October 2008 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Updated counter.o.o
by Pascal Bleser 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just updated http://counter.opensuse.org to reflect the 11.1 release schedule (which, as of the roadmap wiki page [1] is currently 2008-12-18). I asked darix to change the Apache config on the vhost to have the 11.1 countdown when using URLs such as http://counter.opensuse.org/ Before he does so, to see the 11.1 images, use the following URLs: http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/ http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/large http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap I got away with pixel pushing the template images this time, as I had the "1" from "11", but I'll need help from jimmac for 11.2 (as I don't have the Cholla font) ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM::23+24 Feb 2008, Brussels, http://fosdem.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJAwzBr3NMWliFcXcRArFuAJ4nNS1kq0jtwFR6XzxzBo9pKuHfNQCfUz4g pjRTaoYK50Nmm4sGGLn602A= =0SME -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] spokesperson - first draft
by Martin Lasarsch 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi As mentioned before we are thinking about how to gain more marketshare, a bigger community, more local support ... whatever you want to call it. Thats a good point, we also need a name for it! :-) It would be similar to the fedora ambassador or Ubuntu LoCo but most of us think that a unique name for it would help a lot. So please put some fuel into your brains and tell us what your favorite is! In this draft we are using the term spokesperson to have at least one ... (and yes, this not describes all the tasks ...). The openSUSE Project is largely managed by Novell employees, but that's not the long-term vision for the project. As the openSUSE Project matures, we want to be more inclusive and find ways for openSUSE community members to take up equal responsibility for the growth and promotion of openSUSE. We already have openSUSE supporters who are doing an awesome job of building a community locally. We want to find ways to assist those members, and make the most of their experience to expand to new local communities. The spokesperson concept will improve the situation and create an environment in which the creation of local openSUSE spokespersons and teams is easier, to support openSUSE and Linux in local areas and channel feedback to the openSUSE project. Here is a list, this is a rough draft and feedback is highly appreciated/wanted. *Who can be a spokesperson - everybody who signed the guiding principles and is an openSUSE member Q: is this necessary? - everybody who is willing to put time and effort to support the project and Linux/FOSS in general - everbody who likes to communicate with other people *What are the tasks of a spokesperson? - in general these community members should spread the word about openSUSE in their area, like: - promote openSUSE - dispatch openSUSE DVDs/CDs - contact to local LUGs - attend events (tradeshows, university, community etc.), give presentations - help updating the event calendar on news.o.o - contact for local community (in person, chat, mailinglists etc.) and get feedback to the project - mentor other interested people - create/maintain local wiki page for their region on en.opensuse.org - write reports from events, meetings etc on news or lizards.o.o - create/maintain a localized wiki, minimum set of basic pages (approx. 15) - maintain a localized mailinglist/forum on opensuse.org - create - if necessary or requested - a local group of spokespersons/assistants (this should address the case if more people per region want to help) - attract contributors to the project This sounds like a lot of work. Sure, it's work but it's managable in a reasonable time, especially if you doing it for some time, and you don't have to do it alone. We support the idea of having more than one spokesperson for a territory. See the list rather as a "would be nice" instead of "have to" list. Q: How to organize this? Is it "everbody can join", do we need a "master" spokesperson for the territory, how will it be decided? Of course we support: "do and you are it", but we probably can't support 50 people for Germany for example. Q: is there something "below" or "above" a spokespersons? Do we need a (quite flat) hierarchy like country spokesperson - local spokesperson - assistant - helper? If yes there should be a definition of these terms. Q: do we need a spokesperson council which makes decision if problems can't be resolved otherwise? Is the board responsible for that? *What does Novell provide? (since there is no decision on the budget so far, please don't nail us on that ... use them as ideas ...) - welcome box (t-shirts, caps, Promo DVDs), to be resend with each new release - special business cards (template or real) - special t-shirt - a special guide/howto to make it easier and better organized - event box (portable booth, signage, banner, flyer, poster etc.) - give-aways, spiffs - certain budget for travel - create a spokesperson day parallel or a day prior to the openSUSE conference - single point of contact to drive the program and manage travel, DVD shipment, events etc. - exclusive mailinglist for spokespersons to allign our efforts (albeit it's public anyway to get feedback) *Benefits for spokesperson - becomes opensuse member after certain period of time and proven support and receives a @opensuse.org email address Q: or do they have to be members in the first place? - reputation, fame, pride - gets once a year a present or - invitation to the openSUSE conference (draft by michl, Zonker & /me) -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Unique about openSUSE?
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hey all, One of the questions I am asked frequently: What makes openSUSE unique among Linux distros? I think it'd be good to have a list of benefits / advantages to openSUSE. Note, not looking to say we're "better" than other distros, even if we are ;-) just how are we actually *different* since we ship about 98% the same software? Obviously, I've given this some thought, but I suspect that more heads are better than just mine on this one. As we're approaching the 11.1 release, I know that this question will come up again quite a bit. Thoughts? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Spread the word on the result of the first board election!
by Marko Jung 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hi. As you all surely noticed we published the election result yesterday. The newly formed board is the first one elected by the openSUSE community, which is an momentous step in the history of our project. I kindly ask you all for your support by submitting articles or short news stories to international or local websites and print magazines. Because I would like to have you to submit your own stories, I did not prepare a press release. Please write a few lines on your own. Good starting points may be: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/10/27/results-of-the-1st-opensuse-board-elect… http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008 http://en.opensuse.org/Board In case you submit something, please keep us posted (by sending a reply to this mail). In case your submission gets published, add it to the election's wiki page http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008#The_election_in_the_press Thank you for your support! Marko Btw: I already submitted stories to linux-magazin.de, linux-magazine.com/, linuxpromagazine.com, pro-linux.de, symlink.ch. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] YaST Mascot - How to make it more accessible
by Lukas Ocilka 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi, I've found someone who talked to several teachers on some secondary art schools and they could use our YaST Mascot Contest [#1] as a possibility to design something 'real' during the classes. This could be both good for us and for them too. Anyway, my 'contact' ;) told me that asking them to upload their designs and modify the wiki would be just too much and they would rather send their designs via e-mail. So, what I propose is to create a mail alias yast-mascot(a)opensuse.org that would link to myself [#2] (as I kind of maintain that [#1] page anyway so I could upload their designs) and publish that mail there. Once the contest is over, we could remove that alias. What do you think of that? I've already talked to the local management and local IT and they agree on the proposed solution. Thanks & Bye Lukas #1 http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/YaST_Contest #2 yast-mascot(a)opensuse.org -> locilka(a)suse.cz -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE at flisol
by ricardo varas s 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hello, here in latinoamerica we have FLISOL, which stands for Latin America free software installation festival. We have it once a year to promote the use of free software, usually it consists of installation (last year it was mainly ubuntu), and talks over GNU philosophy, workshops, etc. We had a few soponsors in the city I live in, and I was wondering if we, as a Linux Users Group, could have some openSUSE cd's and stickers like the ones canonical ships, just to show people the openSUSE distro. Has openSUSE done anything like that for a south america event? I mean, sponsored an event by sending cd's, stickers or banners? Thanks =) -Ricardo V. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Attracting Windows Users
by Stephan Binner 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hello, without doubt the current MS Windows users are the biggest chunk which we can and want to make switch to openSUSE. But IMO we are are not targetting marke- ting and development efforts to that goal enough. We have some good pieces in place or development like InstLux[1] or Mango[2] and some (rather thin) docu- mentation [3,4] but we can and should do better as others do a better job [5]. So any idea what are we missing, how to reach and help Windows users better (this can be also feature requrests for future distro releases like [6])? :-) For inspirations maybe also have a look at what Apple and its user community are doing with the "Apple Switcher" campaign, tutorials and help sites. Bye, Steve [0] http://www.benkevan.com/blog/switching-from-windows-to-linux-what-you-need-… [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Instlux [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Mango [3] http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_migrate_from_Windows [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Application_Equivalents [5] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows [6] https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305308 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] YaST Contest
by hemipwr54＠netscape.net 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

