November 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] How can we spread the word to a much broader audience of people beyond openSUSE community?
by Satoru Matsumoto 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Some of you may have read the blog post about openSUSE Conference by Brian Proffitt, one of the most famous writers in Linux and FLOSS world. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/125538/opensuse-conference-a-time-intros… He wrote: "The conference, which had the theme "Collaboration across Borders," seemed almost completely non-existent in the US tech media. Most of the coverage I could find was in the German trade press. Hardly any beyond that. (...)" So the question is, was our advertising campaign for OSC enough to spread the word to a much broader audience of people beyond openSUSE community? You may know there are some active Linux/FLOSS news sites such as: Linux Today http://www.linuxtoday.com/ LXer http://lxer.com/ EntirelyOpenSource.com http://www.entirelyopensource.com/ I, as a editor of Weekly News, regularly go around those sites to see if there are some interesting news on Linux/FLOSS. But to be honest, I could find only few entries about OSC on those sites. I think that was one of the reason why Brian felt OSC was "almost completely non-existent in the US tech media". If an information is aimed at only openSUSE commynity, writing an article on {news,lizards}.o.o and posting it to opensuse-* lists would be just enough. But some information should be reached to a much broader people beyond openSUSE community. So I'm going to submit openSUSE related news to those sites when I think they might be interesting also for people beyond openSUSE community. If you know other active news sites in addition to above 3 sites, please let me know. ;-) But since I'm just an volunteer and my time is limited, that cannot be done only by me. Your help will be always welcomed. :-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- 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] answering questions
by Jos Poortvliet 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

On 2010-11-05 Nelson wrote: > Hi, > > It's nice that we have aknowledged that we need a knowledge database, the > problem is in defining objective things: <snip> > PS: This expresses a personal opinion, as such, it might be different from > yours. Honestly, you are right and wrong. The talking points might have a wrong name - it should probably be "answers to though questions". 'cuz that's what it is. It is not really about giving arguments FOR openSUSE but more about answering hard questions that are asked of our ambassadors. Hence the braindump - there our ambassadors can put new questions they need answers for. Arguments for using openSUSE, the talking points you mean, should be somewhere as well altough it could probably be in a more public place (this page is for our ambassadors, not for anyone external). Cheers, Jos > Nelson. > > On Friday, November 05, 2010 04:53:14 pm Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > Friends, > > > > We need to build a knowledge database for our Ambassador friends. Is > > there anyone who wants to help? It's not hard: go to > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points and pick a topic that has > > no answers yet- then try and find the ppl who have the answers (ask > > around on IRC etc etc). > > > > Pretty please? > > > > Cheers, > > Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Goodies / Stuff For FOSS.in
by Manu Gupta 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hi All I am Manu. I will be attending FOSS.in which will be held at Bangalore, India next month from 15th December to 17th December. I would like to distribute few openSUSE goodies like openSUSE DVDs, tshirts, laptop stickers or whatever it is possible for us ( I really dont know what, so its best if you guys decide) My address is Manu Gupta Room 4242, Xth Block MIT Hostels Manipal Karnataka -576104 It would be better if someone in Bangalore can recieve the stuff and I can collect it from them as I will have other luggage to carry with me too, I will be travelling and have loads of luggage with me. If anyone wishes to, its good for me Thanks Manu Gupta cc'ed to Marketing List -- 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 #148 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hi @all! Issue #148 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] answering questions
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Friends, We need to build a knowledge database for our Ambassador friends. Is there anyone who wants to help? It's not hard: go to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points and pick a topic that has no answers yet- then try and find the ppl who have the answers (ask around on IRC etc etc). Pretty please? Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] 11.3 Late Launch Party
by Kostas Koudaras 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Yesterday we had the party done finally.We know we were late but it turned out that it worth-ed the waiting. What we had: -We had openSUSE dvd's -We had balloons -We had stickers we made -We had fliers we made -We had a Cake -We had party gear (horns-whistles etc.) -We had a Rock bar for us -We had me as a DJ-VJ -We had Stathis welcoming people -We had beer's (not free unfortunately ;-) ) -We had about 25 openSUSE people We had a lot of fun,we rocked until dawn,we got drunk,among all this we talked about the community we are building and we decided to arrange some meetings so that we can form work-groups for OBS and LI-F-E. People liked what we did so far as a community and they want to become a part of all this. I believe that this is a great success. The party was successful, I am probably still a little drunk ;-) Here are the first photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/warlordfff more photos and videos are about to be released soon Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens I gave exams for God , but I failed in miracles -- 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] Please spread about Election Officals
by Bryen M. Yunashko 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hey guys... Please help spread the news about Election Officals via your social network connections. http://news.opensuse.org/2010/11/04/run-or-help-run/ Thanks! Bryen M Yunashko -- 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-factory] Status: Milestone3
by Andreas Jaeger 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

FYI, M3 is delayed, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-factory] Status: Milestone3 Date: Wednesday 03 November 2010, 22:20:44 From: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)novell.com> To: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org Hi, The most annoying M2 bug is still not fixed (Xorg crashes) and I don't consider releasing Milestone3 in this state useful ;( So I will cancel Milestone3 and move it to hopefully next week. If we can't get to the core of it, we may need to disable compositing use in KDE. Greetings, Stephan -- Sent from openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+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] BoF topics please!
by Bryen M Yunashko 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

AJ has kindly set up a BoF for the Marketing Team to have a good face to face and hear from everyone what we'd like to see as our continued direction in the marketing team. We realize that many of you cannot make it to the openSUSE Conference this year, but we want to make sure your voices are heard. We have created a wiki page wher you can submit your questions or topics that you'd like to see discussed. And we will make sure to provide as much detail afterward of what was discussed, agreed upon, requires further exploration, etc. This is your chance to participate in the conference even if you are not physically there! http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_BOF_2010 Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team lead -- 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 Mix for openSUSE
by Nelson Marques 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi all, If you believe we can develop this, I've taken some time to introduce this in a very superficial way, easy enough for everyone to understand. The document[1] is on a pirate pad. From the concepts to operational deployment there's actually not much. It's meant to be used in the future as guidelines so we do things in a coherent form. Every single product being sold out there has it's own mix, we should have ours, though we don't sell anything :) The first step is on me... help establishing the points we need, then I'll move to stage 2 again. It's important that's you (the community with more experience) to define this and not me. Once it's done, I'll take your input and make it into a working tool and will help in deployment. [1] - http://piratepad.net/PcPEkhGf2l 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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