March 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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[opensuse-marketing] Linux is Good for us
by Kálmán Kéménczy 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

I have been waiting for this kind of article on the biggest Hungarian portal, index.hu for ages: Linux is Good for us http://index.hu/tech/2011/03/27/jo_lesz_nekunk_a_linux_is/ k -- 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 Marketing Materials and openSUSE:Presentations pages
by Kostas Koudaras 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hello to all openSUSE Marketing people and Ambassadors out there Currently I am working on openSUSE:Marketing materials (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials) What I would like is either the links or the actual files of materials like 11.4 posters, fliers, the Cheat-cube, the paper-penguin Carlos made(I actually need the .svg file from that to make it more neutral so everybody can use it and adjust it to his/her needs) as long as other stuff that exist around so that I can gather them all and upload or link them to the Marketing Materials page. I am also giving links from git so if something I asked is actually there please let me know since I haven't seen all of git yet. Also banners in English or any other language needed ;-). I want to focus on ending if possible that page so that people who want to make an event or set up a booth and want to print some material, to be able to find everything there(at least the basics) without getting lost in the wiki.If anyone want's to help, feel free. Also maybe Jos should consider in printing some of this stuff (like the cheat-cube) and send that along with DVD's, stickers and other promo material since it's a really cool thing to have ;-) Just a thought... I also accept to send me presentations to upload them to openSUSE:Presentations (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations) I know that many of you have one or two or more that it is not uploaded there, Just send me the files by e-mail and I will upload them and maybe write a few words about it. Again especially presentations that are not in English needed. Come on people, lets roll Hope to hear and get something from all of you Marketing people and Ambassadors out there 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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[opensuse-marketing] suggestions for cheap goodies
by Jos Poortvliet 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi all, In my previous mail I mentioned stickers, postcards and buttons - in short, simple, cheap goodies. I would actually love some more ideas in that area, I might be able to add those to boxes too ;-) Be a bit specific and include a cost guestimate. And the needed artwork - in short, I'll just order some of the stuff you guys & girls will send me, so that should be easy for me :D for example, a list with a nice graphic for a button (or a series of graphics for buttons) and a size (or sizes) & guestimated price that you found on the web would be something I can work with. Just a "well we could give out lighters with a nice openSUSE graphic" is not terribly helpful unless someone can provide the graphic ;-) Like the other mail - due to me not being around that often, I need someone to mail me the conclusions. Bryen, you stepped up for the other one, you ready to do that for this too? hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] GNOME3
by Bryen M. Yunashko 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Folks, As you know, GNOME 3 will be coming out *very* soon and soon after that, we will be providing GNOME3 with 11.4. We will even be shipping LiveCDs to GNOME Foundation with GNOME3 built in. GNOME Foundation is doing a lot of work to organize the launch of GNOME3. But like any other project, there's never quite enough launch parties. We also have our own launch parties (yes some will continue on in the next months ahead even if March 10 was our launch date.) I think it will develop strong goodwill between projects if we can either plan co-launch parties with GNOME Foundation or, in regions where there is no one to have GNOME3 launch parties, consider offering a 11.4 launch party and invite GNOME3 to join in on the launch party. Or, if a GNOME Ambassador is not in your area, consider doing it yourself. I am certain that the GNOME Foundation will appreciate and remember the support that openSUSE has given to raising visibility. GNOME is one of several important desktops that openSUSE provides and we should show our appreciation for the hard work that upstream projects do that help make our own Project even better. Both GNOME and openSUSE are equally generating good noise out there right now. Combined, we can take that noise to a higher level. Along this same vein, I mention GNOME3 because it is just around the corner. But in fact, we should definitely look for other opportunities to co-launch with other projects whose software we use to make openSUSE as awesome as it is today. Any other interesting launches coming up that we should think about? Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- 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] Show us your desktop!
by Kim Leyendecker 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

11.4 is out, and I think it´s time for post-release marketing now! Maybe with this idea: We can ask our users, to make a screenshot of their desktops and load up it to Facebook, Flickr or their server and send us the link. We can collect the photos and create a little "our user´s desktop show" with the screenshots. *What´s the sense of this idea?* We will see, how many are using 11.4 already. And we will show our users, that openSUSE is _their_ distro too. It´s a good chance to make openSUSE more personal to our users. *How we want to collect the pictures?* As I think today, we can use Facebook. The user upload the photo and post it to our profile. Also we can use planet openSUSE for that. Somebody blog about it, and the user post their desktops as a comment. *What the f*ck to do with the pictures?* At first, we have to make clear, that the project is allowed to use the pics for marketing. We´ve got the advantage, that we have _free_ marketing stuff. But the real thing behind this is that we have a (hopefully huge) gallery with our user´s desktop. *Why that all?* Because the user will think: openSUSE is my Linux! It makes the distro more personal (User: Darling, look, their´s my desktop! And their´s the desktop of our neighbours. And look their! Their´s the desktop of uncle Ronald from Alabama!) Another aspect is, that the user maybe see some nice desktops and get ideas of style his own. Hope you will like it! If you still have some questions, don´t be afraid to ask ;) thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador http://www.suseusers.de.vu powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC2 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-default 2.6.37.1-14 | using Tumbleweed openSUSE/Slashdot Profilname: openLHAG (OpenLHAG) 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. -- 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] ambassador reports
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

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] FLISOL 2011 + Gnome3 Launch Party + openSUSE 11.4 Release Party!
by Raul 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hello friends! It is with great pleasure that I inform you that on April 9 will be conducting these three events: * FLISOL 2011[1] * openSUSE 11.4 Release Party * GNOME3 Launch Party[2] Local: Faculdade Dom Pedro II Date: 09/04/2011 held from 09hrs to 18hrs. [1] http://flisol.info/FLISOL2011/Brasil/Salvador [2] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Brasil/Salvador Cheers! -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom openSUSE Member | Linux User #4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't."

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[opensuse-marketing] webpin2 and writing about openSUSE on omgSUSE.com
by Jos Poortvliet 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

On IRC I saw Pascal Bleser and master Bryen talk about webpin2... Pretty cool! I wonder if there is any update on it? I think it's worth a nice article on omgsuse.com! If you think so, I attached a start for the webpin2 part which needs the latest status from Pascal and otherwise is just based on Pascal's awesome blogs about it and some searching & contemplating of mine :D Who's up for kicking Pascal to add his latest insights and gving this to Tyler to put on omgSUSE.com? And then continueing on this path, finding another cool openSUSE thing? Love, Jos Find your application or library in a whiff The openSUSE community offers a huge selection updated or special versions of applications, libraries and tools in a variety of locations. This poses unique problems for openSUSE: <em>finding</em> the packages can be difficult. Luckily, there is a solution: <a href="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/">webpin</a>. And a newer, faster version is being developed! openSUSE has been growing a lot recently. The <a href="http://build.opensuse.org/">openSUSE Build Service</a> allow anyone with a web browser to use the beefy openSUSE infrastructure to build packages for a variety of distributions. As you can see in the statistics on <a href="http://build.opensuse.org/monitor">build.opensuse.org</a>, the number of repositories and packages is staggering with over 120.000 packages in 30.000 repositories. Webpin used to rely on MySQL for its database. But with well over 27.000 users and the build service basically busy 24/7, churning out new packages at an epic rate, MySQL could not keep up. As was mentioned in <a href="http://omgsuse.com/content/sharing-opensuse-world-mirrorbrain">an earlier article on OMGSUSE.com</a>, the openSUSE mirrors update incredibly fast. Where for other linux distributions, release day is a big day, for the openSUSE server infrastructure it is merely a 3-5 requests-per-second blip on the radar - among the 300-500 requests that come in due to the openSUSE Build Service. New packages are pushed out <a href="http://omgsuse.com/content/sharing-opensuse-world-mirrorbrain"><em>more than once per minute</em></a>, you need something special to keep track of what is going on. openSUSE developer Pascal Bleser <a href="http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensuse-package-index-and-search.html">found that something in Apache solr</a>. He has been busily writing a REST interface for the <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=webpin">command line and graphical version of webpin</a> and working on an update to the web interface on <a href="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/">packages.opensuse-community.org</a>. We had a short chat with him about the latest status of Webpin2. Hi Pascal! It has been a while since <a href="http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensuse-package-index-and-search.html">you blogged about webpin2</a>. Any progress since then? So what does this mean, will webpin2 make it in the upcoming version of openSUSE? Where can people get it to test, if anywhere? Will it eat babies? So how can people help get webpin2 moving? blabla git merge request http://gitorious.net/opensuse/webpin2 blabla

