September 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Fedora cheat cube...can we have one?
by Chuck Payne 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Emily Shaw <memilyrae(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm Stephen Shaw's (decriptor) wife and I can work on it if you'd like. > Thanks for the website...it'll be very helpful! > Emily Shaw > memilyrae > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Kostas Koud <warlordfff(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've read all you said and I saw the cheat sheets you post,after >> that I thought that the cube might not have enough sides and if Fedora >> made it maybe we should try and make something slightly different like >> a d8 or a d12, so I looked for paper dices,I found some things but >> the best I found was at http://www.dicecollector.com/MY_PAPER.HTM . >> Unfortunately I can't process it enough to make something beautiful >> and practical so if someone can do something it would be nice. >> Kostas "Warlordfff" Koudaras >> >> 2010/9/21 RICARDO CHUNG <ricardo.a.chung(a)gmail.com> >> > >> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Stephen Shaw <sshaw(a)decriptor.com> >> > > wrote: >> > >>> I have a pdf that I create for South East Linux Fest based on 11.2, >> > >>> I >> > >>> need to update to 11.3, but it also needs the touch of some better >> > >>> at >> > >>> graphic design. I made this to go along with the zypper hands outs >> > >>> we >> > >>> have. >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> I'll pass this on to my wife and see what see can do with it. >> > >> >> > >> Cheers, >> > >> Stephen >> > >> >> > >> PS Since my wife isn't a linux person, any suggestions, comments, etc >> > >> would be very useful. (She is in the CC) >> > >> >> > > >> > > AJ, Asked me to post to the wiki. I will try to get it up there today >> > > along with the Open Office Doc. >> > > >> > > -- >> > > ----------------------------------------- >> > > 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 >> > > >> > > >> > >> > Hey >> > >> > opeSUSE has Zypper Cheat Sheet at >> > http://old-en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage >> > Can we make a new design like that F Cube or maybe a better other >> > polygon. >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > -- >> > Ricardo A. Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador >> > >> > http://twitter.com/amon0thoth1 >> > http://amon0thoth1.blogspot.com/ >> > http://www.facebook.com/pages/openSUSE-Panama-Users-Group/326325121542 >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> me I am not me > > Guys, I will add this up on the wiki later today, but here again is my pdf and the open office doc I used to create it. -- ----------------------------------------- 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.

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Build Service - Call to arms!
by Nelson Marques 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hi all, Some days ago on the IRC it poped out that I would be writing a small article for openSUSE Build Service. In the past days I've took the opportunity to take a closer look into OBS from a scope that isn't mine, the one from a developer/packager. I've signed up for the opensuse-buildservice list, picked a cool soundtrack (Moderat/Aparat/Paul Kalkbrenner), and two packages. notify-osd > a replacement for notification-daemon[1], and to make it more interesting picked up leolik patch[2] alongside, which has been criticized hard by Mark Shuttleworth. This patch allows the bubble of notify-osd to be customized by the user, functionality that Shuttleworth doesn't want out off the box in Ubuntu. A good candidate for all the other distro's, lets make the difference ;) notifyconf[3] > A small tool to customize notify-osd written in Qt (go figure that out). I've struggled, squeeled, but also conquered and the packages in my home repo[4]. I'm going to pick a cool project and then try to make them through to openSUSE:Contrib. During all this process I've been taking notes, gimping for help here and there and checking out the problems usually people have and making notes of the documents people point to me. Once I've finished the process, getting my packages approved or not into the repo, I'll start scribing the article (I would assume depending on answering times this would take 1 or 2 days more). So here's the deal: * Andreas, want to be my wingman on this? I am aware you have in your possession some interviews to be processed. We can use them. I would also need a small talk over IRC if possible (10/20 minutes) so I know how you want to present OBS, to whom you want it to be appealing to, and pretty much the stuff you want to promote. For the 'new user' experience I'll base it on my own adventure. Also any interesting information you can provide would be great. * Marketing Team, is it possible that we create a simple Marketing Banner/Badge, whatever to create a wiki template for Marketing articles? (flag the article, print the article and inform the readers our Marketing is alive and kickin'). * Artwork Team, could you provide such banner? * Wiki Team, could we have such template? I would also like to know what would be the best place to file this article on the current wiki structure. * Editorial Powers, need someone to review it later, and to make it more english friendly. I have really no schedule for this (only proves that I'm a poor marketeer), but I would point for a final release soon before the conference (as it can be used in the conference). I'm running some extra qualitative research also through some interviews with current packagers/contributors to get some more material to support some claims. PiratePad coming soon. 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] SCALE CFP now open.
