March 2012 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

What is the proper procedure for receiving documents?
by GaLaGaNN 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hi all, Recently become "ambassador openSUSE" I like to have the right to receive instructions of the installation DVD and other promotional materials. Indeed, 2 and 3 June 2012, at the Espace Sculfort Maubeuge (France), I participated in the Salon de Maubeuge Computing: Meeting the Security Solutions and Free Information. What is the proper procedure for receiving documents? Regards, Nicolas aka GaLaGaNN -- Club LinuX Nord-Pas de Calais : clx(a)gaia.anet.fr & clx-manifs(a)gaia.anet.fr openSUSE Ambassadors - Ambassadeurs openSUSE Communauté francophone d'entraide openSUSE : http://www.alionet.org GaLaGaNN's Blog : http://www.galagann.net Profil LinkedIn : http://fr.linkedin.com/in/galagann -- 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] FLISOL 2012
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

On Friday 09 March 2012 18:22:28 Luiz Augusto Machado wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to invite all the Ambassadors who live in latin-america, to > participate and support the openSUSE at FLISOL 2012 [1], wich will occur > in 28th of April. > > You can find out if your city is already involved [2]. If not, you are > allow to organize it and also have fun spreading the FOSS culture in > your city. Remember to complete the fields in the table with your > participation in the openSUSE Ambassadors events page [3]. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLISOL > [2] http://flisol.info/FLISOL2012 > [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events > > If you need any help fell free to contact me. > > Thanks in advance, Awesome, Luiz. I hope you don't mind I'm going to put this up on the news.opensuse.org site :D Here's the article for review: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=12877&preview=true ;-)

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Linuxwochen Wien - Call For Papers
by Daniel Jahre 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

The Linuxwochen Vienna will be held from 3.-5. of May at University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. This year the Linuxwochen are co-located with the Libre Graphics Meeting, which is held from 2.-5. of May in the same building. There are some days left until the Call for Papers and Presentations end, the deadline is still April the 1st. This year we like to cover the following points: Audio, Multimedia & Arts Content Management & Webdevelopment GIS, GeoDaten and OpenData IT Security Programs for home and office Smartphones - hardware and software Software Devlopment from applications until embedded devices Spieleentwicklung & Game Design & Level Editing System administration, Cloud & Cluster and Virtualisierung We accept talks and workshops in english and german. You can submit them with our submission system: http://cfp.linuxwochen.at/cfp_wien/ If you like to have a booth for your project, please write a mail with what you need to programm2012(a)linuxwochen.at -- 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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We want you!..In North Carolina SELF 2012
by Bryen M Yunashko 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

This year, once again, openSUSE will be at the Southeast Linux Fest 8-10 June, in Charlotte, North Carolina. To make it extra special, this year we will be a Silver Sponsor! If you live in the area or if you've been meaning to head down South to kick off the start of summer season, this is your chance to get in on the action. I've just started a wiki page to organize this at [1]. Keep in mind its only a few minutes old and needs more love soon. :-) Please respond here or email me privately, if you prefer, with your interest to join our booth or give talks on behalf of openSUSE. And hey, just so you know, if you've never done this kind of stuff before, don't worry. We all started from somewhere. It'll be fun, we assure you. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SoutheastLinuxFest_2012 -- 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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Debriefing from NUI.fr
by Jimmy Pierre 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Dear All, It has been a while since I gave some insight of whats new at NUI.fr The more and more I think at it, I reckon than to make a report of an event every month, it does necessitate opening the report template, but most of us would attempt to complete these reports from work and even from a smartphone while travelling. I therefore propose a form and a box for free writing and here you go! This form can be programmed to be emailed automatically to the mailing list. A login would be preferable in order to avoid spam. Since my last report, we kept the monthly event jmll.fr and we noticed that the madding crowd was getting thinner over the months! The question is why? And analyzing who came, why they came and from where they came, the answer was economics. What has economics got to do with openSUSE, open source et al? Well, the municipality rents a room to NUI.fr on a yearly basis, we do keep most material there, and we only take home our brand new laptops, those that we use daily. These premises are located in *the* commercial center of the city and the metro station is adjacent together with a huge parking (not free). We chose this venue because of the number of visitors of commercial center and the practical meeting place for everybody. Many a time (in the past) we found men coming to our venue while their wives went shopping. There has also been cases where men went shopping and left their wives with us in order to better their IT skills. For the last months, with the ongoing recession, people started to avoid the commercial centre and obviously the events hosted in the municipality premises are getting thinner. Other activities held there are: yoga, dancing, photography, chess, embroidery, crafting and around 40 more. The leaders of these other clubs also complain on the number of their visitors. The figures are fractions of what we used to get. 17-déc 2011 = 8 14 JAN 2012 = 6 18 FEV 2012 = 11 We also have staff from mediawiki on board with us now. It would appear that Windows 7 is a good vintage and that people are *not* looking for a substitute. We have two appointments for the next venue i.e. 17th March next: A woman wants to shrink her Windows partition and increase her Linux partition. Another woman left her computer for an erase and a clean install of openSUSE. We do have loads of places where we do our advertising and marketing, including radio, newspaper, FB, twitter, etc. This does not seem to be seen, viewed and heard by the whole population. We are not aiming at a geeks only venue... Anyway, apart from the usual monthly venues, we are also having the yearly RSSIL in Maubeuge the 2nd and 3rd June and RMLL in Geneva 7th 12th July and Software Freedom Day 15th September. I have changed work and is in another bank, they use SUSE there, I need to lure them to openSUSE... Lets get the ball running and stay positive! Keep up the good job and rest assured of my fullest attention and services at all times. -- 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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