October 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-marketing] A review on our Marketing Strategies
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 11:06:12 Stephan Kulow wrote: > Am Tuesday 12 October 2010 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 07:19:49 Sankar P wrote: > > > What packages does the promo DVD miss ? I would suggest, For download, > > > we > > > > Coolo, do you have a list? > > Sure. > > > > should give isos of only: > > > > > > 1) Live CDs of GNOME & KDE > > > 2) Promo DVD (also acts as a Live DVD) > > The promo DVD is not a live DVD, it contains the two live CD images you > have to choose from. A live DVD would mean no rpm packages and extra > config to choose the desktops live - and they would be installed in > parallel, which gives a less than optimial user experience as you have all > tools duplicated. > > Greetings, Stephan Ok, so to help this braindead dude a little, tell me again in clear and puppy- compattible words: - does the promo DVD installation option have the same packages as the GM and are the liveCD things only additions? OR does the promo DVD installation option have less packages to make room for the live images?

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] A review on our Marketing Strategies
by Graham Lauder 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010 18:19:49 Sankar P wrote: > >>> On 10/12/2010 at 01:47 AM, in message > > What packages does the promo DVD miss ? I would suggest, For download, we > should give isos of only: > > 1) Live CDs of GNOME & KDE > 2) Promo DVD (also acts as a Live DVD) > > Until now, I was of the opinion that the promo DVD and the DVD iso on the > downloads site contains the same set of packages. > > Sankar In fact the Promo DVD has way more packages. It will run both a Gnome and KDE live sessions and the DVD is double sided, one side has 64 bit install and 32 bit the other. I tell people just put it in 64 bit up and if your computer is 32 bit a message will popup telling you that your computer is not 64 bit compatible and all you have to do is take it out of the drive and turn it over. The Promo DVD is a work of art and with the New packaging it is very popular. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] A review on our Marketing Strategies
by Sankar P 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

>>> On 10/12/2010 at 02:36 PM, in message <201010121106.13500.coolo(a)suse.de>, Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)suse.de> wrote: > Am Tuesday 12 October 2010 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 07:19:49 Sankar P wrote: > > > What packages does the promo DVD miss ? I would suggest, For download, we > > > > Coolo, do you have a list? > Sure. > > > > > > should give isos of only: > > > > > > 1) Live CDs of GNOME & KDE > > > 2) Promo DVD (also acts as a Live DVD) > The promo DVD is not a live DVD, it contains the two live CD images you have > > to choose from. A live DVD would mean no rpm packages and extra config to > choose the desktops live - and they would be installed in parallel, which > gives a less than optimial user experience as you have all tools duplicated. > Ah okay. Thanks for the explanation. Got it clear now. Sankar -- 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] Question about bureaucracy
by Kostas Boukouvalas 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hi, *In case of need* because - as Stathis mentioned - many times we' ll probably have the opportunity to present openSUSE in schools and other organizations that may be somewhat suspicious about "the 'hacker' in front", what is the official bureau of the openSUSE community, recognized by law in the European Union by which we could have a signature over a piece of paper? In case there is not one, at who do we go for this? Novell? Thank you -- 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 #144 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

Hi @all! Issue #144 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/Weekly_news [1] :http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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 article on Linux Magazine
by Isaac Amaru Zelaya Orellana 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hello everyone, Jos Poortvliet got a space on Linux Magazine to promote the openSuse Conference so I wrote this little article http://piratepad.net/LfN2bglxf9, but it sucks, jejeje, so please give me a hand to finished and make it great!! Thanks to all :D -- GOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! -- 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] SmeeGol will go out soon!
by Jos Poortvliet 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi all, Within a few hours an announcement will go out: SmeeGol 1.0 is released! The announcement goes out on news.openSUSE.org but Novell will also help a bit by blogging about it and sending a message to journalists who might be interested. And the SUSE Studio team will make the SmeeGol Studio image their 'appliance of the week'. So that's cool - but of course, more help is very much welcome! Comment on the story on news, tweet and digg it, etcetera. As usual :D And yes, that really helps, that's why I ask... We got something unique here: - We are beating both Fedora and MeeGo itself in delivering the latest MeeGo software - AND we do it while shipping newer software (Banshee etc) - AND we have one-click-install for openSUSE users & SUSE Studio images ready to be cloned so anyone can make their own SUSE Studio version!!!! So let people know this, please!!! Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] 11.4 Milestone 2 announcement
by Andreas Jaeger 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

