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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