December 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] common language
by jdd 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

I just want to share an idea. I just heard (on the radio) a comment from a french consumer association about computers. Speaking about laptop, the speaker did not use the word "laptop" but "thouse computers sold with screen and keyboard included" (I try to translate from french). I knew openSUSE is not devoted to complete newbies, however... I wonder is we should not rethink completely part of our messages to fit people that uses webphones and mp3 readers, but do considere computer exactly like cars... not knowing any technical langage. If a people don't know what a laptop is, she may not understand at all what is a windows manager or a live cd... May be we should speak of "internet access cd, openSUSE version" or "Word processing openSUSE version", I don't really know :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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] ambassador/PR kit
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Hi all, At the office Robert Lihm together with AJ and Michl (on his last few days...) have been working on assembling a nice PR kit which we'll send to our ambassadors. One thing for the kit we thought would be nice was a 'PR-how-to', basically taking some important info from the wiki like a how-to-organize-a- launch-party and other things and putting it on paper. I know that among others Manu and Kostas have been looking at that and working on it, as has Gnokii and others. Would any of those (or someone else) be willing to assemble a few of those things from the wiki (including talking points, the how-to's, FAQ etc etc) in an openoffice doc and send it to me? Just the text would be OK, Robert makes sure it looks good and we put it in the PR kit! Thanks in advance, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] presentations
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hi all, As I promised (but late) I made '2 slide presentations' about SUSE Studio and OBS. You can find them here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations They can be used stand alone (but I would then add a demo or slides with more screenshots) or as part of a larger presentation. They pack a lot of info in two slides, think about that! using a few more slides might be needed sometimes - think about your audience. I added additional information in the 'notes', so if you give a presentation you should look at that too to know what else to say. Point ppl to this if they want to talk about OBS or SUSE Studio ;-) I would welcome reviews and comments so I can improve them! Translations might also be useful. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Work Decreased but still lots to do
by Manu Gupta 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Hi All, After our collab day, we finished up a lot of things, after that also we did a few things and this is the updated list. Jos, has already sent a list and since a couple of tasks have already been done I am posting the updated one after removing them. Come on guys lets finish this list of todos. Regards Manu

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Fedora cheat cube...can we have one?
by Chuck Payne 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Emily Shaw <memilyrae(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm Stephen Shaw's (decriptor) wife and I can work on it if you'd like. > Thanks for the website...it'll be very helpful! > Emily Shaw > memilyrae > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Kostas Koud <warlordfff(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've read all you said and I saw the cheat sheets you post,after >> that I thought that the cube might not have enough sides and if Fedora >> made it maybe we should try and make something slightly different like >> a d8 or a d12, so I looked for paper dices,I found some things but >> the best I found was at http://www.dicecollector.com/MY_PAPER.HTM . >> Unfortunately I can't process it enough to make something beautiful >> and practical so if someone can do something it would be nice. >> Kostas "Warlordfff" Koudaras >> >> 2010/9/21 RICARDO CHUNG <ricardo.a.chung(a)gmail.com> >> > >> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Stephen Shaw <sshaw(a)decriptor.com> >> > > wrote: >> > >>> I have a pdf that I create for South East Linux Fest based on 11.2, >> > >>> I >> > >>> need to update to 11.3, but it also needs the touch of some better >> > >>> at >> > >>> graphic design. I made this to go along with the zypper hands outs >> > >>> we >> > >>> have. >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> I'll pass this on to my wife and see what see can do with it. >> > >> >> > >> Cheers, >> > >> Stephen >> > >> >> > >> PS Since my wife isn't a linux person, any suggestions, comments, etc >> > >> would be very useful. (She is in the CC) >> > >> >> > > >> > > AJ, Asked me to post to the wiki. I will try to get it up there today >> > > along with the Open Office Doc. >> > > >> > > -- >> > > ----------------------------------------- >> > > 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 >> > > >> > > >> > >> > Hey >> > >> > opeSUSE has Zypper Cheat Sheet at >> > http://old-en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage >> > Can we make a new design like that F Cube or maybe a better other >> > polygon. >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > -- >> > Ricardo A. Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador >> > >> > http://twitter.com/amon0thoth1 >> > http://amon0thoth1.blogspot.com/ >> > http://www.facebook.com/pages/openSUSE-Panama-Users-Group/326325121542 >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> me I am not me > > Guys, I will add this up on the wiki later today, but here again is my pdf and the open office doc I used to create it. -- ----------------------------------------- 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.

