November 2008 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Requesting authors for Sneak Peek articles
by Kevin Dupuy 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Alright, it's time for some Sneak Peek love. I've penned out four article plans, but I'm sure we can come out with some more ideas, so fell free to add an additional article to this page: http://en.opensuse.org/Sneak_Peeks Currently, we've got: *Installation & administration *KDE 4 *GNOME 2.24 *Misc improvements Anyone interested in writing these articles? -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy - openSUSE Member Public Mail: <kevin.dupuy(a)opensuse.org> Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from the Yeaux! -- 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 Launch Party. Advices.
by Mittov Dmitri 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hello, All. My name is Dmitri and I'm planning OpenSuse Launch Party in Omsk, Russian Federation. I haven't much experience in such parties. Are there any traditions for OpenSuse Launch Party? Can you tell me how it usually goes? --- WBR, Dmitri. -- 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] Release party in the Portland, Oregon area?
by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

It looks like there is not a release party scheduled in the Portland, Oregon area, which is a surprise to me, given the number of Linux heavyweights we have here. Is there anything that I can do about it at this late date? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com/ "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős

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[opensuse-marketing] Will there be meeting minutes ?
by Jan-Simon Möller 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi! As IRC is a "moving target" ;), will there be some minutes posted to ML or wiki ? Best regards, Jan-Simon -- 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] Launch Party question from Chile.
by llastra＠severus.cl 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hello there! Let me introduce myself, I am Luis Lastra and I am an IT engineer from Chile. As a Linux and FLOSS fan, I have been participating in some Chilean events talking about Linux, applications and programming languages. After two year using openSuse with excellent results I have decided together with a group of friends to create a LUG in our Region, and then we realize that there's no other openSUSE LUG in our Country. This is our LUG : http://es.opensuse.org/LUG/South_America/Chile It's called LUGOS Chile (Local User Group Open Suse Chile). I know, we're a few people.... but we are going to grow up!! We realize that there are other users without any LUG in this lists... and we're going to invite them to participate. And Here is the big question: Can we make a Launch Party in our Region? It would be interesting; we work in diferents Universities and Institutes in this region and we can talk with users along Chile and ask them to join us to spread the openSuse project. There are a lot of people interested in use Linux as Operating System but they are waiting to make their own decision, and we wouldlike to help them. There's a lot of stuff that we would like to do, as developing solutions using openSUSE and, obviuosly, spread openSUSE. Thanks. Looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards. -- Atte. Luis Lastra C. Computín y Amante de la Música [ www ] http://www.severus.cl [ Blog ] http://blog.severus.cl [ lugos ] http://es.opensuse.org/LUG/South_America/Chile [ openSUSE ] http://en.opensuse.org/User:Ashty [ Mi Música ] http://www.jamendo.com/es/album/33360 http://bos.severus.cl -- 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] Hackfest for new to Linux page?
by Joe Brockmeier 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi all, The openSUSE wiki has a lot of great information for Linux newbies, but it's not as well organized as it could be. I'd like to schedule a hackfest to get the information organized and indexed before the launch of 11.1. Who's interested in participating, and what times & dates are best? Specifically, we're tentatively planning this the first week of December between the 3rd and 5th. Thoughts? How many potential participants do we have? Best, Zonker Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE community manager zonker(a)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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[Fwd: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Launch Party question from Chile.]
by Stephen Shaw 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

