February 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Help with articles
by Manu Gupta 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi All, I have compiled a few articles in the last few days, I will like you guys to go through it and make amendments and suggest changes to it. http://opensuse.ietherpad.com/KDE http://opensuse.ietherpad.com/Gnome http://opensuse.ietherpad.com/LibreOffice 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] Promoting our Virtual Party
by Manu Gupta 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi All The virtual party has been a great success, I am not able to attend it thanks to the limited bandwidth and download limit I have but recently http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opensuse-celebrate-114-virtual-dance-pa… We can click on like and all our friends will come to know of it http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/02/14/virtual-launch-party-for-opensuse-11… And yes that also means more promotion 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] Bad News - no SCaLE for [me] one year. :[
by James Mason 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

I've been to the doctor again, and am starting a new medicine. Argh. I asked if he'd clear me for the trip - he just laughed. Long and short of it, I will *not* be able to attend the Marketing Hackfest & SCaLE. Which sucks. I've been really looking forward to getting out and working with some enthusiastic folks (the combination of working from home and being sick has really made me a shut-in). Silver lining is, my manager agreed to have me spend my work week on the project, so I will be available the full work week to help out, and on IRC, Skype etc. Somebody bring a decent webcam, and Skype me in ( james.f.mason) ! - James Mason 'bear454' -- 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] What is our identity?
by Manu Gupta 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi all, What does openSUSE focus on 1. Do we focus on Desktop? 2. Do we focus on Servers? 3. We say we focus on balance,but what does that actually mean? I ask this because 1. We are not as polished as a Desktop 2. Our life cycle is not suited for Servers / Sysadmins. 3. Nor are we exactly rolling releases, might be tumbleweed but there are 100s of old packages too I think we should be able to change that with 11.4 release atleast that helps a lot. So if we do not decide it soon, we will certainly go under an already existing identity crisis which is not good for the community. We should regardless of anything, yes even the strategy (although more alligned with it is preferable) must have a few plans to focus on for 11.4 release. Attracting a particular audience should change a lot of perspective outside the community. 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] PDF posters
by Pieter De Decker 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hi everyone, A few weeks ago, I shared drafts of some openSUSE posters I made. I finalized the posters tonight. I've made a total of six posters on various subjects: - openSUSE's stable/tumbleweed repositories - The community - YaST - The fact that openSUSE lets you choose KDE or GNOME during setup - Driver installs (or the lack thereof) - SUSE Studio: roll your own Linux distribution I've zipped up all posters and you can download 'em here: http://www.box.net/shared/hxllbeglvc Helen asked me if I wanted to make some slides for SCALE, so I made 16:9 widescreen versions of these posters. You can get the slides here: http://www.box.net/shared/mhcya0t2p9 @Kostas: Here is the source of one of the posters. Can you test if you can open it (with correct fonts and images)? If so, I'll upload the other five posters so that you can translate them to Greek. http://www.box.net/shared/hfmvz1dxeu I've added myself to the marketing mailing list, so hopefully I won't miss any replies now. Cheers, Pieter De Decker -- 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 about successful virtual launch party RC1
by Bruno Friedmann 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi all, Just a quick note about our project of virtual launch party on SecondLife. (cf http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=6561) After working hard the last 2 months, the place is ready. So time to test it before the official openSUSE 11.4 virtual launch party. So yesterday was our RC1 party, and everything has been a success ! We've seen more than 50 attendees ( twice what was expected ) and during 2 hours and a half, we enjoyed dedicated place for fun, discussions (not so easy to have a global chat in 3 languages : english, french and greek). The full dedicated post is here : http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=6638 Did you miss that one, don't be afraid, we are organizing some other party before the 10th March. Time to grab your avatar ready, and join the geekos group. Each avatar coming win a free openSUSE promotional t-shirt ! All sizes and gender in stock :-) -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- 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] Lets Pile up some work for Marketing Fest
by Manu Gupta 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi All, Let us all pile up lots of work for everyone who will be at LA from 21st onwards :) We need lots of articles to be written about openSUSE 11.4 release, so I will put on a list of articles over here and we can write one each in the coming week and then forward it to the people who are attending the Marketing Hackfest. I am putting here a pile of topics here which if everyone takes atleast one thing and say yes I will do this in the following week These writing tasks can be used as press releases, then youtube videos and stuff like that, yes also on news.oo 1. Libre Office ( I am working on this one, I have an interview with Petr Mladek ) which I will compile and give as soon as possible. 2. GNOME 11.4 3. KDE on 11.4 4. LXDE on 11.4 5. XFCE on 11.4 6. Sneak Peeks Of 11.4 7. Hosting Server PHP MySQL APACHE on 11.4 8. Collecting Screenshots for 11.4, Installation, Desktop Screenshots etc 9. Wallpaper Ideas 10. Feature List 11. openSUSE For Developers 12. Presentation Update for 11.3 from I dont know if anything else can be added or not and yes ideas are welcome, but lets try to turn out our ideas into realities too :) I created an ietherpad account where we can all keep our work http://opensuse.ietherpad.com/ The login email id is manugupt1(a)opensuse.org Password is openSUSE 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] Promotion material for 11.4
by Kim Leyendecker 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

G´day geckos! For all ambassadors, members or users, who writes a blog and need pictures for an article about openSUSE 11.4, I created this photos to promote the first release candidate. I load up these on Facebook too, so that you can link you to the photos. Feel free to use the material for whatever you want! cheers kdl -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador powered by openSUSE 11.3 | KDE | Kernel-desktop 2.6.34-12 | using Tumbleweed This mail was composed under Linux 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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Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] SUSE Studio
by Helen South 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

> Giving ideas is cheap, but asking not to give ideas if you can't produce is > counterproductive to brainstorming. > I see where Jos is coming from, but I also agree that brainstorming is a good thing. Many of us have loads of good ideas that we don't have the skills to bring to fruition. Often ideas put forward by one person will be picked up and developed by others. So I think, keep the great ideas coming. Having said that, we need a lot more "I'm doing this right now" and less "we should do this". Ideas are 'a dime a dozen' - what matters is hard copy. In novel writing we always say "you can't edit a blank page", and it's great to see so many people putting this into action - lots of great creativity going on right now! cheers Helen (Rajko: my apologies for double send, hit wrong reply yet again....) -- IRC: helen_au helen.south(a)opensuse.org helensouth.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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] DVD cover for 11.4
by Kim Leyendecker 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

In the attachment you see all openSUSE DVD-covers since openSUSE 10.2. For me, the 10.2/10.3 was the best because theirs a gecko inside and he looks really lucky and happy with openSUSE. Maybe we can do something with a gecko for 11.4 or the following releases? cheers kdl -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC1 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-desktop 2.6.37-20.1 | using Tumbleweed This mail was composed under Linux 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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