November 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [opensuse-project] Attachmate is acquiring Novell
by Andreas Jaeger 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

FYI, let's not speculate until we have more information... Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-project] Attachmate is acquiring Novell Date: Monday 22 November 2010, 15:58:17 From: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> To: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org FYI, Attachmate is acquiring Novell: http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate- corporation/ From the announcement "Attachmate Corporation plans to operate Novell as two business units: Novell and SUSE;" I have no news yet on what this means for openSUSE besides the above line. We'll keep you informed as soon as we hear more... 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-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org ----------------------------------------- -- 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] [Ambassadors] openSUSE-Wikipedia-Translations
by Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

Hi openSUSE, I started translating wikipeida pages to Sinhalese (si- the main language in Country Sri Lanka). The process is on the way. The following is finished translating and need to finish formatting http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE_%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BA%… Other pages are in work-in-progress. It is nice to see si pages about openSUSE. -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera The Editor in Chief - FOSS User Magazine openSUSE Ambassador - Sri Lanka -- 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 #150 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

Hi @all! Issue #150 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 strategy - on the news...
by Nelson Marques 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Something you might be interested in: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Health-Check-openSUSE-Community-befor… -- nelson marques nmo.marques(a)gmail.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] FISOL 2010.
by Jozé Ruiz SolaR. 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hi all, I want to share a little of what took place in the event FISOL 2010 (international free software festival, in Spanish) that takes place in Tapachula Chiapas Mexico and want to thank the support from Novell. The event was very nice, none of our guests to participate missed. We had good exposure issues, even with us engineer Juan Carlos Ortiz Novell working in Mexico. You know him? .... He outlined several issues such as: Opensuse operating system and applications. Compiz Effects Cloud computing Very interesting all of them.* *We also had as one of our main guests Cristian Ceballos, who is coordinating the development of Mozilla Firefox in Mexico. He talked about all the improvements that have the browser on your next release. Red Hat also was present and spoke about the new version of Fedora Core. This was the subject of BLENDER, honestly I did not know this application, but truly beautiful effects are achieved if you know the proper way to use. And they could not miss the usual topics: Network security. New applications Graphic design, we have always talked about GIMP. Thank you very much for your support and hope that next year we can count on the presence of someone from Novell (USA ).... -- 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 Build Service - Call to arms!
by Nelson Marques 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hi all, Some days ago on the IRC it poped out that I would be writing a small article for openSUSE Build Service. In the past days I've took the opportunity to take a closer look into OBS from a scope that isn't mine, the one from a developer/packager. I've signed up for the opensuse-buildservice list, picked a cool soundtrack (Moderat/Aparat/Paul Kalkbrenner), and two packages. notify-osd > a replacement for notification-daemon[1], and to make it more interesting picked up leolik patch[2] alongside, which has been criticized hard by Mark Shuttleworth. This patch allows the bubble of notify-osd to be customized by the user, functionality that Shuttleworth doesn't want out off the box in Ubuntu. A good candidate for all the other distro's, lets make the difference ;) notifyconf[3] > A small tool to customize notify-osd written in Qt (go figure that out). I've struggled, squeeled, but also conquered and the packages in my home repo[4]. I'm going to pick a cool project and then try to make them through to openSUSE:Contrib. During all this process I've been taking notes, gimping for help here and there and checking out the problems usually people have and making notes of the documents people point to me. Once I've finished the process, getting my packages approved or not into the repo, I'll start scribing the article (I would assume depending on answering times this would take 1 or 2 days more). So here's the deal: * Andreas, want to be my wingman on this? I am aware you have in your possession some interviews to be processed. We can use them. I would also need a small talk over IRC if possible (10/20 minutes) so I know how you want to present OBS, to whom you want it to be appealing to, and pretty much the stuff you want to promote. For the 'new user' experience I'll base it on my own adventure. Also any interesting information you can provide would be great. * Marketing Team, is it possible that we create a simple Marketing Banner/Badge, whatever to create a wiki template for Marketing articles? (flag the article, print the article and inform the readers our Marketing is alive and kickin'). * Artwork Team, could you provide such banner? * Wiki Team, could we have such template? I would also like to know what would be the best place to file this article on the current wiki structure. * Editorial Powers, need someone to review it later, and to make it more english friendly. I have really no schedule for this (only proves that I'm a poor marketeer), but I would point for a final release soon before the conference (as it can be used in the conference). I'm running some extra qualitative research also through some interviews with current packagers/contributors to get some more material to support some claims. PiratePad coming soon. Nelson -- 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] Fwd: [opensuse-packaging] [reminder] openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4 is next week