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[opensuse-marketing] upside down geeko logo
by Helen South 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Guys, re the upside down derivative logo on the outage note - is this a Novell-sanctioned use of the logo? It's cute but is clearly derivative of the openSUSE Geeko logo, which we are not permitted to change. http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1813788278137&id=115111644… cheers Helen -- 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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[opensuse-marketing] Wiki Help
by Manu Gupta 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi All I am trying to upload the presentation template from the git repo which the marketing team has but am unable to do so if anyone can do that it will be great. Also, I am unable to view SVG's Preview so is this a bug / something else. It says libgomp not found. -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] Co-Speaker need to present a paper on Linux Tug
by Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hello Friends, I am Buddhika Kurerea from Sri Lanka en.opensuse.org/User:Bckurera I submitted a paper for Linux Tug and it was approved to present on the conference. By considering the location and cost imposed to present at the place I have to find a co-speaker as I am not possible to present in the location physically. So please contact me off list if any one is interested in joining with me a co-speaker. The job is to read my talk to the audience with proper knowledge on what paper said. I ll help my best and send all the necessary details. Therefore it is not a hard thing. The paper is about "Community based FOSS business model", please let me know seen as I have to nominate one before tomorrow[29th March]. -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera The Editor in Chief - FOSS User Magazine openSUSE Ambassador - Sri Lanka "FOSS User Magazine (ISSN 2012-7650) is the first magazine for Free and Open Source Software in Sri Lanka published by the FOSS User Society - Sri Lanka. FOSS User Academia and FOSS User Research are the main projects carried out by the society besides the magazine. FOSS User Society is an equal opportunity entity having more than 200 members all over the Sri Lanka as per 31.01.2011. We provide total solution for undergraduates who follow IT degrees and higher studies, if you are not a member yet please try it out, visit www.fossuser.lk" -- 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] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Subscribe to opensuse-ambassadors@opensuse.org, opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org
by Koushik Kumar Nundy 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hi, There have been multiple mails of the nature included below, by several people, in the past couple of days. I initially considered them errors in list subscribe attempts, until I received one from my own ID. Mine for example, got generated with absolutely no action from my side. Is this a ML error issue, or am I missing something? Sorry for top posting, but this is not even a reply to a thread, so I didn't know where to put it. I have attached a copy of the actual mail I received for your use. Anyone know what this is? ~kknundy On 16 March 2011 12:15, <kknundy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org >

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Selected for GSoC 2011
by Manu Gupta 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi All I am too excited and am righting in a lot of joy. Congrats to all openSUSE is selected for GSoC more to come later :D let me enjoy now -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] Issue #168 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi @all! Issue #168 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=7798 [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] Codenames of animals
by Kim Leyendecker 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Dear all! Apart these version number threads, this thread give another point: In 11.3 the codename was "Teal" in 11.2 "Emerald". Maybe we can change the codename to the names of animals, who are threatened with extinction. As an example: openSUSE 12.0 "Narwhal" (Okay, a little bit Ubuntu copy in this case, but I simply don´t know such an animal, and I´m too lazy to search ;) ) What do you think? It´s independant from the version number discussion and we can maybe tell the world. to pay more attention to these animals. Remember: openSUSE is more then "just" an operating system thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador http://www.opensuse.org powered by openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6 | x86_64 Notebook | usecase: Workstation openSUSE/Slashdot Profilname: openLHAG (OpenLHAG) 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. -- 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] absense
by Jos Poortvliet 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Dear friends. You might have noticed that I haven't answered lots of mails. I currently have an inbox of around 2000 and are stuggeling to keep it there. The openSUSE marketing ML has 635 unread mails alone... I hereby give up trying to keep up. I will have a look at the ML but I won't always be able to follow all of it. Sorry! I know, not a biggy, most of you contact me privately if you have something - keep doing that ;-) Love, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] "Learning Linux Through openSUSE" workshop
by Drew Adams 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi Everyone, This is my first post to this mailing list! I want to share with everyone that I have set up a "Learning Linux Through openSUSE" workshop in Riverside, CA on April 9th at 5pm at the Blood-Orange Infoshop. If all goes well it should be a regular thing that I will be co-instructing with a friend of mine (who is also a fellow openSUSE user). This will be the first "formal" event like this that I have taught. Is there any advice or wisdom that can be shared with me so that it can be as successful as possible? I am very excited to be doing this and am looking forward to helping others get to know openSUSE. Drew Adams -- 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 spanish MuyComputer magazine made a review to openSUSE 11.4
by Ricardo Chung 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi, Browsing the Internet I found this well balanced analysis (not a fan) and review to openSUSE 11.4. Maybe it could be added to press list too. http://www.muycomputer.com/2011/03/23/opensuse-11-4-el-analisis and this other one http://www.muylinux.com/2011/03/12/opensuse-11-4-lista-para-el-combate/ Best, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 video drivers -- 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 of the Chemnitzer Linux Tagen
by Jan Krings 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi Ambassadors, last week there was the Chemnitzer Linux Tage. Of course, with a openSUSE Booth. Lots of openSUSE people was there at the openSUSE booth. Two from the openSUSE Booster arrived from Nürnberg with fresh openSUSE 11.4 DVDs. We have distribute over 300 DVDs to interested people. On the two days was a lot of talks about openSUSE or openSUSE Projects. gnokii made a very good talk about openSUSE 11.4 and shows how easy openSUSE is to install. Michal Hrusecky shows interessted people the openSUSE Build Service in a workshop. The hall was full, so many people must stand in the last line. I made a lot of pictures. You find the pictures here: https://picasaweb.google.com/liquidsky42/ChemnitzerLinuxTage2011# I wrote a Blog Article (german): http://ununseptium.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/so-waren-die-chemnitzer-linux- tage-2011/ Greetings Jan -- 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] Question about mailling list
by Chuck Payne 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Guys, The last meeting we talked about creating local mailing list for the ambassadors. I am wanting to see what it would take to create the following mailing list opensuse-ambassadors-northamerica(a)opensuse.org thanks, Pup -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. -- 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] RFC: Edit text for requesting Promo DVDs
by Bryen M Yunashko 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Folks, AJ has requested the team to review text for requesting Promo DVDs for 11.4. I have created a copy at http://ietherpad.com/ynMuvM4rRw Please take a few minutes to look at and sharpen the text so we can spread the word quickly to distribute 11.4 Promo DVDs at events. We are setting a deadline for text review of this Friday, 18-March-2011. While it is important that we polish up the language with good English, it is also important that non-native English speakers understand this text because we want this spread out GLOBALLY! So even if you are a non-native English speaker, we want your feedback. If something isn't clear to you, let us know! And to answer your anticipated question about when will the 11.4's be ready? We hope to see them ready to ship by end of the month. Keep your fingers crossed. Thanks! Bryen -- 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] Interesting review
by Manu Gupta 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

