February 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] list of the ambassadors
by S.Kemter 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Hello, There is an open task since a long time. http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/List There are a lot of ppl in there have no userpage. Some of the ppl there have a user page without a mail address. Make sure there is a page with ur mail on the end of this month. Because after that I delete all without that contact information from the list. 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] Issue #110 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hi @all! Issue #110 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/110 [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/110/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] Invite for FrOSCamp
by S.Kemter 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hello, I got a invitation to FrOSCamp in Zurich/Swiss > Hello, > > I'd like to invite you to attend FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich. > > FrOSCamp is a multilingual two-day event taking place on the premises of the ETH Zurich in September. The event consists of an exhibition, talks, workshops and hackfests featuring free and open source software as well as free content > > Kind regards, > > Sandro Mathys > I dont know I can make there an booth, because a week later is FrOSCon in St.Augustin near Bonn. Maybe on of the french or italian Ambassadors can help there. 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] Help with @opensuse twitter account
by Andreas Jaeger 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hi, currently I "own" the @openSUSE twitter account and have setup again twittering of {news,lizards,spotlight}.opensuse.org articles. I also tweet myself on the account. I would love to have some support from others, we can share the twittering using cotweet.com. So, who wants to help - or take over? Once we have some people, let's discuss how to share the task best. The main task is retweeting, tweeting own content and answering tweets. And I think we should not tweet more than a couple of tweets a day... We currently have 2245 followers and the number is increasing... 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] Web site / OBS suggestions
by John Lange 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

The question about the OBS announcement got me thinking about the openSUSE site in general. First, OBS is by far one of the best "features" of the SUSE community. No other distribution has a better system for finding and adding packages. But lets put ourselves into the shoes of a first time OpenSUSE user. After they finish the install, the likely first step is to open Firefox which takes them to the default OpenSUSE site (http://www.opensuse.org/en/) where they are presented with 3 prominent options: 1) Get it "download openSUSE or find aditional software" 2) Discover it "Learn more about openSUSE..." 3) Create it "Build packages for all major Linux distributions..." "Get it" takes you to http://software.opensuse.org/ for downloading openSUSE but, in the main menu on the left, the "Get Software" link just loops back to itself. To be fair, there is another box on the left for "Software" and one on the right for "Package Search", but I personally feel the most prominent thing you should see in the centre of the "get software" site is a choice between downloading the full distro, and searching software. And the existing main menu could use some reworking: * Get Software * Wiki * Build Software * User Directory * Features * News * Forums * Shop Suggestion: * Get it ( -> download OpenSUSE with prominent software search) * Buy it (-> Shop (BTW, this needs a serious overhaul)) * Discover it ( -> Wiki ) * Build it ( -> OBS ) ( I like the "IT" theme and it should be maintained as much as possible ) ---- Delete these from the menu: * User Directory: Fits better as a link from the Wiki. * Features: this does not go to a feature list as expected, rather it goes to openFate. * Forums: Fits better as a link from the Wiki. * News (Already on the main site and can also be under Discover it) ---- Comments on the specific sites: Default openSUSE site: add "Buy it" under "Get it" to match the main menu suggested above. OBS: Package searching is buried as a link in the 3rd paragraph. "Build it" should link directly to package search. Shop: Is it only me or does anyone else find it odd that the only thing you CAN'T buy at "shop" is openSUSE?! And no North American sales or distribution? Plus, should there not be a link to purchase SLED/SLES? ----- Regards, -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca -- 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 Survey 2010 - Participate now
by Michael Loeffler 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Moin, participate in the openSUSE survey 2010 to give feedback to the openSUSE project about the distribution, the openSUSE tools environment and the project in general. Let us know where things are in good shape and areas where improvement is needed. There are also some questions to get some demographic knowledge about our users. The more we know in which direction our project shall move the better we can address this. The survey will take about 8 mins. The survey will be online till Feb 28, 2010 and we raffle amongst all participants some t-shirts, openSUSE 11.2 boxes and 1 one really neat device (most probably a Chumby). If you wanna participate in the raffle please provide your email address at the end, if not just skip it. Have a lot of fun! & Thanks for participating Best Michael -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Survey 2010 - Participate now
by Raul Libório 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

mmm, ok Michael. Thanks =) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:14, Michael Loeffler <michl(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > Moin, > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 14:27:19 Raul Libório wrote: >> Hey, >> >> why the link is redirecting to the page on openSUSE? >> somenthing wrong or is it because I already answered the questionnaire? > yes, its because you answered the questions already. Remove suveymonkey > cookies and another person can do the survery from your machine. > > Best > Michael >> >> Regards, >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 09:09, Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> wrote: >> > On Sunday 07 February 2010 14:26:25 Michael Loeffler wrote: >> >> Moin, >> >> >> >> participate in the openSUSE survey 2010 to give feedback to the openSUSE >> >> [...] >> > >> > The link to the survey is: >> > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6MJYV7T >> > >> > 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 >> > > -- > Michael Löffler, Product Management > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom Linux user#4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -- 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] Upcomming OBS 1.7 announcement
by Adrian Schröter 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hello Marketing Team, we are about to release OBS 1.7.0 later today and I modified the official press announcement from Novell Marketing a bit for news.opensuse.org (it was focused on commercial ISVs and it should be now more focused on openSUSE). You can see it here, if you login into news.opensuse.org: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=2849&preview=true Any ideas what could be written better ? My feeling is also that our default wiki page for build service could be better http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service Currently it is just a bullet point page mostly, but I lack ideas how to improve it, frankly. Yes, I know, I could have come earlier to you. But anyway, if you could do any improvements, it would be great :) thanks adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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] FLISOL 2010
by S.Kemter 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hello friends, It is time for beginn with the plannings for the world greatest Linux event - the flisol Last year there was only 3 events who openSUSE participated or we know that openSUSE people participated in. There was an event in Nicuragua http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/04/27/opensuse-nicaragua-flisol-2009/ And one did Ricardo Varas Santana but we had no report from there. http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Events/FLISOL_09 Let us make that this year better. Ricardo Varas Santana did a long time ago a little analysis how much Ambassadors openSUSE in LATAM has http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/10/02/opensuse-ambassadors-numbers/ There are a lot of them there and there could be come more out as 2 events/participation in flisol So Ambassadors from LATAM step forward and participate in the flisol. Search for the events near u and help the people there and represent the openSUSE project there or when there is no event try to make one. There is a page in the wiki, like last year. Hope to see more participation there as last year http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Events/FLISOL_10 I think here are enough people they have experience in to organize events and u can get help here. If u need some artwork the new Art-Team burns to help with that. 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Proposals for financing from the openSUSE marketing budget in 2010
by S.Kemter 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hello friends, A long time ago asked zonker for a collection with the events for the next year. So that he can plan the budget. I begun to edit this site http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/Events#Events_for_Ambassadors First I killed the table with "Need Ambassadors". Think everyone can see when the field "Ambassador" is empty that there is noone that support this event. For better visibility I marked the empty events red. I added two new fields: Page in the Wiki - that are the pages for planning the event ;) and Presentation. Please fill in - visiting a event is not really present openSUSE there ;) I moved the table 2010 over 2009, think the year is nearly over ;) Now I filled the table with the events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. There are lot more of events! The Linuxwochen in Austria have 3 or 4 events more but I dont know the exactly date for them at this time. There are not all events filled in, there are more events in North and South America and Asia. So please fill in them. We should use this page more, I dont know this week is foss.in in India is there aopenSUSE Ambassador? 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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