November 2009 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-marketing] 11.2 DVD Cover Mock-up
by Jakub Steiner 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Kálmán Kéménczy <kkemenczy(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> I like this one the best but that screen shot has got to go! > > agree, the screenshot not fits well to the design and maybe f-spot not > represent well the distribution if we use only one screenshot. Can't think of a reasonable 'desktop neutral' screenshot. Having a single screenshot be of the installer doesn't sound right. Having multiple screenshots would be better, but no matter how I tried to lay these out, they always end up tiny. As KDE is the default desktop on 11.2 I've updated the DVD sleeve to include a KDE screenshot. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/opensuse/dvd-cover.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/opensuse/cover-gnome-cd.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/opensuse/cover-kde-cd.png cheers -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac(a)gmail.com> http://jimmac.musichall.cz -- 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] Promo Video for 11.2
by Shayon 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hello, Well i recently planned out a kind of promo video for openSUSE 11.2 release.Due to lack of time (as i have my studies pending :) ) and having not much of knowledge in Video Editing , I couldn't create a better one.But i suppose with your valuable comments and bit of more hard work.We can make it a better one.For the time being this just the test!. Looking forward for your comments :) . Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JXFYT_oCl4 Best, Shayon -- openSUSE Wiki Team Member http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock Website: http://www.shay0n.hpage.com Email: hkwarlock(a)gmail.com Twitter: wwarl0ck -- 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 #96 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Hi @all! Issue #96 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]. We collected some FAQ here [2]. After translating, please move your Language in [3] up. [0]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/96 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Translations/Ready [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/FAQ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/96/Translations Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Presentation and Help Spreading OpenSUSE
by Alex Barrios 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Greetings to everyone on the list and members of this great community. First my primary language its spanish, so i use a bit of the google translator for this email. My name is Alex Barrios, living in Merida, Venezuela (Latin America), since openSUSE users and user 2 years ago and Linux from 8. OpenSUSE really excites me and I think it's a great distribution that has not had enough thrust in my region so I am organizing a InstallFest next week, on Saturday to celebrate the release of 11.2, and distribution to make this my location and even see if I can form a community in my region. I would like to become Ambassador of OpenSUSE, so I made and all the steps listed on the main page and just would like to receive the approval of the community. My blog is where I keep items blog.alexbariv.com OpenSUSE (and linux in general) for some time. There is information on the event I'm organizing with the support of my company and other trading partner. I would like to support me for giving me the presentation material, such as statistics in general to the distro, a suggestion when answering questions like "Why should I use OpenSUSE?" and well, whatever else they can offer to start with a good start this initiative. My event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183383374576 Thanks in advance for all the support you can offer. -- Alex Barrios -- 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] 11.2 DVD Cover Mock-up
by Graham Lauder 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

On Friday 06 November 2009 14:22:09 RageCryX wrote: > All these proposals were a good brainstorming for me. So I came up with a > fused version of the 3 proposals... > > PNG Preview is here: > http://sites.google.com/site/rcxpersonal/openSUSE_11_2_CoverFusion_4.png?at >tredirects=0 > > SVG Source file is here: > http://sites.google.com/site/rcxpersonal/openSUSE_11.2_Cover_FUSION_b.svg?a >ttredirects=0&d=1 > > All needed raster images are embedded. > > > Regards, > George <RageCryX> Koutsikos Lose the dotted circle and this I would vote for. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, INGOTs Assessor Trainer Moderator New Zealand (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html -- 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-project] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Promo Video for 11.2
by Koushik Kumar Nundy 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

The fact that Kino is rudimentary is hardly a problem. it is atleast as powerful as Windows Movie Maker, and see how good Shayon has worked on it. P.S. Shay0n, what did you use for screencasting, or did you use screenshots only?? -- Koushik Kumar Nundy B.Tech, ECE Final year NIT Durgapur India. http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in http://kknundy.blogspot.com http://en.opensuse.org/ http://twitter.com/kknundy -- 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] Banners
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Post-launch, we could use more openSUSE 11.2 banners. We have some here: http://en.opensuse.org/Buttons#Banners But we could do with more. Any chance of getting some Web-ad standard sized banners for next week? Especially: 468x60 120x240 125x125 160x600 I could whip some up myself, but I don't think anyone wants that! :-) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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] Minutes - openSUSE Marketing SocNet Hackfest 03/Nov/2009
by Bryen M Yunashko 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

