June 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Conference discussion
by Bryen M. Yunashko 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Tomorrow at 12:00 UTC, we will have a one hour meeting to discuss where we are at with openSUSE Conference marketing and what to do next. Sirko (Gnokii) Kemter has already started the ball rolling, so let's support his activities! Please stop by if you can! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead GNOME-A11y Outreach lead -- 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] Meeting Minutes posted
by Bryen M. Yunashko 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

After a bit of delay getting the meeting minutes and logs transferred onto the web, we now have it published and ready for your review. Yesterday's meeting was lively and energetic. Thanks to all who participated. I will be sending separate threads on specific topics from the meeting for us to discuss. Minutes: http://opensuse-community.org/logs/opensuse-marketing/2010/opensuse-marketi… Logs: http://opensuse-community.org/logs/opensuse-marketing/2010/opensuse-marketi… Thanks again to all! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead GNOME-A11y Outreach lead -- 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] Marketing Materials - "Virtual Eventkit"
by Andreas Jaeger 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Hi, we have created for Linuxtag last week a couple of documents, e.g. a one page flyer about openSUSE and the conference and I'd like to make these available on a broader basis and also get them translated for ambassadors to use. I'd like to have a kind of "Virtual Eventkit" for us. How should we do this? What about creating a git repository and adding the stuff there - and linking from our Marketing pages to the repository? 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] Launch Parties 11.3
by S.Kemter 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Hello, Time to write this mail again and remember u all that openSUSE 11.3 would be released in 30 days. So preparing Launch Parties in ur regions. Maybe the following things are helpful for that. If u need help or have a special thing in mind dont eschew to write me a mail and ask for help. I will do what I can. What is a Launch Party. Actually thats a good question. Launch Party means only a activity arround the fresh released openSUSE version. What activity its up to the organizator. There are some forms of activity * only a informal meeting in a club, pub or whatever. Target is to get ppl with the same interest (in this case openSUSE or Linux/FLOSS) together. Its the easiest way to make an activity arround a openSUSE release. For this is only a place needed. For the launch of 11.2 strainu from Romania did such a party (http://www.suseromania.ro/proiecte-ale-comunitatii/lansare-opensuse-11-2/) He invited some friends from the floss scene in a trattoria, thats actually a good idea. Because all "geeks" like pizza :D HeliosReds in Japan did the same form of Launch Partie. He invited some openSUSE friends to a dining bar and waited with his guests for the release announcement. This form of activity is really a good first step to build a local community with ppl they are interested in openSUSE. U can discuss with the guests some new features from openSUSE and have some fun. This time it looks the Ambassadors in Vienna do such a party and wait together with others for the Launch Announcement. * next form is do a demonstration of the new openSUSE. For this u need a room the size of the room depends of the form of presentation. For a greater demonstration u need maybe a beamer and a screen. There is the possibility to make this demonstration for the local Linux User Group if there one exists. * that form can be extended with more as a demonstration of openSUSE. U can make a event with a row of talks and presentations about openSUSE. There are possible topics like the openSUSE community, SUSE Studio, openFATE, the openSUSE Buildservice (remember the OBS 2.0 is released a few weeks before 11.3) and such things. * next form is to give a workshop for working with free software like OpenOffice, Blender, Gimp or Inkscape or other programs that a normally user needs. Thats the hardest form becaus u need not only a room, u have to organize that all guests can work with the program. There is the possibility that all working with her own computer but for this u have to make sure all have the right version. An other possibility u use a room of a computer school or such thing for it. Last release Andi Sugandi from Indonesia did this form of event. On his launch event was a workshop for OpenOffice and for Blender. * another possibility is to make a Installfest, that means to help people to install the newest openSUSE. For this u need a room with power supply and a internet connection is good for it because u can install security fixes and programs there are not in the repositorys of openSUSE but needed from the persons too. But one thing u should remind u should be really a expert for doing that U can all the forms mix together for an bigger event, that depends of the ressources that u have. One of the important things is to become a good start with an event. The next event would be much easier. There are a few points for it: * less is more then more ;) Dont over estimate. It is better to begin with a small event as with a big one, there is on the end not good * cooperate with other communitys (cyberorg from India cooperate with ubuntu and strainu in Romania cooperated with Mozilla and Fedora) * make marketing for the event is the most important thing - u become no visitors without it. * and dont forget to make photos and write an report after the event, its marketing for the next one! * remember u need some openSUSE stuff. AJ and michl needs some time for organize it and the postal services need particulary 5-6 weeks! So talking early enough about it! For 11.3 I hope that all openSUSE Ambassadors participate and organizing a launch event. For 11.1 we had 16 events and for 11.2 27 events. Thats much better but not good enough. My target for 11.3 are 50 events or more worldwide. On such places like Taipeh we have 4 Ambassadors there should be definitly a Launch Party, Barcelona, Vienna, Jakarta and Singapore too. The early bird catch the worm! So let us begin now with the plannings for the launch events. When we working together we can make more marketing centralized as the page in the wiki. http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.3_Launch_Party_Locations I have some ideas for it. Maybe we can do a twitter wall I organized for the openSUSE Conference with tweets and pictures from the events to show live whats going on. So now is up to u, take the first step and begin to plan ur Launch Party. If u need help then talk to me. If u have ideas, what can be done at such a party so step forward and say it maybe its a really interesting idea. 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] RFC: International openSUSE and Linux events page in the wiki.o.o
by Rajko M. 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

