December 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Story about us on Linux Journal
by Chuck Payne 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Guys, I saw this on Linux Journal website this morning. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opensuse-and-ubuntu-rollercoasters -- ----------------------------------------- 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] Board Member Application
by Kostas Koudaras 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello world I would like you to know that I want to run as a candidate for the board of openSUSE. I am a seasonal forest firefighter in my 'day' job, so as you can understand, contributing for the common good is all I do in my life. I am into FOSS for a couple of years now but I am a man of action so I do most of the things I plan and do not stay in plans.I am currently the event manager of Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS / OSS (GREEKLUG) and I was responsible for organizing the host and speech of Richard Stallman here in Thessaloniki, which was a huge success. I spend four days with him and I learned many things about the meaning of Free Software, among other things, and got deeply effected and motivated by his words. I started working with openSUSE almost a year ago and I became ambassador on that summer. Since I became ambassador I made quite a few things about it, as I said a man of action. Me along with Stathis 'Diamond_gr' Iosifidis organized the Greek openSUSE community from scratch. We re-activated the Greek IRC channel which was almost dead. We started the http://amb.opensuse.gr so that the world can see our actions as ambassadors. We were the openSUSE team at the 75th International Trade Fair of Thessaloniki. We made a call for all Greek Geekos to gather and for a community, although at that time (a few months ago) almost every 'expert' told us that it would end up a great failure, we never stopped fighting and finally we prove them wrong. We recently started translating the openSUSE Weekly news and I am responsible for gathering and checking the translation. We started re-organize and translating the Greek wiki. We went to Athens were we actually met suseRocks and spoke with him about several matters about the community and the project.I went to several city’s all over Greece in order to meet in person people of the Greek community because I strongly believe that face to face communication builds actual trust and I do whatever is possible to prove people that I truly deserve their trust. Greek ambassador team trusted me to be the one communicating the board if needed in order to separate jobs inside the Greek community. I participated in several innovating events for openSUSE like the Xariseto Free festival. I represented openSUSE to an event at primary school in Thessaloniki for celebrating Software Freedom Day 2010. Beyond the Greek community I participate actively in the marketing and the ambassador teams and I am trying to do the same at other teams too. Andreas Jaeger recently trusted me to be the one of three at the Ambassador Welcome Team. I probably forgot some of the things I do but the general idea about me as a person and also my moto for my campaign is 'Planning is good, but acting is better'. I totally believe in team working and I think that I co-operate great with others. I am a Hacker in life more than I am a hacker in programming,in fact I don't know almost no programming at all nor I am good at solving technically nature problems. I tend to like my disadvantages and use them as actual advantages. I think outside of the box and try to think with as much playful cleverness as I can get. I believe deeply in evolution and I am not afraid to bleed my ego for evolution to come. I don't stare at targets, I hit them till I get them and I never give up. If you read the whole text above I truly thank you,if not I can understand you ;-) I hope for your support Kostas Koudaras (Warlordfff) -- 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] MastersinProjectManagement.com
by Andrea McDougal 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello, I would like to submit my new website, http://mastersinprojectmanagement.com for your review and inclusion in the resource section of your site: http://de.opensuse.org/Bildungswesen/Anwendungen/Desktop My goal was to compile an unbiased and updated list of every school that offers a master's degree in project management in the US. I felt the existing lists were not comprehensive, easy to find, and many web sites have outdated information and links. I believe I have built a useful resource for project management students and would simply like to ask that you take a look and link to my site if you agree. All the schools are listed on the front page and lead directly to each program, additionally they are sorted by state. I found your email address when I spent some time on your site and thought your visitors might find MastersinProjectManagement.com useful. This is a one time request and I have no intention of emailing you again. If I made a mistake you can reply with remove in the subject line. Since my primary goal was to compile an updated list of every master's in project management program in the US, if you know of any I have missed, please let me know so I can add them. Otherwise, if you have any questions or would like any additional information, please feel free to ask. Thank you for your consideration, Andrea McDougal

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[opensuse-marketing] Events
by Chuck Payne 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Guys, If you have upcoming events and would like to get them on to Facebook. Please e-mail me the details and I will getting posted. Thanks, Pup -- ----------------------------------------- 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] news.o.o team
