March 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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Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] PDF posters
by Pieter De Decker 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hi Andreas, I already added the posters here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_miscellaneous I could add the slides to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations, but I don't think they're fit for presentations because they've got too much text on them, which takes away a lot of attention from the speaker. I modeled them to be the sort of slides that you might take a look at when you're passing by a booth. That's my opinion - of course you're free to use them how you want. :-) Cheers, Pieter 2011/2/15 Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> > > On Friday, February 11, 2011 11:03:10 PM Pieter De Decker wrote: > > 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. > > I propose to add links to these to the openSUSE wiki, so that others can find > and use it. I guess it should be added to > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations > > Pieter, could you do this, please? > > thanks a lot for these nice posters! > > 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 > -- 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] Release specific marketing material
by Koushik Kumar Nundy 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hello everyone, I was wondering if you had any marketing material specifically targeting the release, say posters saying "openSUSE 11.4 arriving, March 10" or something even more general, like openSUSE 11.4 artwork, that could be used to signal the onset. I would really appreciate a link. Also I'll take this chance to ask again if anyone has a link to the 11.4 promoDVD or normal DVD label. I seriously need to get some printed asap. Thanks, ~kknundy. -- 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] money
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi all, Despite not reading all mails here, I have a request. The USA office in Provo is out of posters & flyers and that kind of stuff. Now we still have them in the EU, but shipping paper across the pond is quite insane. Yet having these materials is important: we ship them to our ambassadors, together with the DVD's so they can have a good presence at conferences! So I found some money in my budget - enough for a nice number of posters, flyers, postcards & whatever you think will be helpful. But I don't have time to scavenge our git repository and wiki for appropriate material. Moreover, much of it is outdated. So. If you want to help our ambassadors, now is the time to step up. I simply need a list of artwork to print: - a (link to) a BIG poster design or two to print, appropriate for a wide audience at conferences. Can be an existing poster, can be a new one - I don't care. - one or more (links to) smaller posters. I think the "suse is cool" series made for SCALE would be good enough for this, maybe some improvements are possible or needed?!? - (links to) folders. We have one but it ain't that good. I would suggest to finish the folders on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials - ping me on IRC, I want to help with them! They will need design (Carlos, Javier, Bruno, Helen?). Need to be an a4 or Letter (preferably both) with 2-side printing. You could make a triple-fold or double-fold, I don't care :D - (links to) postcards, sticker designs, button designs, other things. - and whatever you think should be in the boxes. I know several of you have been thinking about that, so now is the time to step up and make sure I can add those things to the boxes! I will then see how much I can afford for each of those. A hard requirement: it has all to be online with sources somewhere!!! And I will probably have to ask the artists who made the final design to work with the AJ & me and the printing company as most printing companies don't have Scribus or Inkscape :D And a second hard requirement: I mailed earlier that I have a hard time keeping up with the list. So I need someone to mail me the things I ask for around april 8-9 ;-) So, who steps up to relay me the results? Bryen, seems like your thing? Cheers and thanks, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] ambassador program
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hey marketing team, Based on our IRC discussion yesterday a more extensive proposal, connected to the mail I just send to the boosters with you in CC: Our ambassadors are often local (many don't even speak English, or barely); so what we do with/for them has to be translatable, easy to read or in their hands. They often spend not a huge amount of time on openSUSE; so what we do for/with them should not take much time. And the fact they are ambassador gives them some credibility; so we should make that clear. Currently, we have an ambassador mailinglist. Some ambassadors are on there; many are not (like most of the active people in Brazil or Greece - despite those countries being among the most active for us, as far as we know). They usually have a local mailinglist (not on openSUSE infrastructure) which they use for planning and discussing. First, I would like to propose to bring such mailinglists to openSUSE infrastructure. That means - let ambassadors ask for a language/region specific mailinglist. Not too many rules, if they feel they need one for something, give it. But there should be one limitation: at least one or two active people on that list should be on the international ambassador mailinglist; and we need a one-way, moderated mailinglist to reach ALL ambassador lists at once for things that concern everybody. Second, let them create a localized ambassador team page on the wiki (or on connect.opensuse.org, dunno what makes most sense). Actually, it'd be great if they had an English page which is translated - so each team (the Greek team, Brazil team etc) has a page on the wiki; and it is translated in their language(s). They can have links there to the mailinglist and the forum place they hang out, as well as their IRC channel(s). This will allow countries/regions to build their own team. Yet, due to the requirement of having 1-2 ppl on the international list, we are connected. Now we need to make sure there is communication as much as possible. The ambassadors should get the word out on what they do - that's what the ambassador report stuff is for, which I mailed to the Boosters team. I hope we can make that happen. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] SUSE Studio
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Dear friends, We have an interesting opportunity before us to communicate to people who might not be fans of or very much aware of openSUSE. Novell is setting up a mailinglist system for SUSE Studio. Users of Studio are categorized in ISV, individual user, corporate user and open source project. Now the second and last categories we could spam once a month or so with something like a newsletter talking about openSUSE. Just an idea of course, we could also send them daily viagra mail but I bet they'll block SUSE Studio mail if we do that :D Now we can discuss the usual riff-raff of ideas. I can think of a few myself - as usual, ideas are cheap. It's the work that counts. So let me introduce, just for this discussion, an interesting rule: if you add an idea, that means you are willing to do it. For example, if person X will say "we could do a monthly newsletter" that means that person X is willing and committed to do it. Or doesn't share the idea. NOW let's see how many ideas there are ;-) Cheers, Jos (in an experimental mood, combined with a cold, headache, backpains and way to much work on his plate to be able to sit back and relax or sleep, meh meh meh)

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[opensuse-marketing] Need some quick graphics
by Manu Gupta 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi All I know it is abrupt but I need some help Have a look at this http://suseware.com/trial/extended.php I will like all of us to apply our minds to get a set of images that can work as a slide show instead of the 11.2 box.. Also, please check the links below.. see if something is missing I know I have to add twitter, identica and facebook Thanks a lot 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] A poster or wall paper
by Manu Gupta 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi All I tried this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4977997/openSUSE/heart.svg Check this out and let me know 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] 11.4 Release Party poster
by Fernando Mejia 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Greetings friends, I've been working in a small poster for the 11.4 launch party for our city Guatemala, and this is what I have: http://en.opensuse.org/File:Launch_party_guatemala.png It's based on the openSUSE posters background and made in Inkscape. I'm not quite shure if it's okay to use the geeko and yastie image like that... but if you are interested I can give you a printable version for your local launch parties with your information in it. Just email me at feranto(a)opensuse.org.gt . The poster is very straightforward so just bring me the following details, translated to your languages: -Place : <Your launch party location> -Date: <The date and time of your launch party> -Activities: <The activities you will be hosting> -Your LUG website feranto openSUSE Ambassador en.opensuse.org/User:Feranto -- 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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