December 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Goodbye all in Marketing
by Nelson Marques 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Dear all, I'm informing everyone of my decision to abandon openSUSE Marketing for several reasons: 1. I don't seem to fit in this team. This comes for several factors including: - lack of trust in leadership; - lack of priorities in the workflow; - meetings management is poor and leads to pointless and inconclusive meetings (all of them seem deja vu against the previous one); - too much democracy; 2. I get the feeling it starts to appear several influence lobbies and there starts to segmentation on this team; 3. I don't trust the leadership, as it seems impotent to escalate to Boosters, Board and even Project Sponsers topics that need to be worked on. Instead they are ditched and people sent on 'wild goose chases'. 4. Everything that isn't according to _some_ people's view is considered offensive and is therefore neglected; 5. I don't really see innovation and commitment to supersede and excel in areas where we have all the manpower and many times to do it. Too much conservative oriented tactics that end up having no real benefit. 6. I'm tired of arguments like: "This won't work with KDE, so we don't do it" or "Devels will never go that way"... most times poorly funded. 7. Lack of interest without strong objective leadership that works towards a goal. 8. Privatization of travelling and event sponsorship over far more important subjects as a new release coming in the next months. Sorry I've had enough... I also take this opportunity to apologize if I have hurted someone's feelings in the past or had any more rude behavior... Normally I'm not like that, though I don't have an easy temper... My personal orientation moves towards: "Fight to the last man" and not on lowering my arms and let my position be overruned easilly. I love you all... it's only not working for me. Take care all... I'll be around doing the stuff I'm doing and I'm not running away from openSUSE, I'm just ditching a sub-project in which I don't believe I can help in the future, neither I want to invest my time when I don't see any real effort from the leadership in solving problems... I'm not the kind of guy that throws stuff under the rug when I don't like... I fight till the last breath... and this is my last breath regarding this topic. Best of luck, NM -- 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 Marketing Collaboration Days -- Marketing Materials
by Chuck Payne 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Below are the items that we covered on openSUSE Marketing Collaboration Days -- Marketing Materials. We would like to thank all that came to help. It was a very successful day. A lot items were covered, added and expanded on for Marketing openSUSE. But we aren't done, below are the items that we were trying to cover. The first list are items that people have taken on as a task. We thank those for giving their time to help. There a lot of items still open, please feel free to take on a task if you feel that you can help out. Again, we love to thank everyone that helped us out. Without your help it won't not be a success. Chuck and Bryen =============================================================================== Assigned Items Educational: CarlosRibeiro with ESEEI private College locate at Parana, Brazil Financial: CarlosRibeiro with Banco do Brasil Retail:OEM Manufacture: Educational: BaezEsteban with CEML private College locate at Parana, Brazil Financial: BaezEsteban with ASSEAMAL Retail:Robotics Education Robotics Project and Accessibility with openSUSE List of assignments for Marketing Materials Day Launch Parties (Warlordfff, going to take Gnokii, and the one he is working to give an update one) -- How to have them (beer, pizza..) -- How to promote them -- How to share the success http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_party_HOWTO How to do bird of feather event -- Model of Sponsor Letter (call/need) (Izabel Valverde) -- How to hold a birds of feather event (Terrorpup) - Adding content to spanish pages (http://es.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations) (Javier) Tutorials/Demonstrations Guide -- How to run a tutorial at an event/user group. (possibly tips on working with knowledgeable users, eg at LUG - provide resources and let them play) Post how-to-demonstrate guides - Smeegol - OBS - openSUSE Slides and Presentations - Review existing slides - Create targeted slides - Update slide shows for general display Swag Review Review existing available swag and determine what needs updating/changing/added/removed. - companies that be use and offer discount for making swag ( example -- place to make buttons ) - add more promo materials (calendars, pens, ) Items for personal use - e.g. point to openSUSE wallpapers and screensavers, banners, icons, CD art See about creating a Marketing Landing page that has all items above, in an easy place to find. Brochures and Flyers Review existing brochures Create new brochures - General Brochure see links on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials#Folders_and_leaflets --Templates for brochures, flyers, business card and other templates. - Targeted Brochure We started creating 2 targeted brochures some time ago with Jos one for Unsuspected Users http://ietherpad.com/nDU83dbe98 And one for Potential contributors the link is http://doc.etherpad.org/I05Lp5I9yZ but it is dead fow a few weeks (warlordfff) - Creation of brochures in multi-formats - Success Stories --Offical Logos and Clip Art that can be use for marketing, make sure all art is update. -- Code of conduct, how to present oneself in public. Tutorials/Demonstrations Guide - SUSE Studio (terrorpup ) - openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e (terrorpup ) Slides and Presentations 2-slide OBS - Jos (done, to be uploaded by AJ) 2-slide SUSE Studio - Jos How about creating an index wiki page about everything is available for marketing purposes?