September 2010 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Women in Free and Open Source
by Jimmy Pierre 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Greetings, My report on SFD 2010 will be delayed because my car was vandalized last night. However, while waiting for the paperwork, I had this idea: Women in Free and Open Source Most distribution have a women group. How about an openSUSE women group? Hence, women ambassadors? I know many women in France that I can approach on this matter. Just my 2 cents :-) Cheers, Jimmy PS. Enjoy some of the pics of last Saturday : http://www.nui.fr/linpha/viewer.php?albid=14&stage=1 -- 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] Report on Software Freedom Day 2010
by Jimmy Pierre 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Greetings, The car had to be towed to a Dealer because, the windscreen was smashed. OK, SFD 2010, where do I begin? We solicited the Propaganda machine: News papers: Paris - Normandie, Rouen Magazine National Radios : RTL and France Bleue RSS : All LUGs in France Forums: Our usual partners alionet.org Mailing lists : opensuse-fr, interlug, april.org . Posters: printed on A3 in colour Uniforms : no openSUSE t-shirts, we indulged in Novell shirts Banners : Novell Users International DVDs : Thanks to openSUSE 11.3 only as we gave all our stock of 11.1 at RMLL in Bordeaux. Material : 5 laptops with openSUSE 11.3 and in standby 16 Boxes with openSUSE 11.1 - 11.2, WI-FI: Our partners of Rouen-Wireless were there Room for the venue : Rouen City Associations House Logistics, refreshments & food : NUI.fr Participants: NUI.fr, wikimedia France & LANPOWER Websites: nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org jmll.info & softwarefreedomday.org Ranking and web submission : AddWeb We were overwhelmed by the visitors. We distributed 211 openSUSE 11.3 DVDs to the casual visitors and a few SUSE 11 SP1 to people from the Ministry of Education. We started sfd with demonstration of CMS, we showed fresh installation and tweaking of software from http://opensourcecms.com This took a couple of hours because the process was challenging and over a wireless link sometimes falling at 2mb. Coffee break and we struggled our way into FOSS games. The audience was quite interested that you could use Linux to work but also to play games and some of them are "clones" of Windows games. We gave some advice on using Wine, but demonstrated that installation of openSUSE 11.3 alongside with Windows would be their best bet. Dual booting and showing how to configure in Yast. We taught people into installing openSUSE 11.3 (OK we cheated here) on a particular laptop (a fast one). There were a few challengers. Some people deeply anchored into Ubuntu and Debian were a bit cold on doing the big move! One guy even came with his laptop loaded with CentOS not to nag us but to ask advice on wireless. I showed him how easy we were connected with 5 makes of laptops (Asus, HP, Packard bell, Compaq) with wireless. He will give openSUSE a try! We had our usual visitors and fans and in particular the Chess Club of the city. He wants to interface his Chess board with a Linux box. Well, if any of you has some ideas.. We had a debate on Gnome and KDE 4. This does drain your brains because it's like loving automatic car v/s a manual car. Both cars work fine, it's like tea with sugar or just tea. Wikimedia France was there and gave a lecture on wikis, that was interesting, I did learn a few things as well. We showed the wiki of softwarefreedomday.org and we were the *only* LUG in France doing something. We finished the day with practical labs on openSSH, mRemote, Xen, blogs (mainly WP), CSS. Each visitor was given a pen to write our email down and then they could keep it! What a pity, no pens left, not even for me! There were many other stories, but time is of essence, so I'll keep it short. We are now getting ready for the next round 16th October, 2010. We ran out of battery for our camera so here are the pics secured : http://www.nui.fr/linpha/viewer.php?albid=14&stage=1 Best wishes, Jimmy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [opensuse-buildservice] OBS Roadmap update
by Andreas Jaeger 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