by Bryen M. Yunashko 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Folks, SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) Call for Papers is now open until December 13, 2010. SCALE will be in Los Angeles February 25-27, 2011. I would encourage anyone interested in giving talks about openSUSE to submit their papers to this event. There's lots to talk about openSUSE, so don't be shy! Here's the link. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/blog/scale-9x-call-papers Also of interesting notice is that SCALE will offer tutorial sessions as well. A suggestion for any OBS experts out there, perhaps we can organize a tutorial session showing how to use OBS to package for different distros, and not just openSUSE? At some point in the coming months, we'll also see about setting up an openSUSE booth and will welcome volunteers to support the booth. Thanks, 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] Promo around openSUSE conference
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Dear friends, I have made a page describing the tasks to do for the openSUSE conference. Input is welcome, especially of the kind "I will do that". IOW feel free to add things, especially if it's your name behind a task! 'on the ground', as in at the conference, we need at least 5-7 peeps to cover the tracks, make good photo's for flickr and articles and take care of the press. Who feels up for it? Check the plan: http://piratepad.net/H9whQFD9wU Cheers Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [opensuse-buildservice] OBS 2.1 Beta 1 released
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

Argh, the obs team is too fast for us. This is the internal announcement on the obs mailing list - we can make the official one on news.o.o any time. Carlos, Isabel, how can we help you? Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-buildservice] OBS 2.1 Beta 1 released Date: Wednesday 22 September 2010, 14:38:36 From: Adrian Schröter <adrian(a)suse.de> To: opensuse-buildservice(a)opensuse.org OBS 2.1 Beta 1 is available =========================== As usual packages can be found inside of the openSUSE:Tools:Unstable project of OBS and its repositories. The correct version tag for the packages and inside git is 2.0.103 for this release: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools:/Unstable/ Appliances can be accessed via this wiki page as usual: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/OBS-Appliance Appliance users can just update the appliance image or the packages and reboot for ugrading their instance. Others need to read the "README.UPDATERS" file with information about manual updating the server. There is also a new media, called obs-server-install inside of http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools:/Unstable/images/… which can be used to install an entire OBS server from scratch to hard disc. Special thanks go to LinuxFoundation, Intel and Nokia for their contributions to this release. We plan to release 2.1 Final in about 2 weeks. The following is an extract of the release notes with informations about the new features: Features: ========= * web interface improvements: - Linked projects and packages are shown if existing. - Source Service Editor can be used to add or remove source services. Also to edit each service parameters and to trigger a run. - Merged sources of linked packages can be shown and the merged files can be edited. - New submit requests can be created. - Existing repository configuration can be edited. Add or remove pathes or architectures. - Additional reviews by users or groups can be added to requests. The reviews can be processed as well in web interface. - Displayed load diagrams can be configured to any architecture now. - Source history and commit view has been added. * api - Support Clone and supersed of existing requests. "osc rq clone" can be used to clone packages from an existing request. When submitting these cloned packages the original request gets superseded. - api: Improved LDAP support updating user information from LDAP server (This functionality has been provided by Intel) - Read access control for package sources. New created projects or packages can get the "<sourceaccess>" flag to hide any access to the sources of a package. This includes access to the source files, source and debug packages and build log. (This functionality has been provided by the LinuxFoundation) * backend: - Source services to checkout from external SCM repositories have been added. This includes also necessary source services to compress tar balls, use spec/dsc files out of them or to update the version in spec/dsc files. - Accepted submit request store the exact merged versions to allow later tracking of the requests. osc and the web interface can show now the diffs of accepted requests as result. - aggregate allows to skip source packages now. (Functionality has been provided by Nokia). - File provides can be mapped to packages now in prjconf - GPG sign key can get modifed with increased expiration date - scheduler kills building jobs when switching to blocked/excluded/disabled state - Cross Build support for MIPS architecture (Functionality has been provided by LinuxFoundation) Changes: ======== * It is recommended to switch to MySQL database for the webui. Please see README.UPDATERS for details. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help(a)opensuse.org ----------------------------------------- -- 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 -- 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] Question about bureaucracy
by Kostas Boukouvalas 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hi, *In case of need* because - as Stathis mentioned - many times we' ll probably have the opportunity to present openSUSE in schools and other organizations that may be somewhat suspicious about "the 'hacker' in front", what is the official bureau of the openSUSE community, recognized by law in the European Union by which we could have a signature over a piece of paper? In case there is not one, at who do we go for this? Novell? Thank you -- 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] The openSUSE Handbook proposal
