May 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Marketing Team Strategy
by Bryen Yunashko 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi Team! As you know, the openSUSE Board got together in Nuremberg to discuss the general strategy plans for openSUSE for the long-term future. While there in Nuremberg for one extra day, some of us who are part of the Marketing Team got together for additional discussions around moving Marketing Team forward. Those present were: Myself, AJ, Jan Weber, Michael Loeffler and Will Stephenson. Here our our thoughts: Our first thought is that we have many things to do, but too few human resources to implement things out effectively for short therm campaigns. As a result, it becomes harder for contributors to figure out how and where to contribute where they feel most comfortable. Our second thought is looking at ways to go beyond just focusing on marketing campaigns for imeediate releases. We want to find ways to help communicate what openSUSE is all about and even help to dispel some of the misconceptions that exist about openSUSE in the world. And our third thought is to focus on how we can develop the skills of our existing team membes to be able to more broadly handle marketing tasks as well as how best to attract new talent to the marketing team. We recognize that many people have good specialties within Marketing but we want to empower our team members to be able to broaden their marketing skills and identify what areas they can personally strengthen. And finally, we agree that one major problem that exists now is that we are all taking on too many tasks. This leads to burn-out and poor quality of work. So, we wish to limit volunteers to 2-3 tasks as personal priorities before they can take on additional tasks upon completion. -- 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 Conference 2010 CfP Announce
by Klaas Freitag 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi, today I finally was able to announce the call for papers of the conference on http://news.opensuse.org . Now its time to make that public and talk about - to bring as many interesting speakers and contributions to the conf as possible. Please all help! Thanks, Klaas -- 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] Linux-Kongress 2010 in Nuernberg (CfP) closes 1st of June
by Andreas Jaeger 31 May '10

31 May '10

FYI, just noticed the following and would like to invite all of you! the program committee of Linux Kongress chose Nuernberg as the location for Linux-Kongress in 2010. (Sept 21 -- 24, the first two days are for tutorials, as usual.) Deadline for the submissions is tomorrow (Tuesday, 1st of June), please send in your proposals for presentations and tutorials! Links: http://www.linux-kongress.org/2010/ http://www.linux-kongress.org/2010/cfp.html Hope to see many of you in Nuernberg! 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] openSUSE at GNOME Asia, Taipei summit?
by Andreas Jaeger 31 May '10

31 May '10

I'm forwarding the following request: > This is Emily Chen, GNOME Foundation member and organizer of GNOME.Asia > Summit. Currently, we are planning and organizing the third GNOME.Asia > Summit 2010, which will be co-hosted with COSCUP , August 14 -15 2010 in > Taipei. GNOME.Asia is the main GNOME conference in Asia, and COSCUP is the > biggest open source conference in Taiwan every year. I would be very happy > to see OpenSUSE joining our efforts in Taiwan this year. > [...] > We are calling for papers now, we would like to invite people from > OpenSUSE comuunity to give presentations and show the latest > technologies to this conference. If any of you is interested, please follow the call for participation here: http://pockey.dao2.com/2010/05/coscup-gnome-asia-2010-call-for-participants/ If you like to contact Emily directly, tell me and I bring you together, 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] Issue #125 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 29 May '10

29 May '10

Hi @translators, Issue #125 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://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news [1] :http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ Please notice the new Place of the weekly news. 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] Weekly News: Last changes
by samannsml＠directbox.com 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hello Mates, no we have splitted our Sites to the following Destinations: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_team http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news The actual Issue is placed in http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news. If the new Issue comes, the old one goes to: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Archiv:Weekly_news/ISSUENumber We preparing the next Issues in http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news. There is the next Page located. All Team related Stuff (FAQ, Meetings and so on) we find in: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_team The Page http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news is for our Visitors. Changes in the Weekly News: We have deleted the Translations Page (e.g. opensuse.org/124/Translations) The Translations Page is now placed on the bottom of every Issue in the Translations range. The File "which section to use" is integrated in the full template. If you go to "edit" then you find the which section to use informations as invisible content. The both templates "full" and "light" are now in the Template: Namespace. The Readypage is localted there: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations The next issue is located there: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news Have a lot of fun! Sascha -- 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] Conference Announcement Draft
by Klaas Freitag 28 May '10

