March 2013 - openSUSE Ambassadors - openSUSE Mailing Lists

LinuxTag - Call for Volenteers
by Richard Brown 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi all, Thanks to the response of my urgent call for volunteers, we've been able to go ahead and arrange a booth for LinuxTag, which this year is happening May 22-25. We could still do with more volunteers to help with the booth. Anyone who volunteers to commit a significant amount of their time helping at our booth is eligible for a FREE pass to the conference (a saving of €50 for a 4 day ticket) I have to be the one to book the Exhibitor pass for you, so please *email me* if you're able to attend and in need of an Exhibitor pass. I intend to book the first round of tickets for volunteers on Friday 12th April - if you do not volunteer by this date, I cant be sure if I'll be able to arrange an Exhibitors pass. Once you've let me know you're volunteering please update the wiki page here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LinuxTag This page is where we're keeping all the event information together so everyone can be sure what's going on. For those community members who might need additional financial support in order to attend, I suggest you consider applying to the Travel Support Programme: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program Please make sure you get an answer from the team before booking any travel or hotel, but don't delay in letting me know you're willing to help :) Many thanks, and here's hoping for a typically great openSUSE presence at LinuxTag in just under 2 months! :) - Richard -- 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 workshop in Mauritius
by Nitin K Sookun 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hello folks, I usually organize openSUSE events at the Universities or cybercafés in Mauritius. Recently I noticed a growing interest in Linux around the place where I live. I know this was surely after critics on the Government spending MUR 50M on a website revamp based on Microsoft Sharepoint. We could then see so many Mauritians screaming ‘why not open source’ on the social networks. At the same time many more Mauritians asking ‘what is open source?’. Then last week I wrote to the President of Providence Village Council (the village where I live) asking if I can organize an openSUSE Workshop on their premises. The response was awesome. The president phoned me and said he’ll be very happy with the event and would encourage many people to attend it and learn about Linux :) See the letter I sent : http://hacklog.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/openSUSE-workshop-letter.pdf So, I started with requesting some Promo DVDs. I contacted friends to print posters and get some cloth banners. I’m still working on graphics & flyers that we can use to promote the workshop through social networks. We haven’t decided on the event’s date yet. Once everything is decided and organized I’ll post on openSUSE event’s wiki page. For now I’m so happy with the response that I wanted to share with you all. Regards, Ish -- 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-ambassador] 03/21/2013 --- Talk at ALE
by Chuck Payne 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Guys, Thursday I gave a talk to 20 people at ALE, that the Atlanta Lug, this was my fourth talk to them about openSUSE. I gave the talk State of the Geeko, talking about how openSUSE is not just a distro, that we have a lot to offer. The talk when very well. I had a bout 20 people gave a about 100 DVD. A teacher from ITT was there wanted DVD for his students. Jos, storied for Ubuntu users could have come a better time. I have sent to the ALE mailing list. Two distro that surprise me with negative comments were Ubuntu and Fedora, esp. Fedora 18 installer and Gnome. I have sent my talk to the list. -- 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 Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF) 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. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June 7-9, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.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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Urgent - Call for Volunteers openSUSE@LinuxTag May 22-25
by Richard Brown 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Apologies for the cross posting, but given the deadline only being a few days away I want to make sure this reaches as many potential volunteers as possible. As you may already be aware, LinuxTag 2013 is happening this year during May 22 to 25 in Berlin, Germany. Currently, it appears the openSUSE project has not organised a booth for the conference, which I and the rest of the Board think is a great shame, given LinuxTag is one of Europes largest Open Source events. We're looking for at least 1 volunteer from the community to help co-ordinate the openSUSE presence at LinuxTag, and ideally several more to help staff the booth. If you think you can help out, please contact me on email at RBrownCCB(a)opensuse.org as soon as possible, and I'll do what I can to help put the proposal together. The deadline to apply for a booth at LinuxTag is March 22, so we really need to get a move on if we're going to have openSUSE on the showroom floor. Further details of the process can be found here: http://wiki.linuxtag.org/w/fp:Call_for_Projects Many Thanks and Have a lot of fun! Richard Brown openSUSE Board Member -- 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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Change opensuse.org mail alias address
by Nitin K Sookun 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hello folks, I currently have ishwon(a)opensuse.org mail alias. The mail address to which it redirects has expired. Can someone please tell me whom should I contact to correct or point the address to another mail plz ? I use the alias when sending out invitations for openSUSE events. I got no way to re-use the previous mail. Thanking you in advance. Regards, Ish -- 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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Report from my presentation, Serres (Greece), March 11th, 2013
