Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] openSUSE Magazine

Piyoosh Mukhija

17 Sep 2011 17 Sep '11

09:42

I believe it'd be a good idea to not just include events, but some tutorials/troubleshooters as well. In such a case, the magazine can be more attractive to the new/novice openSUSE/Linux users. Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija http://piyoosh.mukhija.info Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija http://piyoosh.mukhija.info On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Piyoosh Mukhija wrote:

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I believe it'd be a good idea to not just include events, but some tutorials/troubleshooters as well. In such a case, the magazine can be more attractive to the new/novice openSUSE/Linux users.

Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija http://piyoosh.mukhija.info

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:28 PM, differentreality wrote:

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Hi all!

One of the ideas that popped up during the marketing hackfest here today was that of making an openSUSE magazine with focus on the conference proceedings and the cool stuff that happened since the last conference. The magazine would contain articles on the main highlights of the past year (Year is the time period between two conferences), interviews with key people, reviews and articles about the current conference etc.

We would like to get a feedback on the idea and a few key topics that you think should be covered. Any authors who want to help with articles, please say so on the mailing list as we need more people to work on the articles. The topics, however, should focus on either key events that took place since last conference (like tumbleweed, evergreen, connect etc) or should be an article about oSC11 (or any particular session of it). We would also like a few miscellaneous topics that relates to openSUSE and linux at large.

I hope all of you would like the idea and would contribute to our efforts to make openSUSE even more famous and awesome. Please let us know your thoughts (& your willingness to help).

For additional info you can reply to the mailing list or send an email to differentreality@gmail.com ( plz use as subject: openSUSE magazine )

Regards, N.B.Prashanth - nbprash.mit@gmail.com Stella Rouzi - differentreality@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

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elson santos

17 Sep 17 Sep

13:41

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

hello, I believe that is possible to create a new section "step-by-step" where the new user learns as to work with openSUSE. What do you think? 2011/9/17, Piyoosh Mukhija :

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I believe it'd be a good idea to not just include events, but some tutorials/troubleshooters as well. In such a case, the magazine can be more attractive to the new/novice openSUSE/Linux users.

Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija

http://piyoosh.mukhija.info

Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija http://piyoosh.mukhija.info

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Piyoosh Mukhija wrote:

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I believe it'd be a good idea to not just include events, but some tutorials/troubleshooters as well. In such a case, the magazine can be more attractive to the new/novice openSUSE/Linux users.

Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija http://piyoosh.mukhija.info

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:28 PM, differentreality wrote:

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Hi all!

One of the ideas that popped up during the marketing hackfest here today was that of making an openSUSE magazine with focus on the conference proceedings and the cool stuff that happened since the last conference. The magazine would contain articles on the main highlights of the past year (Year is the time period between two conferences), interviews with key people, reviews and articles about the current conference etc.

We would like to get a feedback on the idea and a few key topics that you think should be covered. Any authors who want to help with articles, please say so on the mailing list as we need more people to work on the articles. The topics, however, should focus on either key events that took place since last conference (like tumbleweed, evergreen, connect etc) or should be an article about oSC11 (or any particular session of it). We would also like a few miscellaneous topics that relates to openSUSE and linux at large.

I hope all of you would like the idea and would contribute to our efforts to make openSUSE even more famous and awesome. Please let us know your thoughts (& your willingness to help).

For additional info you can reply to the mailing list or send an email to differentreality@gmail.com ( plz use as subject: openSUSE magazine )

Regards, N.B.Prashanth - nbprash.mit@gmail.com Stella Rouzi - differentreality@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

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jdd

14:20

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

Le 17/09/2011 15:41, elson santos a écrit :

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hello, I believe that is possible to create a new section "step-by-step" where the new user learns as to work with openSUSE. What do you think?

may be a bit too long for a magazine. May be some clue jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Kim Leyendecker

16:30

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

Am 17.09.2011 16:20, schrieb jdd:

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Le 17/09/2011 15:41, elson santos a écrit :

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hello, I believe that is possible to create a new section "step-by-step" where the new user learns as to work with openSUSE. What do you think?

may be a bit too long for a magazine. May be some clue

you think so? Maybe as a series? -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

jdd

16:39

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

Le 17/09/2011 18:30, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :

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you think so? Maybe as a series?

yearly magazine! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Kim Leyendecker

18 Sep 18 Sep

12:47

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

Am 17.09.2011 18:39, schrieb jdd:

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Le 17/09/2011 18:30, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :

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you think so? Maybe as a series?

yearly magazine!

hm, then forget about the series... -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Stuart Tanner

13:15

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 14:47 +0200, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

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Am 17.09.2011 18:39, schrieb jdd:

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Le 17/09/2011 18:30, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :

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you think so? Maybe as a series?

yearly magazine!

hm, then forget about the series...

-- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds

i think we need a periodical magazine that people can download or maybe even subscribe to, there are magazines out their covering linux general would it be possible to produce a periodic magazine similar to openSUSE Weekly news but has tips, training, and other such matterial, perhaps it could be subsidised by having paid advertising from companies that offer Linux based IT Solutions? This would be different to the conference magazine though. Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

differentreality

16:11

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

Hey all! Sorry for the late response, long travelling hours and still trying to get settled :) I am really happy that we already have people replying, giving ideas and ready to help out. As this is a totally new idea we highly value opinions and ideas. @Chuck: Technical articles like that are certainly useful. Please let me know with which article you would like to begin! - Regarding tips&tricks this is also great for weekly news and at the same time maybe we can find useful tips/tricks in older weekly news issues and use them all together - some of them are not too long articles and the subject is definitely interesting. Do you think you could take this up on you as well and prepare something for a tips&tricks section of the magazine? @Kim: People's view is very important and I believe would also personalize the magazine. So I would say go for it! Clarification: when you say documentary, are you thinking video or written interview - because documentary brings video in my mind but we need articles/writing. So how are you thinking of beginning this? @piyoosh: Yep, it will definitely *not* include just events. It will certainly have a large variety of topics related to openSUSE, that's why we need ideas from all of you. @Elson: sure, help and motivation for new users I believe is always something we want, right? Step-by-step tutorials, tips&tricks for users are all very useful things. Do you have something specific in mind? Could you prepare a relevant article? Or do we have any interesting articles already written which we could perhaps edit if needed and use? @Mike: perfect, if you want to write something please feel free to do so, otherwise as soon as we organize all the ideas we could make some proposals on subjects that need articles and you can choose, what do you think? @Tanmaya: Absolutely, release related articles are generally needed, so yes, please get right to it. I assume you could write something about 12.1 release? @Peter: Success stories are always something positive and we definitely want positiveness in our magazine, right? Do you have something specific in mind you could put in writing? I would like to point out that it is amazing how many nice ideas we got and I really hope we can see some articles as well soon. Many articles could also be used immediately and be issued in weekly news or news.opensuse.org and when time comes of course to our magazine! As we still have not concluded regarding the exact structure of the magazine we don't really know exactly how many articles we will need for each subject etc. It could be the case that we might need not to use some articles, *but* this should not discourage absolutely anyone from writing because we will surely use your article one way or the other! The first step for the magazine is to get some context for it - your articles that is :) We will have a variety of subjects, from technical to simple things for newbies and we will focus on communities, individuals as well as events that have taken place. Maybe this is also a good chance for ambassadors to send something like a review regarding events that took place in their city/country? What do ambassadors think about that? We are still open for ideas and with Prashanth we will be processing all that info really soon (plz give us a couple of days as we just got back from Germany) and we will put everything together so that everyone knows where we stand on subjects. In the meantime, we are looking forward to receiving your articles and if you need any kind of clarification or assistance please let us know. I think if we can get an article for all the above subjects that all of you mentioned it is an excellent start for our magazine-effort :) Thanks to all, Stella Rouzi (aka differentreality) On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

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Am 17.09.2011 18:39, schrieb jdd:

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Le 17/09/2011 18:30, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :

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you think so? Maybe as a series?

yearly magazine!

hm, then forget about the series...

-- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds

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Kim Leyendecker

16:31

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

Am 18.09.2011 18:11, schrieb differentreality:

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@Kim: People's view is very important and I believe would also personalize the magazine. So I would say go for it! Clarification: when you say documentary, are you thinking video or written interview - because documentary brings video in my mind but we need articles/writing. So how are you thinking of beginning this?

I thought about writing one. -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Stuart Tanner

13:13

New subject: openSUSE Magazine

On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 18:30 +0200, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

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Am 17.09.2011 16:20, schrieb jdd:

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Le 17/09/2011 15:41, elson santos a écrit :

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hello, I believe that is possible to create a new section "step-by-step" where the new user learns as to work with openSUSE. What do you think?

may be a bit too long for a magazine. May be some clue

you think so? Maybe as a series?

-- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds

I agree with you that its a good idea to put it into the magazine but as a series of feature articles. To do it all on one issue would fill the magazine.. Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

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