by Javier Llorente 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hello there, I was thinking that having an openSUSE Handbook (or handbuch ;) in pdf format ready to be downloaded, printed and even ready to be sent to a publishing company is a good idea. So, here's my proposal: First, we would have to make a list of topics to be included and organise them in chapters, like the following draft: ****************************** The openSUSE Handbook ****************************** Introduction - What's the openSUSE project? - What's openSUSE? Installing openSUSE - Different types of install methods - AutoYaST Installing applications - Using 1-click - Using YaST - Using zypper Desktop environments - An introduction to DEs (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE). - Enabling proprietary drivers (ATI, NVIDIA) - Multimedia - Printing - Games System administration - Introduction to the command line - Networking - Security - Storage - Virtualization - Keeping openSUSE up-to-date - Upgrading openSUSE Servers - Apache and lighttpd - MySQL and PostgreSQL - Postfix - BIND - Samba - CUPS etc Other openSUSE Technologies - Build Service - SUSE Studio - KIWI Second, we would have to write about those topics not included in the wiki and review those already written. That way we would have more relevant bits in both the wiki and handbook. Each topic doesn't have to be 100 page long ;-) And last but not least we would have to put all the pieces together and make it available in pdf. Drawbacks: We would need to update some of its contents for each openSUSE release. It needs more than two people to make it happen ;-) On the other hand, I think that the handbook would make openSUSE more "visible" and a bit more "ready to use." Comments and suggestions are welcome! :-) Cheers, -- Javier Llorente

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[opensuse-marketing] NovDoc Usage
by Bryant, Christian 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

I'm going to be working on some custom appliances using SUSE Studio. I love the susedoc style sheets but I'm not clear on the usage requirements and wanted to make sure that I can use susedoc to create manuals for my appliances that look exactly like the actual openSUSE manuals. I know the code for susedoc is GPL but are there some documentation guidelines for folks like me that have this type of project in mind? Thank you. Cheers, Christian Bryant, UCLA Health System Project Manager, IT Operations Medical Information Technology Services (MITS) IMPORTANT WARNING: This email (and any attachments) is only intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. You, the recipient, are obligated to maintain it in a safe, secure and confidential manner. Unauthorized redisclosure or failure to maintain confidentiality may subject you to federal and state penalties. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify us by return email, and delete this message from your computer. -- 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] Updated flyers
by Kostas Koud 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

It all started a few days ago when I translated in Greek Robert Lihm's flyer and asked for the source files in order to print it. Jos told me that this flyer was good but a little confused and asked me if I could push people to create two flyers that have clearer target points,one for the potential contributors and another one for unsuspecting users. Depending the crowd we make our presentation to give the right flyer so that everyone would take the information he/she needs. Now I would like your help and your contribution on this one,we need the text to fulfill each flyer. So I opened two Etherpads in order each one of you to write down his/her thoughts You can find the Potential contributor flyer at http://doc.etherpad.org/I05Lp5I9yZ and the unsuspecting user flyer at http://ietherpad.com/nDU83dbe98 My opinion is to keep Robert Lihms layout from the flyer he created for both flyers because I find it great. You can find Roberts Flyer at : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/294274/opensuse/PR-Kit/oS-Project-Flyer-V5b.pdf -- me I am not me -- 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] Junior Job Page
by Michael Loeffler 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Moin, I updated/extended the "Junior Job" page [1] and like to get your feedback or your edits on the page. Purpose of the page is to give a low level entry point to people with basic technical knowledge interested in openSUSE. Therefor I'd like to give a short list of todo's and not a detailed one. Best M [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Junior_jobs -- 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] Hadoop with openSUSE Lab Doc with English -- sorry for the delay
by Max 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Dear ALL: Sorry for the late ^^ Here is Hadoop with openSUSE Lab Document You can pratice it -- just copy and paste Two pratices in document * Hadoop with single host * Hadoop cluster with two hosts -- you can do it more for web version ( Share with google docs, you don't need to sign, and you can search it on google) https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1Ed7TB5oeIeq_8UnOFYv4hPAyD4dJwW9nX… I can not att. the odt file with mail list, so I use web version to share Any one you like it , just mail to me I will send you the document with odt file Best regards sakana -- _/_/ openSUSE Ambassador - Taiwan _/_/ _/_/ Weekly News Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: sakanamax_at_gmail.com _/_/ _/_/ twitter: sakanamax _/_/ _/_/ nickname: sakana _/_/ -- -- 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] The openSUSE Handbook proposal
by Graham Lauder 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

On Thursday 30 Sep 2010 10:47:52 Carlos Ribeiro wrote: > Javier, > > Pretty good idea, also I believe will be good if you talk a little bit > about our project and idea with Manu because as I know he is working on > a project called suseware, http://suseware.com/home/ and If I'm not > mistake the main purpose of suseware is to delivery training materials > for openSUSE using moodle as LMS tool. > What a bloody awful site, ten minutes loading before I gave up and in true "Geek" fashion a series of meaningless icons with no explanation for what they are for or mean. > > PS Do not forget to take a chat with Manu about your thoughts After seeing that site I wonder if there is any point when the author is obviously ignoring the fact that 70% of the world connect via dialup. frustrating! GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.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] Slides for Conference...
