- openSUSE Ambassadors

Event Summary Report?
by Andreas Jaeger 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I've discussed with a few folks on a short event summary report. It should be really brief so that everybody can send it out directly after an event - and later do a more lengthy report if desired. My list currently has: * 1 page only - to send it out quickly * how many DVDs did you take? How many DVDs did you distribute? * how many people where at the event? At the booth? * three most asked questions/topics at booth? * What was the most interesting comment, question, talk you heard? * Will you blog about the event - and where? * Who staffed the booth? * Did you have a talk? Which topic? Will you provide slides for others to use? Do you think this would be usefull? What should get added to the list? I'll put the above tomorrow on the wiki (with your suggested changed) and will invite everybody to update it as fit - and then to use it for sending a brief report. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Ambassador programs research
by Barry Nichols 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi all, As discussed in the recent meeting, I have spent some time looking into other projects Ambassador programs, my findings are listed below: Fedora and GNOME both had a great deal of information regarding their Ambassadors and whilst I was unable to find Ambassador programs for other projects, many of them have had talk about starting one. Also QT has a fairly new Ambassador program. GNOME: - Business Cards - Ambassador shirts (uniform) - Event travel sponsorship - Banners, Posters & Flyers - Event box (everything needed to set up an event booth) - Presentation slides Fedora: - Business Cards - Ambassador shirts (uniform) - Event travel sponsorship - Banners, Posters & Flyers - Event box (everything needed to set up an event booth) - Presentation slides and slide templates - Mentors (Ambassadors who have been approved to mentor new and potential Ambassadors) - T-shirts, Stickers, Pens, etc. (and a list of local vendors who can produce them to save on shipping costs) QT: - Allowed to use the ambassador logo - Access to merchandise/giveaways - Ambassador shirt (uniform) - Must have proven QT skills Both Fedora and GNOME had good Ambassador web-pages which make the aforementioned resources very easy to apply for/download. -- Barry D. Nichols E-mail: barry(a)opensuse.org IRC: Barry-Nichols -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome Nitin as first Ambassador to Mauritius
by Andreas Jaeger 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

I'd like to welcome Nitin Sookun as new ambassador to Mauritius, below is his introduction, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Hello Andreas, Glad to see your mail. * What have you done already for openSUSE? Well, to start with what I've already done for openSUSE, I'm running version 11.3 on a few computers at two of Indra Cybercafés. I've always been a Linux lover but till now the biggest hurdle to get the young population using Linux was gaming. Recently, we used Wine to run Counter Strike 1.6 on LAN in one of our cybercafés and it was an awesome experience. Many gamers present there found it thrilling and wanted to run the same on their home pc. Now, in Mauritius the average home broadband is of 512kbps and they have limited bandwidths. So, I offered the guys chance to burn DVDs from the images we already downloaded in the cybercafé. Now, two of the cybercafés where openSUSE is already running, many people visit us for advices, or tweaking tips. When we started this "Linux Awareness" we ran openSUSE 11.1, Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10. Among these, openSUSE and Ubuntu were the most liked ones. So, we decided to go ahead with these two distros. I registered my company as a partner with Novell, and also contacted Canonical for Ubuntu. With Canonical it was kind of unpleasant for us because we had to commit a minimum amount of Ubuntu units, which was far too large for a small population of computer/internet users in Mauritius. With Novell it was easier because they had the Silver Partner Level which didn't impose any kind of "commitment" to start business. Our initial idea was to make people aware of Linux and introduce them to these distros. These involved a lot of marketing/time on our side and with a Canonical partnership, this became difficult. However, with Novell we have the chance to provide corporate solutions through SUSE Enterprise Linux and still spread the word about openSUSE without affecting business. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? I'm planning to run openSUSE on all machines in our 3 cybercafés. This will amount to 100 computers running openSUSE, and consequently more people getting used to it. To solve the hurdles of gaming on Linux, we're also contacting codeweavers, to run "crossover games" on PCs intended for LAN gaming. We also provide IT Solutions & Support and have a retail store. We're planning to provide PCs with openSUSE pre-installed and sell openSUSE box packages through the retail stores. The more adventurous Linux enthusiasts will surely like to buy their own copy and experience it! * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Yes. In fact, I already have a bunch of college/university students (regulars of Indra Cybercafé), who upon hearing my idea of openSUSE promotion, are keen to help. They are all Linux lovers and are waiting for the chance when they will receive the "backing" of a great distro! We intend to introduce openSUSE in schools, and government-run 'social welfare centres' where people get free computer/internet access. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? Hmm... I guess that one you're going to teach me ;) * Why do you love to do this? Like I told you, I'm a Linux lover and I just enjoying spreading the word about it. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started something like 10 years ago, during college days. My first Linux experience was with Red Hat 6.0. It was awesome! As time went by I got to know many other distros, and was always keen to test any as soon as it was available for download. Well... I'm comfortable with installation & configs, I can use Terminal and ease and do some enough tweaks and customizations to make my desktop elegant. Linux commands are also fine for me, well most of them. I've created LAN and also wireless networks using openSUSE. Network, files and printer sharing etc. Well, I think I'm good enough to recommend someone using openSUSE and help if they need me :) As soon as you show me the green light I'll start organizing my team here and plan the openSUSE promotion. -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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FISOL, Tapachula, Ciapas Mexico - ambassador help needed
by Andreas Jaeger 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

I have the following request in my INBOX, ambassadors from Mexico, could you reach out to him and figure out what's needed and how to help, please? I can send for sure some DVDs... Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Hi Friends From OpenSuse. Date: Monday 23 August 2010, 02:10:29 From: "Jozé Ruiz SolaR." <546890(a)gmail.com> Hi...Good Afternoon > Sorry, I do not know who to write to these issues my name is Jose Ruiz > and I am part of the organizing committee FISOL. The reason for my > email is to invite them to participate in the upcoming festival of > free software, which will be in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas Mexico > on October 15 and 16. We would like to know if OpenSuse is interested > in participating as a sponsor, sending CDS with the latest version of > OpenSuse, this is due to the importance of this distribution in the > world of open source. > OpenSuse mark a very important and indisputable reference for anyone who > wants to start discovering the world linux. > It would be an honor for us to your participation > This email is just to know your opinion, if your answer is positive > will receive all the exact data about this event > Thank you very much. > > If the email addre is wrong, could you give me the right direction please?. > > My apologies, my english is basic and I use a translator. > > Thanks. > > > > *JOZE.RUIZ.SOLAR* > > ----------------------------------------- -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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openSUSE Mauritius
by Nitin Sookun 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Hello friends, I'm getting the support of some fellow linux users to organize an openSUSE marketing event at the University of Mauritius (http://www.uom.ac.mu). I'm getting the collaboration of UoM's students' union. We'll set up a booth with a few laptops with Internet connection. The event will take place inside the university's campus, and we hope to get the attention of mostly students from the faculties of engineering and computer science. Since, as an ambassador this will be my first such experience, I need your ideas and suggestions. I'd like to know how to arrange for flyers, dvds etc. I'll set up a team with the students union who will help us there. Refreshment/snacks will be offered to the marketing team as sponsorship from Indra Co. Ltd. We will however need some flyers with info about openSUSE, need some graphics/logo to prepare invitation cards and posters for the event. We still haven't decided a date, we'll be meeting next week to plan how we're going to proceed. The university's campus comprises of some 10,000 students. This will be a great opportunity to bring openSUSE under the spotlight. I have some friends studying computer science there, and I was told that lecturers recommend them to use ubuntu for testing and experimenting their linux and programming skills, because ubuntu is easily available. So, we can grab this opportunity to introduce them openSUSE and explain that they can get support from openSUSE forums and IRC. That's why I'll arrange for Internet on the laptops. We'll demonstrate everything during explanations. Kind regards, Ish -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome
by SIBI 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

It's nice to see a person from Mauritius spreading the elegance of openSUSE. Welcome, Nitin! Sibi. On 8/26/10, Bryen M. Yunashko <suserocks(a)bryen.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:34 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> I'd like to welcome Nitin Sookun as new ambassador to Mauritius, below is >> his >> introduction, >> >> Andreas > > Awesome to see more Ambassadors spreading the good gospel of openSUSE! > Welcome, Nitin! > > Bryen > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Spread openSUSE using twibbon
by Manu Gupta 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi Guys I saw twibbon today. I call upon everyone to use this to promote openSUSE. The more the people hear of us the better it is :) http://twibbon.com/join/openSUSE-Users -- Regards MANU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome to Rogerio as Brazilian Ambassador
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Please welcome Rogerio Ferreira as new Brazilian openSUSE ambassador! As usual now I'm appending his comments as self-introduction - this time both in Portugeze and English, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- * What have you done already for openSUSE? Divulgando o openSUSE por meio de treinamentos de Virtualização com Xen. Mostrando que o openSUSE é única distribuição que saiu em frente e empacotou a versão 4.0 do Kernel Xen. Spreading openSUSE through Virtualizatio training with Xen. Showing that openSUSE is only distribution that went ahead and packaged version 4.0 of the Xen kernel. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Vou palestrar no Xen Directions South America sobre Virtualização com Xen em cima de openSUSE 11.3 e vou escrever um artigo para a Linux Magazine sobre o mesmo assunto. I will speak at Xen Directions in South America with Xen on top of openSUSE 11.3 and I will write an article for Linux Magazine on the same subject. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE Sim, e inclusive tenho planos de palestrar em eventos de software livre sobre openSUSE. Yes, and even have plans to speak at events free software about openSUSE. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? Ela sempre surpreende a todos com inovação, enquanto outras distribuições demoram a implementar algo, ela dá o primeiro passo. Como fez com o Xen 4.0. It always surprises everyone with innovation, while other distributions are quite slow to implement something, it takes the first step. As he did with Xen 4.0. * Why do you love to do this? É fascinante poder divulgar um trabalho sério e poder contribuir para que outras pessoas possam ter a mesma visão. It is fascinating to disclose a serious work and be able to contribute so that others may have the same vision. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? Já tenho 10 anos de experiência com Linux e Software Livre. Já participei de vários projetos envolvendo várias distribuições Linux, incluindo openSUSE. Possuo as certificações LPIC-1, LPIC-2, LPIC-3 e LPI-302. I already have 10 years of experience with Linux and Free Software. I have participated in several projects involving various Linux distributions including openSUSE. I have the certifications LPIC-1, LPIC-2, LPI and LPIC-3-302 *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. Tenho grande desejo de participar regularmente de eventos e manter contato com a outros embaixadores por meio de listas de discussão e até mesmo organizar um site com documentação atualizada. Para que isso contribua para a propagação do openSUSE no Brasil. I have great desire to participate in regular events and keep in touch with the other ambassadors through mailing lists and even organize a site with updated documentation. So that it contributes to the spread of openSUSE in Brazil. * 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. A principal necessidade que eu vejo é tentar organizar uma documentação em nosso idioma para que outros possam ter mais interesse de usar o openSUSE, assim como a documentação que a RedHat disponibiliza para o projeto CentOS. Eu tenho interesse de escrever documentação de bom nível técnico para suprir essa necessidade. The main need that I see is trying to organize a documentation in our language so that others may have more interest in using openSUSE as well as documentation that RedHat provides to the CentOS project. I'm interested to write good technical documentation to meet this need. -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Presentations to share
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

FYI: I just added another presentation to: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Our Ambassador Meeting today! Reports, logs and next steps
by Carlos Ribeiro 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