As discussed in today's marketing IRC meeting: We're a week late with the M2 announcement. Coolo gave me the following package update info, will somebody write this week an announcement for Milestone 2? How can we handle future milestone announcements better? Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: version upgrades m2 Date: Tuesday 05 October 2010, 13:50:34 From: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)suse.de> To: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de> Hi, I'm not subscribed to marketing list, so please bounce it: ConsoleKit 0.4.2 (from 0.4.1) Mesa 7.9 (from 7.8.2) Firefox 3.6.10 (from 3.6.8) OpenOffice 3.3 alpha (from 3.2.1.4) PackageKit 0.6.8 (from 0.6.7) GNOME 2.31.92 (from 2.31.90) KDE 4.5.1 (from 4.5.0) dbus-1 1.4 cronie replaced cron gcc 4.5.1 (from 4.5.0) gdb 7.2 (from 7.1) git 1.7.2.2 (from 1.7.1) inkscape 0.48 (from 0.47) kernel 2.6.36-rc4 (from 3.6.34) python 2.7 (from 2.6) koffice 2.2.2 (from 2.2.1) subversion 1.6.12 (from 1.6.9) boost 1.44 (from 1.42) qt4 4.7.0 (from 4.6.3) Greetings, Stephan ----------------------------------------- -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-marketing] Software Freedom Day - Chile - Report
by Francisco Arias 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi everyone, here is my report: Event: Software Freedom Day - Chile. Date: September 25th, 2010. Location: University of Talca, VII, Chile. 1. how many DVDs did you take? 100. 2. How many DVDs did you distribute? 100. 3. how many people where at the event? Around 300 guests. 4. At the booth? Around 150 persons. 5. three most asked questions/topics at booth? 5.1 What's openSUSE? 5.2 What's the main difference between openSUSE and others (usually Ubuntu)? 5.3 How good is hardware support on openSUSE? 6. What was the most interesting comment, question, talk you heard? Some people was expecting some kind of flyer about openSUSE, because sometimes I wasn't at the booth and people was needing information. 7. Will you blog about the event - and where? I'm not a blogger but actually I made some tweets. 8. Who staffed the booth? My wife, our little daughter and me. My daughter and I were dressing up openSUSE t-shirts so some people came to the booth because of that (she looked very funny) ;-) 9. Did you have a talk? Yes, I had one. 10. Which topic? open-source and free software on education. I talked about openSUSE Li-f-e. 11. Will you provide slides for others to use? Of course!!! Also, I asked guests to complete a little poll, you can find results here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/64556/openSUSE/SoftwareFreedomDay_openSUSE_Poll.pdf And you can find my (modified) presentation (spanish) here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/64556/openSUSE/openSUSE_Life_spanish.odp Cheers! -- Francisco J. Arias Ingeniero Civil en Computación Universidad de Talca T/L: (75) 32 42 31 Mobile: (56) (9) 780 92 712 Skype Contact: francisco.arias ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to." Gandalf, from The Lord Of The Rings. -- 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] The openSUSE Handbook proposal
by Javier Llorente 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hello there, I was thinking that having an openSUSE Handbook (or handbuch ;) in pdf format ready to be downloaded, printed and even ready to be sent to a publishing company is a good idea. So, here's my proposal: First, we would have to make a list of topics to be included and organise them in chapters, like the following draft: ****************************** The openSUSE Handbook ****************************** Introduction - What's the openSUSE project? - What's openSUSE? Installing openSUSE - Different types of install methods - AutoYaST Installing applications - Using 1-click - Using YaST - Using zypper Desktop environments - An introduction to DEs (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE). - Enabling proprietary drivers (ATI, NVIDIA) - Multimedia - Printing - Games System administration - Introduction to the command line - Networking - Security - Storage - Virtualization - Keeping openSUSE up-to-date - Upgrading openSUSE Servers - Apache and lighttpd - MySQL and PostgreSQL - Postfix - BIND - Samba - CUPS etc Other openSUSE Technologies - Build Service - SUSE Studio - KIWI Second, we would have to write about those topics not included in the wiki and review those already written. That way we would have more relevant bits in both the wiki and handbook. Each topic doesn't have to be 100 page long ;-) And last but not least we would have to put all the pieces together and make it available in pdf. Drawbacks: We would need to update some of its contents for each openSUSE release. It needs more than two people to make it happen ;-) On the other hand, I think that the handbook would make openSUSE more "visible" and a bit more "ready to use." Comments and suggestions are welcome! :-) Cheers, -- Javier Llorente