I tried to sort out page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors/Events 1) Better name is "openSUSE:International events" Category:International events Category:Ambassadors (not changed yet, need discussion what names to use for article and categories) 2) Table layout: That particular page can profit from class="wikitable sortable" :) (done) It is too wide and fields are somewhat hard to read when wrapped. Main contributor to width is URL that can be put as link behind name in the column Event, and it is done for 2009 table (as a training for nerves :). That table can go to archive. It is better to keep only current table in user focus, with one link to archives if someone wants to search for past years. BTW, there must better way to follow events, either wiki table or real calendar (is there web application?). It is probably better to have the following columns: Event - Date - Place - Wiki article Event: Name and link to event web page Date: Date in some format that is sortable. Month Day (year can be dropped as it should go to the top of table) Place: Country, Region, City (we have to test is this sortable) Wiki article: This is where all information above can be repeated, plus added contact information etc. Opinions? -- Regards Rajko, -- 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] Post mortem of obs 1.8/2.0 release
by Andreas Jaeger 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Team, I'm sorry that I didn't succeed with sending out the release for review on this list. We discussed on Tuesday with the MeeGo and LinuxFoundation guys and they were finally ready to release 1.8 - and wanted to release on the same day. So, I combined the two announcements and had a bit of hectic getting everything coordinated. The announcement went out on news.opensuse.org and novell.com/prblogs. We did not succeed to do screencasts either - I discussed with a few folks at Linuxtag to do some later as well. What else can we do better next time? What did we do great this time? 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 #127 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

Hi @translators, Issue #127 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] User Profile
by LinuxFan TH 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Dear comunity, As you probably have mentioned, there are some new locations where there are links to your profile pages. E.g. the Ambassador Events contain these links. (Find the new Ambassador Events here: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors/Events) Because the links are all relative, they are all broken. So please copy the content of you old profile page into your profile pages which are located here: http://wiki.opensuse.org/User:<user> Thanks! :) -- Regards, TH / Okuro Oikawa ### openSUSE Ambassador ### ### Member of the openSUSE Marketing Team ### ### Translator of the openSUSE Weekly News ### ### Writer of the openSUSE News (Event-Editor) ### ### http://wiki.opensuse.org/User:Okuro ### ### http://linuxokuro.wordpress.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] Launch Event
by Neel Kamal Kalita 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hi, I want to host a openSUSE 11.3 launch part at my institute among my students and friends. Since my place is not having very high speed internet connection it will be difficult for me to download the media on time. Will it be possible for you to send me openSUSE 11.3 media (around 10 nos, or else only two-one each 64bit and 32 bit) so that I can make copies and distribute among the participants? I will be much happy if I get a positive reply. -- Neel Kamal Kalita Dept of Basic Sciences, Don Bosco College of Engg. & Tech, Guwahati, Assam-781017 web: http://www.neelsworld.in -- 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] Early Access for Launch Party Prep
by James Mason 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Would it be possible for Ambassadors to get access to downloads when the GM is ready, instead of waiting for the mirrors to propogate? This will give Ambassadors an opportunity to predownload and prep media for Launch parties. - James Mason, 'bear454' -- 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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