(warlordfff) Page in translation stage about OBS: http://bit.ly/fLqwBw (luizmachado) ======================================================================= Open Items 1) Instructions for Demos (Belongs in Marketing Materials day) example -- how to to use OBS, SUSE Studio, Edu Li-f-e or 11.x new features at the main opensuse project . 4) sucess cases (Belongs in Marketing Materials day) I believe we need to have at least one sucess case for each market vertical like, financial, educational, retail store, health care, ... Also we need to have a kind of a paper to send to "customers" to allow us to use their image and case as a sucessful case. Review Wiki to ensure related items are all easy to find and verify that items are up to date. Make it easy for non-artistic people with ready-to-print posters for events and parties with space for locations and date -- ----------------------------------------- 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] 11.4 release
by Jos Poortvliet 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Dear Marketing Masterminds, In a few months we have a release. That means there is work to do. Take this bug for example: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659659 Yes, we need to come up with a list of top features for the 11.4 release. This ain't an easy task, taking up a serious amount of time and discussion. Once it is done, a draft announcement can be made as well as other things. To do this, Bryen and me propose to have a meeting in the beginning of Februari (either shortly before, during or just after FOSDEM). A real life meeting, people. A marketing sprint. Now don't start thinking "but I have a job" or "but I live in India" or "but I'm yellow". Think "FOSDEM is 5 and 6 feb, if the meeting is 2-4 feb, I could take a few days off at work and come there". Or "we should do it the weekend before FOSDEM, that would work for me". Main Goal: fix bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659659 and write initial announcement for 11.4; secondairy goals: drink beer, have fun, get to know each other, work on other things and make grand plans. Once we have an idea of the plan we will ask that elusive openSUSE community manager-dude for a budget so we can pay for (part of?!?) the hotel and travel costs for this sprint. So anyone who wants to make a contribution to this (that means mostly writing!), say so! Bryen has set up a wiki page here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Putting a good word for openSUSE
by Helen 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Thought provoking article from Bruce Byfield at Linux Magazine, talking about the similar kinds of issues/worries that I see raised from time to time about FOSS. I tried to put in a good word for openSUSE and there's a response from "Ariana Coder" with a simple "you're wrong" sort of comment (evidence please?!) which is a pity. But then you never know, often people act like drama queens and noobs and then claim misoygyny and elitism, because the truth would be far more uncomfortable. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blo… cheers Helen -- 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: Story: Computerspende
by Jos Poortvliet 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Friends, Dear Henne makes a good point here below. We could do an interview here, who's interested in helping out? Interviews aren't hard, you only have to ask the potential interviewee is OK with it, then come up with some questions (we can help), send them to the interviewee, tweak the results a bit and send it to news(a)opensuse.org ;-) So, any takers? ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Story: Computerspende Date: Wednesday 15 December 2010, 15:47:13 From: Henne Vogelsang <hvogel(a)opensuse.org> To: news-submit(a)opensuse.org Hey, Klaas blogged about a nice thing we (he) did for some german non-profit that helps the unemployed. I think we need to make this a bigger story, possibly with an interview of the NFP owner or something. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/12/15/verein-computerspende-hamburg-and- opensuse/ Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -----------------------------------------

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[opensuse-marketing] Meeting Postponed: New meeting date proposals
by Bryen M. Yunashko 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Hi folks, Due to a number of our team members being in another meeting that went into overtime, we have postponed our regularly scheduled meeting for today. As this is the last meeting of the year, we should definitely try to gather around one last time and share some virtual eggnog. So, I'd like to propose 3 optional dates for consideration by the team: - Thursday, December 16 at 16:00 UTC - Monday, December 20 at 16:00 UTC - Tuesday, December 21 at 16:00 UTC Keep in mind that December 21 is our Social Media Collaboration Day. However, I don't foresee it as a problem for us to take a one-hour break from Collaboration to talk about other things in the team. But it is up to you guys. I'll post the results of your preferences by Wednesday at 21:00 UTC. Thanks, Bryen -- 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] Presentation of the openSUSE Project from the Greek Community
by Kostas Koudaras 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

The Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS/OSS and the Greek openSUSE Community invite you all to the presentation of the openSUSE Project. The presentation will have 4 parts: -What is the openSUSE Project? -Presentation of the Greek openSUSE Community and how to become a part of it. -Presentation of the Revolutionary OBS (Building System). -Installation of the openSUSE Distribution. Come to meet the openSUSE Project and the Greek openSUSE Community. The presentation will take place on Saturday December 18th, 2010, 17.00 at the Computer Lab of the Economic Science Department of University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens

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[opensuse-marketing] We owe you a few stories for the past two events
by Jimmy Pierre 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Greetings, Here we go: Software freedom Day Event Date : 16th October, 2010. Event Sponsors : NUI.fr openSUSE Ambassadors : Jimmy Pierre Helpers : Laurence Seigneury, Johnny Castel, Jr. Event Details Tell us about the event, What did you do? : Demonstration of installation of openSUSE 11.3, open office, chess & games, yast, ssh, WordPress, repositories, wi-fi etc. How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 52 How many people were there at the event ? 27 (France was on strike, no petrol, no trains, busses, tramways, flights (http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=29085 ) even against all odds, we were present as scheduled. How did you promote the Event? Facebook : No Twitter : No Others : Usual channels (forums, rss feeds to web sites and our four domain names nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org, jmll.info , no radio, no newspapers as they had other bones to gnaw) Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? : Yes, two people drove 87 kms to come to see us and I learnt later that they heard about us on the radio for the last event 1.e 18th September and kept track of what we were doing. A young man took a dvd for her grandma Myrtha, aged 81. We had a sort of Jam session (not food related, but IT) with chess players who needed Internet for a party. So openSUSE was there for their party. Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. Who staffed the booth? All of the above. Would you go again? Yes, 27th November and 1_th Decembre next. What more can you do to make it better? Swap our 16 or so boxes into laptops because it takes too much time to setup the room. Get hold of goodies. Other Comments like Will you blog about the event - and where? Who staffed the booth? Did you have a talk? Which topic? Would you organize again? We were too eager to go back home. Software freedom Day Event Date : 27th november 2010 Event Sponsors : NUI.fr openSUSE Ambassadors : Jimmy Pierre Helpers : Laurence Seigneury, Nathalie A. Event Details Tell us about the event, What did you do? : openSUSE 11.3, libre office, chess & games, yast, WordPress, wi-fi, smeegol etc. How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 37 How many people were there at the event ? 27 (The thermometer showed 3°C and we nevertheless did not cancel the event). How did you promote the Event? Facebook : No Twitter : No Others : Usual channels (forums, rss feeds to web sites and our four domain names nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org, jmll.info, no radio, no newspapers this time) Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? : Yes, a bunch of students and their teacher popped in and started to touch everything. I distributed some dvds of openSUSE and convinced them to play at home ☺ We fighted with smeegol for a lady who wanted to sync her iPhone, this is another story. We had a young man who has a lot of IT problems and he did monopolized some of us to sort his laptop. Thanks God, it was a Dell, so no esoteric material to configure. Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. Who staffed the booth? All of the above. Would you go again? Yes, 27th November and 18th December What more can you do to make it better? Priority for 2011 : Swap our 16 or so boxes into laptops because it takes too much time to setup the room. Get hold of goodies. Other Comments like Will you blog about the event - and where? Who staffed the booth? Did you have a talk? Which topic? Would you organize again? We were too busy with social problems to do that. As you can see, we had a lot of fun. Jimmy President nui.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] Article to encourage non-technical participation in openSUSE/FOSS
by Helen 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi folks, I'm writing up an article with the aim of encouraging non technical people to participate in projects. I'm trying to keep the tone very light and fun. It's just a dump of ideas right now and needs to be structured. I have no idea where I'll submit it. Possibly Linux.com, or maybe a print magazine (Linux Format?) Please feel free to add your suggestions/comments and if you add much material, leave your name for due credit. If you have any good quality, publishable images taken at events these would be great too. If anyone has a non-technical partner who regularly participates in FOSS work I'd be very happy to hear their comments. A quote on their experience would be nice. http://piratepad.net/tpJmpiYeNG cheers Helen -- 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] article
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi all, Anyone interested in writing an article? The upcoming openSUSE 11.4 release, currently on kernel 2.6.37RC something, will have the patches mentioned here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1 backported to the stable kernel as much as needed. They are currently already available. It might be a nice article, you can base it on the phoronix article and the links they put in there and ask the kernel dev's. Let me know if you're interested and I hook you up :D cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] "openSUSE Linux"