by Nelson Marques 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi, I've already uploaded my presentation on PDF and ODP and you are free to grab it from my fedorapeople.org space[1]. No new contents, just rephrased some of them to become more friendly and stripped down some contents to what really matters. I'm also building a support page for those slides for people not attending the conference where I will explain (not in detail) what is behind them. I will annouce soon that page (opensuse wiki) as it's not yet under wiki guidelines. [1] - http://nmarques.fedorapeople.org/documents/ 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] General question about engaging asian communities
by R. Tyler Croy 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

I hope this isn't entirely off-topic, but I wanted to ask for some advice and maybe some of the history when engaging asian (specifically Japanese) communities/users. In other OSS projects I'm involved in we have hit the challenge that openSUSE has with engaging non-English speaking users and I'm wondering how you tackle it, specifically overcoming some cultural barriers. The openSUSE team localizes communications outward to the various communities but what about bringing contributors from those non-English speaking (in this case japanese) contributors back into the project? Is it better to cultivate small subcommunities per-language instead? - R. Tyler Croy -------------------------------------- GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero

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[opensuse-marketing] Linux Identity
by Chuck Payne 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Guys, Over the summer I did three stories on openSUSE, how to install, what is cool, and the openSUSE community. It is out. :-) http://bit.ly/bBZpSQ -- ----------------------------------------- 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] Request for promotional material for events in Thessaloniki, Greece
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hello friends, The LUG I'm member will participate to the International Trade fair in Thessaloniki, Greece [1]. It will be 11-19 of September 2010. You're welcome to visit my country. We'll setup a small area with computers with some games and we will cooperate with scouts of my city, for the parallel event Kids and Fun [2]. With this area, we will have a booth where we will inform parents and everyone who's interested about FOSS. According to their first page [1], they had 250000 visitors for the whole fair last year.We expect minimum about 10000 Adult visitors and over 25000 kids and teenagers to our event. Since it's Software Freedom Day during the fair period, we discuss with them to have a small booth dedicated to this special day for us. Since it's in discussion along with other parallel activities our LUG (and we as openSUSE ambassadors will be there), we didn't write it on the official SFD page, but we plan to do it until Thursday when all of this will be official. As ambassadors, we'll organize the openSUSE team (with Kostas Koudaras [3] who applied for ambassador) of the LUG to be present there. For that reason I ask you to send as many as cds/dvds you think we can have and also any other promotional material you can provide us. Language isn't a problem since there will be from other countries as well (the page [1] say 20 countries). Although we will translate and give away some kind of general information Brochure or Flyer about openSUSE in Greek. Also, on 1-3rd October 2010, we'll participate in an open event (Park Festival) about the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Scouts but this time we will have also a 2 small talks one for the kids and one for parents-teachers and a tent over the entire course of events. The talks will be about the FOSS and will present 2-3 distributions (openSUSE,Ubuntu,Fedora). I'm thinking to present L-i-f-e to professors-parents. For that event I was told that we expect about 2000. Kostas Koudaras [3] will help me organizing a small booth for openSUSE. So we also need promotional material. At the International Trade Fair (11-19 of September) and the Park Festival (1-3 of October) we will have mostly kids and teenagers so we already planned some games around FOSS and openSUSE but due to the long period of events if anyone has a good suggestion about a game so that we could keep their attention for more please tell us about it... For Software Freedom Day we are planning on visiting a junior High school (we will announce which school in a couple of days when it'll be official from both sides) where we will have the time to make an introduction of openSUSE (after our LUG's presentations of FOSS) to the students and at the end of that we arranged to have a meeting with the school teachers to introduce them openSUSE L-I-F-E and maybe make arrangements for installing it on a class for testing it. We expect on taking great amount of experience from all this and write everything about it on the wiki, along with any kind of problems we may find in our path.We will try and expect on expanding the Greek openSUSE community to another level. We can combine all three events on sending us promotional items, to eliminate costs. Regards, Stathis [1] http://www.helexpo.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=1&page=1642 [2] http://www.helexpo.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=1&page=1652 [3] http://en.opensuse.org/User:Warlordfff -- 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] Question about bureaucracy
