin Software and related materials or documents Research work of vBulletin in China Fring ( Fring Media Co.Ltd ) Chinese Blogger Be responsible of translate articles from the main English blog Help to give advices for market development work in China mainland. Also Mess Contribution as Mybboard Chinese maintainer, fedora ambassador from 2007--2009, simplemachines Chinese language maintainer. My Contribution Plan for OpenSUSE 1. Join the localization work of OpenSUSE Chinese wiki, make some improvements as most of them had been translated. 2. Join Chinese localization work of new OpenSUSE system and related documentation 3. As I have never see Chinese ambassador from China mainland, I am hoping that I could be the first one and go for opening ambassador work in China. 4. With the help of ambassador work, I hope I could go further for SUSE promotion work in China. As new ambassadors, I would like to send my answers for the following questions. * What have you done already for openSUSE? I have looked into Chinese opensource OS market, and got that there were definitely plenty of SUSE users in our China. But OpenSUSE lack of promotion work in Chinese market. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. A. Join as China ambassador to open ambassador work in China mainland. B. Go for SUSE promotion work in China mainland C. Make plan for recruiting more ambassadors from China mainland * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Yes, of course * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? As an opensource one, no need. * Why do you love to do this? Most beautiful linux system * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? Actually knew SUSE when 2008,but started to get to know it in2009. Have gained so much experience of linux system such as fedora, debian and centos, so for daily use of SUSE, I think no problem. And hope that I could help more users of SUSE. -- 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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A questionnaire for the team
by Manu Gupta 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi Peeps, We have a small questionnaire for you guys, please answer them. Along with this, if you can write a small quote / paragraph we will try to quote you at news.opensuse.org if the news team likes yours. The questionnaire is below 1. Do you know about YaST? 2. Do you know about Tumbleweed and Evergreen? 3. Do you know about connect? 4. Did you know zypper just got faster in 11.4? 5. Do you know about patterns while installing openSUSE? 6. Do you know that default preferred OS for GNOME3 thorughout the testing and release phase was openSUSE? 7. Do you know about openFATE? 9. Do you know about the multiple desktop selections we have in openSUSE? 10. How many times have you been asked "Is openSUSE Linux"? 11. What do you tell people when they ask how different is openSUSE from UBUNTU / other distributions? 12. Did you know YaST works in ncurses, Gtk and Qt interfaces? 13. Did you know OBS is used by meego, dell and other industrial vendors when distributing their own linux distributions? 14. Can you quote something nice about openSUSE, we can possibly use your quote ( after mentioning you offcourse ;-) ) at the news team. 15. Do you know we have an artwork git repository that keeps you upto date with latest marketing materials like posters, slides etc? 16. Do you have any localisation issues? 17. Do you know about the ambassador portal and can you suggest changes to it? 18. Do you know about the flickr group openSUSE has? A lot of questions it seems but it will be definitely helpful so that we can provide you with better materials and stuff like that. -- Regards Manu Gupta Ambassador Welcome Team -- 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 activities in Guatemala
by Fernando Mejia 02 May '11

02 May '11

Greetings friends, just giving a small brief on what we have done here lately in Guatemala. One of the main events we had this year was the 2011 FLISOL in several cities and towns here in Guatemala, I can tell you a little bit of how it was for Guatemala city related to openSUSE: - We gave a small workshop of a guided openSUSE 11.4 installation in one of the labs of the event. -We also gave a brief lecture about the knowing how the openSUSE proyect , using the kittens presentation posted by Jos Poortvliet https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B55dbL7kyNzAMDVkMWY0NzAtOThmMS00NWRiLThhNj…, very useful, thanks a lot! -Also we had an install fest area, where we installed openSUSE 11.4 for 9 users that requested it, for this year actually openSUSE was one of the most required distributions, this was very refreshing an new for us, we hope to keep up that way. You can find very nice pictures, thanks to Sebastian Oliva in this links: http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7487.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7488.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7500.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7501.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7502.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7511.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7513.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7522.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7531.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7535.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7537.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7586.JPG.ht… http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/album_002/DSC_7640.JPG.ht… We also shared some of the material with some FOSS friends in our saturday meetings called FSM (Free saturday meetings/Free software meetings/ or a meeting related to the Flying Spaguetti Monster xD). I share some pictures also taken by Sebastian Oliva : http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/FSM_2011-04-30/. We still have a lot of things to improve in our local lug, but thank you very much for your support. feranto Fernando Antonio Mejía openSUSE Ambassador Guatemala -- 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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Building Kosovo Community
by Altin Ukshini 01 May '11

01 May '11

Hello, there I'm Altin Ukshini, a new OpenSUSE community member (not yet ambassador) Im trying to build Kosovo Community of OpenSUSE users so I would like to let you know that I just made my first step by creating an IRC channel, ( #opensuse-sq ) Despite that I also sent an email so that I can start a new Translation Team in Albanian, and make OpenSUSE available in my language too, (waiting for reply) Best Regards, Altin Ukshini -- 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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test
by Kostas Koudaras 01 May '11

01 May '11

test -- 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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