openSUSE Marketing March 2010

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[opensuse-marketing] Final Review for M4 announcement
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Here's the text that will go live in the next hour, please send improvements directly via email or catch me on the opensuse-marketing IRC channel, Andreas The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here’s what you may find interesting in the new release: * OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 with new features * NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8 with fixes to better support bluetooth and GSM. * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2, it “adds over 67 changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.11, including improved Bonjour/DNS-SD support, supply level and status reporting for network printers via SNMP, an improved web interface, and the CUPS DDK tools.” * The conntrack – network filtering system has been added. These are a userspace tools that allow system administrators interact with the Connection Tracking System, which is the module that provides stateful packet inspection for iptables. * The Mono stack has been updated to the bug fix release 2.6.3 together with MonoDevelop 2.2.2. * Python was updated to the bug fix release 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone. * The LiveCDs have virtualbox guest tools. Now features like screen resizing, seamless mode, and shared clipboards work fine and automatically after boot-up! Check this (~8,5MB) ogv video to see the guest addition features in action. Gnome/GTK desktop users: * GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.29.92) KDE desktop users: * KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1 the most important changes: * A performance problem in KMail when sending emails has been fixed * Various fixes in Plasma widgets and other addons, such as the analog clock and the picture frame * A number of fixes in Konsole, KDE’s powerful terminal application * Amarok is now at version 2.3, “Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)”. * k3b is updated to 2.0 RC2 LXDE desktop users: * Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9. Now lxde fully supports trash, automount, gvfs, “menu-browsing” and much more. * lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The known bugs include: * gwibber has been updated but depends on desktopcouch and that stack is not yet integrated into openSUSE. You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Friday, April the 9th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today! -- 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] Milestone 4 Announcement Review
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow and have drafted the following announcement. Please review it and send me suggestions on improving the text. If you want to rewrite it completely, I'm fine as well ;) I'd like to see from packagers a few more details on the major packaging changes, enhancements are welcome. Thanks, Andreas [Graphic: Geeko at work from MIlestone3] The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here's what you may find interesting in the new release: * OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 * NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8 * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2 * The conntrack - network filtering system has been added * The mono stack has been updated to version 2.6.3 * Python was updated to version 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone Gnome/GTK desktop users: * GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92) KDE desktop users: * KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1. * Amarok is now at version 2.3. * k3b is updated to version 1.91. Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today! -- 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] Who takes care?
by S.Kemter 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hello, I heard in one of the last marketing meeting there should be a page created with events that are important for marketing. Such page exists http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/Events since a long time. But what I see when I look for this page is not all take care of it. Think there are lot more events out there. Not all events in north america are written in there. And the events they written in, it looks for me as there no openSUSE people are there.... So plz fill in the absent events and when u take care of one put u as the person in charge too. That list isnt only a list that people know who they can meet openSUSE. That list is a fundament for calculation the marketing stuff like DVD. So feel u accountable for keep that page up to date 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] My AI from yesterday:
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I had in yesterday's IRC meeting the AI "to consolidate what we have collected and check what is already in the wiki". Looking through the wiki (thanks for the pointers) the page http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate contains the social media information. I'm listing nevertheless the activities here: * Different social networks with groups (facebook, linked in,...). Note that we have several openSUSE groups and fan pages, we should consolidate them at one point in time. * Accounts in twitter/identi.ca: @opensuse, @opensuse_DE @opensusewn * Giving presentations and talks * Writing articles and publish them on portals * Associated teams: openSUSE Weekly News, Ambassadors * Announcements * Blogs - lizards, spotlight, news 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] Li-f-e Release announcement
by Jigish Gohil 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hello Community Here is a draft of the release announcement of upcoming Li-f-e release: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live/Announcement_draft Request you all to improve it, we are planning to make an announcement tomorrow. We also require torrent seeders so if anyone has good bandwidth please download the iso, create .torrent file, seed it and send the .torrent file to us. http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-11.2-3-… Kind regards Jigish -- CyberOrg -- 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] call for papers LinuxWochen Vienna
by S.Kemter 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello, Maybe there is someone interested, the Linuxwochen Vienna calling for presentations and lectures. http://linuxwochen.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124:call… 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] New home page wiki template
by giuseppe gran 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi All, Can someone explain to me how to apply the new template of the center of the wiki's home page? I have just to upload images and copy-paste the code from the english version? Thank you in advance, Bye hawake -- Linux user number 433087 Linux registered machine number 351448 http://counter.li.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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[opensuse-marketing] IRC Meeting on March 23, 2010
by Andreas Jaeger 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

I'd like to remind you of this week's IRC Meeting As always, this meeting will take place in IRC: Freenode channel #opensuse- marketing. The current agenda is updated at: http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/Meetings/Marketing_Meeting_2010-03-23 and I've added it below for reference. Topics Please add your topics below: 1. Assessment of current marketing activities: 1. What are we doing today? 2. What we (as individuals) want to do? 3. What we (as individuals) have skills in (for example, we need more writers for news releases)? 4. Who can train others in which areas? 5. What skills do we lack so we can go out and find people with these? 2. Ongoing review of 2010 Priorities (http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing/2010-Priorities) 1. Marketing Priorities for 2010 2. Let's organize the priorities in order of importance 3. Should we assign priorities to individuals so everyone can identify what needs to be done in each area? 3. Open Floor 1. Suggestions on new topics? 2. Q&A 3. Next meeting -- 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] Revitalization of Weekly News Team
by Satoru Matsumoto 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

As you may know, Weekly News Team is organizing biweekly regular IRC meetings on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode alternate Saturdays 14:30 UTC. However, we couldn't start the meetings for the last several months, because only few people were on the channel at that time - most of the time there were only Sascha and me. :-( I know most of the team members are too busy with their own works to attend the meetings and the time for the meeting may not be so convenient for everyone. If members were willing to join the meeting but happened to be busy at that time, that's not the problem. What I am afraid of is, lack of interest. So, if you think you are a part of the Weekly News Team or want to be, I'd like to ask you: 1) Are you satisfied and having fun with editing/translating Weekly News? In case the answer is not "Yes", please tell us the reason, if you can point out. 2) Do you have any good ideas, proposals and opinions to make Weekly News much more interesting and attractive both for readers and editors/translators? "It would be interesting at least for me, if we ..." is considered a good answer. ;-) 3) Is the meeting time - 14:30 UTC alternate Saturdays - convenient for you? Over 1 year has passed since we fixed the time, it might be good chance to reconsider the better time for meetings. Or, if you think we had better discuss topics on another channel such as mailinglist, forum, Google Wave, etc., which is unaffected by time, please tell us your recommendation. There might be some opinions like "We should ..." and "We have to ...", but I would rather talk with you about how we can enjoy our work on Weekly News and provide more interesting and useful newsletters to our readers. To make things better and more interesting, we always need your help. ;-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -- 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] Which goal have the OWN?
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hello Mates, inspired by other Threads, i think we should clarify what are the Goal of OWN is? --> Just for ppl who are active in the Community (read planet and Mailinglists, Forums every day) --> Just for new ppl who doesn't read and know the planet and MLs --> For ppl outside? --> Or an mix of all 3 Groups. What are todo? Place there your proposals: -- 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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