July 2009 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] I'm Back
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

Hello Mates, i'm back. Now i'm working on the next Weekly News Issue... -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com

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[opensuse-marketing] Ambassador Report - BLUG Installfest
by James Mason 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Last Thursday, July 2nd, the Bellingham Linux Users Group held an InstallFest - inviting the community in to try out Linux in its various forms, or get help with any niggling issues. About two dozen people attended, with various degrees of experience. Questions ranged from issues with audio on an old laptop, to the relative merits of different virtualization platforms, to ext file system recovery tools. I talked a bit about features of the upcoming 11.2 release (I'm rather excited about RESTful YaST, myself), demo'd by HP business laptop running openSUSE 11.1, and worked on a few installs. Sadly, we were all thwarted by a newbie with a Dell laptop that just wouldn't allow for partition resizing, no matter what (Neither openSUSE 11.1, Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.04, nor Debian Lenny would allow for resizing, and no amount of Windows repair would change the state... wierd.) But aside from that, it was a good time, and the Linux desktop was able to be spread to a few new users! The only area I fell short on was media... although I have a substantial supply of the freebie 32-bit DVDs, there was demand only for 64-bit for install. Luckily, I had my retail set handy to share. The DVDs are great for a live environment though, and I saw quite a few floating around. All in all, it was a good event! - James Mason 'bear454' -- 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 for openSUSE conference
by Pavol Rusnak 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Hi! I wasn't able to find any banners for upcoming openSUSE conference (130x130, 768x60 or other sizes). Is anyone working on it? -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Community Multiplier Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.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]
by Decks 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

hi. I am organizing an event on July 28, called Opensuse Day, there will be a tournament and Urban Terror in the afternoon There will be a festival of talks and Install Fest I wanted to know if I could send some stickers to stick to computers, since I still have promoDVD like geckos Thank you http://imagebin.ca/view/IoQAGh.html -- Decks Agustin Fco. Chavarria Miembro internacional de opensuse Embajador de opensuse en nicaragua tel: 84099002 -- 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 conference & educational institutions
by Michael Loeffler 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Moin, for the openSUSE conference I'd like to spread the word to universities and educational institutions which have a focus on IT and are in the wider area of Nürnberg (100-200km around). Robert produced some posters. Instead of sending it to "Universität Nürnberg" I'd like to send them as direct as possible to the chair or IT department. Anyone who has a contact to educational institutions in the greater Nürnberg area (eg. Regensburg, Coburg, Würzburg) please let me know names and addresses. Best M -- 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] Actual Away...
by Sascha Manns 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hello Friends, ATM i´m offline, because my PC is sick. I hope to come up soon. cu Sascha -- 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] Events in the UK
by Roger Whittaker 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

I shall be attending the UKUUG Summer conference (7th-9th August, Birmingham) with an official Novell tabletop (Novell sponsors UKUUG), but will be giving out openSUSE disks there. http://summer2009.ukuug.org/ I also hope to run an openSUSE stand at LugRadio Live 2009 (24th October 2009, Wolverhampton). http://www.lugradio.org/live/2009/ -- ======================== Roger Whittaker roger(a)disruptive.org.uk http://disruptive.org.uk ======================== -- 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] Translating the Ambassador Page
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hello Mates, first of all i would like to thank gabrielstein for translating the Page. Gnokii yesterday has created an Page in fr: http://fr.opensuse.org/Ambassadeur. If anyone of the frensh speaking Guys can translate the Page, it would be great. Then i think, we need an Translation for dutch and russian. So we had finished the biggest Languages (ex. Arabic). Maybe on of our Team can translate to one of them Languages. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Ambassador (ZoneCoordinator Europe, Middle East and Africa) openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com

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[opensuse-marketing] last newsletter, apology, next months
by Jan-Simon Möller 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi teammates, I'm really sorry that I wasn't able to keep up the last 2 weeks as I was hit by real-life (moving places, no net, ill). I'll be online this week and going through the backlog. The next 2 month will be busy - so I'd like to take a 1-2 month vacation from newsletter after having served for over 1 year. I'll help whenever I've time, but now its time for one of my teammates to step up and keep things rolling. Best, 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] Novell/SUSE presence at opensource high performance computing conferences
by Alberto Passalacqua 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

Hello all, high performance computing is in rapid expansion and its applications to many fields of research and industry are or are becoming common practice. Numerical simulation is today not only a tool for scientist but it is used in industry, medicine, biology, chemistry and other fields to optimize a design, verify hypotheses and obtain precise data. I guess someone is thinking now "and what has this to do with openSUSE?" :-). Well, it is simple: many tools used in high performance computing, especially in research are open source, and run on Linux. Others are not open source, but still run on Linux, and Linux is considered by many the platform of reference to build HPC clusters. Now, I see some opportunity for openSUSE in this sector, and it is of sure interest for Novell too (see top500, to find our loved chameleon making those beast green :-)). SUSE Linux Enterprise is already one of the supported platforms by various commercial tools used in HPC to perform simulations and process data, but it could do better and be more visible, because most of the time the attention goes to RHEL, being it more present and better known, in spite of its limitations, especially when it comes to HPC workstations, where its use might be quite limiting for the user. At least it is in my experience, being HPC what I do, and being RHEL what I have to use on my workstation. One opportunity to gain some visibility might be to take part at some conference on the topic. For example, in November 2009 there will be in Barcelona the OpenSource CFD (computational fluid dynamics) ( http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-news-announcements/66180-announci… ), which was born around OpenFOAM ( www.openfoam.org ), an open source code for fluid dynamics and now open to more products. From what I read, last year it attracted quite some attention from the industry, with names like Volkswagen, Procter & Gamble, Jaguar Land Rover, Audi, *Intel* and *Red Hat*. It could be of interest to promote openSUSE and SLE in a sector which might appear quite hidden, but gives access to both academic and industrial environments at once, and is surely growing (for those interested, take a look at the ANSYS' stocks and reports). I think it would be good for Novell (I say Novell because these conferences are technical, and people is interested in solutions, so generic marketing does not fit, and it would be better if the presenter is expert in the field (IT engineer with some experience with clusters and parallel computation)) to be present at events of this kind, and maybe on the long run plan around a packaged solution, which might be developed on openSUSE (most of what is needed is on OBS already) and extended to SLE as done, for example, with the -edu project. Best, A. -- 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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