September 2008 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Dates of events, meetings, releases and so on for the weekly newsletter
by Jan-Simon Möller 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi @all! Could we put all dates into the calendar of news.o.o (if not already there)? Its easier for me to write (or generate) the past/upcoming events for the weekly newsletter based on that data (openSUSEnews.ics). 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] openSUSE Main Page redesign
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hi all, A bit ago, Robert Lihm and Andreas Demmer put together a new design for the openSUSE Web page. We'd like to get some comments on this redesign *now* while it's in the design phase, as opposed to a bunch of commentary *after* it's deployed. :-) (Or, to put it another way, "speak now...") The new design is here: http://webtest.opensuse.org/en/ Some of the text is just placeholder text, so there's no need to worry right now about the content on the page (unless you have a desire to pitch in with that) -- but we do need some thought about the design. Two good comments made during the meeting in IRC: * The text links at the bottom (Get Software ... Wiki ... Build Service) should be up top rather than at the bottom. * It's necessary to scroll to get to a lot of the content. I don't think this is entirely avoidable, but maybe it'd be possible to minimize this? I'm not a designer, but I'm wondering if it might make better use of space to include the search bar in the grey box on the page? Other thoughts? Overall, I'm greatly impressed with this design. Andreas and Robert - looks great! 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Main Page redesign
by Michael Loeffler 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Bryen wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:16 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > A bit ago, Robert Lihm and Andreas Demmer put together a new design > > for the openSUSE Web page. We'd like to get some comments on this > > redesign *now* while it's in the design phase, as opposed to a bunch > > of commentary *after* it's deployed. :-) (Or, to put it another way, > > "speak now...") > > > > The new design is here: > > > > http://webtest.opensuse.org/en/ > > > > Some of the text is just placeholder text, so there's no need to worry > > right now about the content on the page (unless you have a desire to > > pitch in with that) -- but we do need some thought about the design. > > > > Two good comments made during the meeting in IRC: > > > > * The text links at the bottom (Get Software ... Wiki ... Build > > Service) should be up top rather than at the bottom. > > * It's necessary to scroll to get to a lot of the content. I don't > > think this is entirely avoidable, but maybe it'd be possible to > > minimize this? > > > > I'm not a designer, but I'm wondering if it might make better use of > > space to include the search bar in the grey box on the page? > > > > Other thoughts? > > > > Overall, I'm greatly impressed with this design. Andreas and Robert - > > looks great! > > > > Best, > > > > Zonker > > -- > > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier > > openSUSE Community Manager > > Some of us chatted after the meeting with Andreas and discussed a few > points. > > * To increase accessibility to page and basically send out a "We care" > message, Andreas will add an option to switch to high-contrast view. > > * Though I didn't get into this discussion, I think it was generally > agreed that the language option should be placed at the top of the page, > rather than the bottom. This is not necessary as the page is displayed in the browser language. And that should offer to kind of 95%+ of all visitors the right language. So language at the bottom should be okay. M > > Bryen -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Next Marketing Meeting - Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 at 17:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

The next meeting will be on Sept. 9th at 17:00 UTC. Page is here on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Meetings/Marketing_Meeting_2008-09-09 Feel free to add agenda items. I'll send around an agenda via email before the meeting. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb(a)zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- 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] Marketing at Nicaragua
by Alex Rodriguez 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

A local design for t-shirts and banner http://opensuse.org.ni/index.php?title=Arte the transduction is ================================= tshirts >> In Nicaragua I use openSUSE Linux ================================= ================================= banner >> Believe in Free Software, Free Yourself, choose Linux You will never be alone Join us >> www.openSUSE.org.ni Powered by NOVELL ================================= All this work to spread openSUSE Linux at SFD08 and any other event =) Greetings -- Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez || @LeX Usuario Linux # 379802 openSUSE 11.0 -- 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] New o.o-frontpage
by Robert Lihm 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hey! During Hackweek 3 Andreas Demmer and I made a new frontpage for opensuse.org, which will replace the 3-Box-Page we currently have on http://www.opensuse.org . The goals of the new page are: * pickup the visitor at the front-door * offer more information about the openSUSE-Project on a centralised page (more; not to much, many, etc., just a overview!) * stay conform with the openSUSE.org screen-design * make it easy for newcomers to dig into the openSUSE-Univers. About the page-design: The content is always placed in two columns (1/3 to 2/3) and the page is divided into two halves. In the top is the eye-candy logo with a short description (we are still looking for a better/shorter text) of the openSUSE project and the good old three main sections: software, wiki, build service. Links to all other o.o-pages are offert at the bottom of the page as hotwords, so they can be easily found with the filter in your browser or by scrolling ;-) The search bar above the the categories is not fully implemented jet. We plan a selection box (dropdown) in front of the input-field where you can select the section which should be searched (e.g. like Firefox search in the top/right corner). The placement of the search box is carefully chosen. It has a optical connection to the three sections but there is enough white-space between the search and the section-chunk to display that they are not siblings. It's in the upper-right where the most people look for a search (it's in these area on all o.o-pages). The lower part of the page contains, in the bigger column, informations like upcoming events, etc. ... what ever is hot :-) The smaler column contains the last 5 headlines from news.o.o (updates every hour), help informations and a link to shop.o.o. We made a small admin interface to change the content without the code- hacking and deploying dance. A localisation is implemented, too. But not deployed now. You can check out the draft at http://www.suse.de/~rlihm/index.shtml. We are looking forward to hear your opinions and suggestions. Best, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - Build Service Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- 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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