On Friday, March 18, 2011 05:19:12 PM Koushik Kumar Nundy wrote:

[...] My personal requirement I'll send off-list with my mailing address.

Sorry, I'm not taking orders for 11.4 - and will not take them anymore via email, it's too errorprone. We're setting up a small web page and I'll announce once I can take orders. Sending out 30.000 DVDs needs a process that scales so that each of you gets the DVDs in time - thus the new website. Handling emails like we did in the past just does not scale anymore. For now, please don't ask for PromoDVDs, I will answer all those emails eventually with a friendly: Please wait... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

On Friday, March 18, 2011 05:19:12 PM Koushik Kumar Nundy wrote:

[...] However, if I understand correctly, due to the space taken out by the live images, the promoDVD has fewer packages than the DVD download. With high bandwidth in this part of the world, anyone can really download extra packages as needed. However in many places, India, for example, that is difficult, as well as costly. So if it was possible to supply Ambassadors/Marketing with the option of promoDVD or normal DVD, to use as they deem fit, or a combination of both, maybe people could be helped better.

The PromoDVD misses mainly development packages. Handling of two different DVDs makes the process at the moment to complicated, it will not scale properly, I speak from experience when I had to handle three different media, it was a nightmare for shipping. Maybe in the future if we find better ways of handling the shipment but not for now. Btw we get a good discount, the more DVDs we order, so creating two will cost us more than just one... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

On Friday, March 18, 2011 05:27:11 PM Kostas Koudaras wrote:

2011/3/18 Andreas Jaeger :

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PromoDVDs of openSUSE 11.4 will soon be available. In the past we had a few ambassadors that distributed them on demand to folks in their country like Sankar P (is there a wiki page for this?).

Sankar, could you tell us a bit what you did so that others know what this means, please?

If you're interested in handling PromoDVDs for your region, please speak up.

Me and Stathis(diamond_gr) already do that to Greece, now about the PromoDVD Andreas please tell us if its possible to have some before 7th of April because it is the first of the two big FOSS events here in Greece, The other is in May. I will send our request for Greece off-list as well.

An event in April should be fine. Please wait sending requests for now - see my other email for details, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Andreas, If it's possible to ship me a few (10-20) to have a small stock for people who might call for them, I don't mind having a few at hand. Shipping costs in Portugal aren't really that expensive, so I'll cover those from my own funds to ship them when required. In July we're going to organize a small event in Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Porto) and we're aiming for 100+ people, so by that time, a few months before I'll inform the list on much I could eventually need. We're currently looking for 1 or 2 speakers more, hopefully technical speakers who can do a talk that somehow can be of interest to IT students. I'm only looking for national speakers (because we're running without funds), once we have a go from a few people, I'll set the date with João (another portuguese contributor) and with the University, and then I bring this to the list. Just as a heads up. Not really an issue the number of packages and all of that, as we have state of art internet connectivity up to 1Gigabit available for nearly everyone and 68%+ of national residents have broadband connections. NM On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:20 PM, cheperobert wrote:

2011/3/18 Andreas Jaeger :

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PromoDVDs of openSUSE 11.4 will soon be available. In the past we had a few ambassadors that distributed them on demand to folks in their country like Sankar P (is there a wiki page for this?).

Sankar, could you tell us a bit what you did so that others know what this means, please?

If you're interested in handling PromoDVDs for your region, please speak up.

Here in my country El Salvador, need promotional DVD's. I sent an email to Jacqueline, with some queries.

The first event is in April (FLISOL), which has been set.

Augustine made a consuta to list of markenting about this: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-marketing/2011-02/msg00452.html

Que tengan un buen día.

Saludos cheperobert

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Le 19/03/2011 18:29, Stuart Tanner a écrit :

On Friday 18 Mar 2011 21:02:43 Roger Whittaker wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:50:56PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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If you're interested in handling PromoDVDs for your region, please speak up.

I can do this in the UK.

Roger we need to wait for the website, they are not taking orders by email - see Andreas's previous post.

yes, but it's still good to know in what country we can work, for example I would like to know if other french people can coordinate with me (and same for other countries) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Le 19/03/2011 20:28, Stuart Tanner a écrit :

I am specifically targeting non-linux users rather than attracting other linux users, I am always looking to find the best way to get our message accross.

in France, the best public we have are the non usual groups, boreline ones (I don't really know how to say this in english - les groupes non conventionels), active on consumer defense, ecology, etc, that like to be special and so are pretty near of the free software phylosophy. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 07:28:27PM +0000, Stuart Tanner wrote:

Sure of course and I can co-ordiante with Roger when possible, Roger where abouts in the UK are you based? Are there any main events occuring in the UK?