This is an interesting review http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/140885/opensuse-114-blast-linux-pa… -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] I have very important family matters to handle.
by Chuck Payne 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Guys, I will be offline for a while, I have family matters to handle. -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. -- 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] Re: GSOC Info
by Jos Poortvliet 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

On 2011-02-27 Vincent wrote: > Le lundi 28 février 2011, à 03:42 +0530, Manu Gupta a écrit : > > I know 3 students have already approached for GSoC already to > > openSUSE. > > > > Also have a look at this > > http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc20 > > 11/userguide > > > > So who will become the organisation administrator?? I cannot as I > > intend to submit an application myself as a student. > > Ah, I didn't know that. I'll do it, then, unless any of Jos, Andreas > or Pavol wants to step up. > > Pavol, in the worst case, I assume you're still fine doing back-up? Thanks for stepping up, you two - I can sometimes help with these things but the travel & conferences make me a rather unreliable primary organizer :( Some others at the marketing meeting also worked a wee bit on GSOC like copying some ideas from openFATE in etc (thanks, Kostas!), maybe they'll be able and willing to help out a bit as well. Manu, again, my deepest gratitude for the work you do and did on GSOC, you deserve a medal! We really missed you at our meeting, dude... xxx Jos > Vincent

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[opensuse-marketing] [Off Topic] Report from Japan
by Satoru Matsumoto 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hello mates, sorry for my off topic post. As all of you may know, Japan was struck by a strong earthquake and tsunami last week. Fortunately, I myself and my family live in Tokyo and escaped serious damage. I want to take this opportunity to thank community people who have been worried about my safety. However, the earthquake and tsunami did tremendous damage to eastern part of Japan. As far as we can count so far, the number of dead stands at more than 7,000, the number of missing stands at more than 10,000 and more than 450,000 people are still taking shelter in uncomfortable surroundings. A serious nuclear power plant disaster is now going on and due to the shutdown of some power plants which were damaged by the quake/tsunami, rolling blackouts are now implemented in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Although the quake/tsumani did little damage to Tokyo directly, we are still in messy situation. Supermarkets in the Tokyo region have been stripped bare of food and other daily necessities and many people are facing gasoline shortages (well, please do not too much worry about me because I myself have stockpiled enough foods and will be all right for the meantime ;-)). http://fooyoh.com/news/5919548 It is gratifying that you all are haveing fun with tweaking brand-new openSUSE 11.4, but I myself am not able to attend *the party* and really enjoy ATM. I'm now trying to save on electricity so that I can't contribute as much as usual. I hope you can understand my situation, and I would appreciate it if you pray for Japan. 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] Issue #167 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi @all! Issue #167 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=7706 [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] Re: [opensuse-artwork] Proposal to merge mailing lists
by Helen South 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Martin Schlander <martin.schlander(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Mandag den 21. marts 2011 01:57:43 skrev Bryen M. Yunashko: >> There's been a bit of noise in the past couple of months advocating a >> merge of both the artwork mailing list and artwork IRC channel along >> with the multimedia list into the marketing channel/list. >> >> Many feel that we're too spread out and thus not hearing enough or being >> aware of what everyone is doing. As such, that means it becomes harder >> to build momentum to grow our community. Worse yet, when not merged >> properly, we create duplication of efforts. >> >> However, before we do any merging, I have stated clearly to others that >> the ultimate decision rests with the artwork team. I am definitely in >> favor of a merge, but would like to hear your thoughts in the next few >> days about the pros and cons of merging together. > > I vote nay for a merge with marketing ML. > > I think there's not a very big overlap - if any - between -artwork and - > marketing. > > And last time I checked -marketing was very high traffic and a netiquette > nightmare (top-posting, bad quoting etc.) > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help(a)opensuse.org > > To answer the last point first, top-posting seems to be the default across many mail clients and is increasingly standard practice on many mailing lists, and certainly in some places it is de riguer. Likewise bad quoting. Varying netiquette is really quite irrelevant. The artwork list certainly is very quiet, and then when an art issue is raised, there's the problem of cross posting (and the breach of netiquette! :) ) when one wishes to involve both art and marketing members. I had initially felt the merge might be a good idea, but I have quite a few reservations. Volume could be a concern. Some of what is discussed in Marketing will be of very little interest to many of the Art team. The converse may occasionally be true, and having additional people all putting their two cents worth in as to the particularities of color and layout might not always be productive! Certainly we are all capable of filtering our email and making it manageable, but large volumes are still not good for many people. For someone purely interested in making artwork, who doesn't want to know about all the other stuff - writing and promotion and so on - that goes through Marketing, it could be a disincentive to participation. I'm very keen to see more interaction between marketing and artwork, in particular, for the art team to be closely involved in decision making early in the marketing process, as well as in the development of collaborative resources. One solution would be simply for Art team people to join the Marketing, so that they are on board for all creative discussions and are aware of what is happening, but to also retain the Art list for artwork-specific discussion (eg, discussing work in progress, where more focus is needed). cheers, Helen -- 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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[opensuse-marketing] Next Marketeing Team General Meeting
by Bryen M. Yunashko 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Folks, The third Tuesday of the month is coming up, and you know what that means... Time for our regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The meeting will take place at 16:00 UTC [1] on Tuesday, 22-March-2011 in #opensuse-marketing on Freenode IRC network. You can find the agenda for the next meeting at [2]. If you have any suggestions to add to the agenda, please do so. See you on Tuesday! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team [1] http://bit.ly/h6UmqY [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting#Next_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] help with news article, urgent!
by Helen South 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hey guys I was distracted and hit 'publish' instead of 'save draft' on the Statistics news post. Straight away I changed it to 'private' since there doesn't seem to be any other kind of 'unpublish' button. Very frustrating as the post is far from finished, I'm terribly sorry!!! Can anyone please jump in and help fix (unpublish) and also finish writing it. Apologies again. I don't think I'll keep writing News, far too many ways for me to make very public mistakes! -- 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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[opensuse-marketing] desktop summit!
by Jos Poortvliet 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi all, Those of you who have not yet done so - think about sending in a talk proposal for the Desktop Summit! If you work on KDE or GNOME but also on XFCE or LXDE integration in openSUSE - sounds like a great subject! There will be a cross-distro collab room (I'll make sure of that :D) and openSUSE should be prominent there... !!! Deadline is soon: Friday 25th of March! https://desktopsummit.org/cfp Cheers, Jos

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] 11.4 feature guide/product highlights is done, so is the Portal page!
by Tony Su 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