(Apparently I sent this from the wrong mailbox and it bounced back without me noticing it yesterday. My apologies!) Meeting held on Tuesday 4-Nov-2009 at 14:00 UTC. Present: AJaeger bertnid emcconne_ FunkyPenguin gnokii HeliosReds jbrocmeier michl ruperthorstkoetter shayon suseROCKs wstephenson yaloki AJaeger begins in meeting by yelling "Party!" thus indicating it's a fun channel and group to be with. suseROCKs begins meeting by reminding everyone that 11.2 Final Release is in 9 days and we wish to maximize our use of the Social Networking services to promote openSUSE. jBrockmeier suggests we target 2 or 3 specific networks rather than use just any social network tool out there. suseROCKs suggests Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca and LinkedIn. suseROCKs indicates we need more tweets and re-tweets on Twitter. Seems we are scant in recent days. We should insist that participation on the Marketing Team should include proactive tweeting and retweeting. Shayon says we need more openSUSE users first to create more tweet content. suseROCKs reminds the meeting that we had discussed creating social network user account directories at the openSUSE Conference. AI to Shayon to create these directories. jBrockmeier pointed out that using "Please RT" gets a higher percentage of retweets than just "RT." He also suggests we target influencers such as media persons and people with large accounts and send tweets to them. AI to JBrockmeier from gnokii: Please make your tweets shorter so it is easier for us to retweet. Discussion evolved to what to tweet? How to get content to tweet? Tweets should be interesting. suseROCKs suggests finding a way to get PlanetSUSE to feed to Twitter/Identi.ca to make it easier for all of us to re-tweet good articles. AI to Michl: to find ways to get developers to use microblogging more so we can all retweet more interesting stuff. Bertnid suggested we use cotweet to bring our tweets together. AI to wstephenson: to hold a social-media knowledge sharing session on-site in NUE. emcconne_ indicated he has received successful traffic to his blog as a result of Twitter and re-tweets. Bertnid also brought up use of podcasts, but this wasn't discussed further in the meeting. wstephenson brought attention to PlanetSUSE and asks the group if there is a need for a revamp. Many indicated a desire to streamline (restrict) posts by eliminating Novell PR blogs and non-open source articles (by imposing tag requirements.) Many feel that would make PlanetSUSE more interesting to the Community. It was suggested that a separate PlanetSUSE meeting (hackfest?) be held with Riggwelter (maintainer of PlanetSUSE) that can focus on all of PlanetSUSE ideas and tweaks. AJaeger suggested perhaps changing from PlanetSUSE to planet.opensuse.org Long-term goals of SocNet are to get more interesting content out there and improve the culture of social networking across the full openSUSE community. Short term goals stated by JBrockmeier in preparation for 11.2 release: 1. Everyone on marketing team should be blogging about 11.2 release 2. Get people to go out and help out in forums 3. Outreach to "influencers" 4. Tweet and Re-Tweet things about the release 5. Build sustained attention to openSUSE beyond the release date so people are talking about openSUSE in late November, December, and so on. JBrockmeier also suggests an open week (Getting to know openSUSE) for the first week of December (6-11.) AJaeger concurs it is a good date for open week. AJaeger and suseROCKs briefly discuss the difference between Santa Claus and Hannukah Harry. wstephenson mentions Christmukkah. Those who want to take on specific AI's should sign up for Basecamp website where JBrockmeier has listed project goals for social networking. Those volunteered are: wstephenson AJaeger suseROCKs jbrockmeier shayon Discussion around how to generate topics for articles and tweets. wstephenson suggested "how about area specialists like myself for KDE mail -marketing with a list of twitterable things for their area?" -- 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] 11.2 DVD Cover Mock-up
by RageCryX 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

All these proposals were a good brainstorming for me. So I came up with a fused version of the 3 proposals... PNG Preview is here: http://sites.google.com/site/rcxpersonal/openSUSE_11_2_CoverFusion_4.png?at… SVG Source file is here: http://sites.google.com/site/rcxpersonal/openSUSE_11.2_Cover_FUSION_b.svg?a… All needed raster images are embedded. Regards, George <RageCryX> Koutsikos ___________________________________________________________ Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo!; Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail διαθέτει την καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών μηνυμάτων http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=gr -- 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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VOTE TODAY [Was: Re: [opensuse-marketing] 11.2 DVD Cover Mock-up]
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Jakub Steiner <jimmac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm quite late to the DVD cover discussion. I think most of the > designs here are really centered around the 11.1 theme, with the > exception of the latest one from RageCryX. Overall the layout is > usually quite dense with very little whitespace. I like these quite a bit - but we are pretty deep into the discussions. No more submissions please. We need to have something this week. Votes, now, on which one to run with? 1) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/opensuse/cover.png 2) http://bit.ly/2K92Y0 3) http://bit.ly/1SrbVE Winner gets a free download of openSUSE 11.2 on November 12. :-) (Note: Text may change and minor things may be done to change them for final copy) Thanks, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- 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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