by Andreas Jaeger 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Who will do the release announcement? Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-packaging] [reminder] openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4 is next week Date: Wednesday 17 November 2010, 08:00:01 From: openSUSE Roadmap Reminder <vuntz(a)opensuse.org> To: opensuse-packaging(a)opensuse.org Hello all, openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4 will be released next week, on Thursday 25 November 2010. Please submit your packages before Friday afternoon (UTC time) to make sure they will get included in this release. Leaf packages submitted during the week-end might also get accepted on Monday. For a quick overview of the openSUSE Roadmap, please see: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap Thanks, -- openSUSE Roadmap Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org ----------------------------------------- -- 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] Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011 / Chemnitz Linux Days 2011
by Ronald Schmidt 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hallo openSUSE-Team, (english version below) voller Vorfreude dürfen wir bekannt geben, dass die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage[1] auch im Jahr 2011 wieder stattfinden. Die Linux-Tage in Chemnitz sind Deutschlands größte nicht kommerziell organisierte Veranstaltung rund um Linux und Freie Software. Die zweitägige Veranstaltung beinhaltet ein umfangreiches Vortragsprogramm und eine Ausstellung. So werden in etwa 90 Vorträgen Grundlagen, Projekte, Arbeiten und Erkenntnisse rund um das Thema Linux vorgestellt. Auf der Ausstellungsfläche bieten wir 60 Projekten die Möglichkeit, sich einem großen Publikum zu präsentieren - Stand, Strom, Internet und Poster inklusive. Im Jahr 2010 erlebten 2600 Besucher unsere Veranstaltung und waren, wie in den Vorjahren, begeistert. Zahlreiche Fotos und Blog-Einträge erzählen davon[2]. Die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2011 finden am 19. und 20. März statt und stehen unter dem Motto "Freiheit leben". Mit dieser Mail möchten wir auf den Call for Lectures[3] und den Call for Presentations[4] hinweisen. Wenn Ihr Euer Projekt bei den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen präsentieren möchtet, meldet Euch bitte rechtzeitig mit einer aussagekräftigen Beschreibung an. Alle Referenten, Aussteller und Helfer erhalten unser kostenloses und legendäres Rundum-Sorglos-Paket mit Vollverpflegung, Eintritt sowie der Teilnahme an der Abendveranstaltung am Eröffnungstag. Sollte es noch offene Fragen geben, zögert nicht, Euch zum Thema Ausstellung an live(a)linux-tage.de oder zum Thema Vorträge an vortraege(a)linux-tage.de zu wenden. Viele Grüße aus Chemnitz [1] http://www.linux-tage.de/ [2] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/info/bilder.html [3] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/vortraege/call_form [4] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/live/call_form ------------------------- english version ---------------------------- Dear openSUSE team, We are happy to announce to you the 13th Chemnitz' Linux Days[1] in March, 2011. Linux Days are the most popular uncommercially organised event regarding Linux and open source software in Germany. The two-day event offers a wide lecture programme with just about 90 lectures about basics, projects, workings, and findings. Furthermore, we provide an exhibition space to present a lot of projects to the public. As in previous years, more than 2.500 visitors were greatly impressed by the event in 2010. Pictures and blog entries give an impression[2]. Chemnitz' Linux Days 2011, themed "Living Freedom", take place on March 19 and 20, 2011. The Call for Lectures[3] and the Call for Presentations[4] have already started. If you would like to showcase your project as well, please sign up yourself and do not forget to enter a convincing description. All speakers, exhibitors and helpers get free entry, full board, and a free ticket for the evening event on saturday. In case of open queries, please do not hesitate to contact live(a)linux-tage.de related to the exhibition or vortraege(a)linux-tage.de related to lectures and workshops. Kind regards from Chemnitz [1] http://www.linux-tage.de/ [2] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2010/info/bilder.html [3] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/vortraege/call_form [4] http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/live/call_form

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[opensuse-marketing] Creation of user pages - cleaning up ambassador list
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I'd like to do the cleanup of the ambassador list that we discussed in the summer and also at the openSUSE conference. We'd like to have every ambassador create a user page so that ambassadors can get contacted. You might have had one in the old wiki but with the move to the new wiki, you need to create a new one as described at: http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ I will go after the 1st of December through the list of ambassadors and remove those that do not have a user page. This way we will remove inactive ambassadors. If I remove somebody that wants to become active again, it's easy to add them again once the user page is created. I will try to email those ambassadors now that do not have a user page (if I can easily find an email address) with this text as well. I'm asking every ambassador to subscribe to the opensuse-ambassador mailing list as well for communication. 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] Welcoming new Ambassadors - Volunteers wanted
by Andreas Jaeger 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

So far, I have write-protected the openSUSE ambassador list in the openSUSE wiki and ask all ambassadors to write me first - and then send them the questioniare and introduce them here as new ambassadors. Therefore I'm basically the first contact and greeter for them ;) I'd like to pass this job on to somebody else - or a small team - since it takes me far too long to handle these requests. If you're interested, please speak up! 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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