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[opensuse-marketing] Writing!
by Jos Poortvliet 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hi all, Again thanks for participating in the collaboration day on Social Media. I have written an overview, I hope one of the news editors on this list has time to take a look and maybe find a pretty picture to accompany our success story :D Meanwhile there are a few things which are close to being finished, but aren't there just yet. My pet peeve: the short descriptions of openSUSE. They are here: http://ietherpad.com/idAZ997QVS I have used part of that text to make a start on the two folders that we'll need: http://piratepad.net/xKoBE4vmSM for potential contributors http://piratepad.net/d8xWTUwHq3 for potential users Both need a lot of work and any help here is appreciated too! I really appreciated the work done on the feature guide, I worked on it some more and I hope we can get it a bit further and finish it during the marketing meeting in Februari. Anyone who has some spare time, check it out here: http://manugupt1.ietherpad.com/4 I can however hapilly tell you that the article we wanted to write about new openSUSE projects is pretty much there now - some finishing touches and it can go live on news.opensuse.org! Great work all involved! Wow. That's a large bunch of writing things. I know not all of you like that stuff, so - who comes up with tasks that are less writy? ;-) Let me name one: we need themes for Identi.ca, Blogger and Twitter! Shouldn't be incredibly hard to make and I'm sure Robert Lihm, gnokki, Javier and our other artists can and will help here. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE certified
by jdd 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Hello an other idea :-) I know we have an Hadware compatibility list. Could we improve that with an "openSUSE certified" list? It could be pretty easy. Some vendors have computers line quite stable (I use an HP desktop). I would be just the matter of asking the testers to find some common hardware amoung us and devote some debugging activity just on this hardware, to have it 100% openSUSE compatible - simple with an identified test base. then we could make this model visible on the wiki as a "don't worry" option. Some sort of "please, devs, say what you use, I want the same" of course, I see this as a marketting object, that could be discussed with the devs, not a technical goal... we could use this computer to promote openSUSE jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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] 9th Xariseto.gr Bazaar, December 28-29-30, 2010 - report
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Hello my friends, Sorry to disturb you with reports of our events :-) This is our last for 2010. The last 3 days (28-30 of December) we were at the event organized by the web page xariseto.gr. This bazaar is for people who has some items that they don't need them and can be used by someone else. They bring it and leave them there and if they find something that they like, they can take it, without asking or pay. Our team was there to inform people about open source and openSUSE. We talked to many people. One of them was the local news reporter that we gave a PromoDVD and brochure. For full report and pictures you can visit our report page: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2010/12/xarisetogr-bazaar-december-… Well, that's all for now. We wish you Happy New Year. Warm wishes to all of you and to your families. Stathis (diamond_gr) -- 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 to be in LA. Time to sign up!
by Jos Poortvliet 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Hi all, Bryen and myself have had a look at the approximate travel costs for the three options we have for the Marketing Meeting. The costs for each option are about equal - almost $15.000 for air travel alone. Yes, that is excluding local travel (trains in Europe for example) and hotel. We're darn international it seems :D Luckily it is not counting the fact that part of the team who wants to join will be at SCALE and FOSDEM, saving some costs (SCALE much more than FOSDEM). Still the costs are more than my budget affords me to pay. So I am going to be the dick here that makes the hard decisions as it is my budget. I went over the list and based on my own experience with all of you, with how much I think you'd learn from this (some of you already have much experinece) and how new you are (I prefer to bring at least some new ppl to a meeting like this) I have decided who I will sponsor and how much. Before I make the final decisions I'd like a travel cost estimate from all of you. Then I will tell you how much I will sponsor. Tell me also if you have the $$ to book in advance or not. I will usually reimburse 50% or 80% of your travel costs. For some, that simply is not enough - like if you're a student. Let me know that too. Now FYI: - I sponsor hotel for anyone who comes. So if I had to decide not to pay (all) your travel but you come anyway, you get the hotel for sure. Please understand I would love to pay all the travel so you could all be there but I just don't have the money! - The cheapest option is doing this in the USA. That is also good for the USA promo work - we all know how hard it is to promote openSUSE there (while in and around Nuremberg and FOSDEM we have plenty of promo). So we do our first Marketing Meeting in the City of Angels (LA). - I want to make the whole thing a few days longer so we get more value for the huge travel costs. 4 days it'll be. So this is what it will be: We have a marketing meeting in the 4 days before SCALE in Los Angelos, California, USA. Dates: Mon 21 start hackfest (pls arrive sunday evening!) SCALE: fri 25-sun 27 (it's OK if you have to leave a bit early, like sat night if you're from India and have a job on Monday) Hotel for all attendees will be fully paid from the Novell/openSUSE community budget. Please, all those who want to and can be there for those 4 days MM + 3 days SCALE (I expect you to stay for SCALE, yes), send an email with: - Name (like in passport), address, phone (international!) - most up to date travel costs in USD - how much reimbursement you would need to be able to come (50/80/100%) - if you can afford to pay and get reimbursement later - a short description/explanation of why you should be there - what do you intend to contribute and what are your contributions to date. Note that the travel costs must be realistic: I will decide to pay up to $$, not "your ticket price, no matter how expensive it suddenly turns out to be". I will make decisions (in dialog with my boss) on the travel support on individual basis. Those decisions are NOT up for discussion, sorry. It is how it is. Deadline for your travel cost estimates is Januari 4. I will contact each of you with my decision individually. I have updated the wiki page on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest according to this. Greetings, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] 1ο OpenFest Open Christmas at Florina, December 24th 2010 (REPORT)
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Merry Christmas to all community. We wish you all the best to you and your families. A small team of the Greek openSUSE community decided to go on a Christmas roadtrip. So we drove about 200km to join the teachers of The Educational Computer Association of Florina at their event at the center square of the city. The event had to do with promoting FOSS at school and in general. Local elementary teacher Mr Ioannis Kaskamanidis, asked his students to join the booth and be the example of the results of FOSS in education. Ioannis, took the advantage that the educational system provides, and every student of his class has one XO. We also met a local doctor, Dr Evangelos Tsoukas, who translated and supports an open source software called openEMR for his job. We discuss with him the openSUSE Medical distro. Above all, we were happy that we could inform the locals for the advantage of FOSS and openSUSE. Althought it was a tiring trip for us We did our job and we had fun!!! For full report and pictures, you can check our page at: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2010/12/report-1-openfest-open-chri… -- 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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