by Henne Vogelsang 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi Kostas, On 27.09.2010 17:45, Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: > On 27 September 2010 13:09, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> Can you tell us in which situation you would need a signature for >> what? This is the first time we hear about something like that. Please >> elaborate. > > The relationship between distribution teams and local, national or > international associations are not always so harmonic. Therefore lets > take an example. > > A recognized by law Linux User Group organizes presentation to a > School. The L.U.G. makes a call for presence to as much distribution > communities as it gets. In one of this communities there are also > minors enthusiasts. One of them seduces a girl that day but something > goes wrong between them. > > Who is the school and the parent to blame? The L.U.G.? The minor? The > parent of the minor? The open source project that is behind the > distribution community? By law the L.U.G. has the responsibility. IANAL but i don't think that responsibility about criminal actions is possible for legal entities, only for individuals. So to stay in your example: The individual that acts criminal is liable. What we will try to do is to have an association/club/society that can take responsibility off individuals in terms of liability for actions that are the purpose of the association. Means when our association concludes a contract about renting an office the association is liable and not the individuals signing it. Or if our association is organizing an event and someones coat gets dirty because the paint on one of the seats isn't dry the association is liable and not the individual member that painted it. You get the picture... So if your example would not involve criminal actions the association that organizes the event (the L.U.G.) is liable and at least in Germany you can get a liability insurance which covers people that help out one-time or sporadically. It's all legal mumbo jumbo and as you can see it's not done with a simple signature... Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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] Nürnberg - SocialBar (20.10.2010)
by Javier Llorente 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

Hi list-mates, I have recently discovered SocialBar and I thought it could be interesting for people attending the openSUSE Conference. It takes place the 20th of October in Nuremberg (what a coincidence). The main idea behind this SocialBar seems to be social networking. http://www.socialbar.de/wiki/Nuernberg Cheers, -- Javier Llorente

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy
by Kostas Boukouvalas 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

I apologise for the FW, I messed up with HTML denial. On 27 September 2010 18:45, Kostas Boukouvalas <boukouvalas(a)linux.com> wrote: > On 27 September 2010 13:09, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> openSUSE is no official organization. It's an open source project. The board is working on making an official "foundation" that represents the project but this is not done yet. > > This is encouraging. > >> Can you tell us in which situation you would need a signature for what? This is the first time we hear about something like that. Please elaborate. > > The relationship between distribution teams and local, national or > international associations are not always so harmonic. Therefore lets > take an example. > > A recognized by law Linux User Group organizes presentation to a > School. The L.U.G. makes a call for presence to as much distribution > communities as it gets. In one of this communities there are also > minors enthusiasts. One of them seduces a girl that day but something > goes wrong between them. > > Who is the school and the parent to blame? The L.U.G.? The minor? The > parent of the minor? The open source project that is behind the > distribution community? By law the L.U.G. has the responsibility. But > the problem was created by one distribution community member. So the > aftermath is that the L.U.G. does not want any type of relation with > distribution communities any more and this is bad for the entire floss > community in this country / city / region. > > So, either the L.U.G. will have a Big Brother suspicious mind and will > scan everybody from the distribution community - and this is bad also, > or everyone will take the responsibility that she has to take. > > This is one example - fortunately this has not happened - but there > are many more. > >> >> We have a status like that: Membership. What do you think needs to be improved to make this more recognizable for the outside world? > > Membership is ok, but I think its not enough. I would prefer to wait > for the foundation to be created. I think also that the foundation > should have a great "law team" in order the individual members to be > fully personally responsible for their actions. Until then, of course > almost nothing can stop us working the way we do today. > -- 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-ambassadors] Stop cross ml posting
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Bruno Friedmann <bruno(a)ioda-net.ch> wrote: > In the last weeks we see more and more cross posting message between ambassadors and marketing list. > > It become more and more hard to follow threads. > Can we try to stick strictly to one or the other ML and not both ? > > Normally every people have subscribed to the both list. Ehm then why do we have two lists? I would expect most ambassadors to NOT be subscribed to -marketing and most marketing peeps don't have to be subscribed to -ambassadors... > -- > > Bruno Friedmann (irc:tigerfoot) > Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch > openSUSE Member > User www.ioda.net/r/osu > Blog www.ioda.net/r/blog > fsfe fellowship www.fsfe.org > GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 > vcard : http://it.ioda-net.ch/ioda-net.vcf > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+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] Issue #142 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

Hi @all! Issue #142 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://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news [1] :http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ [3]: http://en.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] OBS: sanity check...
