July 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE @ FrOSCon needs you
by Jan Weber 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi all, as you might know on August 21st and 22nd the FrOSCon [0] takes place in St. Augustin (near Bonn) in Germany. We have a confirmed booth at FrOSCon and I am now looking for volunteers to man the booth! So if you have some free time and want to help promoting openSUSE at FrOSCon, drop me a note and add yourself to the wiki page [1]. So long, Jan [0] http://www.froscon.org/ [1] http://de.opensuse.org/Veranstaltungen/FrOSCon/2010 -- 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] Welcome to our first Greek Ambassador: Stathis Iosifidis
by Andreas Jaeger 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Team, I've just added Stathis as first Greece ambassador to our list of ambassadors at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list Please give him a warm welcome! You've seen some emails from him already on the list and I hope that the short interview below gives some additional background on Statis! Andreas ************************************************************************************************** * What have you done already for openSUSE? First of all, I run a group of people in GreekLUG (http://www.greeklug.gr) were we promote openSUSE when we have an event. Until now, I use copies of disks but I would like in the future to have more promotional items. I also organized the release party for 11.3 in Athens, although I live in Thessaloniki (500km away). I wrote couple of HOWTO in Greek (check How To/Tutorials http://forum.greeklug.gr) I'm responsible for openSUSE in GreekLUG. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? We plan to organize a release party for 11.3 in my city too, maybe next week. We have planned a presentation for 11.3 arround October. We plan to participate on Software Freedom Day. We plan to participate on Infosystem, the computer International Fair in my city (3000-5000 people will stop buy, so when the time will come, I'll ask the procedure for promotional items). We plan to make a small magazine for the tech news, I'll write articles and news about openSUSE. I use we because I want to organize the group of people here and when they'll feel ready they apply as ambassadors as well. I want them and new users to learn what I know about openSUSE and "re-produce" myself. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE I already promote openSUSE and as I mentioned above, I planned couple of events. When I have them ready, I'll write on the list and wiki event list (I think I saw there's one). Maybe I need to promote openSUSE officially. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? The development procedure. Although I don't have much experience (compared to others), it seems to me that the community works for the development more than other distro. * Why do you love to do this? I found openSUSE as one of the top distro with great support from the community. As I mentioned above, I'm member of a panhellenic NGO (Non Goverment Organization/Non profit society), the biggest in Greece, Ifound the opportunity I was looking for to make openSUSE on the same level that ubuntu and fedora are in Greece. As member of the NGO, I had the opportunity to discuss about it with Richard M Stallman during his visit. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I'm fresh user. I learnt about GNU/Linux where I was testing the SUSE 6. I was in school and I found it kind of difficult. I didn't test other distros. 3 years ago I had problems with my computer and I installed kubuntu and the problem was gone. So I passed though many distros. Now I use openSUSE, PCLinuxOS and Fedora at the LUG and openSUSE (KDE) at home. I'm not experienced user since my major is Veterinary Medicine. I think I know very good the basic functions of Linux (installations, basic terminal commands etc). My friends think I know more than basics since I was working installing and setting servers LAMP/Samba/Proxy for some projects I participate at GreekLUG such as medical program OpenEMR, Moodle. I also participate on make a remaster distro for education (I know openSUSE have Li-f-e). We make a dristro for a musical university (they asked us special programs) and also we'll try to adjust Greek goverment's educational software (don't know when we'll have it ready. Hopefully for next school year). *The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list. Sure. I need some help from experienced ambassadors. Is there someone you point me to contact? Since I send it to the list, is there someone who can help me organizing, since I'm new? * Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are their needs. In my country, there are plenty of communities. The ideal community to me would be someone that will have a presence (web site, magazine) with the news of the local community and news around the world. Also help from list and forum in local language since there are plenty of people that cannot speak or if they do, they don't know the terms. Maybe an IRC channel or place to have real chat. That way they can have some problems solved real time or organize the community for future events. Finally the community must have a presence to all events (seminars, special days, install fests or presentations to show the world the FOSS ideas). In my country, Ubuntu-gr is the one that has almost all the above and Fedora has some of them. I'm not 100% sure (since I never searched), there are forums of Mandriva and Mint. Personally I think we need all distros and communities to be strong and work together for a good reason, to make the world think different. Use WE and not I would be ideal for this reason. I would like to thank Andreas Jaeger for his help. Regards to all, Stathis ----------------------------------------- -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting @ 15:00 UTC on 27-July-2010
by Bryen M. Yunashko 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:27 -0700, R. Tyler Ballance wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > Back home after being on the road nearly two weeks, spreading good > > openSUSE Cheer! :-) > > Huzzah! > > > * Recap of openSUSE 11.3 Launch (15 mins) > > ** How did we do? What lessons did we learn? > > ** Things to continue on 11.3 marketing (11.3 marketing is never done > > until next version!) > > > > * openSUSE Conference (10 mins) > > ** How are we doing? Everything on track? > > > > * openSUSE Ambassadors (15 mins) > > ** Are ambassadors satisfied with 11.3 launch? What did they need to > > improve their tasks? > > ** Ambassador organization (This will be ongoing discussion, not > > concluded in this meeting.) > > > > * Miscellaneous Topics which may include: > > ** Education/Helping Hands revival? > > ** openSUSE Shop > > ** Upcoming events > > ** Others? > > > Are there any plans for SmeeGo (openSUSE/MeeGo) marketing coming up? From my > discussion with FunkyPenguin it seems like SmeeGo is getting to alpha status > soon and seems to me like it'd be a good point to advertise to Netbook users > (I'd argue Ubuntu's Netbook Remix is the only decent Linux distro for netbooks > right now). > > > Thoughts? > Thought: That would be a good topic to discuss building a campaign around as well. I hope Andy can be around to discuss that or we can (probably should) set up a dedicated meeting to discuss that compaign (like we did for the OBS campaign) and invite all interested parties to discuss and plan. This would be better, I think, than putting into the regular meetings which is more about statuses and progress reports. I'll put it in the agenda for tomorrow to get the team to decide how we want to do this. Thanks for bringing it up to our attention. This is exactly what we need... awareness of the various projects happening around the openSUSE community. Good job, Tyler! Bryen > > Cheers, > -R. Tyler Ballance > -------------------------------------- > GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler > Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero > -- 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 Meeting @ 15:00 UTC on 27-July-2010
by Bryen M. Yunashko 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hi folks, Back home after being on the road nearly two weeks, spreading good openSUSE Cheer! :-) We will have our next openSUSE Marketing Team meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-marketing on Freenode IRC. For the time in your area [1] Here is our proposed agenda for tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get it on the wiki before the end of today but still trying to figure out the new wiki structure to place in the right area. So please respond here any proposals or suggestions to the agenda. * Opening Comments (5 mins) * Recap of openSUSE 11.3 Launch (15 mins) ** How did we do? What lessons did we learn? ** Things to continue on 11.3 marketing (11.3 marketing is never done until next version!) * openSUSE Conference (10 mins) ** How are we doing? Everything on track? * openSUSE Ambassadors (15 mins) ** Are ambassadors satisfied with 11.3 launch? What did they need to improve their tasks? ** Ambassador organization (This will be ongoing discussion, not concluded in this meeting.) * Miscellaneous Topics which may include: ** Education/Helping Hands revival? ** openSUSE Shop ** Upcoming events ** Others? See you all at tomorrow's meeting! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead [1] Time in your area: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=27&month=07&year=2… -- 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] Welcome to Matt Hayes as ambassador
by Andreas Jaeger 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Team, I'd like all of you to give a friendly welcome to Matt. I let him introduce himself with the answers to the questions I gave him... Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- On 7/14/2010 10:39 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: [...] > Hi Matt, > > glad that you like to join openSUSE as an ambassador to promote > openSUSE. > > I have a couple of questions for you: > * What have you done already for openSUSE? I participate in support on the opensuse-users mailing list and in #suse on freenode. I've also recently joined the opensuse-marketing channel as well, however, still quite new at this time and playing 'catch up.' I've also been working with the openSUSE Build Service a bit and getting familiar with that so that I may contribute help to fixing issues in the future on the OBS repositories, as well as working with #opensuse-wiki to help with the transition to the new wiki format. > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Since my job is demanding and its quite tough for me at times to get into the public eye, I do have a 'network' of friends and co-workers that I speak to on a regular basis. I promote openSUSE and Linux in general through this vast network of friends and co-workers on a daily basis. > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Of course! already have been actually :) > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? The development process. It appears that most people 'outside of the box' don't realize how community driven openSUSE is nor do they realize how much openSUSE DEPENDS on the community for feedback, bug reports, help/support with the wiki etc. openSUSE's approach, at least to me, is very unique in that aspect. > * Why do you love to do this? I love the fact that I can use a free operating system to do my day to day tasks at work and at home. This gives me the opportunity to give back to the community and the project itself. > * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? I started with Slackware YEARS ago, I don't even recall what version, but I can tell you this much it was about 30+ 1.44MB disks to install it and took 3 days to download over dialup! I still use Slackware on a few servers, mainly mail servers as I have a written document on installing it just the way I like it. I started using openSUSE when they first released it to the public years ago, however, It fell by the way-side for a while during college and I recently got back to using it starting in version 11. I use Linux on a daily basis... all versions... all distros, but my loyalty is to openSUSE and of course Slackware, but openSUSE is definitely my main operating system of choice these days. It just... works! ----------------------------------------- -- 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 Checklist
by Andreas Jaeger 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

