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A busy week evangelizing Linux, openSUSE & FOSS ( :
by Ish Sookun 28 Nov '13

28 Nov '13

Hello folks, Here in Mauritius we had a busy yet awesome week evangelizing Linux, openSUSE & FOSS. Firstly we received a last minute approval by the National Computer Board who sponsored us a conference slot & stand at the Infotech 2013. This somehow gave us exposure at a national level & we even got a small interview broadcasted on the national TV. More about the Infotech can be found on my blog : http://hacklog.in/infotech-2013-day-4/ Yet after Infotech we had no time to rest for Linuxfest 2013 was at our doorstep. I advantaged myself with a slot of more that 30 mins dedicated to openSUSE project ( : We didn't have goodies but I distributed free copies of openSUSE images to people who brought pendrives. See the Linuxfest highlights here : http://hacklog.in/linuxfest-2013-highlights/ I'll share the video footage of the openSUSE presentation as soon as it is available. Cheers! Ish Sookun openSUSE Advocate www.openSUSE.org - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- 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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events in Hungary
by Peter Czanik 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hello, Before you ask: I don't have photos, this is something I tend to forget :) "Linux az Oktatasban" http://lok.hu/ -> Linux in Education conference, where openSUSE and the Hungarian SUSE office had a common stand. The SUSE guys demoed their own educational solutions and services, I had a machine running openSUSE 13.1 RC. It had all the different desktops, and many people tried KDE, GNOME, XFCE and even E17. I had a few 12.3 DVDs from SUSE Hungary to hand out and all were gone within half an hour. 13.1 release party: it was this Monday, we were welcomed for a pizza by the Hungarian SUSE office. We shared our first 13.1 experiences and talked about many related topics. Personally I actively hate localized software, but was asked to collect info about the openSUSE localization process, so will do it later this week. Future events: this Friday there will be two conferences: SFD (better late than never...) and Virtualization Day. It's not the best situation, as I can't be split to two events even if interested in both. I'll present at SFD and maintain a stand with a demo machine. As 13.1 DVDs are not yet available I'll hand out our remaining 12.3 DVDs. Bye, CzP -- 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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goodies wish llist
by jdd 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hello 13.1 being fresh, it's probably the best time to ask what kind of goodies could be usefull. What people ask for? notice that I have no special info on the openSUSE desk side, but just did a lot of installs :-). * DVD could be a must, but in my region (France) most people have good net connections, so as soon as the install is done all goes through the net. However written dvd are not very reliable and usb flash disks too expensive to be used as a gift. only good for the installer personal use. * anyway, dvd jacquets could be good. Full covers are difficult to print. DVD stickers, made just to fit on Avery blank labels could be printed locally and sticked on blank dvd jacquets (It's recommanded *not* to stick anything on burned dvd's) * I still have a lot of very small stickers (the ones that still say "sponsored by Novell"). This is very cheap and have an enormous success. In the mean time it's an excellent advertisement sticked on the computer. * I made on my own money a (english word?) "banderolle". See it on the background there: http://dodin.info/piwigo/picture.php?/100833-IMG_20131123_124033-30141/sear… it was only 20 euros, including shipping (from Lebanon to France!!). But as you see it's difficult to setup when you don't have wiring. What could be at the same time cheap and usefull could be some kind of fanion (http://www.fanions.eu/fanioane/fanioane-mixte/fanioane-mixte-03.jpg) with the support. with some artwork this could even be made of strong paper * I could make use of bussiness cards. Here (France) one can have 250 for free (in fact just for the shipping price - very small advertisement on the back face). I wait for yours ideas then. Notice that most of this do not need to be free. Last saturday I spend 15,- euros to park my car near the install fest (not counting the gazoline), I could spend the same for goodies. I'm nearly sure we can find a dealer from lebanon or Honk-Hong that could sell ambassador kits for very cheap. so this could be free for openSUSE, just needing some effort of the artwork team thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- 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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info for merchandising and dvd
by Francesco Cardi 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hello i don't know how to receive the opensuse 's merchandising and dvd for new versione 13.1 Is possibile that i will receive this? greetings -- Francesco Cardi alias Il Parente Free Software activist Volontario PSTI della Croce Rossa Italiana CEO/President Movimento Culturale GNU CODICE LIBERO Diaspora*: https://joindiaspora.com/u/ilparente Identi.ca: https://identi.ca/cardifrancesco Jabber: ilparente(a)jabber.org -- 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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strong point for openSUSE
by jdd 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

