December 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Wrong marketing OBS
by S.Kemter 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello, I doing very often researches for not so well known free software. Such things like Hotot http://hotot.org/ a really cool Twitter client or Turpial http://code.google.com/p/turpial/ another Twitter client or sK1 http://sk1project.org a free vector graphics editor, very cool for prepress process and very often I see the same there, just take a look to the download pages. That are only two examples, there are lot more small but cool software projects out there. So now the question is, do we the right strategy for marketing? Its enough to make talks about or writing endless long release messages? For me it looks its the wrong strategy because we get not really the result we want. What we want is a lot of small software projects using the OBS for packaging there stuff right? As I said I test very often small not so known software, I find a lot of such projects on google code or on canonicals launchpad. Mostly I can find binaries only for ubuntu. 2 possible reasons why the situation so is. 1. they never heard from OBS 2. they have no knowledge about packaging RPM So what to do now? Simple let us make as team for the next release of OBS an direct marketing. I am alone cant do that, because on the end you have to communicate over a little time with the picked projects. So I can do only 4 or 5, bu thats not enough to make a feelable result. So let us make as team a list with interesting projects, with the situation like hotot or sK1. And then make short before the next release an direct marketing. Even we have no success with bring them to use OBS so we know after that why they dont do that. 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] People of openSUSE
by Sascha Manns 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello Mates, some month ago i've readed in this list, that anyone would like to care about the People of openSUSE series. I just would ask, who was this guy? And is this plan still alive? -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent Maifeldstrasse 10 D-56 727 Mayen Phone: +49 2651 4014045 Email: Sascha.Manns(a)directbox.com Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.saschamanns.de

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[opensuse-marketing] New meeting times
by Bryen M. Yunashko 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Meetings can be a productive way to move initiatives forward. However, repeitive and frequent meetings can sometimes lead to a stale environment. At yesterday's regular bi-weekly meeting, we discussed this and came up with a new proposal: 14-December-2010 will be our final bi-weekly monthly meeting. After that, we will shift to a once-a-month meeting beginning in January. This once-a-month meeting will be fixed on the third Tuesday of each month. We will have additional meetings on an as-needed-basis that are focused on a specific topic. Otherwise, the regular monthly meeting will be the standard general meeting we've had in the past. Our focus will now shift to mailing list discussions. This will allow more people to directly participate in specific topics of their interest at a time that fits more conveniently for them, rather than adjusting to a scheduled meeting that may not benefit their home region. This will also allow me, as team lead, to bring more focus onto team action items and ensure that action items are completed in a timely manner. Our goal here is to give everyone the opportunity to use their time more efficiently and productively and we're confident this will help grow our team. If you have any questions, please do ask. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member 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] Linktauschanfrage
by Sebastian 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Sehr geehrte(r) Inhaber von http://de.opensuse.org/Weihnachten, Ich bin der Webmaster von http://www.kuenstlicher-weihnachtsbaum-kaufen.de. Wir sind immer auf der Suche nach Internetseiten die sich auch für das Thema Weihnachten, Weihnachtsmärkte und Weihnachtsbäume interessieren, dabei sind wir im Internet auf Ihre Seite gestoßen und glauben, dass sie perfekt zu unserer Sammlung qualitativ hochwertiger Links auf http://www.kuenstlicher-weihnachtsbaum-kaufen.de passt. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Sie ebenfalls an einem Linktausch interessiert sind. Bitte melden Sie sich doch bei uns per E-Mail, wir würden einen Link zu Ihrer Seite gerne und umgehend bei uns einbinden. Im Gegenzug könnte ein Link von http://de.opensuse.org/Weihnachten zu http://www.kuenstlicher-weihnachtsbaum-kaufen.de so aussehen: <a href="http://www.kuenstlicher-weihnachtsbaum-kaufen.de" title="Informationen zu künstlichen Weihnachtsbäumen">künstlicher Weihnachtsbaum</a> oder <a href="http://www.kuenstlicher-weihnachtsbaum-kaufen.de" title="Informationen zu künstlichen Christbäumen">künstlicher Christbaum</a> <a href="http://www.kuenstlicher-weihnachtsbaum-kaufen.de/Preise-und-Material.html">Preise künstlicher Weihnachtsbäume</a> Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Sebastian kontakt(a)kuenstlicher-weihnachtsbaum-kaufen.de