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Hello my friends, First of all, thanks and congrats to everyone for this great release. As I mentioned before, 2 days before the release, I was in Serres for a presentation. SerLUG celebrates with a day conference. I was asked to present how to use GNOME and what makes GNOME unique on openSUSE. Well, that's what I did. I present how to use GNOME 3.6 (and openSUSE 12.3). It was very helpful for the audience. They were about 80% windows users. I made the "silly" question how many use GNOME and only 2-3 hands went up. The audience were about 70 people. Anyways, I ended with the conefence promo. I told them what to expect to see, why register now. They gave me an idea to write down their names and mails, to contact them directly how to register. I got a list about 40 people. Next step is to contact them and guide what to do. I think it's was great success so far. I gave some "left overs" of 12.2, brochures where to find Greek community. We also had a draw for a T-shirt, as gift for their celebration. After the end of the event, we went to celebrate. As the title of my report says, what happens in Vegas...sorry Serres, stays in Serres!!! Have a lot of fun... Stathis Check out my report here: http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr/2013/03/what-happens-ins-serras-stays-ins-ser… -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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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Call to Action -- Time to get Socila
by Chuck Payne 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

openSUSE has a lot of Ambassadors. If you are one.Time to start spreading the word. Or if you like to help us get the word out about the new release. You can do via Twitter, Google+, Facebook, identi.ca, Friend Feed, MySpace. Or any other social network your are on. Please take any of the links, repost them, re-twit them, just share. A lot of hard work has gone into this release, it now time for all the Ambassador to do your work and proclaim the glory that is openSUSE to the masses. If you need help with what to share, you can ping me or leave a message here and one will help. Or join us on Freenode in the #opensuse-marketing room. We there for you. All I am asking that each Ambassador or Friend of openSUSE, post something to any of the social media for the next four days. Even is just one post. That's one post that will help spead the word about the release. Also if you have launch party, please post here your evens so people that live around you can join you. I am recommending the hag tag #openSUSE12.3 and #OS12.3 along with the regular hag tag of #openSUSE so we can track the twits. Thanks -- Chuck "PUP" Payne a.k.a terrorpup Proud openSUSE Ambassador. -- 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 Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF) 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. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June 7-9, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.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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OpenWest (U.S) Conference
by Craig Gardner 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi openSUSE Ambassadors, Alan Clark and I will be presenting some sessions at the OpenWest Conference (http://www.openwest.org/) -- formerly the UTah OpenSource Conference -- on May 2 - 4 2013. An interesting detail to point out to Ambassadors is that the former UTOS Conference grew too big, which is why the new conference is called the OpenWest Conference. The conference is expanding its regional presence to include more than just Utah. Alan will be presenting "The Disruptive Nature of OpenSource Cloud". Craig will give presentations on "Puppet" and "Securing Your Enterprise Server". -- 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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[X-post][JOB] Plivo Invites you to join the team. (Python, Linux Developers)
by Rohit Gupta 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi, Plivo invites you for a off campus recruitment drive on 8th March, 2013 at Kalyani Government Engineering College (West Bengal). Interested candidates can take a print out of this post and visit the venue (written below). Position: Dev-Ops Engineer Details: https://plivo.recruiterbox.com/jobs/10894/ Salary: 5 - 6 LPA. Note: Salary and position will not be a constraint for the deserving candidate Company Profile: Plivo provides easy and feature rich APIs for businesses to develop powerful voice and messaging applications. Plivo has been part of Y Combinator (US biggest incubator), and The Morpheus (TM) (Indian Incubator). Plivo is funded by same investors like Google, Facebook and Skype. Plivo is headquarted in San Francisco, United States with an office in Bangalore, India Plivo is a small team, and are looking for people who can make a big impact. They are all about startup work culture. Venue: Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India-741235. College website: http://www.kgec.edu.in Google Map Location: http://bit.ly/visitkgec Contact Person: Biswajit Pain: +91-9434608413 Thanks and Regards, Rohit Gupta Core Team Member, Plivo Inc. www.plivo.com PS: You may also apply online for open position in Plivo. Please visit: http://careers.plivo.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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SerLUG Day conference, March 11th, Serres, Greece
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hello, On Monday March 11th, I'll be in Serres at their day conference. They celebrate 5 years of SerLUG with the event. Their facebook event page is [1] I was asked to present something for beginers. So my presentation will be about how to use GNOME 3.6 and what makes GNOME unique on openSUSE. I'll finish with an openSUSE conference 2013 promo. I have some 12.2 promo DVDs. Those are the last ones, since 12.3 will be soon released. I have some stickers and brochures about how to contact Greek community. I hope I'll have some oSC13 promo as well. The organizers didn't say about booths (since it'll be small). There'll be a table that they'll put the promo material. Take care Stathis [1] https://www.facebook.com/events/426455554103466/ -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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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