Hello :-) just a word to point out the main openSUSE qualities, what seems to most impress people that ask at booth * universal distro, that is as good for desktop than server. The fact that yast is available as ncurse with full capability is astounding and not found anywhere else * no distro gives as many choice as windows manager. Having kde, gnome, xfce (not to speak about lxde and bare server) at install time, and being able to switch between them at running time if necessary is also unrivalled * specially smooth and friendly, very clean installer (much appreciated). The partitionner is a must, redimensionning of windows parts is a snap (given windows was correctly stopped, often to be verified) also now that everybody is accostumed to i-tunes or goggle play, saying "find software in the library" is a success, add: no reason to browse the web for that, most people say "well, much better than windows, and I understand why it's virus free" enjoy :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- 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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Le capitole du libre
by jdd 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

http://2013.capitoledulibre.org/programme.html in Toulouse, France ("Le Capitole" is the name of the Toulouse town hall THis is a pretty important meeting, with boots, install party and condference, organised by the french LUG "Toulibre" and the enseeiht (http://www.enseeiht.fr/en/index.html) students. I could attend with my lug CULTe (http://culte.org) http://dodin.info/piwigo/index.php?/category/5377 I noticed some decreasing of ubuntu leadership, recent Canonical decision being quite controversial, and a surprisingly high level of openSUSE users. I could install openSUSE 13.1 on several computers with success. In details: * on an acer i7 / ssd computer extremely fast default install (approx 10 minutes from beginning to end), no problem at all * on an old acer computer: failed because the computer overheated and the cpu switched off to get security. Probably the fan failing, frequent problem on this computer serie. Only solution: connect the fan to the usb connector V+/V- or use an external fan support (not available on the boot) * fine install on i3 laptop - no problem * somebody else used my dvd to install on an other computer and had problem to get access to the windows partition not showing on grub2, http://dodin.info/piwigo/index.php?/category/5377but as I didn't make myself the install, I don't know what happenned. very long time used to shrink the windows partition (30 minutes - old computer - vista). * I could successfully install on an iu7 : UEFI / GPT laptop (1To HDD), but could not make openSUSE grub2 menu default boot. Unsure exactly why. I did two installs, on the first one I was asked to use a /boot/efi folder, but did not notice there where already one on the disk and created a special partition for mine. This seems to be the culprit, but on a second install, the installer stopped forever at the end of the first stage. Rebooting openSUSE allowed install to finish and openSUSE to run, but only from the F9 boot menu (hp g6 computer). I hope the computer owner will come back on a regular meeting to fix this. Ubuntu seems to have a special utility for this (I was said), but I have to document myself. this system is too new, the last I had to install did not cause any problem. Secure boot is perfectly managed. pretty good day. The meeting continue today, but I couldn't attend. jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- 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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hello
by Francesco Cardi 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Hello I present myself are Francesco Cardi, Italian, I live in the central Italy - Abruzzo in the region, I followed all the instructions to become advocate, I created the profile http://en.opensuse.org/User:Ilparente to be included in the list the advocate, there is still something to do? greetings -- Francesco Cardi alias Il Parente Free Software activist Operatore PSTI della Croce Rossa Italiana CEO/President Movimento Culturale GNU CODICE LIBERO Diaspora*: https://joindiaspora.com/u/ilparente Identi.ca: https://identi.ca/cardifrancesco Jabber: ilparente(a)jabber.org -- 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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by Francesco Cardi 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

-- Francesco Cardi alias Il Parente Free Software activist Volontario PSTI della Croce Rossa Italiana CEO/President Movimento Culturale GNU CODICE LIBERO Diaspora*: https://joindiaspora.com/u/ilparente Identi.ca: https://identi.ca/cardifrancesco Jabber: ilparente(a)jabber.org -- 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 Presentation at the Infotech 2013
by Ish Sookun 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hello geekos, It's confirmed I'm doing an openSUSE presentation at the Infotech 2013 conference in Mauritius on Thursday 21st. This coincides perfectly with the release of openSUSE 13.1 :) See the event page : http://www.infotech.mu/info13/viewc.asp?zTIDX=265932222222222228xx Cheers! Ish Sookun - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- 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 Presentation during Infotech 2013
by Ish Sookun 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hello folks, I got confirmation by the Infotech 2013 team (Mauritius / infotech.mu) that the National Computer Board is willing to share its booth with us. That being said we're getting a stand (on Sunday 24th) to demo openSUSE at a conference that's visited by thousands of Mauritians. On my side I'll be bringing a couple of posters. Too bad we no more have the Promo DVDs, one of the reasons why I've emphasized in empowering the Advocates :P I am however bringing the ISO images to distribute & a laptop to demo. On Thursday 21st we've also been allocated a slot for a presentation. My presentation will comprise of introducing the openSUSE Project & the Advocate program. Photos & the article will show up on my blog afterwards. The new advocates from Mauritius will be around giving a helping hand :) Cheers! Ish Sookun openSUSE Advocate (openSUSE.org) - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- 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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