February 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-marketing] FLISOL 2010 posters in spanish
by mail＠lotz1009.de 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Great work! KR Lutz (lotz1009) -- 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] IRC Cloak
by Alex Barrios 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi everybody. How works the IRC cloak? When I got my member mail, they say that I will get a IRC cloak. All that I know about that, is that instead of show alexbariv(a)190.XX.XX.XX it should show alexbariv@opensuse, right? but this isn't happening (if that was cloak means). All the other things like mail are working perfect. :D Thanks in advance. -- Alex Barrios ----------------------------------------- Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- Embajador openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexbariv blog -- http://blog.alexbariv.com/ twitter -- alexbariv -- 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 #111 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hi @all! Issue #111 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://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/111 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Translations/Ready [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/FAQ [3] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/111/Translations Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- 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] FrOSCamp Call for Participation
by S.Kemter 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hello, a few days ago I send a short message about that event. Here is now the official call for participation > Dear friends of freedom, > > The time has come to announce yet another event focusing on free and > open source and on free contents. As you might be aware of the > OpenExpo used to take place twice a year, once during spring time in > Bern and once in autumn in Zurich/Winterthur but the latter was now > cancelled. To fill this gap we started to organize a new (even better) > event, the FrOSCamp. While this is the first time it's being organized > we hope for your support to quickly make this the #1 event in > Switzerland and southern Germany and one of the biggest and most > important events in all of Europe in the future. > > So here's the important facts and you'll quickly noticed we try to > combine the best parts of many existing event (while trying to leave > away the not-so-good parts). The first annual FrOSCamp will happen on > Friday and Saturday, 17/18 September 2010 in the city of Zurich on the > premises of the ETH Zurich. There will be an exhibition similar to > past OpenExpo events, talks for developers and administrators similar > to FOSDEM, talks for end-users and work-shops for varios audiences > similar to LinuxTag and hackfests similar to any of these > project-specific developer conferences. We'd also like to enable > projects to hold their annual users/developers/whatever meetings as > some sort of side-event. What we won't allow is commercial exhibitors > of any kind (no worries, projects are allowed to sell their shirts and > stuff). So instead of '.org meets .com' it's more some sort of 'MIT > meets ASL meetings GPL meets CC...and so on'. > > Of course there will also be a social event but instead of geeks > sitting (or standing) around with a beer in their hand we will have > party with live music from creative commons friendly bands. And the > beer won't be just any random brand but locally brewed Free Beer with > its recipe available under CC-BY-SA. We're also trying to get a > sponsor to make the beer free (as in beer) and not "only" free (as in > freedom). > > So if you're interested in actively participating at this event make > sure to answer the calls for projects/papers on our website [1]. We're > also looking forward to local people to answer the call for volunteers > as volunteers are important to any non-commercial event to become a > huge success. We also have some mailing lists for further > communication and discussion and you're free to subscribe yourself to > any of them [2]. If you have anything to tell or ask us that you can't > find on the website and that doesn't fit onto any of the mailing lists > feel free to drop us a line [3], particularly potential sponsors are > very welcome to do so! > > Don't forget to tell people around you about our event! Forward them > this message, point them to our website or join our events and groups > on those well-known social networking platforms [4]. > > Last but not least let me mention #FrOSCamp on Freenode > (irc.freenode.net) which is open for your questions, remarks or if you > simply need another channel to idle in. > > Free Regards, > > The FrOSCamp Organizational Team > > PS. This is the first and last time we send you a message directly. In > the future we'll only communicate through the mentioned channels. > > [1] http://froscamp.org/ > [2] http://lists.froscamp.org/ > [3] mailto:contact@froscamp.org > [4] http://wiki.froscamp.org/Social_Networking > > br gnokii > -- more http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs http://www.xing.com/go/invita/11208336 http://twitter.com/karltuxstadt http://identi.ca/karltuxstadt -- 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] License on the Wiki
by Strainu 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, Is this page still updated? http://en.opensuse.org/Legal I see that some pages are © by Novell, while on others there is no mention of any kind. Shouldn't we have a link on each page to the license? Thanks, Strainu -- 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] How to add a Event?
