February 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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openSUSE and KDE in COSCUP Taiwan
by Max 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Dear ALL: I am Max from Taiwan -- openSUSE ambassador and GNOME foundaion member too. ^__^ It's midnight in Taiwan. But I really happy to say "openSUSE and KDE will have one track( 2 days - 14 slot Presentations) at 18 - 19 Aug 2012 in COSCUP Taiwan" (I am sorry, I just make sure the date and slot today) What is COSCUP? http://coscup.org/2011/en/ COSCUP is the largest annual FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is interested in cutting-edge FLOSS technologies. The goal is to create a friendly and informative environment for people from different communities to make friends, learn new technologies and inspire each other. Open source software is supported by 3 groups: coders, users and promoters. This conference is aimed at all three groups. No matter whether you are a new user, a passionate promoter, mature developer or anywhere in between, you are welcome at COSCUP, the Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters! for COSCUP | GNOME.Asia 2010 and COSCUP 2011 there are 1,000 people together. ^__^ This Year (2012) openSUSE and KDE will get involved with COSCUP. We will have one individual track with 2 days. (About 14 presentaions) Date: 18-19 Aug, 2012 Country: Asia -- Taiwan We will have both booth and Conference in COSCUP 2012. We need your participate^^. For some good | interesting topic with openSUSE ( Yes, we will send call for paper as soon as possible <(_ _)> ) For booth -- We need your help. For anything else..... good to openSUSE Best regards sakana -- 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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merging mailing list request -ambassadors to -marketing
by Bruno Friedmann 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

To achieve somewhat our effort to consolidate communication channels, you certainly remember the fact that we want to merge some of our mailing lists. I've seen a lot of cross-posting between here and marketing, and most of our actions need also more people involved as helper or at least as witness about our actions in the wild. Beside the fact that will avoid cross-posting, and so minimize the number of replicated messages you & I can received and then need to read/archive/reply/delete and so free some of our precious time. I would propose then that when we need a specific topic for our workgroup we just add [ambassador] tag on the subject line. So I open a poll on connect to know what we want to do http://goo.gl/I5ReQ Please vote before 29th February Thanks -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- 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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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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Getting ready for Linux Audio Conference (LAC) in April
by Drew Adams 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hey Everyone, I just want to let you all know that Peter Linnell and I are working on contacting the Linux Audio Conference (LAC) and organizing the openSUSE presence there. Just to let everyone know where we are right now: I will be contacting the good folks at LAC either tonight or tomorrow (though I am going to try to contact them tonight). As soon as I hear back from them I will update the list on the status. If we have anyone is interested in the event they can check it out at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/ and let Peter or I know. I don't know the format of the LAC as I have never been before, but as with any event, I'd love for us to have a good openSUSE team representing our community there. Stand by for updates ;) Drew Adams openSUSE Member & Ambassador Freenode Nick: druonysus eMail: druonysus(a)gmail.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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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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LinuxWochen Wien
by Michal Hrusecky 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hi, just a little reminder, there is LinuxWochen in Wien coming soon, deadline for talk proposals is 1st April and this year it's together with Libre Graphics Meeting. So can be some big audience. But anyway, any German speaker around? Venue looks great and I'm thinking about participating myself, but I don't speak German (-) and I'm not great with graphics (-). Any ambassadors in Vienna? [1] http://www.linuxwochen.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=213&… -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal(a)Hrusecky.net> -- 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 Marcel Kühlhorn from Germany
by Kostas Koudaras 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hello Ambassadors Please welcome Marcel Kühlhorn From Germany as our new openSUSE ambassador Below is a little about Marcel in his own words... > * What have you done already for openSUSE? * Helping new users at Forums, especially http://opensuse-forum.de * Helping out the german wiki-team * Promoting openSUSE at my school, workplace etc. > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you > want to do the next 6 months. * Find new places where I'm allowed to spread the promo-materials * Talk to local computer-stores if they would be willing to take some of the promo-materials and give them to interested customers * Find small local events where I can "spread the word" > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? I think so since I already spread at least 50 DVD's and want to continue spreading the word about openSUSE. The only thing I can't imagine right now is giving talks since I have no experience at all with that, but maybe some time in the future. > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? Right now I can't really think about any secret of openSUSE, everything in and around openSUSE is _open_. > * Why do you love to do this? Because openSUSE is a great Distribution with a great community I want to help the people that make it possible for me to use openSUSE daily. > * How did you start with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? I started out with openSUSE 11.2 because Windows Vista ;-) More seriously, I was interested in Linux some time before that but didn't have my own PC to work with it, and that I'm with openSUSE now is in debt to my mother who tried SuSE 8.2 a long time ago. So I first installed SuSE 8.2 in VirtualBox on Windows, liked it, searched for the actual Version and here I am. > > The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the > ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other > ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: > * share with them what you like to do > * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how > many people joined > * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what > you want to improve > * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as > well > > Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so > please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the > openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are > their needs. That's one of the main reasons why I want to do this, I don't know of any FOSS comunity in this region besides an local group of the German-Amateur-Radio-Club where I suspect some Linux-users. -- 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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Welcome Ershad Kunnakkadan from India
by Kostas Koudaras 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi Ambassadors Please welcome Ershad Kunnakkadan, our new ambassador from India. Below is a little about Ershad in his own words... > * What have you done already for openSUSE? I've just installed openSUSE today and have put its logo in my blog[1]. Currently I'm thinking more ways to promote it. > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you > want to do the next 6 months. I would like to talk about openSUSE, distribute its iso image/disks in local & college meetings, among friends and family. > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Of course, yes. > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? Sorry, I'm yet to figure it out. > * Why do you love to do this? Reason #1: I want to contribute back to community Reason #2: I liked openSUSE very much Reason #3: I'm excited to see the vibrant community of openSUSE Reason #4: I would like to help in making openSUSE better and hence learning new things/ > * How did you start with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? I started with openSUSE while trying to do small hacks around OBS. I'm still working on that. I've been using GNU/Linux distros for 4 years, I can do a bit of shell scripting and programming in a few languages. > The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the > ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other > ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: > * share with them what you like to do > * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how > many people joined > * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what > you want to improve > * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as > well Sure. > Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so > please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the > openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are > their needs. The people here are slowly switching from other operating systems to GNU/Linux distros. I hope openSUSE will be a good option for them and I can help them to use it without pain. > We'd like to send your answers to the opensuse-ambassadors list and > thus introduce > you as new ambassador. Please keep this in mind when answering and if you > don't agree, please tell us! > > For adding you to the ambassador list at > http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list, please tell me: > your country, region/city and your user page in the wiki. I'm from Palakkad - Kerala - India. And I've a small user page here[2] in which I would like add more contents soon. [1] http://ershadk.com/blog [2] http://en.opensuse.org/User:Ershadk -- 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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"Solution Linux" in Paris - 19-20-21 of june
by Guillaume Gardet 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Hi ambassadors, I am looking for ambassadors to help me to hold an openSUSE booth at "Solution Linux" in Paris the 19-20-21 of June. The website: http://www.solutionslinux.fr/?lg=en If you do not speak french, no worry, english is fine! ;) Cheers, Guillaume -- 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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