The statement IMO is accurate. GRUB2 is not a full replacement today, and even if installed is a "chain loader," not a direct replacement. Tony On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> Jos, >> If you haven't seen the posting I just made to the Marketing List, an >> apparent late development is that GRUB2 is not part of 11.4 yet so >> needs to be purged from the Feature List if it's still there (I put it >> in there based on the GRUB2 Developers' comments). > > That is late... We've touted it as an experimental feature... Meh. > Zypper in grub2 offers it from the official repository, so it does > seem there?!? > >> Tony >> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello dear ambassadors and marketing people!!! >>> >>> The openSUSE 11.4 Product Highlights are done: >>> http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights >>> >>> And so is the portal page: >>> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:11.4 >>> >>> They can be translated! But not promoted yet ;-) >>> >>> You can and SHOULD use the feature guide to create articles, blogs >>> etcetera - you can use any screenshots and whatever text you need. >>> >>> The announcement will tomorrow be send to the opensuse-announce >>> mailinglist and a news.o.o article will go out. Henne and AJ will take >>> care of that, they promised during the board/project meeting today :D >>> >>> So, let's have a rockin' release and kick some ass!!! >>> >>> Be sure to enjoy the launch parties: >>> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties_11.4 >>> And if there is none close by you, organize one! you only need a place >>> with beer and coke, then you can invite people on your blog & twitter & >>> create a page on the launch party wiki :D >>> >>> If you need to present openSUSE 11.4 anytime soon, you can find a >>> presentation here: >>> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations#openSUSE_11.4 >>> >>> We will work on improving it of course. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Jos >>> >> > -- 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] Regarding launch parties wiki
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello, On the location list http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties#Launch_party_locations_list I added another column that we can add the report after the event. So I created the report for Thessaloniki's release party. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Launch_party_Thessaloniki I hope this is OK. 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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[opensuse-marketing] Linux Tag 2011 in Berlin?
by Jan Krings 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi Folks, I heard there is a openSUSE booth at the LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin, but I don't find a Wikipage. So I made one. :) http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LinuxTag_Berlin_2011 Please add your name in the list if you want to help or organized the booth and add details of event. I would like help out at the booth. The only problem is the expensive accommodations in berlin. Are there good experiences from recent years? Jan -- 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] thanks and link added for opensuse
by Sarah Chard - HLUG 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi many thanks for the discs - I have added a thanks and a link to your download page onto the HLUG website will give you feedback following the event thanks once again for your support -- Sarah Chard m: hlug(a)hlug.org.uk -- 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] Attachmate message
by Michael Miller 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi all The Attachmate congratulations message for openSUSE 11.4 is now out on attachmate.com. We will have a link on our homepage shortly. The direct link to the msg is: http://www.attachmate.com/Press/PressReleases/congratulations-openSUSE-proj… I hope this is well received and helps maintain the fantastic level of coverage end interest in the 11.4 release! MM -- 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] Today's Marketing Post-Mortem Meeting
by Bryen M Yunashko 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Today we had a pretty good meeting that covered a wide array of topics relating to our effectiveness and readiness for marketing the 11.4 release as well as what we can do better in the future. The overall sense was that we need to improve our organizational abilities and identify tools that can help us deliver our tasks in a more timely manner. This doesn't mean we thought our release went badly. Rather we did great! But as is always the norm, there's always room for improvement. You can see the full text of our discussions at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-marketing/2011/opensuse-mar… Below I will attempt to summarize our meeting so we can continue this important dialogue here on the mailing list. I encourage all of you to speak up about your opinions as your opinion does matter and we want to see even greater success in the next cycle. I also want to emphasize that just because this is called a "post-mortem" doesn't mean that we are done with our 11.4 work. No. Our 11.4 work continues on until November when our next release (11.5 or 12.0?) comes out. This is a sprint, not a marathon. Summary-- Ambassadors: This probably was the most part of our discussion. The biggest concern we have is how to cross language barriers. When many of our ambassadors don't speak English, what should we do? Jos Poortvliet proposes that each region have their own mailing list (e.g. opensuse Ambassadors-NL(a)opensuse.org) and at least one representative of that group be required to be on the main ambassador mailing list. All in all, it was raised, as has been a couple of times lately, that a fresh look at how we organize the ambassadorship should come very soon and we'd like to see an Ambassador organization meeting in the near future. We want more ambassadors to generate launch parties and we want to ensure that Tools: Tony Su felt that with a clearer set of tools to drive our tasks, we'll be more organized and able to manage our tasks more easily. We discussed some of the existing tools like Connect and Retro, but Tony has taken on the action item to review other tools. We're wary not to overload ourselves with tools that we become too fragmented, but finding a good integrated way of making our tasks more manageable is clearly needed. News: We agreed that this topic is quite broad and the news team needs to come together for its own meeting to review its processes and see where things are at today. We also need to increase our pool of writers and get more stories out there. Having a plethora of writers will make it easier to get more stories out there and keep the noise level high throughout the year, not just at release time. News team is doing a great job so far, but we need more. Who on the news team wants to take the action item to do this process review? Social Networking: Chuck Payne has agreed to develop a long-term strategy for our social networking efforts and is welcoming comments on ideas how to improve. We were happy with our presence on Facebook, but we want to see more on Twitter, Identi.ca, Reddit and Digg. Scheduling: A clearer schedule for mapping out our steps pre- and post- release is important. As we got down to the wire, several people became overloaded and there was clearly a lack of sleep amongst many of us due to trying to finish things such as the Product Highlights. We proposed to begin working on the Product Highlights around the time that Milestone 5 is released. AJ has updated the Launch Checklist and we'll continue to finetune it over the next few weeks with comments from all of you. As Tyler pointed out, he simply showed up in the marketing channel and accepted tasks as he saw them fly by. Good, but would be easier if we had a clear definition to point to that would make it easier for him and others to grab tasks earlier. We failed to do proper announcing of release candidates and we need to do *more* to attract testers so that we can identify more of the bugs and verify the claims we put in our product highlights. AJ also brought up that the next three months we should focus more on attracting bugfixers. How should we approach this effectively? We also believe that with a product highlights page developed much earlier, it will become easier to spin off to other things like presentation development, articles, etc. We now view the Product Highlights as the information center from which we build many of our campaign materials. Jos will set up guidelines for making an awesome product highlights structure that we can reference in the future. Consolidation: Too many channels and mailing lists are making it more difficult to keep track of the noise. We have Ambassadors, Artwork, Marketing, and Multimedia mailing lists. There was no opposition to combining the artwork, multimedia and marketing lists, but more discussion needs to be made about the ambassador list. Bryen will send out a separate email to each of the lists to get opinions about consolidation. Ultimate review: We had great successes, but each segment of our marketing efforts could stand to use a little direct review to boost the organization and tools and communication methods. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- 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] Business cards
by Javier Llorente 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi, I have just added some business cards to opensuse-artwork. They were designed last year. Cheers, -- Javier Llorente

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[opensuse-marketing] the writing of...
by Jos Poortvliet 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

