December 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] ambassador reports
by Jos Poortvliet 23 Feb '25

23 Feb '25

Hi boosters, The marketing team has been brainstorming on how to give ambassadors a tad more attention in openSUSE; motivate them to make a bit more noise; and reward them for what they do. Now we have a few ideas, but for one, we thought it might make sense to use connect. Yes, it could probably be done via the wiki and other ways but I know you guys have a hammer and might see this as a nail :D *what is the problem* the ambassadors _sometimes_ create event reports. We want those reports for several reasons: - to have an idea of what they are doing - to measure how much we do - to motivate others - to SHOW what we do Unfortunately, not so many event reports are made although we're fairly sure many events have openSUSE attendance. This is due to several issues. *First*, not all ambassadors are so connected to us - many are not 'official ambassador' or their English skills are minimal and they are not internationally involved. I will send a follow-up mail with ideas on how to solve that. *Second*, filling in an event report on the wiki is not exactly easy for many. Some send one by mail - which is fine but leaves little record. *Third*, the reports receive little visibility. They are mentioned somewhere in the weekly news if you're lucky and of course on the marketing ML, but that's it pretty much. Numbers in it are not saved, we don't realy do anything with it as there is no real easy record. *The solution?* Ideally, the reports would end up in a central place, some database... And ideally, they would be connected to the ambassadors - so they can build up a trackrecord of events they have visited. Once we have this we can also show reports on eg news.o.o in a feed box on the side for example, or on our homepage. We can analyze and use statistics (for promo), promote events, do monthly articles - all kinds of things. We have an events page on en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_events which suffers from similar issues - most people don't create a page because it is not easy and not localized. *connect.o.o* In short. We wonder - would Connect not offer a much better way of handeling events, event reports and the like? Would it not offer a better place for ambassador user accounts (with associated event reports as track records)? Culd it offer an easy place for ambassadors to add info for an event and afterwards add a report & pictures which we can then display in the planet feed (localized, if needed)? In case you think this is relevant, chuck and manu might have some time to help with this both in 'how to do it' (I would also love to think abou that) and the doing itself. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] TED
by jdd 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

I just discover TED: http://www.ted.com/ there are talks about open source, but nothing on openSUSE (or suse) I don't really know if we have anything to do with TED, but I liked the subtitles feature of the video system :-) example (the only one on Linux AFAIK) http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_eco… jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- 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] News article review by Terence
by Manu Gupta 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hi All Please review the article by Terence http://news.opensuse.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=12326&action=edit&message=9 -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Giving up the Weekly News chair
by Sascha Manns 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello mates, Since a few years I'm holding the chair of the openSUSE Weekly News Team, and it was a very interesting time. Also i've worked with a great team. Sadly i must announce, that i give up my chair to the End of this year. My work for open-slx will be extended in the next year, and so i have'nt enough time to contribute the Weekly News again. So we are searching a new chairman for this Subproject. One of the first things to decide are the following: * Should we produce again in Docbook/XML or * Should we publish in the old way (Wiki). If this point is clear we have to create a stragedy, how to work with the other teammates? Use Wiki to collecting and publishing? And so on. Also it is important to know, that the fact (find a new chairman or not) will have a depency to the Continue the whole Subproject. cu Sascha -- Sincerly yours Sascha Manns Community &Support Agent open-slx GmbH http://www.open-slx.de (Business) http://saigkill.homelinux.net (Private) This mail is written with Balsam Professional 12.1

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[opensuse-marketing] Weekly News Proofreadingsession for Issue 207
by Sascha Manns 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