by Alex Barrios 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi people. I'm brand new in this of being an ambassador of our beloved distro, so I'm a little lost in where should I put this info. I'm gonna participate in the FLISOL-VE in our region [0] representing our distro. Already I have confirmed to gift 5 DVD and 15 LiveCD, and put some laptops to give demonstrations, and of course, helping in the installations. So, I wanna know where should i put the confirmed participation of openSUSE in this event in our web page, to get more echo about. Thanks in advance for all your help. [0] http://www.flisol.net/FLISOL2010/Venezuela/Merida -- Alex Barrios ----------------------------------------- Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- Embajador openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexbariv blog -- http://blog.alexbariv.com/ twitter -- alexbariv -- 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 Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello, The next openSUSE Weekly News meeting will take place Saturday February 20 at 14:30 UTC. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current We using for our Meeting the Meetbot. Please check http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for the commands. Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-newsletter on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-newsletter. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- 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] How does an upstream website offer a link to the openSUSE build of their package?
by Dave Plater 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, I maintain rosegarden4 and upstream has a new version which ATM is submitted to factory, this is a very popular package and the new version is a complete rewrite from the ground up. I noticed the openSUSE link at :- http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/getting/ site was very out of date and even said the package was available from packman whereas it's been an openSUSE package since 2003. This lead me to request an updated link from the developers. I will paste the reply before I go further :- These are generated automatically by scraping the web interface to the distro package databases... I see that several distros appear to have changed their interfaces in such a way as to need an update. Can you provide a single URL that can reliably be retrieved in order to discover an up-to-date record of which version of Rosegarden is current in openSUSE? It can return either HTML or some parsable machine format. The link you just gave includes rather a lot of different entries, and it isn't directly obvious how I would extract the most widely available current version (or "a stable version" and "a bleeding-edge version") from it. I last used SuSE before they capitalised the U, and I have no idea how repositories are organised for it these days. If anyone reading this can provide similar things for Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, and your other favourite distribution, that would also be splendid. (Although automatically scraping web databases is messy and unreliable, it's still easier than trying to keep up to date manually. The broken distros on that page have only relatively recently become broken; mostly it's worked "well enough" for the last couple of years.) Chris The "Can you provide a single URL" part prompted this mail. I originally, when requesting the link update, sent this link :- http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.2&p=1&q=roseg… but this link has the old version at the top which is over a year old, unfortunately 10.02 the version they have just released was too unstable when 11.2 was frozen. I have explained to Chris Cannam the openSUSE repo structure and why but not knowing how the URL retrieval stated in the above message works my question is, is there a way that could point directly to a "one click install" of their latest version in openSUSE. That link would have to point to the build service multimedia:apps rosegarden4 package due to the fact that 10.02 will only be available in factory, in fact rosegarden-10.04 will most probably make the 11.3 release. The current 1.7.3 version in 11.2 is in fact a) a kde3 application and b) two bugs were filed against it when 11.2 was released which upstream refused to fix due to them concentrating on 10.02 which is a qt4 app far better suited to kde4. Incidentally a fedora user was complaining, on rosegardens user list, about the performance of jack server which rosegarden needs and asking about how these things work in other distros and that he was thinking of trying one. I was able to tell him, with confidence, about how well jack performed, with the minimum of set up, with the kernel-desktop kernel. Thanks Dave P -- 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] Help with @opensuse twitter account
by Andreas Jaeger 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:53:31 James Mason wrote: > Are you interacting a lot on @opensuse or mostly posting updates? That's something to figure out ;) > I'm interested in helping out either way, I just think that if it's > mostly outbound announcements we should work on expanding the scope of > the Hermes project, so that people can focus on the less mudane task > of interacting ;-) New blog posts from news.opensuse.org, lizards.o.o and spotlight.o.o are automatically twittered, so that's nothing we need to do. But sometimes it's good to send reminders, invite for meetings - and questions send, applaud some people etc. 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

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[opensuse-marketing] TEAM MEETING 16:00UTC 23-Feb-2010
by Bryen M. Yunashko 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hey Folks, It's time we re-grouped and looked at how we want to proceed forward with our awesome marketing team. So let's have our long overdue team meeting next week Tuesday (Feb 23) at 16:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=02&year=2… Let me know if you can't make it but would like to bring some info to the table. We're going to just simply talk about our infrastructure and organizational needs and start planning out our long-term strategy for Marketing team. Thanks, Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member -- 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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