There will be a Beta1 release this week on OBS, who likes to write the announcement - and also the final 2.1 announcement? Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-buildservice] OBS Roadmap update Date: Friday 17 September 2010, 14:52:21 From: Adrian Schröter <adrian(a)suse.de> To: opensuse-buildservice(a)opensuse.org JFYI, we have updated the OBS roadmap in agreement with our friends at MeeGo. In short, the next release 2.1 will go into beta next week and will have the improved source handling features as head line. The former known 2.2 release, which focuses on maintenance support will be named 2.3 (still planned for end of this year). The new 2.2 release will complete the read access protection support in between. 2.1 will just have read access control for sources. The wiki roadmap page is updated at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Roadmap Fate feature page will get also updated soon: http://www.suse.de/~adrian/OBS-Roadmap/ -- 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] Software Freedom Day Report
by Ravindra Aditya 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

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 With regards, Ravindra http://www.opensuse.org/user:rahacks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] opensuse tour in Nicaragua Oct. 26
by Agustin Chavarria 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hi! In the community of opensuse in Nicaragua, we're organizing a Tour for all university of Nicaragua, the idea of the tour is promote the use of free software and opensuse. We will have the first event in October, we don't have a confirm date, but it's probable between October 18 and october 20. In this event we will have some conference and workshops. Agenda: 1-Principal Application of opensuse 11.3 2-Why you have to use opensuse? 3-openGarrobito and openGarrobito Zimbra version. we will have only 2 workshops: 1-Mail Server in SLES 11 using Zimbra 2-Graphic design tools in opensuse. The art work is coming soon :P I want to know if opensuse can help us with some marketing material. Like promoDVDs, Banners and T-shirts. Thanks! ;) -- Decks Agustin Fco. Chavarria Miembro internacional de opensuse Embajador de opensuse en nicaragua Dj Carbono14-Miembro de TranceDjsNicaragua "No abro documentos de MS Office, solo ODF tel: 84099002 -- 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] Helping Ambassadors etc
by Andreas Jaeger 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

I've put all jobs from http://piratepad.net/akYFw1G6Ct in the openSUSE wiki as marketing jobs: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_jobs Please help enhancing our marketing material with signing up for a single item! Thanks, 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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[opensuse-marketing] Meeting Reminder: Today at 15:00 UTC
by Bryen M. Yunashko 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Sorry for late reminder. We have a Marketing Team meeting for today at 15:00 UTC. (See http://bit.ly/aFggxH for time in your area.) Proposed Agenda: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting 1. Opening Comments (5 mins) 1. Conference Marketing 1. Where are we at now? 2. Who is going? Volunteers needed to do nightly reporting 3. Twitter hashtags and other things 1. Upcoming Events 1. What events are we already planning to attend? 2. Collaborating on developing abstracts for talks 1. Miscellaneous and Q&A See you there! Bryen M Yunashko 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] openSUSE ambassadors at International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece
by diamond_gr＠freemail.gr 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Greek Ambassadors team participated to International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece in association with other organizations. You can check the full report and pictures here http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2010/09/opensuse-team-at-75th-inter…. You can always check our news at http://opensusegr.tk Regards, Stathis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Spread the word!
by Jos Poortvliet 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi all, Our first article promoting our conference is out: http://bit.ly/bHkdWj Blog, tweet, dent and submit it everywhere! Tnx, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Being the Target...
by Nelson Marques 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

I've made a small text in Portuguese appealing for the Portuguese speaking community to help the Strategy Team on their document that was pointed on 'openSUSE: Finding the target'. I've called this text 'openSUSE: Being the target'. Through the resources we have available (mailing list and irc channel, opensuse-pt) I will try to collect some information about the current user base and how they would define themselfs. I hope that through defining ourselfs we can provide valuable information for who the future 'user base' might be, and thus helping the strategy team on their efforts. I would eventually suggest everyone else to do the same amongst their established communities, based on language or whatever makes it a sub-community within openSUSE. My post was made in Portuguese. 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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