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[opensuse-marketing] Log from today's marketing meeting
by Andreas Jaeger 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

From http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-marketing/2010/opensuse-mar… Meeting summary 1. Opening Comments (AJaeger, 15:02:43) 2. Conference Marketing (AJaeger, 15:06:17) 1. ACTION: gnokii to send email to german LUGs to invite them to osc2010. (AJaeger, 15:19:18) 2. ACTION: gnokii to send AJ link to list of German LUGs to have it for next time (AJaeger, 15:19:42) 3. Upcoming Events (AJaeger, 15:21:33) 1. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2010-10/msg00037.html - gnokii needs help at OpenRheinRuhr, Germany (AJaeger, 15:23:39) 4. Smeegol Announcement (AJaeger, 15:29:10) 1. ACTION: everybody to support Smeegol announcement with twitter, digg, blog, talking etc (AJaeger, 15:34:00) 2. ACTION: jospoortvliet to add info to the openSUSE wiki on supporting releases (AJaeger, 15:37:50) 5. openSUSE 11.4 Milestone announcements (AJaeger, 15:40:48) 1. ACTION: AJaeger to put a job on the job page about distribution marketing (AJaeger, 15:46:56) 6. openSUSE Build Service 2.1 release (AJaeger, 15:47:14) 7. Marketing Jobs (AJaeger, 15:48:51) 1. current obs announcement is at http://piratepad.net/VXa1B1xryD (AJaeger, 15:50:04) 2. list of marketing jobs is at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_jobs (AJaeger, 15:50:24) 8. Miscellaneous and Q&A (AJaeger, 15:53:32) 1. ACTION: help with creating great flyers for potential contributors and unsuspecting users, drafts at http://doc.etherpad.org/I05Lp5I9yZ and http://ietherpad.com/nDU83dbe98 (AJaeger, 15:57:52) 2. ACTION: AJaeger to set up a marketing face-to-face meeting at osc2010 (AJaeger, 16:17:16) Meeting ended at 16:29:25 UTC (full logs). Action items 1. gnokii to send email to german LUGs to invite them to osc2010. 2. gnokii to send AJ link to list of German LUGs to have it for next time 3. everybody to support Smeegol announcement with twitter, digg, blog, talking etc 4. jospoortvliet to add info to the openSUSE wiki on supporting releases 5. AJaeger to put a job on the job page about distribution marketing 6. help with creating great flyers for potential contributors and unsuspecting users, drafts at http://doc.etherpad.org/I05Lp5I9yZ and http://ietherpad.com/nDU83dbe98 7. AJaeger to set up a marketing face-to-face meeting at osc2010 Action items, by person 1. AJaeger 1. AJaeger to put a job on the job page about distribution marketing 2. AJaeger to set up a marketing face-to-face meeting at osc2010 2. gnokii 1. gnokii to send email to german LUGs to invite them to osc2010. 2. gnokii to send AJ link to list of German LUGs to have it for next time 3. jospoortvliet 1. jospoortvliet to add info to the openSUSE wiki on supporting releases 4. UNASSIGNED 1. everybody to support Smeegol announcement with twitter, digg, blog, talking etc 2. help with creating great flyers for potential contributors and unsuspecting users, drafts at http://doc.etherpad.org/I05Lp5I9yZ and http://ietherpad.com/nDU83dbe98 -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 team at Xariseto.gr Free Festival-Report
by Kostas Koud 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