I've created for the next release a Checklist. Please review and add items you think are important so that we don't forget anything http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_Checklist 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 releasy party, Athens, Greece
by Ευστάθιος Ιωσηφίδης - Efstathios Iosi fidis 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

On Friday, 23rd of July, we had a release party in Athens, Greece. The night was full of cold beers, openSUSE talk and a short presentations how to install. You can see some pictures at the ATHLug site at: http://bit.ly/aZA7YZ Pictures: http://www.athlug.gr/components/com_joomgallery/img_originals/athens_linux_… http://www.athlug.gr/components/com_joomgallery/img_originals/athens_linux_… http://www.athlug.gr/components/com_joomgallery/img_originals/athens_linux_… http://www.athlug.gr/components/com_joomgallery/img_originals/athens_linux_… http://www.athlug.gr/components/com_joomgallery/img_originals/athens_linux_… http://www.athlug.gr/components/com_joomgallery/img_originals/athens_linux_… Regards, Stathis -- 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] Inside Look at openSUSE Build Service & SUSE Studio | The Linux Action Show s12e10
by James Mason 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

I worked with Bryan Lunduke at Jupiter Broadcasting to get a SUSE-specific show line up. Here's the result: This week on, The Linux Action Show! We get the insiders scope on the openSUSE Build Service and SUSE Studio, find out how these two services alone could change the landscape of Linux FOREVER! Then we bust out an Android App Pick so rad, it just might help you run from the cops, then we wrap up our news segment with the top 5 features of Ubuntu 10.10! Plus so much more!! All this week on, The Linux Action Show! http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/?p=2437 -- 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 #133 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

Hi @all! Issue #133 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 [3]: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations Have Phun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.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] Status of Portal:Marketing?
by Andreas Jaeger 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Checking: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Marketing I see not much there yet, I've added a few links now. Who's working on this? What kind of help is needed? 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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