January 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Issue #160 is ready for translation
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hi @all! Issue #160 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]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=6387 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_news_translations [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ 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] IRC meeting protocol
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hello, I added the documentation about XCHAT [1]. I want you to check out the meeting protocol [2]. Greek community agree and follows this protocol during IRC meetings. The results are: 1. I can read the thoughts of the participant. 2. I speak only when the chairman let me speak and he understands when I finish my though. 3. It's organized so the meeting won't last long. If you apply it to meetings, you'll see many advantages. Have a lot of fun, Stathis [1] http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:XCHAT [2] http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:XCHAT#Protocol_meeting -- 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] PDF posters
by Helen 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

These are beautiful, Pieter! I absolutely love them, nice work! I'm sure these are going to be very useful. I like the idea of focusing on one feature, with an eye-catching, elegant design - so often we try to put far too much on a page. We were looking for ideas for content for a slideshow to have running in our SCALE booth - these would look great in that context I think, as well as in print. (hmm... I don't suppose you'd be interested in creating some pretty slides .... ? ) cheers Helen On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Pieter De Decker <pdedecker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys and gals, > > I just wanted to drop by to share some A4-sized PDF posters that I've > made. They highlight some of the nice things that are part of the > openSUSE experience and are targeting experienced computer users. I'm > not a graphic designer nor a marketer, but I hope that they're useful. > > > Regards, > Pieter De Decker > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+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] Screenshots
by Manu Gupta 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi All, I need some screenshots of openSUSE 11.4 M5 / M6 whatever you have, can you all get me some, who are using either one of them Regards Manu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] tube.opensuse.org and visibility of what we have!
by Jos Poortvliet 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

again and again I find little openSUSE gems everywhere. Manu told us about openSUSE concept, now there is tube.opensuse.org with promo video's!!! We really seem to suck at giving such things visibility. Manu, our new website should have a link to that video site too! Another thing I was thinking about - giving our ambassadors some visibility. We ask ambassadors to create an event report if they have gone and do something cool for openSUSE. Can we have those reports show up at the ambassador's personal page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list and the event site itself: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events#2011 and in a stream on the openSUSE home page? That way, each ambassador builds up a track record of where he/she's been going on their own homepage; and we can find out the results of an event on our event page's; and we can show the world what we do by aggregating them on our homepage. Somehow, each report should probably end up on planet too. Any ideas on how to do all that as easy and automated as possible? Something with openSUSE connect maybe? If an ambassador could enter his event report & the other ambassadors who were there in one place which then distributes it to a RSS feed for the homepage & planet as well as back to the ambassador's private page, that would rock...

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[opensuse-marketing] Wordpress Theme and Linux Identity article
by Syvolc 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hello all, 2 things First, do you know if there is an official openSUSE Wordpress Theme ? For my blog : http://syvolc.briolet.fr/ I can't reach this one : http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-marketing/2009-01/msg00228.html Secondly, I was contacted by a press magazine "Linux Identity" : http://www.linuxidentity.com/ They want some articles for their French edition about openSUSE 11.4. I prepare an article about openSUSE KDE desktop. If you have restrictions or instructions, please tell me. Thanks, Friendly, -- Syvolc -- 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] idea for article
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

We could and should make some noise about openSUSE being the first distro to ship libreoffice! Whoever feels like taking this on could use some of the info in this excellent LWN article: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/424587/28ed0c5f7b1de95e/ and I'm sure Master Meeks is willing to provide us with a juicy quote too, maybe even some further insights in what libreoffice will bring to openSUSE 11.4!!! Anyone feels up for this? Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] creativity?
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Anyone has some creativity left? Use it: Exciting openSUSE: Cool: Build Service: build RPM and DEB packages from a webbrowser SUPERCOOL: even windows support is in the making; used by MeeGo, VLC and others Cool: Tumbleweed & Evergreen: rolling release repo & long-term-support for openSUSE SUPERCOOL: Tumbleweed is already available for 11.3, team is gearing up for full 11.4 support Cool: ????? SUPERCOOL: ?????? I need some more TODAY :D