by Koushik Kumar Nundy 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, I was just giving out a few DVDs to some Linux newbies, and one of them asked , "So what is it that is different in openSUSE Linux?" I am not looking for an answer to that here. I am just asking if "openSUSE Linux" is correct usage. I have encountered the phrase in other places too, some email sigs, and visiting cards. We mostly say "openSUSE is a Linux distro...". afaik, "openSUSE Linux is a ..." sounds corny. I'd appreciate an official stance. Thanks, ~kknundy -- 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: Marketing Team Meeting 14-December-2010 16:00 UTC
by Bryen M. Yunashko 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

A friendly reminder. We will have our makreting team meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, at 16:00 UTC. This will be the final general meeting of the year in addition to the Marketing Collaboration day scheduled for next week Tuesday, December 21. We look forward to seeing you all there in the #opensuse-marketing channel on Freenode. See the link for the time in your area http://bit.ly/hSFyqc Thanks and see you tomorrow! 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] User Road Testing
by Helen 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Has anyone done a user 'road test', asking new users to look for things, such as specific answers, materials or tutorials? (In all the places we use like Wiki, forum and IRC)? I wondered as it's a fantastic way to spot problems with website navigation. Helen -- 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] openSUSE University
by Slaya Chronicles - Geeko Acolyte 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Happy travelling.... Cheers, Eric On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > For the next 10 days I will be on travel and with no internet, once I am > back lets start this > > Two are good enough to make a start :) > > Regards > Manu > > On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:03 +0800, Slaya Chronicles - Geeko Acolyte > wrote: >> +1 >> >> How can I help? I will have some vacation days (about 20+ days) coming >> so I will have some time to spend. >> >> Eric >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > This was discussed in the ambassador list and I am continuing this over >> > here >> > >> > The thread is here >> > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-ambassadors/2010-12/msg00069.html >> > >> > I agree with both Aj and P Sankar that this proposal requires a lot of >> > human effort, dedication and other logistics. Its indeed a very >> > difficult job. >> > >> > Some of us might be familiar and some of us might not be with Helping >> > Hands Project in which we used to have irc sessions to teach people >> > about openSUSE. Here experts at their respective domain would help >> > people with their first landing steps. >> > >> > I will give you an example >> > >> > Suppose, I use GNOME and want people to know about GNOME I can take an >> > irc session on using Gnome comfortably. >> > >> > If I am good at OBS, IRC sessions on OBS to help people out. >> > >> > >> > This project was good and was successful but failed because we did not >> > have a lot of human resources. Certifications and creating training >> > materials would even make a notch more difficult. >> > >> > I would suggest, lets re initiate Helping Hands. No Certificates, >> > nothing but rather teach them and we achieve our objective let people >> > know about openSUSE. >> > >> > >> > Regards >> > Manu >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.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] Participation of Greek community at the Xariseto.gr bazaar, December 12th, 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

We participated to the non profit website's bazaar. Kostas, Stathis, Thanasis and Chris were the organized the booth and were asking questions and showing people what openSUSE is all about. Full report and pictures you can find here: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2010/12/xarisetogr-bazaar-december-… -- 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 University
by Manu Gupta 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

This was discussed in the ambassador list and I am continuing this over here The thread is here http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-ambassadors/2010-12/msg00069.html I agree with both Aj and P Sankar that this proposal requires a lot of human effort, dedication and other logistics. Its indeed a very difficult job. Some of us might be familiar and some of us might not be with Helping Hands Project in which we used to have irc sessions to teach people about openSUSE. Here experts at their respective domain would help people with their first landing steps. I will give you an example Suppose, I use GNOME and want people to know about GNOME I can take an irc session on using Gnome comfortably. If I am good at OBS, IRC sessions on OBS to help people out. This project was good and was successful but failed because we did not have a lot of human resources. Certifications and creating training materials would even make a notch more difficult. I would suggest, lets re initiate Helping Hands. No Certificates, nothing but rather teach them and we achieve our objective let people know about openSUSE. Regards Manu -- 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 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '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://news.opensuse.org/?p=5881 [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 Weekly News, Issue 152 in Greek is out!