I wrote a page about how we write the product highlights. I'd appreciate it if some of you who worked on it, esp Izabel & helen, would be willing to have a look at it and make sure it is correct & clear enough for 'newbies' to help us write a new one in 7 months ;-) http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Product_Highlights_writing Cheers, Jos -- 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] Is there a "Novell Connect" or something like that?
by Tony Su 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Might be my Googling skills, but I can't come up with anything titled anything close to "Novell Connect" Found some links to a more generalized direction supporting aggregation of multiple Collaboration solutions, but nothing specific. TIA, 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] Meeting on Monday
by Bryen M Yunashko 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hey guys, We did a great job this past week with marketing and we've got a lot of good experiences out of it. As is always a good idea, some of us have discussed having a post-mortem meeting after the launch and a number of us are unavailable except for tomorrow on Monday. If you can attend, please come to our meeting at 16:00 UTC in the marketing IRC channel and we'll discuss what what we did well and what we can do even better for the next release. For those of you who are not able to attend, we'll post our information afterward and leave room for continued discussions on the mailing list. See you all tomorrow! Bryen M Yunashko -- 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] Request for DVDs
by Manu Gupta 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi All I plan to visit GNOME Asia Conf next month, I request for around 200 11.4 DVDs and a few goodies. I plan to distribute the DVDs at GNOME Asia Summit and my college both 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] Change your profile picture on Facebook
by Chuck Payne 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Guys, This is a last minute thought, that I think will help promote the release on Facebook. With tomorrow release of openSUSE 11.4, I am asking all members on Facebook to change their profile picture for the next two days to the attached image. This is the Geeko that Carlos Ribeiro created. By changing your Facebook profile, no only are you support openSUSE, but you will have market it. For on the image that you can see is the release day. I hope that you will join me in this. -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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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[opensuse-marketing] OT - Forums Down
by Tony Su 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

The Forums have been down at least an hour (that's when I found out), who knows how much longer it's been down. I personally thought that whatever the problem is, ordinarily it should be resolvable by now. Of course more serious problems can take any amount of time... If anyone on this List knows a specific person to contact regarding this, pls pop that person a message. I've already posted to the #suse IRC channel as soon as I found out but nothing is happening... 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] 11.4 GRUB2 inclusion in question
by Tony Su 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Unless someone otherwise for sure, GRUB2 is not a feature in the initial release of 11.4 despite numerous early public comment suggesting that would happen. Initial "look" indicates 11.4 is still using "GRUB Legacy" and a GRUB2 package is available in the OSS Repository. Anywhere and everywhere GRUB2 this is mentioned should be altered or purged. Jos, I put this in the Feature Guide so it needs to be removed for sure there. 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] openSUSE 11.4 Release Party (Greek's Edition)
by Kostas Koudaras 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Yesterday we had the openSUSE 11.4 Release Party. We had every reason to celebrate since we have this great distribution that attracted peoples attention from the first day of it's release.The Party was once again awesome. Many beautiful people gathered to Rock 'n' Roll and celebrate the arrival of openSUSE 11.4. Of course The ambassadors and the other members of the community talked to people about the greatness of the openSUSE Project.We had all kind of freebies for the people to take. We had some serious party equipment like balloons and whistles. Of course we also had 11.3 DVD with instructions stickers for upgrade on. Also we burned a few 11.4 and we had stickers, openSUSE cheat-cubes, openSUSE Calendars and various other openSUSE stuff. We proved once again that openSUSE people most of all have fun because openSUSE is more than a more than a product. For more information go to: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2011/03/opensuse-114-release-party-… and for Photos from the Release Party go to: https://picasaweb.google.com/warlordfff/OpenSUSE114ReleaseParty# This is just the beginning, we are planning some more parties and presentations in the near future. We can use some feedback in order to become better, so please do not hesitate to comment if you happen to see anything you might not like. Thanks in advance 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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[opensuse-marketing] 11.4 feature guide/product highlights is done, so is the Portal page!
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hello dear ambassadors and marketing people!!! The openSUSE 11.4 Product Highlights are done: http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights And so is the portal page: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:11.4 They can be translated! But not promoted yet ;-) You can and SHOULD use the feature guide to create articles, blogs etcetera - you can use any screenshots and whatever text you need. The announcement will tomorrow be send to the opensuse-announce mailinglist and a news.o.o article will go out. Henne and AJ will take care of that, they promised during the board/project meeting today :D So, let's have a rockin' release and kick some ass!!! Be sure to enjoy the launch parties: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties_11.4 And if there is none close by you, organize one! you only need a place with beer and coke, then you can invite people on your blog & twitter & create a page on the launch party wiki :D If you need to present openSUSE 11.4 anytime soon, you can find a presentation here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations#openSUSE_11.4 We will work on improving it of course. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] finally...
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Dear Nuno, The awesomeness you have created some months ago is now handed out to hundreds of openSUSE fans. Still, you have not even SEEN it in action... I'm very sorry for not showing you a picture of your beautiful design earlier! But today, that changes - you'll have a picture to hang up on the wall of your office. Your beautiful t-shirt design, presented by the beauty that is my girlfriend - it doesn't get any better! https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7aIykwK42qRcEMHMagGKLw?feat=directlink I would be happy to send you a higher res one by mail. And next time we meet, you will get one for yourself, of course. Be at LinuxTag Berlin ;-) Cheers, Jos -- 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] finally...
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Dear Nuno, The awesomeness you have created some months ago is now handed out to hundreds of openSUSE fans. Still, you have not even SEEN it in action... I'm very sorry for not showing you a picture of your beautiful design earlier! But today, that changes - you'll have a picture to hang up on the wall of your office. Your beautiful t-shirt design, presented by the beauty that is my girlfriend - it doesn't get any better! https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7aIykwK42qRcEMHMagGKLw?feat=directlink I would be happy to send you a higher res one by mail. And next time we meet, you will get one for yourself, of course. Be at LinuxTag Berlin ;-) Cheers, Jos -- 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] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] good news my friends :D
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] good news my friends :D
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

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[opensuse-marketing] image of openSUSE with a she-chameleon
by jdd 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

We used for Facebook a neat image with a well dressed chameleon. I would like to have similar one, but for a woman like chameleon. Do we have any? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- 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] good news my friends :D
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

I will push an article about this soon, but just FYI: openSUSE has done EXTREMELY WELL with the 11.4 release! So everyone, stand up, give yourself a pat on the back - because this is your work! Not just the hard work in the last 2-3 weeks, but also the work you have been doing as ambassadors around the world. Telling people about openSUSE is extremely important!!! Some numbers: well over 100.000 people have downloaded 11.4 within the first 24 hours! That is almost twice as many as 11.3!!!!! over 12.500 used bittorrent, over 90.000 via download.opensuse.org - and we're not counting those who upgraded by themselves or used susestudio.com!!! Awesome work ;-) I also had a look at our openSUSE statistics on opensuse.org/Statistics. Surprisingly, openSUSE is about 50% larger than fedora - I would've expected them to be bigger in terms of users... Compare for yourself at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics I wish Ubuntu would have numbers somewhere, they quoted between 6 and 8 million in the past (which makes them about as big as openSUSE) And I was thinking all that time openSUSE was lucky to be in the top-3 of distro's... But in reality, my friends, openSUSE is bigger than Fedora and might very well be bigger than Ubuntu!! Feel free to tell others about that ;-) Cheers and enjoy your weekends, you deserve it! Hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #166 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Hi @all! Issue #166 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=7491 [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 -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- 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 11.4 Release Party
by James Mason 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Time: Thursday, March 10 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm Location: The Copper Hog · 1327 North State Street After 8 months of hard work, the openSUSE community releases openSUSE 11.4 to the world on March 10. During the last 8 months, many things changed. The openSUSE conference has marked a new point in the evolution of openSUSE, resulting in renewed energy and new initiatives popping up in the months since the conference. Some of those already made it into this release (like Tumbleweed), others will come in future openSUSE versions. Come out and celebrate our release! First 10 RSVPs will have table seating and a free round. Additional attendees may party at the Copper Hog's most excellent bar. openSUSE 11.4 DVDs and swag will be available to all attendees, but please RSVP here so I know how many to bring! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169441903122687 - 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] 11.5 vs. 12.0
by Kim Leyendecker 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

