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@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org
Le 27/08/2010 17:36, Nitin Sookun a écrit :
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 have a lot of fellows from Mauritius, the Dodin family being numerous there (not taking in account the fact that we have no real family link, beside the name :-), so I made an annouce on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/jddodin jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 27 August 2010 17:36:47 Nitin Sookun wrote:
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.
2 things. First, see if you can find something useful on http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Marketing @Gnokii, could you add at least the link to the git repo with artwork somewhere there - I guess at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials I know a lot of info is not on this new wiki yet - it is on the old one. Anyone who has 10 minutes to spare, move one or two old pages from there to the current wiki, please! Second, send your request for 'stuff' to Andreas, michl and me with your address and how much you think you can use. We don't have a better process than that yet ;-)
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.
Yep. You can tell them openSUSE is actually a far better choice, esp for developers. See things like adding all -dev packages in one go, the build service (you can use that from a windows PC with a webbrowser) and stuff like that. And we provide choice and flexibility, something interested students will probably far prefer over the nice golden cage of Ubuntu ;-) See the talking points at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points - any questions you have, PLEASE add them there. Just braindump, we'll clean it up! cheers, Jos
Kind regards,
Ish
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jdd -
Jos Poortvliet -
Nitin Sookun