by Kostas Koudaras 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Although we were a little late this time the issue 152 is ready in Greek Language,enjoy Kostas 'warlordfff' Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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] LinuxNewMedia Award
by S.Kemter 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi, Actually the LinuxNewMedia open the voting for the Award they give yearly away. This year is a little bit different. The award was always given away from a jury. This year the Award for the best Linux distribution can be voted online, so get out and vote. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Products/Events/Linux-New-Media-Award-Favourit… Linux-Distribution-2010 br gnokii -- 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] Awesome first day
by Bryen M. Yunashko 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Yesterday, the Marketing Team held the first in a series of Collaboration Days planned for December, with a focus on gathering up all our existing and new materials to help Ambassadors do their job. This first day proved just how important openSUSE is to so many of us and why we take the time to work together to promote openSUSE. We have a long list of ToDo's and many things were accomplished. What didn't get done will continue to be worked on and I'll leave it to yesterday's moderators, Kostas and Carlos to list what's left to be done and discuss where we are at now. Three important thiings happened yesterday: 1. We got work done 2. Our existing teams of Marketing and Ambassadors showed up and worked 3. Many new faces came to Collaboration Day and pitched in. It was a day that proved that when we need to get some work done, we can all focus in on it. Thank you all and don't forget, our next Collaboration Day is this Monday, 13-December. We'll be working on polishing up our marketing materials. Great job Kostas and Carlos! 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] Reminder: openSUSE Collaboration Day Monday-13 @ 9:00 UTC
by Bryen M. Yunashko 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

We're on our way to the second of three openSUSE Marketing Collaboration days with the next one coming up on Monday, 13-December at 9:00 UTC and ending at 24:00 UTC. This will be in our usual #opensuse-marketing IRC channel. The focus of Monday's Collaboration Day will be reviewing Marketing material. See [1] and [2] for more details if you're not already familiar with our Collaboration days. We had good success and lots of new faces showed up on the Ambassador Day this past Monday. Let's keep the momentum going! Bryen M Yuanshko openSUSE Marketing Team lead [1] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/12/10/opensuse-collaboration-thrives/ [2] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/12/02/marketing-collaboration-days/ -- 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] Re: openSUSE Shop maintainer
by Michael Loeffler 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hi Shayon, cc'ing the marketing list On Wednesday 06 October 2010 07:00:54 Shayon Mukherjee wrote: > Hi Michael , > > My name is Shayon , you can say a former openSUSE contributor (Wiki and > marketing). I lost contact and touch with openSUSE people and project > due to my examinations and admission to University. But now I would like > to again contribute to the project , I will not be having too much of > time like before , but still I can manage I believe. > > I am interested in contributing to openSUSE shop (as i read that in open > jobs). So you already got a maintainer for that ? if not , I would like > to volunteer for that . But before, I would also like to know what all > tasks are to be performed , and a bit more detail on that . > > Let me know what you feel on this ... This is a great idea I more then appreciate that we re-animate the shop as it currently doesn't get the love it deserves. I need to find the access details for the shop so you guys can change/add stuff. Best Michael > > Looking forward to hear from you .... > > Cheers > Shayon (Sj) -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] opensuse university
by Andreas Jaeger 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

On Friday, December 10, 2010 10:51:17 am Johann Els wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is an idea.... > > I had seven delegates yesterday in a workshop installing and configuring > openSUSE 11.3, What happed was that the delegates was doing their A+ > and N+ certification... They told me that they got more information in > the workshop than in a regular training campus and they want more hands > on workshops. > > So this made me think is there a way we can create a sort of University > where School leavers and Graduates can do a Certificate in openSUSE and > from there they can springboard to a CLA/CLP/CLE certification? > > What is your view? I feel that setting up such a program is far too involved for us. to have a real certificate, we would need to come up with: * training material * tests * certification program for trainers * certification of single trainers Btw. this should be discussed on the marketing list, let's followup there, 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] Trying to get help for accessibility