03/07/2011 jdd wrote: Now that 11.4 is done and nearly out, we can think of the future. Okay, let us think of the future..... After the whole discussion about the 11.4 vs 12.0 topic in the end of the development cycle for the done release, I think it´s better to talk on it now and make clear which goals we want achieve with the successor of 11.4. I don´t want to call it 11.5 or 12.0, just the "successor" till the version number is clear. For this, I have two ideas here: Eight months after the 11.4 release, we´ve got November 2011. So, the release maybe can be called *12*, because 2011 is a linux celebration year (1991-2011, twenty years). If we use this tactic, we have to release it on the 17th September, because Linux 0.01 was released on the same date. Or we say, 11.5 is the logical, evolutionaly and not revolutionary successor of 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 so it called *11.5* So far with the version game for marketing: What´s the technology way we want do for the 11.4 successor? Maybe.... * improvement of the LibreOffice integration * stable version of Firefox into the standard DVD/live CDs * KDE 4.x and GNOME 2.x _and_ GNOME 3.x * Unity? * Linux 2.6.xx so far, I know some people are very busy with the 11.4 release, and for them, I beg you to keep this thread in mind for the time *after* the 11.4 release, but if you can answer, if you have the time, do it now! thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador http://www.suseusers.de.vu powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC2 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-default 2.6.37.1-14 | using Tumbleweed openSUSE/Slashdot Profilname: openLHAG (OpenLHAG) 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. -- 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] San Diego 11.4 Launch - Success, great attendance!
by Tony Su 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

The organizers of the local "Kernel-panic Linux User Group" (KPLUG) thanked Bryen and myself after our presentations after a well-received and very active evening and noting that the meeting attendance far exceeded their normal turnout. Because we considered that everyone in attendance were already users of some version of Linux, we modified our presentation content to focus on how openSUSE could help their choice of Distro and then later describe openSUSE not found in others instead of a rote listing of Distro features. Bryen opened with an overview of how the openSUSE umbrella now encompasses much more than just the Distro. I (Tony) followed up expanding on various openSUSE technologies, then took a short break to switch from the location's "presentation" laptop to a laptop running openSUSE for "live" demos. I (Tony) had determined that what most distinguished openSUSE from other distros was YAST, so almost all of the remainder of the evening was based on stepping through the YAST applets, which of course in turn also provided the framework for touching on just about all aspects of openSUSE in general (eg When talking about YAST software management, we also touched on the Zypper and RPM tools, and repeated earlier descriptions of OBS). Throughout the evening, we repeatedly mentioned openSUSE' interoperability, excellent hardware support, extensive list of software packages, and in particular ease of both hardware and software configuration. Both during and after the presentations Bryen and I fielded a number of questions related to the Microsoft/Novell arrangement, the philosophy and direction of openSUSE and of course basic questions like "How do I get openSUSE?" and "Which download do I really want?" and "I'm running XP, what do I have to do to install openSUSE?" A Thanks to Izabel Valverde and Carlos Alberto visiting from Brazil for their contributions during the evening as well. Hope all other launch parties were this successful! 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] [11.4] gnome-shell not working (yet)
by Vincent Untz 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hey, It's unfortunate, but due to a late update of xulrunner in 11.4, gnome-shell is broken by default in openSUSE 11.4. The fix is rather simple (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676079 -- an update of gjs), but the online update is not out yet. Since that's something that is mentioned in the marketing materials we discuss, people will ask (and are already asking) about this. Don't hesitate to tell them that an online update will appear soon to fix this. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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] Draft msg from Attachmate re: openSUSE 11.4 release
by Michael Miller 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hi all Thanks again to Bryen for this idea. Here's a draft of what Attachmate would like to post on Monday morning. We'll place it in our news section with a link on the attachmate.com homepage. I've purposefully kept it very simple and direct to limit the potential for over-analysis and mis-interpretation that might occur if we try to get to wordy. Let me know what you think. ------------------------------------------------------ On behalf of Attachmate, I’d like to congratulate the openSUSE Project for the release of openSUSE 11.4. We’re excited to see your latest advancements—the new LibreOffice, the latest GUI desktop versions, and numerous under-the-hood updates—all of which demonstrate your ongoing commitment to quality and innovation. Jeff Hawn Chairman and CEO Attachmate Corporation ------------------------------------------------------

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[opensuse-marketing] Twitter
by Chuck Payne 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Guys, Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about openSUSE, to use the hash tag #opensuse or #openSUSE So that we can track it. Thanks, Pup -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. -- 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] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page
by Tony Su 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

A fine line in terminology, When images are created for distribution, they're often then referred to as "appliances" particularly when they're pre-configured for some purpose (eg a LAMP stack). For example, 3 years ago I created a VMware appliance using 11.1/GroundworkOpensource/Nagios bundled with my own custom configurations for network monitoring in a Windows network. Distributing an appliance like that typically saves weeks if not months, instead typically you can be in Production within 30 minutes after pushing the "On" button. If the person has the DVD install, it takes only about the same amount of time to build your own base image compared to exchanging gigabyte files (typically about 1.5G compressed in my experience) over WANs. Also, it's probably not that useful to simply test whether the image launches (it almost certainly should unless it'a corrupted) but directed and organized testing could be useful... ie. special peripheral support in VMware, benchmarking (useful benchmarks require knowhow). IMO, Tony On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jimmy PIERRE <jimmypierre.rouen.france(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. >> >> Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without >> any problems (at least that he saw). >> >> Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install >> Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, this means >> that although installing most Linux distros likely will require the >> Hyper-V Linux Compatibility tools add-on (Similar to VMware tools, >> etc), it's unnecessary when installing openSUSE. >> >> Hurrah for one less step and less complications! >> >> As for "natively" -- It does seem that whoever used that word needs to >> explain what he means. >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Matt Hayes <dominian(a)slackadelic.com> >> wrote: >> > On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote: >> >>>>> Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? >> >> >> >> What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, >> >> really >> >> not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! >> >> >> >> Tricky hey? >> >> Best, >> >> Jimmy >> >> >> >> PS Have you started tweeting yet? >> >> >> > >> > >> > The last I recall openSUSE was fully supported on HyperV.. not sure >> > about new releases etc. >> > >> > -Matt >> > -- >> > 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 > > Great! > > Thanks Tony, > > Maybe if we can share our vitualised images (Xen, VMware, VirtualBox) for > people to test? Something that Microsoft does already, they have Windows X > images as well as Echange and other applications, just off the shelf and > here you go. > > Cheers, > Jimmy > > -- 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] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page
by Jimmy PIERRE 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

