July 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] @Weekly News: translate.ini moved and other Scripts added
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

Hello Team, after moving to the new Instance i've outsourced the translate.ini (for Jan's Translation Tool) and my used Scripts for fetching informations to http://github.com/saigkill/openSUSE-Weekly-News. You can do all what you want with it :-) Have a lot of fun.. Sascha -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH 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)

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #131 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

Hi @all! Issue #131 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] opensuse Launch Party in nicaragua!
by Decks 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Hi! In nicaragua we will have 2 event to celebrate the launch party of opensuse 11.3 Managua * openSUSE 11.3 Launch Event * Please, for more details send a PING to Agustin Chavarria. o When: 30 july, 10 AM - 4 PM o Where: UCA Managua * openSUSE 11.3 Launch Event * Please, for more details send a PING to Agustin Chavarria. o When: 13 august, 10 AM - 4 PM o Where: UNAN The first will be a social event, buy a pizza, speak about the new feature, the second event, will be a serious event, with conference, games tournament, and an installfest. I ask you, if opensuse send us a package for the events. Thanks a lot! ;) -- Decks Agustin Fco. Chavarria Miembro internacional de opensuse Embajador de opensuse en nicaragua Dj Carbono14-Miembro de TranceDjsNicaragua "No abro documentos de MS Office, solo ODF tel: 84099002 -- 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] pt_PT - l10n
by Nelson Marques 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Hi all, I know this isn't probably the best place, but here's something I want to share: Currently the Fedora trans-pt (pt_PT L10N) team is moving efforts into fixing some gaps that exist in pt_PT. For example some translations on GNOME are not consistent with Fedora and vice-versa. We would like to offer a more consistent translation so that we can have across projects the best European Portuguese possible. I would like to ask openSUSE if they are willing to ask your pt_PT translation team to join this effort. Our goal is to provide between everyone involved a set of guidelines to make European Portuguese more consistent across projects, distributions and GNOME/KDE. This will be an open discussion and we will use the future linux.pt platform for this. If most of the current projects/distributions pt_PT teams are willing to subscribe such document we will present it to the Academy of Science of Lisbon (the organization that is responsible for the normalization of European Portuguese, the Portuguese teached in Portuguese Schools and the oficial work language of the European Community) for support. With this we hope that they can provide information regarding several topics that we consider important, for example, the foreign words that are accepted in European Portuguese and counseling to any team that needs it. With this we expect to provide FOSS Projects with the most accurate and elegant Portuguese following all the rules! Would openSUSE/Novell be interested in entering this discussion and help us accomplish this? Nelson -- 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] In the press: OpenSUSE 11.3 delivers spit, polish and niggles
by Andreas Jaeger 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/06/opensuse_11_3_review/ 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] 11.3 DVD request for launch party and free shipit program
by Kálmán Kéménczy 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi there, Hopefully we will organize a launch party 6th of August, 2011 in Budapest, Hungary. It would be nice if I could receive openSUSE 11.3 installation media for this event. We will announce there - to continue our successful free ship it program for Hungarian users with 11.3 release (sponsored by Novell Hungary), - to add 11.3 and (sled 11 sp1) as official operating system for high-school graduation (10.3 was the last one: http://www.oh.gov.hu/kozoktatas/altalanos-tajekoztatas/opensuse-erettsegi-1…) I would like to request 200 openSUSE 11.3 installation media for the event and the ship it program. address: Novell Hungary Kálmán Kéménczy 1124 Budapest, Csörsz utca 45. 7.emelet MOM park, SAS torony Hungary thanks in advance kalman -- 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] Re: [opensuse-wiki] An effort to improve the suse/openSUSE pages on Wikipedia