Hello mates, since a few Issues of openSUSE Weekly News we're making the profreading session more open. So everyone can read it and share his thoughts, So the Newsteam and the Marketingteam is specially invited. Draft can found at: http://bit.ly/vwq9yW (Cause of a broken css support in docbook-xsl-templates i just can produce this issue in PDF.) What is to do? * Please point out if you find something to be fixed in the draft, including: - Incorrect links - Articles which are already included in the past issues - Articles which are *too biased* and shouldn't be included Founded Issues you can report to this thread. * Please tell us if you have noticed something to be added, including: - Articles or blog posts which you think openSUSE users may be interested in - Ongoing active topics from openSUSE mailing-lists, forums and so on - Local FLOSS events which you think openSUSE users may be interested in Additional stuff you can add there: https://osweeklynews.publishwith.me/1 Deadline for this issue: 207 Today 17:00 UTC Note: We really appreciate your contributions. However, please remember that your opinions and suggestions will not always be accepted unconditionally. We hope you will trust the final decisions by editors. -- Sincerly yours Sascha Manns Community &Support Agent open-slx GmbH http://www.open-slx.de This mail is written with Balsam Professional 12.1

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.1 ready, release announcement needed
by Jigish Gohil 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

Hi Lars and Marketing Team I've uploaded 12.1 image to our servers, could you please create torrent and seed it? Also it would be great if you(or someone from marketing team) can do release announcement, I am feeling lot lazy to do it. Here are the highlights: * Based on openSUSE 12.1 with all the updates since it's release * Includes applications such as : avogadro | A Molecular design tool bibletime | An easy to use Bible study tool bluej | An integrated Java environment specifically for teaching brainworkshop | Exercise different parts of brain bwbasic | A Basic interpreter dynamips | Cisco router Emulator fet | Open software for scheduling the timetables gbrainy | A brain teaser game and trainer gcalctool | A GNOME Calculator Application gelemental | Periodic Table Viewer geogebra | Free mathematics software gns3 | GNS3 is a graphical network simulator ignuit | Flashcard learning system k3dsurf | Visualize and manipulate multidimensional surfaces klavaro | Typing tutor mathrider | An education-friendly mathematics software pauker | Pauker is a generic flashcard program openbabel | Open Babel - The Open Source Chemistry Toolbox pythoncad | PythonCAD--CAD in Python rasmol | Molecular Graphics Visualization Tool scratch | A new programming language for children stellarium | Astronomical Sky Simulator tkgate | Event driven digital circuit simulator tuxpaint | Drawing Program for Young Children tuxtype | Typing tutor for children Education Servers: ATutor | Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System moodle2 | A Course Management System FreeSMS | Web application Students Management System Fedena | World's Biggest School ERP KIWI-LTSP | Linux Terminal Server Project Desktop Environments: KDE4 Gnome IceWM Multimedia Applications with full media support: VLC | Multimedia player MPlayer | Multimedia player Audacity | Media Editor Audacious2 | Audio Player Banshee | Audio Player Amarok | Audio Player openshot | Video Editor blender | A 3D Modeling And Rendering Package Virtualization: KVM Oracle VirtualBox ...and lots more Screenshots can be taken by booting the iso in KVM/VirtualBox in live mode, minimum 1G RAM must be allocated to the VM. To install minimum 20GB partition will be required. Additional details that can go in the release announcement can be found on our wiki pages: http://en.opensuse.org//Portal:Education http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e http://en.opensuse.org//Portal:KIWI-LTSP The iso image is hybrid, it can be used to create live DVD or dd to usb stick to create live USB stick. We release 32bit image only, for users with RAM 4G and more install and use kernel-pae package. Download from: iso: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/download/ISOs/openSUSE-E… http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-12.1-la… md5sum: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/download/ISOs/openSUSE-E… http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-12.1-la… Happy holidays -J Attn. Lars: opensuse-education.org webserver is down at the moment. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Desura gaming platform to go opensource with GPL
by Roger Luedecke 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

www.desura.com They are considering going open source with their client, and it looks extremely likely they will. This could be an opportunity to push OBS and if we act fast we could take advantage of being the first distro to offer it in a repo in RPM format. Maybe some useful code too. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Ind. Repairs and Consulting **Looking for a C++ etc. mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Does SUSE have good documentation?
by Ilya Chernykh 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

This is a poll about documentation of which distro is complete and intelligible: http://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=ru&tl=en&twu=… It seems SUSE and openSUSE anre outsiders... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.1 ready, release announcement needed
by Jigish Gohil 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hi All Well, I had uploaded the Li-f-e image with google-earth that I use locally, have removed it from the servers, replacement will be up by tomorrow(slow internet connection). Cheers -J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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