by Mariano Iumiento 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello everybody. First of all, sorry in advance for the long mail... As part of the promotion activities I do for openSUSE, there is one event that I do not miss since a few years now: the Rome based Linux Day. As it often happens after the event, I get requests about support on doing stuff related to openSUSE. This year I've been contacted also for a special support for which I'm trying to get all the required info but for which I forward the request in this list because it is a little bit out of my competences for two main items: - Multimedia; - Accessibility; The situation is: I've been invited to the National Institute for Deaf People in Rome (http://www.istitutosordiroma.it/index-en.asp) by a couple of openSUSE enthusiastic deaf guys that work there into the Visual Multimedia Department (http://www.istitutosordiroma.it/mediateca-en.asp) They are working on a project related to the accessibility for deaf people to be able to go alone to arts and cultural sites (museums, churches, etc.) without depending on people that know the 'sign language'. To do this, they are trying to get technologies helping them... They have tried a few netbooks with openSUSE installed and have played with some multimedia software coming from available solutions where they are trying to put recorded videos in 'sign language' that they can launch when in front of something they want more details about. At the moment, the best solution they have found is XBMC (xbmc.org) but it is not yet enough adeguate for them. So, the questions I forward to this list is: - Is there any other combined solution made of touch_screen_hardware-openSUSE-multimedia_add_on_software that anybody knows as to be perfect for this? The requirement is to be able to have a touch-screen hardware with an easy interface for EVERYBODY where users can quickly find the recording for what they are looking for (example: I'm at the San Peter Church, in the first room in the basements, and there is statue of a man sleeping. To reach the recording, there should be icons like Country, City, Type_of_site_as_church_or_museum, Name_of_site, Floor, Type_of_item, etc. etc. They are working themselves to generate the videos, but they should be easy to find by tags or something similar). - If there are no available solutions, they have asked me at least a hand on finding somebody that could be able to make some changes to xbmc code (changes related to menu layout, icons, etc.). Anybody? - Are there any touch-tablets/netbooks/nettops that you know is working with openSUSE? Is meego a better solution? - Is there anybody available in helping me to help them in finding the right combination? What I can do from my side, as part of my personal time that I spend for promoting openSUSE, I've already shared with them that: - I can be their counterpart with the community and/or developers that will provide availability; - I can help them in developing openSUSE courses for internal pc users; - I can chair basic courses to them with the help of persons knowing 'sign languages'; - I can help them finding the best combination of 'tablet-like-pc' with touch functionallities by trying them and trying to fix problems that will arise; I do not have competences in multimedia solutions, neither on accessibility. Any help is appreciated. Thank you very much. Regards. --- Mariano Iumiento -- 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] Promoting SUSE Studio by making a contest for it (some thoughts)
by Kostas Koudaras 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hi We were trying to thing ways in order to promote SUSE Studio which we think is something great,we were thinking SS and OBS mostly because we want people that use another distribution to know those two great tools and become more familiar with the openSUSE project. So what is the story,as the Greek openSUSE team we are installing openSUSE distribution and some other distributions to some old computers that a branch of scouts have but we are talking with some other higher grade (national) scouts so that we install FOSS to other branches around Greece.We had the problem that the PC's are really old and we need a lighter distribution,so Stathis said "Ok I'll try to make one on SUSE Studio" and I thought why should we do it and don't let other people be creative,let other people know this great tool and give anyone who wants the pleasure of making an operating system by himself? So we thought why don't we ask for permission for the scout logos and stuff and make a contest about who will create a Custom Scout Distribution? We are thinking in giving everyone a starter pack with logos and stuff that Scout want included in the distribution to download from a page,give a dead end(with plenty of time,not because people might need time to create a distribution but give us the time to promote it BIG),after that give some people to test all the distributions and finally the Greek openSUSE team and the Scouts(or maybe only the scouts) to choose the winner.I would like to ask if openSUSE can send us something to put as a prize,something symbolic, I really don't know. Finally we have an 'official' Greek Scout openSUSE distribution and after that if all this go well we could try on organizing a global contest about it,only think what might follow after that..Other organizations and a great marketing opening opening doors for openSUSE project around the world. You might think we are crazy or dreamers or what ever, we don't bother because we are... 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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