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Shop
by A.Reznik 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Hello, guys! I'm see on page "Marketing jobs" open job position openSUSE Shop Mainteiner. (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_jobs) How i can help with shop? And, who is a contact person? ;) My english so bad... Sorry. -- Всего самого лучшего! / With best regards! Антон Резник / Antony Reznik t0xa(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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Re: [opensuse-artwork] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sirko's recent work - my personal review...
by S.Kemter 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Am Montag 06 Dezember 2010, 12:16:09 schrieb Helen: > Piratepad here: > > http://piratepad.net/VQM25U4GMy > > (only titles so far... feel free to make a start!) Thx Helen for take care of it, have more & more the feeling and others are more the talkers here (and press others to work) So I can show the last 3 of the serie. The first one ist for Factory, if Tumbleweed happens then I should integrate that there so it becomes a design like that of YaST. But still working on a Tumbleweed logo. http://susepaste.org/30219482 The second shows, the flxibility that u with openSUSE have that kind was requested via my personal blog. http://susepaste.org/56182122 and the last one is to help explain ur release cycles. If there would be an LTS version I can simple change the calendar dates on it and so it becomes a motif for that. I am still inhappy with the design, looks boring against the other motifes, so expermenting with regroup the calendars and such stuff. http://susepaste.org/56182122 As I saw in the pad something about Bretzn, didnt a motif for that. br gnokii > > Helen > > Previously I wrote :) .... > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Helen <postmodernhousewife(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok if someone in Marketing team makes a Piratepad with list of titles > > for Gnokii's posters, and any key points they want me to > > mention/promote, send me the link, I'll write some text for it. You > > can then ajust to your needs. > > > > > > Helen South > > who really must write a funky email signature. > > > >> But one is for sure, if the marketing team dont provides the text for > >> the poster, the serie definitly not happen. > >> > >> > >> 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] We owe you a few stories for the past two events
by Jimmy Pierre 07 Dec '10

07 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 o 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. o How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 52 o 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. o 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) o 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. o Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. o Who staffed the booth? All of the above. o Would you go again? Yes, 18th December o 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. o 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 o Tell us about the event, What did you do? : openSUSE 11.3, libre office, chess & games, yast, WordPress, wi-fi, smeegol etc. o How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 37 o How many people were there at the event ? 27 (The thermometer showed 3°C and we nevertheless did not cancel the event). o 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) o 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. o Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. o Who staffed the booth? All of the above. o Would you go again? Yes, 27th November and 18th December o 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. o 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. -- 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] Portuguese Forums @ forums.opensuse.org
by Nelson Marques 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Dear All, Just as a heads up, the Forums Team has approved my submission for the creation of a Forum for Portuguese. I've battled a lot around this and made a huge group of friends in the process of such campaign. It's going to happen, I've got the official answer by Jim Henders minutes ago. This will be a valuable asset for the future of the Portuguese Community in Portugal and I hope it will benefit our future projects as well. The usage of this forums and the staff appointed will be handled on the 11th of December in our Christmas Dinner. I also leave a formal invitation (a subject I've spoken with Carlos Ribeiro in the past) to the Brazilian Ambassadors to pick 2 Moderators to join our team and work together. I would love to see all the Brazilian events posted on the Events forum and anything more they want to share. I would suggest that one of this moderators could be someone who has the same position on susebr.org forums and that can work as a link between the two resources that eventually serve the 'same' community in a wider spectrum. My second victory for openSUSE ;) Special Thanks to: - Carlos Gonçalves, which has been a great supporter and the person who builded the Portuguese Community; - Carlos Ribeiro, which has been an awesome conflict moderator during the active discussion of this topic in the opensuse-pt mailing list; - Jim Henders, for the oustanding help on this process and kindness in providing all the information and answering a ton of weird question; - openSUSE Community! - Novell and all the openSUSE sponsors. The forums will have their official opening for the 1st of January 2011 (maybe earlier one or two days because we are dependent on other people). As a side note, we will comply with the current forum rules and work to our best that the policies are enforced to be the best of our knowledge to keep the environment sane and healthy. Thanks all, Nelson. -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sirko's recent work - my personal review...
by S.Kemter 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Hello, That posters I showed in my blog are not all motifes, I still working on the last. On the end the series should have 15 motifes. 10 in green and 5 in red. I have a paper on my desk what should be on them, there are to do one for factory maybe including tumbleweed (javier did a logo mockup last time, think have now the idea for complete it). Someone pointed me to show the flexibility of openSUSE, I tried to draw something that before. I had a spring for it in mind, drawed it but it looked not so nice. But now I think have the right idea. The other are a second one for OBS what would be this http://img.susepaste.org/70458835 There was at my paper a community motif, because it existed before, and it was requested via my blog. So I think that would it be. http://img.susepaste.org/1974299 What I have also in mind with it I show with an example. http://img.susepaste.org/97226284 Because there was a discussion about faceless persons, yes its not so nice but with faces same problem. Helen had the idea to hint the faces only, that can be possible I try that. But with faces it becomes definitly overloaded. About the idea with make there real faces from the hackagotchis, definitly a bad idea. First give some ppl more attention as they should have, second definitly would look not so nice when it is scaled up. For the last one I have something in mind for a LTS version if that happens, then is definitly a motif worth. If is not happen, then I need another idea for a topic. But one is for sure, if the marketing team dont provides the text for the poster, the serie definitly not happen. 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] Sirko's recent work - my personal review...
by Nelson Marques 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Hi all, Recently Sirko has posted a snapshot of his on-going work regarding openSUSE. I know some of his plans which he told me, and I have to say, he's on the right track and has forseen a lot, so that cuts me the speech. For those who might have missed it, it's available here[1]. I would only ask that we start contemplating as well the community, so one poster for the community would actually be awesome. We should start advertising the community thus, start building a stronger basis for future loyalty from our users, and even promote maybe a kind of 'community icons' that can lead the vast masses out there. Regarding the current artwork, I love the Red... I believe that the visual metaphores available are pretty much accurate and well thinked off. I don't like the read logo on the top left poster, I hope it gets changed. I specially love the Education Poster and the Medicine one. Good job from Sirko. [1] - http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=2922&cpage=1 -- 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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