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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 24 Sep '10

24 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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[opensuse-marketing] surveys...
by Nelson Marques 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi, Due to personal needs I've ended up buying a domain, grabbing a hosting sponsorship and made available 'opensurvey.it'. This is for me to be used for academical purposes only and run something for a study I will be conducting soon. Anyway, I'm also going to use it to run a questionnaire on the portuguese speaking community soon. If anyone needs to conduct a study, I don't mind creating a group on limesurvey and let you use freely. I will make a couple of mailing lists and a blog to be there where I will post the stuff I'm doing: this should include: * some theoretical mambo jambo; * the steps I'm doing, most likely a backlog of my academical work on this; * the advancements on a small wrapper to convert a full database from limesurvey to SPSS supporting multi-language. Once it's done, I might submit it to upstream, but the only goal behind this is to answer my needs. Made on perl (don't care if you don't like perl). Around February, once I get unloaded with my final study stuff, I would like to run a deep survey to the openSUSE community. I hope by then I have already mastered limesurvey and the process of building a decent questionnaire. If you need a place to run a survey, feel free to mail me. It should be ok during the next 24 hours... registering a .it domain is a nightmare and takes way too long :( 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] Templates for Events
by Manu Gupta 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi All, Recently I came up with an events templates so that we can have all pur events at the wiki at the ambassadors/marketing portal. http://en.opensuse.org/Template:Event Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] cool article...
by Nelson Marques 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-makes-debian-one-of-most-popular.… This is a very interesting article, objective and somehow though it's not a 'Debian only' like the author states, it does show some interesting topics, and of course, a very objective interpretation. If you have the time and you like thinking beyond the obvious, this should be a good article to read and think, specially if you try to use the same topics to reflect on openSUSE. One personal remark: about the huge community, they include Ubuntu... this is one of the reasons why the article is worth recommending, if we consider 'Debian user base' described and the Ubuntu stereotype. Look, they are bonded at some point ;) 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] conference to go to
by Jos Poortvliet 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hi all, In december, FOSS.in will happen. In Januari there is LinuxCon Australia. I can most likely go to only one of these two events. So tell me, what do you think, where would you go, a visit to what conference would have the most impact and help openSUSE the most? This ain't only about me giving a talk or not - it is also about what local openSUSE ambassadors are there, what they organize etcetera. So do you have any plans for either of these conferences? Or is there another conference in December or Januari that you think I should be going to? Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Software Freedom Day Report
by Andreas Jaeger 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

On Wednesday 22 September 2010 09:32:43 Ravindra Aditya wrote: > Dear ALL, > > Software Freedom Day is being celebrated on 18th of this month at > Visakhapatnam,INDIA. the party is awesome and also the responses are > over whelming. thanks a lot for the support from OpenSUSE. detailed > report has been posted here > http://j.mp/a39SNg Glad to hear! Thanks Ravindra, 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 -- 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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