February 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Proposed OBS rename / + BRETZN name
by Rajko M. 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

On Thursday, February 03, 2011 07:33:58 pm Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: ... > A. We recommend formally changing the name to ""Open Build Service" > > B. We recommend formally changing the name to OBS and allowing people > to use "openSUSE Build Service" or "open Build Service" as they see fit. > > C. Leave it as is - openSUSE Build Service B (as it will be almost no change to factual naming) -- Regards, Rajko -- 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] LCA 2011 'presentation'
by Jos Poortvliet 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hi all, At LCA 2011 I gave a 90-second lightning talk with 24 slides about SUSE Studio ;-) This was pretty successful as the next day ('open day', we had a booth at LCA) many ppl came to us telling they were impressed by what SUSE Studio can do and they would check out openSUSE again. The slides are now available: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations#SUSE_Studio (it's actually just a series of screenshots, nothing more. I have the sources, I know I should upload them. Will do one day, I promise :D) The lightning talk will hopefully be visible in a video some day soon on: https://conf.linux.org.au/wiki/Videos (video's are on blip.tv's LCA page) Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] SCALE SoCal Linux Expo --- Howdy - What's up? Anything I can do?
by Tony Su 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Am willing to spend some time doing whatever in between the time I'm doing whatever at the conference. You can get a idea of my OpenSuSE background, my username in the OpenSuSE Forums is tsu2. Also, any other unpublished SuSE get-togethers? Tony -- 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] strange feeling
by jdd 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

did somebody do a wish that get fullfilled? did Santa Claus or St Niclos drop something in our fireplace? I get the feeling openSUSE in becoming a hive, maturing as if spring is coming early? I see a lot of things growing like never did!! great......... thanks all!! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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: flyer
by Helen 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

G'day, here's the poster we threw together for Jos yesterday, and thanks to the folks who helped with this. It's pretty rough, lots of things could be improved but with just a few hours from concept to completion I'm pretty happy. It's the first time I've really used Scribus too. So this needs a bit of polishing before it is included in our resources. (improve text and design, fix alignment. Maybe lose some of the box borders for a cleaner look. That sort of thing.) This one was to be printed black and white, but I was thinking, if it was printed in color, some sort of blue ice theme would be fun, to play on the 'cool' idea. By the way Scribus is a bloody excellent program, if you haven't tried it do have a go. It's surprisingly intuitive, at first I had to hunt around the menus to find the attribute I wanted to edit but it didn't take long to start making sense. If you are using Scribus, stick with the current versio n for now (3.3.? I think rather than the 3.9 version which is not backwards compatible). cheers Helen

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[opensuse-marketing] talking points in one page
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi all, I have created a 1-page version of our talking points from http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points This will be added to our ambassador kit. Suggestions for improvements are welcome, please be sure to also add them to the wiki! The doc can be found on the wiki too: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points#Writing_or_talking_about_ope… or to be exact: http://en.opensuse.org/File:OpenSUSE_arguments_short.odt And I added some links here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_kit#Some_resources_that_should_h… Greetings, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] 11.4 disc timeline?
by James Mason 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

LinuxFest Northwest, Northwest USA's 'grass roots' Linux event, is scheduled for April 30 & May 1st, 2011. Is it anticipated that 11.4 media will be available by then? If not, will it be possible to get ISOs for the disc, to reproduce locally? The combined Live Gnome / Live KDE / Installer disc is a *huge* draw. - 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] Project Naming in General
by Helen 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

G'day all, Just a couple of general thoughts about project naming, since OBS got a mention and I'm presently confused about Bretzn.... Weird spelling, capitalization and punctuation. As a writer, it's a pain in the neck! I understand that people want to create a unique, memorable name, and use the typeface to create a brand, but this is counter-productive if it's too easy for others to get it wrong. So people need to think about how others might spell the name and will they care - will we get an email from a dozen people on a development team when we write 'EzyApp' instead of 'Ezy-APP'.? For example, Linux Format, an excellent publication, had every instance of openSUSE spelled with a capital 'O'. When I raised this recently on the forum - about openSUSE always being correct - I was told it was a petty, meaningless thing to worry about; and that years of English grammar outweighed branding, and they'd put a capital at the start of the sentence, thanks anyway. (I should add those were comments from readers, not magazine representatives). It needs mental effort (and sometimes a check on the wiki) to write the correct format or risk 'getting it wrong' - we should make it easy for people to get it right. Google mostly ignores punctuation, but that's also unhelpful in other ways. A search for edu li-f-e didn't have openSUSE anywhere in sight. Using one-word names that are used for something else makes a google search very useless! Sure, we then stick 'openSUSE' in front of it and hopefully come up with the project we are looking for. Anyway, Edu Li-F-E is one that I'd really like to see changed to something simpler and 'cleaner' looking in print. With most of our existing projects I think they are too established to change, but as new things are being developed, I hope we might encourage people to think about these aspects too - not only something unique, but also straightforward and easy to 'get right'. Capitals at the start of words, or at the start of word abbreviations is reasonably easy - eg, AppStore as in ApplicationStore - and all caps, such as KDE is easy. Insisting on lower case at the start of a word can be problematic, though with iPod you'd think people would be used to it - and varied use of caps and lower case is difficult. Any sort of punctuation is a pain, because you have to remember it as a 'dash', and sometimes you need escape codes and sometimes it can have other meanings... overall, bad idea. While I think of it - Maybe if you're German, maybe Bretzn isn't a good choice, but it's at least straightforward and memorable to me as an English speaker, and it gives me a bunch of openSUSE/Bretzn google hits straight up. Win! Anyway, I know we have more pressing matters right now with 11.4 on the way, but I just wanted to share those thoughts! cheers, Helen -- 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] Posters Flyers and Handouts
by Stuart Tanner 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Dear All I have recently taken on the mantel of Distributor for openSUSE Retail Edition in the UK. To start the ball roling I am hosting a trade stand at several computer exhibitions of the coming weeks. Could somebody point me in the direction of a difinitive list of Posters that are available. I have the three community posters, I also have some OpenOffice Posters, but given the switch to LibreOffice I guess they are out of date. Ideally I would like to find posters for: openSUSE Operating System and General KDE, KOffice, KMyMoney, K3b, Amarok Gnome, GNumeric, AbiWord, GNUCash. Posters that detail the most popular appplications, and functionality. Obviously not everything need to be on one poster, but colourfull clear and crsip would be great. I am not sure which of the two mailing lists these need to go into - I think its artwork thats to do with marketing so it is both. I will also look to make some of my own as well. -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44(0)1204 410474 Mob: +44(0)7868 028028 www.bolin.org.uk Distributing openSUSE Retail in the UK Registered Linux User: 529825. -- 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 connect...as we say Facebook!!!
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hello mates, YAGLB (http://www.yaglb.com) is one of the most high traffic Linux Blogs. The name is close to openSUSE since it means Yet Another Greek Linux Blog (as we say yast). I wrote a short article in Greek about openSUSE connect. Check it out. http://kigka.blogspot.com/2011/01/opensuse-connect-facebook.html Have a lot of fun!!! 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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