January 2012 - 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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Bring openSUSE to students who just started studying at Berlin (Humboldt University): ask for marketing stuff
by Robert Riemann 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Dear communiy, I would like to present you my idea how to spread opensuse at my university departement. I started my physics studies at 2007 at the Humboldt-University. In contrast to the whole university, our departement uses Linux (Debian with KDE4) on nearly every student desktop terminal. For a lot of students this is the first contact with linux. Nevertheless the most students don't consider to switch to Linux privately, although the benefits are geat (ssh to university, sftp in Dolphin, easy latex, same applications, etc…). My suggestion to show off how easy it is to install and use Linux (with opensuse). My friend, who is supporting this event, already spoke with the responsable IT office. We will get the opportunity to get direclty integrated in the "computing courses for beginners" sessions, which are usually visited by all new students. Right now, I try to create with suseStudio an installable liveCD with special software known from other courses preinstalled. It would be awesome, If we could get some marking stuff from openSuse. I'm thinking about maybe 5 shirts as prices (for people who installed openSuse first on their laptops – or something like that), some posters with usefull commands (I have one myself – very handy!), some promoDVD for people prefering a more standard setup. Furthermore it would be amazing, if we could get some (or better: a lot) of these openSuse branded pen drives to put on our own live image. Our presentation is going to be splitted into two parts. We will first show of some slides. In the 2nd part we will assist people with their fist experiences with opensuse and help more advanced users to install it right there. At least, this is my inital idea. I'm open for suggestions. I expect around 50 students to participate spread of two events happening on different dates. Beyond that, I'm in contact with some KDE contributors studying at both other Berlin universities to create a joined effort. Best, Robert

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Californians! Linux Audio Conference CFP + Event
by Bryen M Yunashko 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

The CFP deadline slipped by me, apologies for last minute notice to you all. But maybe we can still convince them to give space for talks if you folks come up with something good. Linux Audio Conference will be April 12-15 in Palo Alto at Stanford University. If any of you are into audio or are a media artist, this is a great place to go and promote openSUSE as well. See: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/ Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- 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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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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Indiana Linux Fest
by Bryen M Yunashko 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

I am currently making arrangements to secure a booth for the Indiana Linux Fest held in Indianapolis on April 13-15. If you are in the area and would like to join in the openSUSE festivities, please let me know so we can coordinate plans together. :-) Also, Call for Papers is currently open until February 7th. If you'd like to submit a talk, the link is: http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/speaker_app Look forward to meeting all of you there soon! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project Marketing -- 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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Northeast Linux Fest March 16th and 17th
by Chuck Payne 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

> Guys, I am currently work with Jonthan from NELF, we have a table it is free for us. I am wanting to know because I can't find it, what is the e-mail to ask for DVD's? Thanks, -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne (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 To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner(a)opensuse.org

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IDLELO 5: March 19 - 23 2012
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

For those of you who receive other lists, there's IDLELO in Nigeria-Africa. Do you think we can organize something there too? The address is: http://www.idlelo.net/ Have a lot of fun, Stathis -- 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 night in Milan: What type of event?
by Alexjan Carraturo 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi to all After the success of the fair in Cerea, we are invited to organize a "openSUSE Night" in Milan. The idea would be to present, in a famous "lug" of Milan, openSUSE. We're planning to make the first presentation of openSUSE, with one or two talks, then a Q&A space, and finally do "installation party". Looking at the list of the types of events, I saw that this looks like a "Launch Party", but, we are organizing that event for Feb. 25, maybe a little late for a Launch Party. What type of event I could use? Tips? Since the event in my city, and being a guest of this "lug", I would not need any kind of budget, but could really help me Marketing material (Few promo DVDs, t-shirts, stickers, posters and the like). Can I request the material here (http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd) as usual? Thank you in advance Alexjan Carraturo -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org) Fedora/openSUSE Ambassador member of FSFE Italian Team Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com -- -- 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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[Event Report] Cerea Fair - Italy
by Marina Latini 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Hi all! >From Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th January 2012 has took place the Cerea fair (VR) in Italy. I and other members of FSUGItalia have participated at the “Electronics and amateur radio fair” in Cerea (Verona) presenting openSUSE to the public. We must start by saying that, as is typical of these kind of events, the fair has been a great success, big participation and queues in front of the entrance from the early hours of the opening. From rumours heard during Sunday, overall, there were about 20000 visitors. The organization of the fair has given us a great place, the first booth near the entrance! In addition to openSUSE promotional material, we set up the stand with 4 notebooks and 3 netbooks. The computers were equipped with openSUSE 12.1 configured with different desktop manager to emphasize the flexibility and power of a distribution, that can work perfectly on the newest hardware as well as the oldest. A large number of people came to ask us about what openSUSE is. The computers exhibited have attracted the attention of passers, that, in many cases, were unaware of the existence of the GNU/Linux operating systems, and those few who knew them already, usually were familiar only to Ubuntu. Both categories of people were surprised to discover and try openSUSE. In particular, we noticed that the most interested people in learning openSUSE were those in the age group of fifty years and older, and that, in many cases, showed a remarkable familiarity with GNU/Linux.In detail, many of them have told us that already use Ubuntu, but they wanted to leave it because they are not comfortable with the Unity interface. The most frequent question was inherent to the differences between Ubuntu and openSUSE and what are the advantages of this second operating system. Before the event we had contacted representatives of the LUG (Linux User Group) near Cerea, and during the fair, we have delivered to them promotional material to distribute. Because of the enthusiasm of the audience, we had to ration the promotional material (promoDVD), because otherwise they would not be enough for both days. On Sunday evening we had distributed all the material at our disposal (300 promo DVD and all flyers) and someone have also asked the posters! An event with such a big audience is definitely challenging and very tiring but we have got a great success that has rewarded us for all the efforts made to achieve this participation. The enthusiasm and interest of the people involved also the organizers, that have proposed to us to participate in future editions of this fair. Here: http://denebinside.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/report-cerea-fair/ you can find the report (Italian/English) of the Cerea Fair (Italy). Other useful informations are reachable here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cerea_Fair We are editing a video and uploading a photo gallery; as soon as possible all the materials will be online. Regards, deneb -- Marina Latini http://www.fsugitalia.org openSUSE Ambassador: deneb_alpha http://www.educoo.it -- 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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unsuscribe
by Koki Dure 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

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