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[opensuse-marketing] Toward further improvement of openSUSE Weekly News
by Satoru Matsumoto 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hello mates, as you may already noticed, openSUSE Weekly News (OWN) have been going through several changes including format, layout, platform and procedure for editing, etc. Up until a few months ago, we prepared the Weekly News in the Wiki first, and posted an announcement to other translation sub teams, so that they can start translating. After finishing the Wiki version, Sascha, the editor in chief reformatted the wikicode into HTML in order to provide HTML/RSS versions of the OWN. However, that was a time-consuming process for Sascha, because most links had to be fixed manually. Initially, Sascha started a new XML based process flow for OWN as his personal (just for fun) project. After the Conference 2010, the idea (migrating over to XML code based process flow) was born and brought up. Sascha found it interesting, because once the source will be written in XML code, we can produce files in various formats like HTML or PDF with that XML source. At first, the migration was not planned to start so hastly. But unfortunately, the provider who helped Sascha to convert the wikicode to HTML was going down. So, Sascha has switched the editing process of OWN from Wiki base to XML base earlier than expected. This is why OWN have changed recently. But during this migration, we have acknowledged some problems as well. I think current OWN are not best and perfect yet. About 1 and half years have passed since our last simple survey [1]. Now, for further improvement of OWN, we need your feedbacks. Please let us know your opinions and thoughts on OWN. # Although Sascha has placed another poll on connect.o.o about the # formats of OWN, I'd like to ask you again here. = Let us know your opinions and thoughts about followings in READERS point of view = * Do you read OWN (almost) every week? * Do you like current look & feel of OWN in HTML format on news.opensuse.org [2]? And let us know the reason. * Do you like current look & feel of OWN in PDF format on news.opensuse.org [3]? And let us know the reason. * Which do you like to read more, HTML version on news.o.o or PDF format (or Wiki format [4] as once they were)? Which is more convenient for you? * What kind of articles and informations do you want to read in OWN besides those in current OWN? * Are there any sections which you don't need in current OWN? * Do you have any idea to improve OWN from readers point of view? = Let us know your opinions and thoughts about followings in MARKETING TEAM MEMBER's point of view = * What role do you expect OWN to play in openSUSE community/project? * What should be primary readership of OWN? How do you think the order of priority should be? a. Newbie and/or potential openSUSE users b. Intermediate to expert openSUSE users c. Active openSUSE contributors and developers d. Those who aren't involved openSUSE community, but are interested in what are going on around openSUSE * What kind of articles do you think more important? How do you think the order of priority should be? a. Official announcements from openSUSE project b. Status reports from sub projects and community c. Tips and Howtos on openSUSE d. Personal blogs related to openSUSE e. Genaral information and news on broader Linux/FLOSS comminity, which aren't aggregated on planet.o.o [1] http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/other-forums/community-fun/survey… [2] http://news.opensuse.org/2011/01/22/opensuse-weekly-news-159-is-out/ [3] http://www.saschamanns.de/pub/OWN/PDF/OWN-159.pdf [4] For your reference: http://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Weekly_news_150 In addition, we, OWN team have some other problems which we want to share with you and cannot solved only by ourselves. So, I'm going to post emails about following issues. I hope you will be interested in those issues and put your heads together as well. * Copyright and license issues (will be posted to -project list later) * Matters of translations of OWN and how we can attract potential contributors - both editors and translators (will be posted to -marketing list later) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- 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] Evergreen Marketing(interview) and other openSUSE projects we shall promote
by Kostas Koudaras 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi I've been watching the evergreen project since day it started through its mailing list, unfortunately I cannot contribute as a programmer so I was trying to find ways to make some kind of contribution since I really liked the whole idea. Now some days ago I had this proposition to write an article about something cool on openSUSE project from a friend who has a web-zine that is really popular here in Greece. I thought about Evergreen and I ended up to take a short interview from Wolfgang. Give it a look at my blog http://e-tote-kala.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-is-evergreen-project.html (in English) or at the web-zine http://kigka.blogspot.com/2011/01/evergreen-project-wolfgang-rosenauer.html (in Greek). What do you think about it and do you share my opinion that we should start promoting more community projects? Kostas Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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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