On 10 March 2011 19:44, Jimmy PIERRE <jimmypierre.rouen.france(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. >> >> Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without >> any problems (at least that he saw). >> >> Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install >> Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, this means >> that although installing most Linux distros likely will require the >> Hyper-V Linux Compatibility tools add-on (Similar to VMware tools, >> etc), it's unnecessary when installing openSUSE. >> >> Hurrah for one less step and less complications! >> >> As for "natively" -- It does seem that whoever used that word needs to >> explain what he means. >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Matt Hayes <dominian(a)slackadelic.com> wrote: >> > On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote: >> >>>>> Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? >> >> >> >> What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really >> >> not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! >> >> >> >> Tricky hey? >> >> Best, >> >> Jimmy >> >> >> >> PS Have you started tweeting yet? >> >> >> > >> > >> > The last I recall openSUSE was fully supported on HyperV.. not sure >> > about new releases etc. >> > >> > -Matt >> > -- >> > 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 > Great! Thanks Tony, Maybe if we can share our vitualised images (Xen, VMware, VirtualBox) for people to test? Something that Microsoft does already, they have Windows X images as well as Echange and other applications, just off the shelf and here you go. Cheers, Jimmy -- 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] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page
by Jimmy Pierre 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

>>>Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! Tricky hey? Best, Jimmy PS Have you started tweeting yet? -- 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] Re: 11.4 announcement
by Jos Poortvliet 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

On 2011-03-09 Kostas wrote: > Ηι Jos > Do you happen to have the 11.4 announcement to send to me a few hours > back in order to translate it in Greek? > Kostas I will start working on the announcement now, the feature guide is mostly ready. It does need some kind of final words at the bottom, however, anyone has ideas? en.opensuse.org/Feature_guide

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[opensuse-marketing] Update In the press page, please
by Andreas Jaeger 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Please collect all press mentions of openSUSE 11.4 at: http://en.opensuse.org/In_the_press Thanks, 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

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[opensuse-marketing] One last favor
by Chuck Payne 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Guys, This will be my last cross post. I like to ask one last favor if you can please visit this link and vote for it. http://digg.com/news/technology/opensuse_11_4_release FYI, someone has post it on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/duplicates/g17up/opensuse_114_is_released/ Also, I will try to get launch parties out on twitter and Facebook today. Thanks guys, without your help, we can't be successful on the social media front Pup -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. -- 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] Meetings
by Sascha Manns 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hello Mates, some questions reaches the Weekly News Team about missing Informations about Meetings. In the past we had introduced that a Meetings comes and after that we published the Link to the last Transcript. Sadly is looks like not every Meeting is added to the calendar, so that means that each possible attendee must search when the next Meeting will be held. And as example some Pages like: * http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_meeting * http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_meeting * http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting needs an update. So i want to motivate all Meeting holders to add their Meetings to the Calendar and after that adding the Link to the transcript to the Meetings Page. Just my 2 cents ;-) cu Sascha -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- 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] Delayed Launch
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I had planned a launch party for the moment of launch at 12pm gmt only to be told at 11:45 the launch was delayed by 2 hours. As it happens nobody responded to my invitations anyway but even so its frustrating. There was no announcement in any of the lists I take only irc about the 2 hour delay. Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone

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[opensuse-marketing] Help promote the release on Free Software Daily
by Chuck Payne 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Guy, I told Henne' great announce and posted on the Free Software Daily to help get us more coverage. Can you guys please vote for it, it a digg like system so that we can get on the front page. http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/openSUSE_11_4_A_New_Hallmark_for_the_openS… -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. -- 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] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice
by Bryen M. Yunashko 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

As we get closer and closer to 11.4 release, we proudly boast that openSUSE will be the first to ship with LibreOffice. Unfortunately, there is already some dispute to that, as some have pointed out that Pardus Corporate version ships with the stable version of LibreOffice. Congratulations to Pardus (and possibly others) that are shipping it. We must modify our message going forth or we'll lose credibility. Discussing with some others quickly on line, we have the following two statements that you can choose to use: A) openSUSE 11.4 is the first major distribution to ship LibreOffice B) openSUSE is among the first shipping LibreOffice. Both are good, safe statements that retain truth. Thanks! Bryen -- 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] Re: 11.4 presentation
by Tony Su 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Bryen, If you have issues, let me know. Natch, I'm familiar with various local resources. If you're driving, I'm working at the Newbreak Cafe coffee shop now. Tony On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Bryen Yunashko <hello(a)bryen.com> wrote: > I committed a horrible faux pas yesterday. I left my laptop power cord at > home!!! So I have to scramble to find one today when I should have been > wrapping up the work I was doing with an all nighter. > > As soon as I can buy a new cord (Fry's please have one please please) then I > can get back to work and focus again. > > The only blessing here is I had my fusrt full night sleep in at least a > week. So I will be fully rested for tmw launch which I will be up early for > the 12 UTC launch. Whoo whoo > > Bryen > > On Mar 9, 2011 7:33 AM, "Tony Su" <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> Thx Jos. >> I just ran through the slides and notes and it looks like a good >> alternative to your SCALE presentation... so I'm now evaluating which >> direction I might want to go.. Distro-centric like this presentation >> or touching more on the other openSUSE projects like in your SCALE >> presentation. >> >> Some recommendations and some modifications I'm making to my copy... >> >> - I usually prefer to "bullet" my notes, stating topics in 5 words or >> less at a time. That enables me to glance at the topic, then speak to >> the audience. Anything longer makes me pause to read, then digest in >> my mind before speaking which hurts my audience eye contact. >> - Just my style which isn't necessarily recommended to others, but I >> usually embed major bullet points on the slide instead of hiding in >> notes. That enables the audience to visually absorb the information >> both previewing and reviewing the points as I speak. I rarely fill the >> whole screen with a screenshot, and if I do then the target content in >> the screenshot is <very large> unless the overall look is the >> important point. Note that when placing text content on the screen >> it's still critical to talk to the audience and not to the screen >> which is likely behind you. >> >> I don't think there should be a problem posting to your Google Docs, >> then sharing the "Place" with others.The only practical restriction is >> a 100mb total repository size. In fact, take a look at what I've done >> enabling presentations to be seen from a free Google website >> displaying content stored in Google Docs. You can configure >> permissions for >> >> Public (no restrictions to view) >> Private (only people with specified Google accounts can view) >> Link only (not publicly searchable, anyone who has a link (eg from >> email) can view) >> >> All the presentations on my site are longer than yours. Note that >> besides viewing online, there is a download link on each presentation >> as well >> http://sites.google.com/site/4techsecrets/slide-presentations >> >> Good stuff Jos, >> Tony >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Jos Poortvliet <JPoortvliet(a)novell.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> I realize this is very late in the game, however I hope it is still >>> useful. I finally managed to update (pretty much rewrote) my 11.4 >>> presentation, see attached. I hope it will be useful! >>> >>> I would love to have this on the wiki but can't upload it due to the 2 >>> mb size limit, Darix, could you put this somewhere and tell us the link? >>> >>> Thanks all and have fun with the 11.4 release! >>> Jos >>> > -- 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] Re: 11.4 presentation
by Tony Su 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hi all, Thx Jos. I just ran through the slides and notes and it looks like a good alternative to your SCALE presentation... so I'm now evaluating which direction I might want to go.. Distro-centric like this presentation or touching more on the other openSUSE projects like in your SCALE presentation. Some recommendations and some modifications I'm making to my copy... - I usually prefer to "bullet" my notes, stating topics in 5 words or less at a time. That enables me to glance at the topic, then speak to the audience. Anything longer makes me pause to read, then digest in my mind before speaking which hurts my audience eye contact. - Just my style which isn't necessarily recommended to others, but I usually embed major bullet points on the slide instead of hiding in notes. That enables the audience to visually absorb the information both previewing and reviewing the points as I speak. I rarely fill the whole screen with a screenshot, and if I do then the target content in the screenshot is <very large> unless the overall look is the important point. Note that when placing text content on the screen it's still critical to talk to the audience and not to the screen which is likely behind you. I don't think there should be a problem posting to your Google Docs, then sharing the "Place" with others.The only practical restriction is a 100mb total repository size. In fact, take a look at what I've done enabling presentations to be seen from a free Google website displaying content stored in Google Docs. You can configure permissions for Public (no restrictions to view) Private (only people with specified Google accounts can view) Link only (not publicly searchable, anyone who has a link (eg from email) can view) All the presentations on my site are longer than yours. Note that besides viewing online, there is a download link on each presentation as well http://sites.google.com/site/4techsecrets/slide-presentations Good stuff Jos, Tony On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Jos Poortvliet <JPoortvliet(a)novell.com> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I realize this is very late in the game, however I hope it is still > useful. I finally managed to update (pretty much rewrote) my 11.4 > presentation, see attached. I hope it will be useful! > > I would love to have this on the wiki but can't upload it due to the 2 > mb size limit, Darix, could you put this somewhere and tell us the link? > > Thanks all and have fun with the 11.4 release! > Jos > -- 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] Time to start
by Chuck Payne 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Guys, I will start tweeing on the hour and half to remind people about tomorrom release, if you are following me, could you please retweet. If not, could you start tweeting your own announce about tomorrow. Thanks, Pup PS. Sorry for cross posting, just want to make sure everyone get the word out. Let have fun. Let promote openSUSE 11.4. -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. -- 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] Re: 11.4 presentation
by Andreas Jaeger 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 15:19:27 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Dear friends, > > I realize this is very late in the game, however I hope it is still > useful. I finally managed to update (pretty much rewrote) my 11.4 > presentation, see attached. I hope it will be useful! > > I would love to have this on the wiki but can't upload it due to the 2 > mb size limit, Darix, could you put this somewhere and tell us the link? > > Thanks all and have fun with the 11.4 release! I suggest to add a slide at the end that mentions http://www.opensuse.org - and more... Otherwise: Great, thanks a lot! 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