ooops, didn't hit reply to all Stephen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Launch Party question from Chile. Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:09:55 -0700 From: Stephen Shaw <sshaw(a)decriptor.com> To: llastra(a)severus.cl References: <34656.200.27.183.170.1227209725.squirrel(a)webmail.severus.cl> On 11/20/2008 12:35 PM, llastra(a)severus.cl wrote: > Hello there! > Let me introduce myself, I am Luis Lastra and I am an IT engineer from > Chile. As a Linux and FLOSS fan, I have been participating in some Chilean > events talking about Linux, applications and programming languages. > > After two year using openSuse with excellent results I have decided > together with a > group of friends to create a LUG in our Region, and then we realize that > there's no other openSUSE LUG in our Country. > > This is our LUG : http://es.opensuse.org/LUG/South_America/Chile > > It's called LUGOS Chile (Local User Group Open Suse Chile). > > I know, we're a few people.... but we are going to grow up!! We realize > that there are other users without any LUG in this lists... and we're > going to invite them to participate. > > And Here is the big question: > > Can we make a Launch Party in our Region? It would be interesting; we work > in diferents Universities and Institutes in this region and we can talk > with users along > Chile and ask them to join us to spread the openSuse project. There are a > lot of people interested in use Linux as Operating System but they are > waiting to make their own > decision, and we wouldlike to help them. > > There's a lot of stuff that we would like to do, as developing solutions > using openSUSE and, obviuosly, spread openSUSE. > > Thanks. > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > Best regards. > I think it would be fine. Not that I can say yes or no. This site, http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.1_Launch_Party_Locations , is where people have openly added their release parties. changing 11.1 to 11.0 or 10.3 you can see where they have been in the past. I'd recommend looking at those, and adding your own to the list. Stephen -- 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 @ FOSDEM 2009
by Pascal Bleser 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just announced the dates + call for devrooms/stands for FOSDEM 2009: http://fosdem.org/2009/node/153 (don't be too confused, I'm one of the organizers of the event, so I'm constantly switching hats here ;)) FYI: FOSDEM takes place 7+8 February 2009 in Brussels (Belgium) and is the largest FOSS developer conference in Europe, with around 6000 visitors (almost all of them developers/contributors) and over 240 talks, presentations, sessions held during that weekend. Entrance is free to everyone. And it's only for FOSS projects. Previous years we had a so-called "developer room" as well as a stand at FOSDEM, in order to present current developments to our own community as well as to active contributors of other projects. There are 15 devrooms in total, and last year we had openSUSE, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, and many, many others. A "developer room" is just that: a room (capacity ranging from 50 to 200 seats), a video projector, wifi internet connection, and we define our own schedule of talks/sessions/whatever (no binge drinking, that's already covered by the FOSDEM beer event on Friday evening ;)), for free. I suppose Martin and/or Zonker will take care of sending a devroom request (see URL above) before the deadline to.. err.. me ;) (switching hats again). We should really start organizing it now: - - manning the openSUSE stand during the weekend (as said, huge crowd there, mostly very technical) - - maybe organize (wiki page?) who (from our community) will go there, possibly coordinate a bit for hotel/travel/..., - - think of topics that might be of interest, although I'm sure we'll also be able to collect lots of proposals from Novell employees - - try to get more non-Novell community contributors to make presentations there - - spread the word to our community, a *lot* ! (= tell them that we'll have a devroom at FOSDEM 2009, great place and unique occasion to meet, etc...) - - maybe organize a session or two with people from other distros/projects ? Note that first, a devroom+stand request has to be sent (Martin/Zonker?). We (FOSDEM) will collect them until 2008-11-22. Then we (FOSDEM) will pick which projects get a devroom and confirm before 2008-11-30. It only makes sense to start spreading the word once we (openSUSE) receive the confirmation. But we should already prepare, because there won't be much time after that. NB: note that I don't send this to make noise about FOSDEM itself, we don't really need it, it will be packed anyway. It's really about openSUSE at FOSDEM ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser(a)opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM::7+8 Feb 2009, Brussels, http://fosdem.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJEiJPr3NMWliFcXcRAgUJAJ93d+UZ6ofBWNOH2uEVkeec1BvXcQCfStkx ChBo7tonb2HnhSJ3xxekK1g= =Bjt5 -----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] Wide banner countdown?
by Kevin Dupuy 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Could a gracious person please create wide banner-sized openSUSE Countdown widgets? I'd like to have one for the openSUSE 11.1 page, and it's a nice size for blogs to have. -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy - openSUSE Member Assistant Organizer, Louisiana Libertarian Party Public Mail: <kevin.dupuy(a)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] Opensuse 11.1 Launch Party-Bangalore
by Anshul Jain 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hi, I'm one of the members of our Linux Users Group at our place of work (Tejas Networks, Bangalore)....and a user of Opensuse for a while now. We have a substantial number of Linux users at work. I would like to know the details of the Launch Party, could you please advise me accordingly? We would be really interested in organizing one in our company. Regards Anshul Jain -- 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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