YaST helper name : YHaST , YaST Helper advanced System Tool Picture attached , colors of lizard .

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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [lca-announce] Resend: More Miniconfs call for papers!
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Will blog about this, but also please spread the word and if anyone's close to AU, please submit talks! Best, Zonker ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: linux.conf.au Announcements <lca-announce(a)lists.linux.org.au> Date: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:17 PM Subject: [lca-announce] Resend: More Miniconfs call for papers! To: lca-announce <lca-announce(a)lists.linux.org.au> Amended to include links. More Miniconfs call for papers! This week, the next round of calls have come from the successful miniconfs to submit papers for their programs. Following hot on the heels of the first CFPs from miniconfs, organisers of the remaining miniconfs have announced their call for participation. Each miniconf is looking for a select range of talks from industry leaders and professionals alike. To read each particular call for participation, please read on below: - Virtualization and Management: http://opensource.hp.com/LCA09/virtminiconf/call-for-presentations - Free as in Freedom: http://freeasinfreedom.modernthings.org/d/doku.php?id=call_for_participation - Multimedia: http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2009_mmm/pmwiki.php/Main/CallForP - Open Source Databases: http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?n=Miniconfs.OpenSourceDBCFP - MythTV: http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?n=Miniconfs.MythTVCFP - Linux Kernel: http://www.parisc-linux.org/~willy/lca2009.cfp.txt _______________________________________________ lca-announce mailing list lca-announce(a)lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/lca-announce -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] opensuse studio
by Adi Nugroho 18 Oct '08

18 Oct '08

Simple question... How to get an invitation to try http://www.susestudio.com/ ? Thank you in advance. -- Regards, Adi Nugroho - http://adi.internux.co.id/ iNterNUX --- http://www.internux.net.id/ Jalan Dr. Sam Ratulangi No. 53J Makassar Tel. +62-411-834690 Fax. +62-411-834691 CDMA:+62-411-6109535 GSM:+62-816-27-9193 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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