At October the 3rd we participated at the xariseto Free Festival.We were placed between Greeklug and the Fedora community Project. A few words about the event: The event had everything an Free open fest could have,music,theatrical teams ,places for kids to learn through games, free coffee, free clothes,free games and any other kind of items people stopped use and wanted to give away to others instead of throwing them away as garbage,also after the event what people didn’t take the xarise to team gathered it and gave it to institutions. Our presence there: Our Community was represented by Kostas Koudaras (warlordfff) and we had with us dvd's, stickers and flyers with information about our community.We expected more people but the weather was cloudy and not many people left their houses to come at the event.We gave away around 60-70 dvd's but we talked with all 60-70 people and at least 80% showed us real interest on trying openSUSE. Also a big percentage of them were either businessman, either experienced window's user's that were looking for their getaway to Linux operating Systems and needed help for it. Also there were some site admins that asked for our help at the creation of a FOSS section at their Sites. For a full report and photo's take a look at: http://bit.ly/deJBL8 Kostas (warlordfff) Koudaras -- me I am not me -- 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 Meeting today
by Andreas Jaeger 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

We have at 15:00 UTC our marketing meeting today: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting#Next_meeting The current agenda reads: 1. Opening Comments (5 mins) 2. Conference Marketing 1. Where are we at now? 3. Upcoming Events 1. What events are we already planning to attend? 2. Collaborating on developing abstracts for talks 4. openSUSE 11.4 Milestone announcements 5. openSUSE Build Service 2.1 release - announcements 6. Miscellaneous and Q&A Anything you like to add? Please join us on #opensuse-marketing! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 Chuck Payne 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Some fun reading... http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/downloads/jonobacon-theartofcommunity-1… -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.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] Sadly Bryen (suseROCKS) was robbed
by Stephen Shaw 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

He is currently traveling in Spain and will soon be off to the openSUSE conference. Over the weekend he was robbed. Among those items were his laptop, camera, kindle, and other various items. We are hoping to raise some money to help replace those items. Thanks to those that have already given. For those that'd like to help out here is a link to the donate site: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13645 Thanks, Bryen's friends -- 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 #143 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

Hi @all! Issue #143 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/Weekly_news [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ [3]: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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] speaking of brand identity....
by Helen 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

You may have already noticed this - we're a bit behind in Oz. I just bought the August 2010 issue of Linux Journal. A letter asks "Just curious as to which Distro logo is the one between Ubuntu and Debian on the front cover of the June 2010 issue..." Answer from Ed: "Novell" ((8-o http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjournal/issues/194/… -- 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] NovDoc Usage
by Bryant, Christian 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

I'm going to be working on some custom appliances using SUSE Studio. I love the susedoc style sheets but I'm not clear on the usage requirements and wanted to make sure that I can use susedoc to create manuals for my appliances that look exactly like the actual openSUSE manuals. I know the code for susedoc is GPL but are there some documentation guidelines for folks like me that have this type of project in mind? Thank you. Cheers, Christian Bryant, UCLA Health System Project Manager, IT Operations Medical Information Technology Services (MITS) IMPORTANT WARNING: This email (and any attachments) is only intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. You, the recipient, are obligated to maintain it in a safe, secure and confidential manner. Unauthorized redisclosure or failure to maintain confidentiality may subject you to federal and state penalties. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify us by return email, and delete this message from your computer. -- 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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