by Rémy Marquis 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi, Sorry for the late reply and thank you for taking care of this important topic. I've worked a bit on the English/French wikipedia articles in the past few months so I guess I should give my POV :) I'm also CCing the marketing-list as this is probably the most appropriate list to discuss it. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There are currently several issues with the way openSUSE is > represented on non-english wikipedias: > > 1) There are different articles in different language (i.e. different > articles for Suse Linux, openSUSE, SLES, SLED etc or just one article > for all, with basically all the variations in between). > 2) There is a lack of coverage for subjects related to openSUSE, like > OBS, YaST, zypp etc. > 3) The information in the articles might be out of date by up to several years. True. > > While I understand that it would be difficult for our global and local > communities to also actively maintain the Wikipedia articles, I think > we could take some steps to facilitate contributing to Wikipedia > articles: > > 1) Find a common way to develop articles about openSUSE. > 1.1 What articles should one start with (openSUSE, Suse Linux, > openSUSE Project?) and what parts could get separate articles in a > second/third phase? > 1.2 How should all the articles relate to each other? We could enhance and use the structure that we currently have in the English WP: SUSE_Linux_distributions (start page: history of company, quick product presentation) (Product sub pages) -- openSUSE (features) -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop -- SUSE Studio (Project and technologies sub-pages) -- openSUSE_Project -- YaST -- ZYpp -- oBS -- ... > 1.3 What resources from the openSUSE wiki could be relevant to > the various articles? - Main portal pages of sub-project in the openSUSE wiki. - Product Highlight for specific release characteristics (might be too specific) - other ? > 1.4 How can one minimize the quantity of information that > "deprecates" rapidly? By not writing it to Wikipedia :) I don't think that lot of information that deprecates quickly is really relevant for an WP article. keep it simple, stupid :) > > 2) Make sure that relevant images from the openSUSE wiki are also > available in Wikipedia. Would it be feasible to use Wikimedia Commons > as a repository for some of our free images (at least the > screenshots)? I know that any mediawiki installation can use commons > as an image repository under certain conditions. This would be a good idea, but I'm not sure if this is possible as some WP allows the fair use of images (English) while other localized WP are way much more restrictive (ie, German or French WP). I personally don't contribute anymore to the FR wikipedia because of the imposed fair use restriction and focus on the English one. > 3) Encourage the translators to get involved in writing the Wikipedia > articles in their language. How can we do that best? If an openSUSE > wiki exists in that language, perhaps we could somehow keep in sync a > page on the openSUSE wiki and on Wikipedia? I would avoid the duplication of content on WP and openSUSE wiki as much as possible. We should use WP for the encyclopedic content (history of SUSE/Novell company, evolution of distro, insight of major suse technologies, ..) and the openSUSE wiki for the more "technical" details. It is also very difficult and time taking to sync different language articles. I believe the best way is to work primarily on the de-facto main article (English WP) and then modify also the localized articles (which doubles the work load, and which is not always possible - for example when someone wants to add something in his localized WP but doesn't know English ). > > 4) Write all of the above on an wiki page (what title should it have?) :) Maybe we could write a WP article guideline in the openSUSE wiki? Regards, R. -- 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] 2010 Readers' Choice Awards Survey
by Gabriel Pagan 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

I apologize if this has been posted before but you may want to vote for OpenSUSE in the Linux Journal 2010 Readers' Choice Awards Survey. I did and even took the opportunity to write in as the best netbook distro. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/2010-readers-choice-awards-survey -- 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 meeting on July 8 at 1300UTC on #openSUSE-project
by Michael Loeffler 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hi, the program committee meets tomorrow at 1300 UTC (3pm CEST, 9am EST) in our IRC channel #openSUSE-project to discuss current status and next steps for the openSUSE conference. Feel free to join. Best Michael -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Ohio Booth Masters needed
by Bryen M. Yunashko 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:39 -0400, Matthew Baron wrote: > I would love to man the booth, I have to check my schedule for that > weekend, but I hope to be there to help out. I meant to go last year, > but got tied up. > > If anyone wants to split a room, that would be awesome for a broke > college student like myself. > > Looking forward to the 11.3 launch, and to (hopefully) working the booth. > > ~Matthew Baron Excellent! Any other volunteers? Bryen -- 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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