South West London and Bracknell. I sometimes send DVDs out to LUGs who ask, and I give them away at UKUUG events, Oggcamp etc. I can certainly keep a stock in the Bracknell office and send to other UK people who need them. -- ============================================ Roger Whittaker Premium Support Engineer rwhittaker@novell.com 01344 326116 07802 357081 Novell UK Limited Novell House 1 Arlington Square Downshire Way Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1WA Registered in England and Wales no: 02033363 ============================================ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:29 +0100, Stuart Tanner wrote:

Roger

On Friday 18 Mar 2011 21:02:43 Roger Whittaker wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:50:56PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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If you're interested in handling PromoDVDs for your region, please speak up.

I can do this in the UK.

Roger did you get any Gnome LiveCD's yet? are you attending any launch parties for Gnome 3.0? You are welcome to come to Free Software UK Manchester Launch Party if not.

I have been asked to give a speech on openSUSE / Gnome. -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner

No he didn't get any Live CD's yet simply because they don't exist yet. :-) The LiveCD's will be pressed as soon as we have GNOME3 stabilized in our repositories, and GNOME3 isn't officially released until April 6. So it may very well be not until the end of the month before pressed CDs will be available. However, an ISO will be available online (stay tuned for that announcement) as soon as it is vetted and ready to go. You all can burn those ISOs. I should point out however that we will not be shipping out LiveCDs to Ambassadors or anyone else. They will be shipped directly to the GNOME Foundation for them to distribute at their events. (The same practice also for the KDE e.V. group.) For the rest of us, we stick with the PromoDVDs, which are ready now for distribution if you need to request them. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

On Monday, March 21, 2011 06:46:11 Sankar P wrote:

Hi,

First of all sorry for the delay in reply. I didn't check mails during the weekend.

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PromoDVDs of openSUSE 11.4 will soon be available. In the past we had a few ambassadors that distributed them on demand to folks in their country like Sankar P (is there a wiki page for this?).

Sankar, could you tell us a bit what you did so that others know what this means, please?

If you're interested in handling PromoDVDs for your region, please speak up.

The process that I followed was very simple and won't scale for such a large scale.

I maintain(ed) a list of addresses to which I ship the DVDs within India. In addition to that, if anyone asks in marketing or ambassadors lists from India (and once to Bangladesh also iirc), I reply on the list and add their address to my list. Once I get the bulk of DVDs from Jacqueline, I bulk-deliver to all the addresses in my list (asked-list + few other colleges, LUGs, twitter/facebook friends I know of) through Novell India delivery. This way, I don't have to pay for the individual shipments. While asking for DVDs from Germany, I get in a bulk so that for any subsequent requests from India, I can send the DVDs myself without having to ask from Germany (buffering).

In my ambassador page, I had a text of: "If you need anything for openSUSE [DVDs or whatever] in India, feel free to mail me".

This is the very simple process that I follow. Cyberorg does something similar in India but he prepares his own DVDs.

Thanks for the info. Does the wiki contain any reference to this? If we have some people taking care of sending locally, how do people know about it? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Le 22/03/2011 11:04, Sankar P a écrit :

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Does the wiki contain any reference to this? If we have some people taking care of sending locally, how do people know about it?

what do you use as package? I often notice the package is more expensive than the dvd itself and the dvd if often damaged thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pig... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

Le 22/03/2011 11:34, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :

What about giving our contacts and add them in http://software.opensuse.org/order/new ?

or simply on the ambassaodr page. Itr's not possible to edit it freely, but editor can add to my line (jdd_sysop): "invite to yours event, ask for free demo dvd" jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pig... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org

sorry editable On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Manu Gupta wrote:

The ambassador wiki is edible by all except the ambassador list

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM, jdd wrote:

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Le 22/03/2011 11:34, Kostas Koudaras a écrit :

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What about giving our contacts and add them in http://software.opensuse.org/order/new ?

or simply on the ambassaodr page. Itr's not possible to edit it freely, but editor can add to my line (jdd_sysop): "invite to yours event, ask for free demo dvd"

jdd

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-- Regards Manu Gupta

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On 2011-03-29 cheperobert wrote:

2011/3/22 Kostas Koudaras :

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What about giving our contacts and add them in http://software.opensuse.org/order/new ? So people from India contact Sankar and people from Greece contact me and so on, that way above sending them DVD we can propably go an make a Speach about openSUSE or something. Also it might be helpful for expanding and bonding local communities. Just a thought Kostas

How to tell if an application was accepted or should be done again?

I keep waiting for an email.

Talking about the website currently? It can take a while AJ is busy...

Thanks,

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2011/3/22 jdd :

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Le 22/03/2011 11:04, Sankar P a écrit :

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Does the wiki contain any reference to this? If we have some people taking care of sending locally, how do people know about it?

what do you use as package? I often notice the package is more expensive than the dvd itself and the dvd if often damaged

thanks jdd

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

You'll get an answer once I process them - and I plan to go over the list once a week at least...

If you haven't heard from me after three weeks, please ping me,

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