k, Sorry for my very long delay to answer your mail, I've got some personal heath issues to take care on my family, and that takes me out for last 5 days, by the way your idea about using a better way to collect answers is pretty useful and good, but unfortunately most guys had already answered on ML, then I update all answers we got on ML in https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoBJuams6mKNdFhrSnNocUM4LWJWOFpMbD… Results can be viewed here http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tZaZWdNcg-rSzNf7liYdnQg&hl=en# and here https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tXkJshqC8-bV8ZLl8YbK3tA&authkey=CN… Also I updated our http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_meeting page including the link to the "votes" page. Please, if anyone still like to vote but didn't yet, go ahead and give your votes, I have plans to take the final results next Tuesday morning and use it as a guide for our next meeting and ML messages. CarlosRibeiro >>> Em 03/08/2010 às 04:39 PM, na mensagem <AANLkTimLcA6=SkrAQGFE_=NcHd15uoX02Ds7zHepNpuJ(a)mail.gmail.com>, Kálmán Kéménczy<kkemenczy(a)gmail.com> gravou: > Hi Carlos, > > Why don't we use better way to collect answers for the questions? > > http://tinyurl.com/opensuse-ambassador-survey-1 > > results: > https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoBJuams6mKNdFhrSnNocUM4LWJWOFpMbD… > YkszdEE&hl=hu&authkey=CNzp7PEL > > just an idea... > > best, > k > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Carlos Ribeiro <CRibeiro(a)komputer.com.br> > wrote: > > Hello Ambassadors and friends. > > > > First, I'm so glad about our meeting today, we have a good quality in > numbers of participants and contents. Thanks for everyone! > > > > Just for formalizations and to let everyone able to understand what we are > planning to do for the openSUSE Ambassadors Program, I updated our > Ambassadors Meeting page with a link to the meeting log. See the bottom lines > of the page > > > > http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_meeting > > > http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-marketing/2010/opensuse-mar… > ting.2010-08-03-15.00.log.html > > > > > > Really thanks for Bryen, Andreas for help us to make this meeting happens. > Thanks again for the VERY GOOD contributions sent by lupinstein, sakana, > HelioReds, alexbariv, Barry-Ni, kknundy, kkemenczy, rtyler, oprea_luci, > manugupt1 and gnokii. Sure, all of you had sent very valuable contributions > and points to the table. > > > > Some action that we got are listed bellow: > > > > * CarlosRibeiro help to define/purpose a better plan for Ambassadors > reports > > * Every ambassador should aggregate her/his blog on planet.opensuse.org > > * Carlos, lupinstein and sakana will work as volunteers to help running > the ambassador program smoothly > > * CarlosRibeiro sends a mail to the Ambassadors ML, asking about what is > missing on Welcome page > > * Barry-Ni` to research other Ambassador programs for comparative purposes, > and if possible find volunteers to help him with research > > * Carlos will publish topics for the next Ambassadors meeting at Aug. 17th, > same hour. > > > > > > and some good points and infos that we talked about and we need to take > care about it: > > > > * Not enough Media to distribute during events for 11.2 > > * Install fest works great but needs more attention > > * We decided that more interactions between Ambassadors is needed. > > * Need more than one method of channel to communicate with ambassadors > > * Not enough Media to distribute during events for 11.2 > > * Lack of reports after Ambassadors attend events > > > > * Next meeting - August, 17 sounds good for most part of the Ambassadors > Team ? > > > > Some fellows said that we have no votes up there, then... > > I would like to invite everyone on this list to vote some topics to help > with directions for the next meeting, please we only need "Yes" or "No" as > answers, letting more details about topics that WE pickup as valid for the > next meeting, because next meeting will not be if "does we need or not" will > be "how to be do it" > > > > * Does we need to create templates for productive and collaborative > reports? > > > > * Does we need to develop Ambassadors welcome and first steps landing page? > > > > * Does we need to take a look any free and available collaboration tool for > Ambassadors program? > > > > * Does we like to have Ambassadors Uniform? > > > > * Does we believe is necessary to look around and have a brief idea of how > other distros are working with similar Ambassadors program? > > > > * Does we need to know who is using openSUSE (corporations). Is this kind > of information important for us? > > > > Last but not least, I would like to invite all Ambassadors to update their > respective Users page, with a little introduction about them selfs to help us > to know a little bit more about each other ;-) and be more productive next > meeting. > > > > > > Best regards for everyone > > CarlosRibeiro > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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