August 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Happy Birthday! - On the Press!
by Nelson Marques 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/two-distributions-celebrate-birthdays 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] Events by NUI.fr
by Jimmy Pierre 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Greetings, We have had a lot of trouble finding a venue for Software Freedom Day 2010. We have now settled to cover Paris - Normandy. Saturday 18 September, 2010. We have the other dates until the end of the year: 16 October, 2010. 27 November, 2010. 18 December, 2010. We now need some gear - T Shirts - Goodies - DVD - Posters - openSUSE stickers - Geckos - Pins - Etc. I have started the propaganda just before some holidays this week until Sunday 13th September. Could the parcel for the 1st event be shipped during the preceding week with a drop delivery as from 13th September at my work address, please? Cheers, Jimmy -- 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 references
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

I've started to collect some references about marketing in our wiki and hope these are usefull for others as well. Please enhance as you stumble upon stuff. The URL is: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_references 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] Talking points and marketing materials
by Jos Poortvliet 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi all, I added two pages to our marketing wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials Check the pages to see what they are about. If there is duplication, remove it and instead link to the page (like with the presentations). Please feel very very free to add things where needed. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] susestudio - possible project!
by Nelson Marques 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi all, I've been looking for this for quite some time as I might be interested in exploring something new... Here's a bit about the idea: A small LiveCD / USB enabled distro based on opensuse 11.3 with GNOME; To be explored in a marketing driven way; Delievering what people might want: eye candy, non-standard packages, integrated Environment, troublesome codecs, etc; Keeping up to date with community submitted materials; Can be enabled on any traditional openSUSE platform; In other words, a selection of non-standard applications (ex: nautilus elementary, notify osd, etc)... The best Ubuntu offers with some patches that annoyed and were forbiden by Shuttleworth to increase functionality and other pieces of software that are popular amongst users) with a powerful meta-theme. I plan to keep this with a gnome-panel vintage look and as a possible alternative to gnome-shell default enabled stuff. This is not to be faced as a distro, but instead as: 1. an artwork pack for GNOME / opensuse 11.3; 2. project branding only covers artwork; 3. marketing experiment; 4. No server components, this is to be only for End Users performing the most normal Desktop tasks, like communication or design development. 5. A different experience from everyone else on the game; In a very raw way that's it... My naming for this... needs to be flashy and hook'able... "MERC PACK" According to Dictionary.com: Mercenary: Adjective: 1. Working or acting merely for money or __other reward__, venal; hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc. Noun: 3. A Professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army. 4. any hireling. That's the metaphore for the name, pretty much enlightening, except we aren't paying no one and everything will be based distribution wise and package wise on guerrilla marketing aimed directly to end users and based on end user demands. In another we want to 'hire' mercs... people who we don't care if they use whatever they use (hopefully our own merc stuff in the future) and build a showcase for their artwork and engineering. A completly scratched Desktop Environment based on GNOME that dares to go where distro's don't want to touch on their default installations. ... I've been looking into SUSE Studio for this... I have my own reasons not to do this on Fedora, and I recon openSUSE is a KDE distro, but it offers good tools that make this easier for a small group of people. So far the group for this is small being: - Samuel Cruz > Developer @ Portugal Telecom - Flavio Oliveira > Advertisement Company CEO and Designer/Artist - Bruno Oliveira > Marketing Manager - Nelson Marques > Marketing Junior Officer @ _some bank_ - Paulo Figueiredo > Communication & Design graduate - Jean Figueiredo > Programmer / Software Engineer @ _some bank_ We are planning to start "merc pack" using SUSE Studio based on openSUSE 11.3 and evolving alongside with it. I'm not sure on how openSUSE wants to keep their image on this or eventually your concerns... but feel free to launch your questions and how you want your Trademarks represented as we are not going to announce ourselfs as a distro or anything in that scope. Questions are welcome as we are still building visual image, guidelines for logos (and we might trademark the logos and brand). We plan to have all the logistical and marketing stuff ready soon, and we might recruit people to help on Portuguese translations to openSUSE as we want to offer the best European Portuguese available as we are planning to do local work about this... I know this is just a junk non-organized email... but it will take form and in this stage it's best for us to check if it's reliable to do it using this platform and that it brings no coalitions with openSUSE, in fact it would awesome to know what openSUSE community members think about it... 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] Spread openSUSE using twibbon
by Manu Gupta 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi Guys I saw twibbon today. I call upon everyone to use this to promote openSUSE. The more the people hear of us the better it is :) http://twibbon.com/join/openSUSE-Users -- 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] Reminder-Marketing Meeting 15:00 UTC 24-Aug-2010
by Bryen M. Yunashko 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Just a friendly reminder that the Marketing Team will be meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in the #opensuse-marketing channel on Freenode IRC. All are welcome to visit and observe/participate in the meeting. An updated agenda will be posted later today at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting and if you cannot attend the meeting tomorrow, meeting minutes and logs will also be posted here after the meeting. See you all there! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team 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] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!
by Jos Poortvliet 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hi all, Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit expensive. So I have two questions for yah ambasadors: - Does the Indian Ambassador team have something arranged for this? In that case I can send one or more of you the address of dear Remya so you can send him a DVD. I have, btw, already asked him if it is possible to download and burn it or put it on a USB drive. - do we, in general, have something arranged for this? Should we? We *could* set this up, maybe find sponsors for it - either local or international. In some countries with bad network it might be worth the effort, however, in that case I would immediately add a couple of other things like a DVD with sources (so they can develop! Very doable with Git especially) and possibly additional software (eg codecs, if it's legal in said country). Greetings, Jos -- 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 #137 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hi @all! Issue #137 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] call for help for the installer
by S.Kemter 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hello, as some of u know, I try to redesign the installer of ur distro. Some time ago I did a blogpost about the slideshow in it. http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=2587 I think the text information in the slideshow, and which slides we show, should be reimproved too. So I made a little brainstorm what should the slideshow contain and in which order should they showed. U can find it here: http://karl-tux-stadt.de/tmp/yast-installer2.png 1. project should be a little introducion what openSUSE is and how its created 2. one of my points was, that in the old slideshow would showed many slides with what the installed distro has, u never keep all names of the programs in ur mind during the install process, so better make a generally slide that says, u have all installed what u need and can find more. And show a way how to find the programs 3. in the old slideshow openFATE wasnt mentioned, I think thats not good because a user who work with ur ditro all day can sometimes have good ideas what we can do better. So we should give him a whole slide 4. How u can find help, should be contain some words to openSUSE wiki and forums and so on 5. How u can help, should descirbe that we are a project from contributors and that there is a way to contribute too 6-7. 2 slides with ways to contribute 8. Build ur own should be a slide about SUSE Studio 9. a slide about the OBS 10. a last slide, for short repeat and invite to be part of openSUSE The only problem is, I dont like to do this alone without a discussion, second reason I am not really good wit english texts ;) So would u help me with this? As I know Jos created a piratepad or something like that. 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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