June 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] 11.3 DVD Cover Mock-up
by Raul Libório 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Is there anythong being done about this? It's time we start to send mockups!!! :D -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom openSUSE Member | 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] future 11.3 demo dvd
by jdd 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hello :-) I know we wont have demo dvd at the launch time (we have to make writers ready :-), but do you have any idea of when such demo dvd will be available (to plan some spreading) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-support-the-Linux-Documentation-Project/372… http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-fan-page-of-Claire-Dodin/106485119372062?… -- 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 11.3 launch plan where to put in the wiki?
by Michael Loeffler 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Moin, i just tried to put in the wiki the draft of the 11.3 launch plan. Hmm, where to put it? Old or new wiki? I guess here the answer is pretty clear - new wiki, right? But where should I create the page? I find the marketing portal, http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Marketing Should I create http://wiki.opensuse.org/Team/11_3_Launch (according to the 11.2 launch)? Best M -- 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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[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] command references
by Andreas Jaeger 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Chuck made a reference sheet for openSUSE (details at https://twitter.com/terrorpup/status/15623372221) Where should that one life? I think this might be interesting for events but also for new users. How can we collect and update these best? 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] New Template:Weekly news header
by Rajko M. 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Today we created new template that is meant to create header of weekly news with relative clean way to change content: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Template:Weekly_news_header and http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news is the first issue that is using new template. As you can see in a documentation section structure is very simple: {{Weekly news header | |issue= | |hottopics= | }} In practice (issue 126) it looks like: {{Weekly news header|issue=126|hottopic= * [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/06/01/opensuse-forums-poised-to-support-the- next-release-11-3/ openSUSE Forums Poised to Support the next Release, 11.3.] * [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/31/boosters-umbrella-sprint-summary/ Boosters: Umbrella Sprint Summary] * [http://michal.hrusecky.net/index.php/blog/show/MySQL-in-openSUSE-11.3.html Michal Hrušecký: MySQL in openSUSE 11.3] * [http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Jun-03.html Miguel de Icaza: First Beta of MonoTools 2 for VisualStudio] }} We achieved relative clean header without a lot of formatting characters that can make problems to editors. The main reason for change was extremely large table of content that is created automatically, forcing readers to scroll a lot before they can see actual content. The table was a bigger problem then scrolling, as it mixed almost never changing main sections with article titles that are different in each issue. To avoid this we created relative small content index on the right side pointing to the main Weekly news sections. In effect it is similar to real paper news where we can jump to the content we like by selecting second, middle, or last page without need to read all articles along the way. The new index is actually better then its paper relatives, as it will bring up exact section that we want to read, like newspaper with colored page edge. You select color and you are in wanted section :) -- 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] Issue #126 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: Marketing Team Strategy
by Chuck Payne 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Rajko M. <rmatov101(a)charter.net> wrote: >> >> On Monday 31 May 2010 23:29:17 Bryen Yunashko wrote: >> >> > - Long-Term Marketing >> > This is related to how we increase openSUSE mindshare over time. What >> > misperceptions are there out there and how do we fix them. >> >> One that is mentioned on the wiki mail list: >> We should put forward distribution presentation, not only how to fix the >> problems. >> >> We have elaborate system that helps people with problems, in the wiki and >> communication channels (IRC, mail lists, forums), but very little how to do >> simple tasks using openSUSE and Linux. Some cross references written by people >> that use multiple operating systems will help a lot. >> >> My recent experience with a guy that looked for Internet Explorer with Firefox >> icon watching him, should be enough to explain what I mean. >> >> He is "read the news" type, that has no idea how to use email, not even trough >> browser. He knows what is Internet, but not that is the same as Web Browsing, >> and obviously, that Firefox is the same tool as IE is not something familiar >> to him. >> >> > - Communication >> > This is related to how to effectively communicate to various groups >> > out there. For example, social media, presentations and videos. we >> > also need to start gathering up a database of media contacts and >> > creating press packs >> >> Outbound communication is at the low level, and one of reasons is that we >> never opened communication to the press, online and classic. We should not >> underestimate journalists need for news. Computer related news might not be >> high priority in their everyday, but in days when some large scale cyber >> attack comes in the news where we are? What do we offer? >> >> There is also inbound communication, that is probably good only when user has >> a problem and knows how to contact us. >> >> We do not consider as important feedback that tells only that something was >> done without problems, nor how it was done, something like earlier mentioned >> simple things. People reading forums and mail list archive see only technical >> problems, there is no place to publish simple post that will tell how to >> remove red eyes from photos, and sincerely 95% computer users do such simple >> things. >> >> The ambassadors should make note of questions asked during presentation, and >> post that here, or project mail list. That will help them to polish >> presentation and the rest of the marketing group where to focus. >> >> -- >> Regards Rajko, >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > Guys, I am more than willing to help. If there are task you think I can help out on. Pup -- ----------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Manual/Paper of basic use/introduction to Linux/openSUSE?
by guillaume.gardet＠free.fr 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi, You have the "openSUSE Guides and manuals" which are available in English and is currently partially translated in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and French: http://vertaal.com.ar/ English version (in pdf and html) is here : http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse112/ For more information about translations, contact the openSUSE translation list : opensuse-translation(a)opensuse.org Best regards, Guillaume ----- "Alex Barrios" <alexbariv(a)gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi people. > > I'm gonna give classes of Introduction to Linux using openSUSE, but > before I start doing a manual from scratch I'm wondering if there is > any recommended manual or paper that I can use ? If its in english I > could translate to spanish an make the translation available. Of > course, if dont, i will make one, and then put the english > translation > online. > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > > -- > Alex Barrios > ----------------------------------------- > Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux. > ----------------------------------------- > Embajador openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexbariv > blog -- http://blog.alexbariv.com/ > twitter -- alexbariv > > "Be free, Think Linux, > Be smart, Think openSUSE" > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.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] Manual/Paper of basic use/introduction to Linux/openSUSE?
by Alex Barrios 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi people. I'm gonna give classes of Introduction to Linux using openSUSE, but before I start doing a manual from scratch I'm wondering if there is any recommended manual or paper that I can use ? If its in english I could translate to spanish an make the translation available. Of course, if dont, i will make one, and then put the english translation online. Thanks in advance for all your help. -- Alex Barrios ----------------------------------------- Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- Embajador openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexbariv blog -- http://blog.alexbariv.com/ twitter -- alexbariv "Be free, Think Linux, Be smart, Think openSUSE" -- 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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