by Nelson Marques 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

People, I need 2 «values» to identify OBS with. What would be the best ones? And I have a second question, I often use quotes, I was wondering if this one is too aggressive, the quote itself and the author, since he's kinda polemical: "The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast." - DJ Bernstein Those are for OBS article. 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] event report
by Chuck Payne 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

I had sent to this to AJ for the Job that was signed to me, He has asked that I send to everyone on the marketing list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:18 AM Subject: Re: event report To: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Cc: Carlos Ribeiro <CRibeiro(a)komputer.com.br>, Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks(a)bryen.com> AJ, Here is what you guys been asking for. I am sorry that I have been slow, but I will try to make up for it. Over the past year I have been to three linux fest, I will give highlights of the three. Atlanta Linux Fest (ALF) Texas Linux Fest (TLF) Southeast Linux Fest (SELF) -----------------------------------------Atlanta Linux Fest--------------------------------- For ALF, I took 400 DVD (openSUSE 11.1) and about 100 Linux Format Magazines with DVD (openSUSE 11.0). I was about to give out all the magazines and 350 DVD, I took home 50 DVD that I gave out later at the local linux group. The had T-Shirts, Tuxs, and Geekos. Which I will state, is the number one item of any fest. I manned the table for the most part by myself, James Taylor helped me out when I gave my talk about openSUSE Community. I made a CD Rom that I handle out http://www.magidesign.com/download/alf.odp ( My Slides ) ALF was planning for about 500 people and had close to about 600+. The questions that I got a lot were the following... How does the Microsoft deal effect openSUSE? Why should I use openSUSE over Ubuntu? What makes openSUSE so special? Here was a question from some that uses openSUSE with there business (That I never got answered :( ) Guys, I am helping a gentleman that I meet that the Atlanta Linux Fest with issue that is making openSUSE non-productive for him. He is getting this error using KDE 3 with openSUSE 11.1, he is checking to make sure it's 11.1, but the error is Kwin crash with signal 11(SigSEV) He has a script that launch the same application that he an 8 other users on a server. When he logs into the machines to find a couple of instances of that application locked up with the KWin crashed message. He has Googled the error message and found plenty of results, but hasn't been able to find any fixes. Does anyone one know what he can do to fix this? Please understand, I am helping this person, this is a chance for the mailing to shine and show people that don't use the list it a great place to go and get help. Thanks in advice, my searches I am seeing that there is a bug with KWin and KDE 3.5, but I too have't see any fixes. I did ask him to make sure he was on the last version by sending him what my 11.1 shows for KDE 3. Chuck Payne The most interesting question I got asked, what does it take to start a user group. Which started the openSUSE Georgia Group,by a young man named Jon Regan. He has since left the group asked that I take over it. It not done more, but we are going start pushing the group. More to come on this later http://groups.google.com/group/opensuse-georgia Other things were I have blogged about the event on my blog, even posted stuff on Facebook on my own page, and the openSUSE group page, http://opensuse.terrorpup.net/?cat=11 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2256834487#!/photo.php?pid=2604289&fb… I also sent a report of the event to openSUSE Marketing mailing. Guys, I am happy to say that the Atlanta Linux Fest was a great hit. They were planning for only fewer than 500 people, but ended up with a turn out of 600+. I am happy to say that all the stuff that Zonker sent was all passed out and we still had people wanting more. We answer all the questions they has. Demo the 11.1 for a bit until my laptop died (there was no power on the wall we were on). The talked that I gave on the openSUSE Community seem to go over well, a lot people were surprise at all the stuff we had to offer (Build Service, SUSE Studio, Factory, and openSUSE Li-f-e). The SUSE Studio seem to really impress a lot of people. Tons of questions, tons of comments from people says they us, or that they will give us a try. The magazine from LixunPro with the Live Disc was a hit. By the way, one the things that amazed me, was I meet a guy from Turkey who been using openSUSE there was surprise to see us this Fest and was happy for us The Fedora Ambassador were they and were impress with us and wanted to help us out. They intorduced me to Dave Yates of Lotta Linux Links Podcast (http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog), who