December 2008 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Viral marketing (not openSUSE-specific)
by G Hemanth 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi all, As the blog reads "Viral Marketing: The critical element of viral marketing is this: it's built in. It was built into Hotmail and built into YouTube. The more people used the camera on their cell phones, the more the idea spread, the more people wanted a camera.". We have to give people a reason to use opensuse. following are the reason i could think off. 1) Placing reading material on to a more visible area, like Desktop of Live CD, or in a folder placed on Desktop of regular user. 2) show people how easy it is watch movies, listen to music, setting up DSL connections for internet, hands on. 3) when browsing over internet or transfering data using USB media they can be assured that windows virus will not be spread.(show them how the virus files are visible on the USB media in nautilus, and delete them using rm) 4) simplicity in slicing of huge files into small chunks and joining them using (dd and cat). 5) bust the myth: "installing opensuse linux is difficult". i just demonstrated the above steps on my laptop to my friends, and showed them that only opensuse exists on laptop : no need for windows vista/xp to do such simple tasks. i got call from two of my friends asking for setting up opensuse for them(one owing a new laptop, other owing low end desktop of 512 MB ram). i just gave them an install DVD of 11.0, asked them to install by themselves; any problem just give a call. today they are happy browsing, watching movie, listen music and laptop guy enjoying the AIGLX. never turned back to windows. the features of linux desktop pushed opensuse itself. -- - Hemanth.G On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 07:47 -0700, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > Hi all, > > As we're thinking about ways to promote openSUSE, I'd recommend taking a > look at this post by Seth Godin: > > http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/what-is-viral-m.html > > Any thoughts along those lines would be appreciated. > > One thing I'm thinking about for a giveaway at shows next year would be, > instead of just stickers and so forth, something useful -- like a > Zypper, or Bash, or Vim reference card with the openSUSE logo. > > Thoughts? > > Best, > > Zonker > -- > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier > openSUSE Community Manager > http://zonker.opensuse.org/ > jbrockmeier(a)novell.com >

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Viral marketing (not openSUSE-specific)
by Joe Brockmeier 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 09:03 -0600, Bryen wrote: > > One thing that I've always thought would be cool would be one of those > desktop calendar pads where you have "word of the day." Only in this > case, it would be "CLI Command of the day." I don't know if something > like that would be feasible since they're bulkier and more money than > a > card. In any case, this is an item that people would keep prominent > on > their desk on a daily basis. That would be extremely cool, but I think the cost of manufacture + the cost of actually producing the content might be prohibitive. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ jbrockmeier(a)novell.com -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 11.1 coverage
by Joe Brockmeier 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:55 +0100, Michael Loeffler wrote: > > Afaik this is sent out to many press people automatically. It's sent out to a lot of press and bloggers, as well as being published on several news wires -- so the press who cover Linux or IT should definitely see it. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ jbrockmeier(a)novell.com -- 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 coverage
by Joe Brockmeier 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi all, Link on my blog here to coverage of openSUSE (does not include the coverage on our own sites). http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/12/19/opensuse-111-coverage/ Would appreciate suggestions for wider coverage and continued coverage. How can we push this out, for example, to local newspapers with tech coverage? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ jbrockmeier(a)novell.com -- 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] Help in one click
by manchette 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Hello, i recently tried Sidux ourea Kde lite live cd (from Debian sid) and it has an awsome idea to reach the help in one click : on the desktop is a shortcut giving direct access to their Irc channel. Isn't this a good idea ? This could easily be implemented in opensuse nearby the Help shortcut (sidux also has a man shortcut which is almost the same). i thought this could be pretty helpful for beginners, and very convenient for others ;=) Fabrice -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Issue #51 ready for translation
by Jan-Simon Möller 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Am Friday 19 December 2008 22:48:39 schrieb Александр Мелентьев: > Caution! Link to wiki-pages in other languages point to issues other > then 51 (eg 46,48). You'd better be more careful with them next time ) > You mean the links at the bottom ? - we missed to update them to 51. Sri & thanks ! @ALL: we need to update them to "51" . Thanks, 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] Issue #51 ready for translation
by Jan-Simon Möller 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi @all! Issue 51 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. You can see/update the status of your language at the "whats ready page" [1]. I've attached the en.txt for the translation-tool as file. [0]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/51 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Translations/Ready Have Phun! Best regards, Jan-Simon

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[opensuse-marketing] a Good Interview with Zonker
by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/12/12/qa-with-joe-brockmeier-at-novell Pretty nice to describe all about openSUSE :-). -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id Commercial : http://toko.vavai.biz /************************************************************/ -- 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 Weekly News - call for contributors
by Rupert Horstkötter 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Community, this is a call for volunteers. Thanks to your awesome help, the openSUSE Weekly Newsletter Team currently provides the Weekly News in 9 languages (including English) to the openSUSE community. To be able to further enhance the quality of our current offering, the openSUSE Weekly Newsletter Team always welcomes contributors. What we especially need: 1. We did an investigation last week and we are looking for Italian, French and Chinese translators. These three languages with a significant user percentage of openSUSE installations are not supported by the Weekly Newsletter yet. 2. To strengthen our current translation teams we are always looking for translators for currently supported languages, namely German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. 3. As you hopefully already noticed we provide a dedicated openSUSE Forums section with hot topics and asserted threads as of the Weekly News issue #49 to the openSUSE community. This is an area, where we are also in desperate need of contributors - this is especially interesting for community members highly involved in the forums already. If you are interested to participate in one of these areas, you are very welcome to join the team. Please contact either Jan-Simon Möller - jansimon.moeller/at/opensuse.org or Rupert Horstkötter - rhorstkoetter/at/opensuse.org for further information. Any help is much appreciated and we are looking forward to your responses. Best, Rupert -- Rupert Horstkötter, openSUSE community Email: rhorstkoetter(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] Sneak Peeks for the rest of the week?
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi all, We put up the first Sneak Peek on Saturday -- many thanks to Kevin for getting that one ready. How are the others going? 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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