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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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Please reThink
by Joerg Stephan 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Good morning from OpenRheinRuhr, its the second day of OpenRheinRuhr (Oberhausen, Germany), our booth is settled between Debian and Fedora (by the way: Greetings from Sirko :-). As it turns out, we really should reThink our community presentation on these events, the idea of not printing posters and crating DVDs by openSUSE and send them out to the local ambassadors is really a shame. Two people are sitting here and give away the last DVDs i was able to become for FROSCON some months ago, while others give away badges, DVDs, lanyards, selling T-Shirts and much else. Leaving all the responsibility for give aways and merchandize to the poor guys on the booth is really a poor acting. So we should rethink all these thinks. Maybe we should add more power and budget to the local coordinators, i guess these guys could handle this. So please start discussion, but try to keep it short, the next conferences will show up eralier than you know. Cheers Joerg "johest" Stephan -- 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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Welcoming the Mauritian geekos :)
by Ish Sookun 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hello folks, It's with pleasure that I welcome 3 new Advocates evangelizing the awesomeness of openSUSE in Mauritius. Avinash Mayaram : http://en.opensuse.org/User:Aimayaram Nitin J Mutkawoa : http://en.opensuse.org/User:Nitinmutkawoa Yuram Venkatiah : http://en.opensuse.org/User:Yuram_07 They have been active for the past few months, attending & contributing through the weekly Linux meetups. I introduced the openSUSE Advocate Program to the local geeks a few months back : http://hacklog.in/linux-user-group-of-mauritius-meetup-17-08-2013/ I am also planning a presentation during the upcoming Linux Festival : http://linuxfest.lugm.org/ I've met many university students with creative skills. Hopefully, after the Linux Festival we can expect more Mauritian geekos joining the crew :) Regards, 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 DVD
by Agustín De La Palma 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hello. Anyone know if they are still sending DVD relase of OpenSUSE? And if they do, what is the procedure? Thank's a lot. Ing. Agustín De La Palma Administrador de sistemas. openSUSE Ambassador http://www.susemx.com OSUM Leader No recibo/envío información elaborados en/para M$-Word, M$-Excel, > M$-PowerPoint, M$-Outlook o formatos privativos similares. Le invito a > leer mis razones: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html Linux User 471036 -- 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 of our participation @ 78th Thessaloniki International Fair
by Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Hello mates, After a successful conference, we continue our presence in our country. This time we were invited by Google Developers Group Thessaloniki [1] at 78th Thessaloniki International Fair [2]. We created the wiki page [3] for our participation. You can find also the full report and some pictures. For more pictures you can visit our facebook group [4]. We had a booth, some swag. There were about 5000 people passing by our booth (total visitors to Fair: ~100000). We talked to many people and many of them said that SUSE was their first distro. The hotest question was: "Why openSUSE and not Ubuntu?". Apart from politicians and media that passed by Google's Playground and our booth, someone from China's embassy was interested. We gave him promo material and ways to contact us. Have phun, /S [1] https://plus.google.com/103424383114732336071/posts [2] http://www.helexpo.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=1&page=2569 [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:TIF2013 [4] https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.680903761937196&type=1 -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis http://www.gnome.gr http://www.opensuse.gr Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. The difference between fiction and reality is fiction has to make sense. -- 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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Google Developers Group Thessaloniki hosts openSUSE community
by Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Hello mates, Here in Thessaloniki, we have the 78th Thessaloniki International Fair [1]. Usually this fair has about 100000visitors (more or less). This year we were invited by Google Developers Group Thessaloniki [2] to have a booth and also if we would like to have some hacking sessions. See the wiki page [3] for more information about the event. I just copied the code from another wiki page event we had, so the swag we have isn't what you see. Have a lot of phun, Stathis PS: The first day is over. I didn't have camera with me. I asked friends to take pictures and send me. So soon I'll upload some to our albums. [1] http://www.helexpo.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=1&page=2569 [2] https://plus.google.com/u/0/103424383114732336071/posts [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:TIF2013 -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis http://www.gnome.gr http://www.opensuse.gr Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. The difference between fiction and reality is fiction has to make sense. -- 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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Apresentadora Priscilla Alcantara
by PRIKOTA PRODU��ES 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

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Fwd: Welcome to the openSUSE Advocate team
by Ish Sookun 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hello folks, I have the great pleasure to welcome another geeko from my homeland Mauritius who recently joined openSUSE Advocate team. As the tradition asks for it, I shot a him a few questions that help in describing his Linux ambition (: Below are his answers. Welcome to the team, Avinash ... Have a lot of fun with openSUSE (: Ish Sookun - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Avinash Ishraj Mayaram <aimayaram(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Welcome to the openSUSE Advocate team To: ishwon(a)opensuse.org On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Ish Sookun <ish(a)hacklog.in> wrote: > > Hello Avinash, > > It's a great pleasure to see another fellow Mauritian joining the openSUSE Advocates team. > > Can you please answer the below mentioned questions to introduce yourself & your ideas to the openSUSE Advocates team? > > Introduce yourself in a few words (: > Hello, my name is Avinash Mayaram. I am a PHP developer. I will soon start my second year at MCCI BTS SIO, a college IT diploma. I would like to work as a full-time PHP developer in a LAMP environment (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). > > How you started with Linux & FOSS? > I was in a college in France some years ago, where all the computers were on Linux. We had to use chmod as the first step after logging into our student account. > > How you came to know about the openSUSE Project? > I discovered the openSUSE project when I went to a Linux User Group of Mauritius meetup. I was looking for a replacement for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. > > Do you use openSUSE at home/work? > Yes openSUSE 12.3 x86 64 KDE is the only system on my laptop now. I didn't have to install a driver for my network card, it was already in the system. (I have ralink 3290) > > What was your first impression about the openSUSE community? > I like the idea that I can help to build the operating system I use daily. > > How do you want to contribute to the project? > I like to answer questions in forums. I will develop useful scripts and post them in a blog. And present openSUSE to all my friends. And get people to install openSUSE on their computer. Also I will take Linux exams, because I'm still a beginner. This takes time but I have already begun. > > Kind regards, > > 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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Presentation : openSUSE Advocate Program at LUG Mauritius
by Ish Sookun 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

Hello folks, We had a LUG meetup in Mauritius on Saturday 17-08-2013. I grabbed that opportunity to introduce the openSUSE Advocate Program. I know other fellow Mauritians who are openSUSE users and adore the same. Response after the presentation was fantastic as many came up and said they learned a lot. Some of the existing openSUSE users said they didn't know the project offered so much more (things like SUSE Studio, WebYaST etc...). WebYaST received quite some thumbs up. More about this meetup on my blog : http://hacklog.in/linux-user-group-of-mauritius-meetup-17-08-2013 In the next meetup, I will elaborate and present tutorials as some requested. Will present them some command line cheat sheets as well. Regards, 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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FROSCON
by Chuck Payne 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Guys, Can someone tell me who is going to FROSCON this year? 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 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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