by Jos Poortvliet 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi all! I bet most of you have heard of this website, news.opensuse.org. Sometimes people post random vaguely openSUSE-related stuff there. Now I thought it would be fun to create a team around that - work a bit more structured :D People with the rights to post there now post whatever they like, whenever they like. Not that that is always a bad thing, but having a little more oversight to guarantee quality and timing would be good (eg 3 articles on one day then nothing for 3 days sucks; and sometimes there is some Germanglish in there too). It ain't hard - if you are currently writing there every now and then you want to be on the team. If you are willing and able to edit posts every now and then - you want to be on the team. If you want to WRITE for news, you don't HAVE to be on the team - you can just submit stuff and the editors will edit and publish it. So who's up for this? And I expect AJ and Henne at the very least to volunteer, Sascha, you too :D I'm going for everyone who has contributed a lot of stories to News.o.o to be on the team. Or those who can and want to write... So Helen? You! Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Marketing Collaboration Days
by Bryen Yunashko 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

openSUSE Marketing Collaboration Days The openSUSE Marketing Team is proud to host Collaboration Days during the month of December. Each designated day, we will focus on a specifc area related to marketing. The purpose of this is to get some work done on that topic to strengthen our ability to promote openSUSE to the world. It is a day that is meant to be busy and productive for the team as well as an opportunity for non-team members to stop by and offer their perspectives and help out as we hack away. As this is an open process, we encourage everyone to come join us, even if you are not directly related to openSUSE. All perspectives are important and we welcome you all. Planned Agenda: 6 December 2010 Ambassador Support Review (Moderators - Carlos Ribeiro, Kostas Koudaras) Focus: Review existing support materials for Ambassadors and identify key checkpoint materials such as a checklist for booths. Review openSUSE Booth design concepts and strengthen reference materials such as talking points and developing strong presentation/speaking skills. 13 December 2010 Marketing Materials Review (Moderators - Chuck Payne, Bryen Yunashko) Focus: Review current posted materials including, but not limtied to, brochures, slide presentations, talking points, etc. Strengthen existing materials and add new materials where needed. Review placement on our wiki to ensure material is readily available for all who need it. 21 December 2010 PR and Social Media Review (Moderated by Manu Gupta and Jos Poortvliet) Focus: Review our strategy for reaching out to the press/media and our methods for publicizing through social media outlets including blogs, Twitter/Identi.ca, Facebook and other online venues. Document our methods and ensure we have caretakers for all sites. How this works: Think "hackfest." Each day, the moderators of each event will post a list of suggested assignments. You are welcome to select from the list or create an assignment that you feel you can best contribute to. Moderators are there to offer advice and guidance, not to control what you wish to do. it is your chance to express yourself freely and creatively. During the Collaboration Day, you will work either on your own or with partners as you choose. Occasionally, moderators may host brief discussion sessions to review the assignments and status. Where: We meet in the #openSUSE-Marketing IRC channel on Freenode. That's where the list will be hosted. However, you are not expected to put your full attention onto the channel. it is just a place to ask questions and get some advice. The majority of your time you will "meet" in your preferred environment where you feel you work best. Collaboration Days begin at 9:00 UTC and end at 24:00 UTC It's your day, it's openSUSE's day! Let's make the most of it! -- 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] Greek openSUSE community, Our first meeting
by Kostas Koudaras 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Yesterday the Greek openSUSE community had it's first meeting. The purpose of this meeting was all of those who are interesting on participate to decide the next steps of our community together. Me(Warlordfff) and Stathis(Diamond_gr) had no experience on how to organize such a meeting so we made a lot of mistakes,had many difficulties and many things went wrong but finally we managed to make some decisions about certain points and we decided to have another meeting exclusively at IRC this time,sometime next weekend. The topics we talked was: Official translation of 11.4 and the creation of a translators team about it. Two members showed interest about it: Kostas Boukouvalas (who is already a openSUSE translator) Michael Vourlakos Kostas Boukouvalas has created a wiki page about the translation (http://el.opensuse.org/%CE%92%CE%BF%CE%AE%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%9C%CE… ) Forum: Creation of a Greek Section at http://forums.opensuse.org. The members that expressed interest about taking responsibilities on that section were: Stratos Zolotas (Baskinsy) Stathis Iosifidis (Diamond_gr) Kostas Koudaras (warlordfff) Kostas Boukouvalas (Boukouvalas) George (Etern4l) Wiki:We decided all members to contribute by translating parts of the wiki in Greek.Also there was a suggestion about organizing a mini hackfest for the translation of our wiki. LI-F-E: We talked about making a Greek division of LI-F-E incorporating the packages of the Greek ministry of education. OBS:We decided to form a team about OBS,the team will take some packages for maintenance and Support,also to create packages that are not available for openSUSE (such packages are the packages of the Greek ministry of education that we need so that we create our LI-F-E division) Finally we decided to process all that in our mailing list the whole week and talk about all that and more at our next meeting. 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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