August 2009 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Software Freedom Day in NZ
by Graham Lauder 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

OpenSUSE is going to be on display at the Software Freedom day in Hamilton NZ organised by the Waikato LUG (http://wlug.org.nz/sfd) and we'll be handing out DVDs during the day as well as having an OS KIWI LTSP rig on display for the punters to use I'll also be doing a presentation on FOSS in business hopefully using the latest 11.2 snapshot. If there are any Kiwi Geeko-philes in Hamilton on the day we'd be pleased to see you. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) http://www.theingots.org OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html Open Opportunities ltd. Open Technologies Training and Migration Consultants OOoGear: For the Well dressed OOo Advocate http://ooogear.co.nz -- 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] Weekly News: Announcing Meetings via news.o.o
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Hello Mates, i would just remind you, to announce meetings in news.o.o too. The thing behind them is, that we use an script for fetching news.o.o events automaticly. It would be great if we all have the events on an central place. Thank you very much :-) -- 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 -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Wednesday August 26, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place today (Wednesday August 26) at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-08-26 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[2]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://is.gd/2wstW [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] [Weekly News] Minutes from the Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Present: ======= soyines STS301 sakana javier_ HeliosReds mrmoneyc Welong Topics: ====== Topics: 1.) New Action Items: 1.1) AI Sebastian: SUSEnews BETA release.. 1.2) AI Satoru: 1.2.1) Load sharing of editing original en newsletter during Jan's 'vacation from newsletter'. 1.2.2) Introducing the upcoming events all over the world (e.c. Nicaragua/Opensuse Day@UCA from Ambassador/Events). New corner ? In "Upcoming Events/Meeting" corner ? 1.2.3.) Categorize articles in 'Tips and Tricks' and 'On the Web' into sub-categories. 1.3) Creating New Job: Past/Upcoming Events with Ambassador/Events Action Item Sebastian: SUSEnews BETA release ====================================== In July STS301 has published the BETA from SUSEnews. Now he has added some bugfixes. Helios reds reminds us to update our INI Files. The statistics working atm not. Action Item Satoru: Load sharing of editing original en newsletter ================================================= Satoru proposed that we can share the work with the main newsletter on many shoulders. So we have fixed the following things: * Creating new Job: Events Editor. He collects the events from news.o.o, Ambassador/Events and the Mailinglists (some Events are not stored in news.o.o). The new guy fills the Past/Upcoming Events Section. And he collects Minutes from Meetings and adds it to "In the Community". * Everyone can collect Articles. The collected Articles should be formatted as the original Weekly News. So the editors can work with copy & paste. We try to publish an List of serious Linux related RSS Feeds. The Topic 1.2.2 is answered with this Paragraph. Categorize articles in 'Tips and Tricks' and 'On the Web' into sub categories. ================================================= Helios Reds proposed an new structure for T&T and On the Web:http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current#Mee… All presents User given an +1 to the new Structure. Helios Reds changes the Templates. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/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] Whitepaper: Weekly News Survey
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hello Mates, i've just announce my Whitepaper. This is an Collection from Comments of our Survey. The Whitepaper shows us what are Work in Progress and what planned in future. Visible in: http://freenet- homepage.de/smanns/whitepaper/WhitepaperWeeklyNewsSurvey.pdf -- 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 -- 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] [Weekly News] Issue #85 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Hi @all! Issue #85 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/85 [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/85/Translations Have Phun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns 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 -- 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] Using Facebook to promote
by Chuck Payne 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Guys, I am doing two events for openSUSE. To help promote these events. I am and have been using Facebook to promote. I just want to sugget that to other Ambassador to use Facebook, Linkin, MySpace or what ever your society site to help promote a long with twitters and blogs. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/event.php?eid=118577731225 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/event.php?eid=112790766710 -- ---------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- OpenSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup OpenSuSE Ambassador OpenSuSE Member Skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup Come join me at the Atlanta Linux Fest, September 19th, 2009 http://atlantalinuxfest.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] September coming, repeat
by aliks-os 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hello to all. September coming, it is month of starting education proccess in Schools, instututes, academies and so on. Early, I had conversation with some officials and they are ready give an opportunity to carry out some presentation. So I need: 1. openSUSE distr. 2. template of presentation 3. sticker and so on. 4. t-shirts, if possible. 5. a little budget for travelling (gasoline/petrol) and other, approx 100 USD I am planning to have about 100 person, so I need aprox 70 pieces of distributing sets. Any comments are welcome Best regards Aleksey Osipov openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador (Ukraine) openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Coordinator of Russian Translation team -- 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] [Weekly News] Reminder: Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday August 22 at 16:00 UTC. See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. All Translators, Editors and other People are invited. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can’t attend (we know that the meeting times can’t work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Using Facebook to promote
by Aditya Patawari 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

> On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:16:21 Aditya Patawari wrote: > > I can also help. I am good with grammar and already managing a local > > website and a Linux User Group on google group. > > > > Please answer on the list - and help is always welcome! > Sorry, I hit the wrong button. As I said I would be glad to help. You can count on me. -- Aditya Patawari http://blog.adityapatawari.com/ http://en.opensuse.org/User:Adimania Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra India -- 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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