July 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-announce] Please welcome openSUSE 11.3
by Alex Barrios 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

2010/7/15 Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com>: > The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest > incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE > 11.3 [1] is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync > your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your > audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla Firefox, > and Thunderbird. > > Among these many new features, openSUSE also provides support for netbooks and > the Btrfs file system support. Users can expect to see improved hardware > support with the 2.6.34 Linux kernel and updated graphics drivers. And support > for the next generation of interactive computing for touchscreens like the HP > TouchSmart. > > openSUSE continues its tradition of delivering the popular KDE, GNOME and Xfce > desktop environments, and now also provides the lightweight LXDE desktop > environment. With GNOME, you can use the latest 2.30.1 version or take your > installation for a drive with a preview of the upcoming GNOME 3.0. Or choose > KDE SC 4.4.4 for the latest updates. They all feature the polish and > integration that the openSUSE distro has been known for. > > For a full view check the complete collection of screenshots [2] or install it > right away [3]. As we expect very large demand for the ISOs we suggest you > check out BitTorrent as download method ;-) > > For servers and development platforms, administrators can take full advantage > of the new MariaDB and MySQL Cluster services as well as Conntrack to filter > network packets for iptables. Developers will appreciate the plethora of tools > available at their fingertips with GCC, GDB and Mono and IDEs such as > Netbeans, Qt-Creator and many others. This is all on top of the countless > libraries available through the openSUSE Build Service [4] (OBS). > > Visit our Product Highlights [5] page for a detailed list of new features. > > The next release will be openSUSE 11.4 in March, 2011. > > Thank you, and have a lot of fun! > > > [1] http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:11.3 > [2] http://wiki.opensuse.org/Screenshots > [3] http://software.opensuse.org/113/en > [4] https://build.opensuse.org/ > [5] http://wiki.opensuse.org/Product_highlights > > -- > Michael Löffler, Product Management > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org > > I took the liberty to translate this mail from Michael to Spanish and post it in my blog: http://blog.alexbariv.com/2010/07/15/opensuse-11-3-siente-el-poder-de-linux/ Cheers! :D -- Alex Barrios ----------------------------------------- Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- Embajador openSUSE > http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexbariv Blog > http://blog.alexbariv.com/ Twitter > http://twitter.com/alexbariv Linux User > 383172 GPG Pkey > 5AB7D408 "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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[opensuse-marketing] Weekly News Events
by Okuro Oikawa 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Hello to all Ambassadors, as the event editor of openSUSE I insert the events into the Weekly News in every issue. For me it's a special matter to also mention all the Events organized by the openSUSE Ambassadors. To be able to insert them all, please send a short mail to me only (message filter...) in which you let me know about the event. The earlier the better. Doing that, you are helping me a lot! Thanks! -- Best wishes, Okuro Oikawa aka Thomas Hofstätter ### openSUSE Member ### ### openSUSE Ambassador ### ### Member of the openSUSE Marketing Team ### ### Translator of the openSUSE Weekly News ### ### Writer of the openSUSE News (Event-Editor) ### ### http://en.opensuse.org/User:Okuro ### ### http://linuxokuro.wordpress.com/ ### ### Private Website: http://hidden-space.at.tf ### -- 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 to all Ambassador, TODAY is THE DAY!!!
by Chuck Payne 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Guys, This call is to all Ambassador. Please get out and tweet, digg, and whatever else you can do to get the word out about openSUSE 11.3 is out. There have been a couple e-mails send out. Please use them, if you don't see them let me know I will forward them. THIS IS A CALL TO ALL AMBASSADORS! NOW IS A TIME FOR ACTION!!! -- ----------------------------------------- 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] openSUSE 11.3 Launch - Social Media
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

The release announcement will use this URL http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/15/opensuse-11-3-is-here/ bit.ly short link: http://bit.ly/openSUSE11_3 Please use the above bit.ly URL everywhere! If you tweet about it, remember to use "#openSUSE" and only use the canconcial URL! I also ask everybody to digg the story from the news article! Our goal is to become a trending topic on twitter and reach the frontpage of digg! Thanks a lot! 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 11.3 Launch - Social Media
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

On Thursday 15 July 2010 12:30:32 Sankar P wrote: > >>> On 7/15/2010 at 03:29 PM, in message > >>> <201007151159.10648.aj(a)novell.com>, > > Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> wrote: > > The release announcement will use this URL > > http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/15/opensuse-11-3-is-here/ > > > > bit.ly short link: > > http://bit.ly/openSUSE11_3 > > > > Please use the above bit.ly URL everywhere! > > > > If you tweet about it, remember to use "#openSUSE" and only use the > > canconcial URL! > > > > I also ask everybody to digg the story from the news article! > > > > Our goal is to become a trending topic on twitter and reach the > > frontpage of digg! > > I suggest submitting to reddit.com as well It is more popular these days. Not linked directly from news.o.o, perhaps we need to add a button there in the future? Please everybody do so! > IMO, it is a little difficult to be part of trending topics. We (as well as > Ubuntu iirc) failed last time. Neverthless, we will give our best and make > openSUSE rock :-) Exactly, let's give it a try ;) 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] Educating people about openSUSE
by Manu Gupta 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Hi All Recently I came across these concepts which are prevelant among the UBUNTU community which I liked very much. They conduct online sessions teaching people all over the world about various aspects which include a variety of topics like packaging, python and more I would like everyone to have a look at the following links https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom One of the sessions which they conducted http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/01/21/%23ubuntu-classroom.html Hope this might help us and we may also come up with something like this -- Regards MANU -- 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] People behind openSUSE Series
by R. Tyler Ballance 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

gnokii mentioned this on #opensuse-marketing yesterday, and I figured this would be a good series to start on omgsuse.com after some of the craziness around the 11.3 release falters off. The things I'd ideally like to cover are: * What do $You do with the openSUSE project (ideally touching on things that would be important or interesting to end-users) * How long have $You worked with/on openSUSE * Where do $You think openSUSE could improve even more? * ?? I'm unsure /who/ I should start talking to, regardless I'll probably have to revisit it next week since everybody is quite buys :) Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -------------------------------------- GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero

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[opensuse-marketing] Day 1 download statistics
by R. Tyler Ballance 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

I'm preparing a post on the muscle behind distributing an amazing openSUSE release like 11.3 (see: MirrorBrain) and I'm wondering if anybody would be so kind as to provide me first day statistics after the 15th has concluded? :) Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -------------------------------------- GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero

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[opensuse-marketing] Debriefing from RMLL 2010
by Jimmy PIERRE 14 Jul '10

14 Jul '10

Greetings! We had a safe journey from Paris to Bordeaux some 592 Kms away 41°C but we have an old French say in France “La pluie du matin n'arrête pas le pélerin” meaning “the morning rain does not refrain the pilgrim to start his/her journey” J The hotel is quite recommendable, especially excellent breakfast as we needed energy. Got to the venue and to our great surprise, there was chaos and the situation meant that there was not enough room for all of the exhibitors. They kind of put openSUSE, Mandriva, ubuntu and Debian on one table of 3M X 1M. Well, with the heat under the marquees already 33°C I figured out that it was going to be *hot* with “them” and us. I kept negotiating with the organizers even helping in unloading their lorry. It paid off and we got half a table. Later on, we got one table just for us. Then we starting setting up and the network became a major issue. We had 5 laptops and could not get enough IP addresses while wi-fi was unreliable…. Anyway when we sort of get used to the logistics challenges we got down to why we came down there for. My Secretary-General despite living in Bordeaux was declared AWOL and I am currently getting the paperwork ready to get him replaced ASAP. I understand that our other members could not afford the trip or were not free to come for other reasons… Thanks to Jean-Luc, Julien, Vincent and Laurence, otherwise, it would have been impossible to greet all the visitors. Visitors started to arrive and the temperature as well. I realized that openSUSE seems to be known to a *very* small number of people and faced questioning (again) about Novell/Microsoft agreement from many people who knew about openSUSE. Anyway, we had *very* nice memorable souvenirs as follows: 1. A representative from O’Reilly spent not less that 45 minutes on NUI’s stand willing to know more J 2. A representative from a LUG from Italy came round and we are now invited to visit and evangelize over there J 3. A guy from the Canaries wants to set up a LUG there, so I shared what I could with him on Sunday evening, all left overs went straight in his bag. 4. A guy from Argentina knew about openSUSE and he gave the RC2 of openSUSE 11.3 a try and *demanded* a dvd of openSUSE 11.2 5. Many Spanish people were there and I could “see” why they all came to us. Laurence speaks Spanish and Geoffray from KDE for some reason was sending the lot to us. He even picked some dvds from our stand to distribute on the KDE stand. He deserves a medal !!!! 6. Maryse and a few others from *Guadeloupe* are promoting FOSS in April 2011 and came to ask us to come over to set up and help. 7. Many Novell veterans came round and wanted more information. I *had* to talk about EOS, SLES, so sorry J 8. The President of the District Council came over and I presented him openSUSE and gave him a couple of DVDs. He is interested in FOSS. 9. Antoine who actually works for the SNCF (French railway) came all the way from Paris to visit, an old friend now J He visited us in Rouen a couple of years ago. 10. A guy arrived on a bicycle and wanted openSUSE installed, yesterday, we gave him instructions and showed some pics and gave him our emails/telephone number. 11. I was interviewed for an Educational site, I need to find the link? The idea was that they wanted kids to find out all the animals/logos of FOSS, hence openSUSE. 12. The organizers took loads of openSUSE DVDs and put them in bags with magazines etc. and gave to visitors and *hold on*, even distributed these bags on the market some hundreds of yards away. Meaning, people buying cabbage, carrots etc, will have more ingredients for afters, openSUSE just not to name it. 13. Not to say that all the other exhibitors came round as well and obviously managed to convince them to try openSUSE. I had one *NO* and did not even attempt to recoup this lost sheep. This is becoming a pain to have to endure these insults that are not generated by us. 14. Other distributions are quite busy with education, I told them about opensuse-edu 15. I visited the other exhibitors as well by courtesy, and had a lot of fun! I must have missed a lot of stories, but the heat was up! Overall, nice RMLL, made plenty of new openSUSE adepts and friends, enjoyed the two days and look forward f returning next year in Strasburg this time. Next step, Software Freedom Day in September, before that people are into Summer vacations. Best wishes, Jimmy PS I work in a bank and cannot do IRC, but I bought a iPhone 4 yesterday, so if some of you use IRC on iPhone, I’ll glad to share experience for D-Day to-morrow. -- 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] ETA: 23 hours
by Nelson Marques 14 Jul '10

14 Jul '10

Hi all, Within less than 23 hours openSUSE will ship. I would like to take 5 minutes of my time to congratulate everyone who made this happen and wish the best success to openSUSE 11.3, that I am sure will make many users happy. I would also like to leave a word of support to Novell, which took the fight several times in their own hands to 'protect' Linux and it's community. I am sure it will be a success and a strong proof of everyone's commitment in making this happen. +1 for Novell and openSUSE community, which I believe that is somehow redifining 'open'. 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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