December 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Re:Marketing Poster text - was -( Sirko's recent work )
by Helen 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

I made some reasonable progress with the text today, organized them so they are in the order of the examples as posted by Gnokki, with headline, topic (for reference) and text below. If someone could write something about Factory please? I'm clueless about that. Also Gnokii I wasn't sure what the topic of the people one was, I thought 'international' but not sure. Also, I'm not too sure about a couple of the last images. I also need someone to check the Yast text, it's not quite complete and I'm not sure what else to say abou that. Some of the texts might seem a bit too short, in terms of not saying enough about the features, but we do need to keep them fairly brief I think. If you think I need to talk about something else, please add it and I'll try to work it in. Also please comment if you think any of the phrases need improvement, suggest alternatives, or if facts need correcting! http://piratepad.net/VQM25U4GMy thanks 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] openSUSE and Attachmate
by Jos Poortvliet 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Hi all, Questions about openSUSE and Attachmate come up frequently. I recently had the opportunity to conduct a Q&A with Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn. We covered openSUSE, SUSE and open source in general. Please see the full text of my interview at news.opensuse.org: http://news.opensuse.org/2010/12/20/attachmate-acquisition-what-does-it-mea… for-suse-opensuse-open-source/ And pls feel free to spread the word! Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Christmas Party report
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Hello my friends, We were invited to join a Christmas Party. Next week, most of us, leave for Christmas vacations. It was an opportunity for all of Linux enthusiasts to gather. You can check for full report and pictures here: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2010/12/greeklug-christmas-party-de… Have a lot of fun!!! 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] Report: openSUSE Project presentation, December 18, 2010, Thessaloniki-Greece
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Hello my friends, Today we had the presentation of openSUSE Project. It was a great presentation for us all. Our subjects were the Project, the Greek Community, OBS and Installation of KDE. They joined ppl that use Windows and would love to migrate. It was a great chance for them to know how. Others would like to know more about packaging. They found some interest too. You can see full report and pictures here: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2010/12/report-opensuse-project-pre… Have a lot of fun!!! 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] Issue #154 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Hi @all! Issue #154 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]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=5988 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ 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] 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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