28 May '10

Marketing Gurus, I have worked on on the conference pages [1] and [2] and would ask you to quickly look over these again and approve ;-) Furthermore, below you find my proposal for a news.o.o entry that announces the conference in general and the cfp in particular. Please also check that and let me know what has to be changed. We agreed that we want to announce this week, so time is pressing. It would be cool to have your comments and approval within the next few hours so that we can issue it tonight. Or is it better to not do it so short before weekend? Thanks, Klaas [1] Langing page: http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010 [2] Call for papers: http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers ==> Announcement Draft: The openSUSE Project Team is happy to announce that the 2nd international openSUSE Conference will take place in Nuremberg, Germany between 20-23 October 2010. After the great success of the first conference last years we will again meet in Nuremberg to discuss, learn, plan and work on the openSUSE project with all its subprojects as well as on general free software topics. Specifically this year we're explicitly inviting members of upstream projects and other community distributions to discuss comprehensive topics of free software and projects to move forward with free technology across borders, which is also the motto of the openSUSE conference 2010 Collaboration across borders The [[http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Program_Committee|Conference Program Committee]] is currently seeking submissions from attendies for all kind of contributions to the conference such as talks, tutorials, hands-on-sessions and such. Suggested topics are around the motto Collaboration across Borders, but are not limited to. The [[http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_for_Papers|Call for Papers]] gives some guidance and concrete examples. The deadline for this year's [[http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_for_Papers|Call for Papers]] is july, 31st 2010. Acceptance will be issued by august, 20th. -- 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 DVD and more for Southeast Linux Fest
by Chuck Payne 27 May '10

27 May '10

Guys, I am going to the Southeast Linux Fest, I know we are low on DVD, but I need to get as many that can be spare. The Southeast Linux Fest, is the biggest Linuxfest in the south will be for three days, June 11-13. Please send my request to Chuck Payne 2962 Belfaire Crest Court Dacula, GA 30019 USA. I will be driving there. -- ----------------------------------------- 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] Draft Milestone 7 Release
by Andreas Jaeger 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi, michl and myself are currently working on the M7 release. Below is a copy & paste of the current text. I'm off for lunch now and wanted to get your feedback. Please send your comments on opensuse-marketing or join michl and myself on freenode IRC channel #opensuse-marketing. Andreas openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase Milestone 7, a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the second release of the “Stablizing Freeze” and last milestone, the next release will be RC1 on June 17th. openSUSE 11.3 Progress Compared to M6, this milestone brings many bug fixes, an update to Linux kernel 2.6.34 and the integration of translations and new artwork. We plan to include in openSUSE 11.3 the following highlights: * Netbook support with both Moblin and KDE * Btrfs support in the installer * The zypper package management command line client has seen further improvements: o If a package gets removed, dependencies needed only by this package can get removed as well (option –clean-deps) o Package selection code has been enhanced to support the following syntax for use with in/up/rm commands: [+/-]repo:type:nameOPversion.arch o zypper will notify about updates with vendor change (from different repository) * Nouveau driver for Nvidia graphic cards is integrated * File sharing with SpiderOak * Great desktop experience with GNOME 2.30, KDE 4.4, LXDE 0.5.5, and XFCE 4.6.1. LXDE has been newly integrated and is part of the DVD media. * On demand package installation in KDE, for e.g. debug info packages and missing modules. * Imagewriter tool to copy ISO images to an USB stick * Updated distribution with new upstream packages Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone and not a final release, 11.3 M7 does contain bugs both known and unknown, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The following annoyances have already been reported: * Firefox crashes at start Bug #608087 – workaround: update gtk2 to the new version from the GNOME factory repo * The x86_64 NET Install CD had a garbled screen for an NVidia GeForce Go 7150M graphics adapter. The workaround is to add “brokenmodules=nouveau” to the Boot Options line. * LXDM always start default session Bug #607868 Please see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles… for the current list. What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from http://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] a quick question
by y smith 26 May '10

26 May '10

>From all the chatter and the main site I cant tell the totoal specs of 11.3 I need to know a few things - reauirements cpu ram 32 or 64 bit -- 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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