wants to talked to me about the Ambassador program. Also a few people that were from other parts of the country asking me how to become Ambasssador because they too want to go out spread the word of openSUSE. I meet Katina Ferguson and husband from from Foss threads http://www.fossthreads.com/, everyone needs to check them out. I am only pointing the out because their business makes T-Shirts for the open source community. What really impressed me about them was they use openSUSE, inkscape, and GIMP to create their shirts. I am thinking it who be cool that we have in future in the newsletter articles to over openSUSE in the work place. I talked with Arron from the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts at their November Meeting I am going to do launch party for 11.2, we are working out the details. So a great fest! I am happy that I could help. Zonkers, they told me they did miss you. They tell me they will be in contact with me about next year fest. I did do a lot of tweets to promt that I would be at the fest. :-) --------------------------Texas Linux Fest------------------------------------------- For Texas Linux Fest I had a bit of issue on DVD, I had made the request, but did't get a lot of openSUSE 11.2. I got about 110 11.2 and about 400 11.1. I also has some PC Case Stickers, some T-Shirts, and iPod Cord Holder (Which got a lot of questions, what is it, and why. Personal, I won't do those again.) I was able to pass the all out. There were over 300+ people that came to the TLF. I manned the table by myself and answer the following questions. I didn't do a talk there. * When is 11.3 coming out? * Why should I try openSUSE over Ubuntu? (Seems to come up a lot) * What makes openSUSE stand out over the other Distros. * What is the differences between openSUSE and SLE. * Webyast vs. Webmin ( only because they were there, nice guys.) I didn't have time to blog about because of work, but I did post pictures and video on our Facebook page... http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=2256834487&view=all#!/photo.ph… http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=2256834487&view=all#!/album.ph… I even shot video with my flip camera and posted... http://www.facebook.com/chuck.payne1?v=app_2392950137#!/video/video.php?v=3… Things I remember from the fest.. Talking with Red Hat about Spacewalk and Autoyast. Help out a college teacher and give DVD for his class. Talking about openSUSE Li-F-E, and helping a young lady name Monza Lui on how to get into Linux. Which was funny because she worked for IBM, but she wanted to do more. My report to the Marketing Group... Guys, Here is my report for the Texas Linux Fest. I showed up at 7am, because I was told what when we could set up. Vendor couldn't set up until 9am. So since I was early didn't have a lot to do. I helped out set up tables and anything else they asked me to do. Once we got everything set up, I got the table set up. Doors opened at 10am, we had over 300+ people. I had over 400 11.1 disc and 110 11.2 DVD, some t-shirts, stickers and ipod cord holders. I was able to pass out all them by 5:00pm. In between handling out stuff. I answer a lot question about openSUSE. Here are the most poplar questions that were asked... * When is 11.3 coming out? * Why should I try openSUSE over Ubuntu? * What makes openSUSE stand out over the other Distros. * What is the differences between openSUSE and SLE. * Webyast vs. Webmin ( only because they were their) I had other questions, a quick summary... what is open Li-f-e, Autoyast vs. Spacewalk, drivers for media, and can you help with NV Drivers. This was the first Texas Linux Fest and the folks did a great job. When the event was over, I went to dinner with folks from IBM, Webmin, and TLF. Next year if I get to go back, we are talking about doing a birds of the feathers for openSUSE users. I have posted some photos on my facebook page and I will be adding a video shortly that a summary of the day. I would like to note, I am ready to go next year and have reached out to help the guys with the fest. -----------------------------Southeast Linux Fest--------------------------------- SELF is the last fest that I went too. I have but about 100 DVD of openSUSE 11.2. Lucky I got some from Jon Regan. I has a few left over from my launch party. I burn a ton of Live Gnome and KDE CD. I also burned about 150 openSUSE 11.3 DVD ( Milestone 7, 50 Live Gnome, 50 Live KDE, and 50 DVD). I also burn openSUSE Li-F-e DVD, I think it was about 25. Because I was short on DVD. I asked Novel if I could get a few SLE Eval Kits since I do get questions about what differents. They were cool to give me a few poster as well. Along with the media, I also took three laptops that I set up. One ran my slides talks that I gave on community and openSUSE 11.2. One running openSUSE 11.2 KDE and the other last one running openSUSE 11.3 with Gnome. I took Zypper cheat sheets that James Mason sent me along with some posters. I made a cheat sheet on the bacic commands and I took a long VIM Cheat Sheet and One Page Linux Commands. I hade help from Yancy Smith, who was great at help passing out stuff. Things I remember from that. I got to talk with the Linux Linnk Tech Show guys, who love openSUSE, but didn't like the deal that Novell and thought it really hurt us. I got asked to help out at the end with passing out stuff. A lot people know if I got to a Fest, I will help out. Plus, it helps because now they are seeing more of us at Fest. Trust me it helping. One thing I remember from this fest, we were on the main walk, no fedora/red hat or ubutu. A lot people saw that, it help. Thanks Novell for paying for the spot. I wasn't able to take video, but I was able to take photos that I posted on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/chuck.payne1?v=app_2392950137#!/album.php?aid=18192… Again I sent a report to the Marketing group. Guys, I wish you guys could have come. The Southeast Linuxfest was great. I like to first thanks James Mason from the 11.2 DVD, Poster, Zypper Cheat, and broads. Jon Regan for 11.2 DVD he had. The Novell Team in Atlanta for the SUSE Enterprise Linux DVD. Yancy Smith for the help. The event was great. Because of the short number of 11.2 DVD, I had burn a number of DVD and CD myself. These were openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e(Linux for Education), openSUSE Gnome Live CD (32bit and 64bit), and openSUSE 11.2 DVD. I took with me this time three laptops. One was running a set of slides about the openSUSE Community, high lighting Build Service and SUSE Studio. The second laptop ran openSUSE 11.2. The third running openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7. I also made about 300 copies of Zypper Cheat sheet that James sent me. VIM Cheat Sheet, The One Page Linux Command Sheet and a sheet that I create for openSUSE with basic commands. I boot up on the one laptop running openSUSE Li-f-e to let a couple of teacher play with it. They really love the LTSP and how we had our apps were laid out. One of the top questions that was ask a lot was, "What makes SUSE stand out above other distro?" I had got to help one user that was having issue with the video drivers. He had a Nvidia Card that when he installed it wouldn't load correct. He was really upset that it was doing that, I show him on one of my laptops how when you about to install it, to use VESA setting. He was so happy. I got a lot great comments about people been using since such and such version. I was really surprise to see the openSUSE Gnome Live CD with 11.3 milestone go so quick. At one point I had to burn more. One sad note, people keep asking me where the Tuxes were and Geekoes. I had two Geekos, that I gave to people that asked me if they could test drive openSUSE on my laptops. Oh, I would like to thanks for the Geekos I got, they are very different than the ones we have here in the states and people notice. They Love Them! I volunteer with passing out the gifts at the end of the show. I am planning to help out next with Southeast Linux. I wasn't able to blog about it because of work again. But I did tweet about it and told the local linux group we would be there. -- ----------------------------------------- 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. -- ----------------------------------------- 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] Greek team on Twitter
by Kostas Koud 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Dear Fellows, We created a twitter account in order to inform as quickly as possible about our team actions, everyone interested in. Find us as OpenSUSE_Gr or at: https://twitter.com/OpenSUSE_Gr Best Regards, openSUSE Greek Team Fellow Ambassador Kostas (Warlordfff) Koudaras -- me I am not me -- 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] Participation of Greek team to an event: October 3rd
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Our team will participate to an event of the site-service http://www.xariseto.gr. Unfortunately there isn't English on this site. What it does is people who don't need something, make a post there and someone else who needs it, can have it for free. Everything must work unless there's the post saying it's broken for replacements. It's the idea of recycling. So they organize an event, mass people can bring their things there. Some people don't use Internet so it's easier for them to go there to give and get things. They might have tv there too. The event will be on 3rd of October, from 9-19. They asked us if we can be there and inform people about FOSS (like SDF). Kostas Koudaras will cover the event. I'll try to join him later because I'll cover another event. Andreas sent us promo materials, so we can cover it. For the Greeks, the site of the event is the following http://www.xariseto.gr/viewtopic.php?f=216&p=127701#p127701 Thanks -- 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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