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 11.4 Launch Party Saturday 12th March - Rouen
by Jimmy Pierre 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Greetings, The spiders have dug this information and some partners have this on their home page. I am wondering, is it too late to get a poster by email so that I can print over here? Cheers, Jimmy nui.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] Removing hurdles for new users coming from Windows (was: "Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice")
by Pieter De Decker 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

> openSUSE do not touch the disk until all the preparation is done, much > more secure Not all steps are essential to securely start install. Before the installer can go ahead, it needs to know the following: - Which partition to install on - The default environment: KDE, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, minimal X, server When these settings have been entered, an install summary can be shown and the installer can begin copying files when the user confirms. While this is being done, configuration can start: - Time zone - Language - Root password - User setup > If you accept all defaults in the installer you get a working system you can customize later. Precisely. Ideally you'd want to do this while your computer can't be used for other things. Since you have to wait when the installer is setting up the base system, this would be the best time to configure the system. As far as I know, Ubuntu is the only operating system that does this. I fully expect major operations systems to adopt this little efficiency tweak in upcoming versions. I fail to see the drawbacks of such a move... am I overlooking something? > I also agree with the ipod but gtkpod supports upto Iphone 4 16gb alas I have the 32. It wrecked the library on my iPod touch, but I don't blame them because Apple has been less than helpful in giving third-party apps access to iOS devices. Its functionality simply isn't on par with iTunes. I'm talking full support for music, podcasts (played/unplayed markers, resuming podcasts), audiobooks, videos, smart playlists, Genius, artwork and lyrics. As with LibreOffice, I completely understand that their resources are just a fraction of the resources Apple has. After all, Apple is a big commercial enterprise and gtkpod is being maintained by volunteers. I appreciate their hard work, but they can't replace iTunes at this point. I now use a virtual machine with Windows and a copy of iTunes to manage my iPod touch. Is this desirable? Absolutely not. Can we do something about it? I'm afraid we can't. > I love the lo interface and hate the new ms interface its awful if lo ever switch I hope we can skin it back. Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas... (You can't argue about personal taste.) But I still think that MS Office not being available for Linux is a major drawback for many people, because 1) most people are already familiar with Office and don't want to learn how to use a new office suite and 2) you know for sure what your document will look like when other people (likely Office users) try to open it. Cheers, Pieter 2011/3/9 <stuart(a)bolin.org.uk>: > Helps if I spell words correctly!! > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone > > -----Original Message----- > From: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:52:30 > To: <oprnsuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org> > Reply-To: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk > Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice > > Codecs I agree with really need a popup message asking if they would like to add popup messages to add packman. > > I also agree with the ipod but gtkpod supports upto Iphone 4 16gb alas I have the 32. > > I love the lo interface and hate the new ms interface its awful if lo ever switch I hope we can skin it back. > > If you accept all defaults in the installer you get a working system you can customize later. > > Biggest question on the installer is KDE or GNOME and this is why I recommend the retail version for newbies as the instruction manual covers all this. > > Stuart > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pieter De Decker <pdedecker(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:00:00 > Cc: <opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org> > Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice > >> Sure if we can convince people to switch from Ubuntu to openSUSE its fine, but >> the real question is, how on earth do we convert the billions if dissatisfied >> windows users to seriously consider making the switch? > > openSUSE is a very stable, technically advanced OS, but as with Linux > in general there is a lot of friction for first time users. The > installer is perhaps the first important hurdle. If the install > process overwhelms the user with questions about things they don't yet > understand, they'll get confused and abort the install. When I tried > out Ubuntu 10.10 a few months ago, I was pleasantly surprised by its > easy installer. As much as I like openSUSE, the Ubuntu installer is > much convenient in my humble opinion. > > Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPJi4FTuQQ&feature=fvwrel > > I want to draw attention to two things: > - The installer starts copying files when the partitioning is > finalized, which saves time. > - The partitioner is, in its easiest form, a simple draggable slider > that lets the user set the amount of space used by Ubuntu. I've opened > a related openFATE request some time ago: > https://features.opensuse.org/311027 > > Here are some general reasons why Windows users may not want to switch: > - "At least I know the Windows way of doing things. I don't want to > learn use an OS that does things differently." -- Here are a few > examples: the RPM packaging system (as opposed to downloading EXEs > from the software vendors), the file system (/path/to/file versus > C:\path\to\file), the absence of drive letters (drives are mounted as > a directory, e.g. /mnt/cdrom), symbolic links, several desktop > environments (as opposed to "Windows Explorer"). I could go on, but > you get the point. > - "It doesn't have iTunes, so I can't manage my iP[a-zA-Z]+ with the same ease." > - "I can't use Microsoft Office on Linux." -- Although LibreOffice is > the best free alternative to MS Office I've seen so far, it doesn't > offer 100% compatibility with MS Office and it has an Office XP-era > interface. (LibreOffice is provided for free of charge and is > maintained by devoted developers in their spare time, so I know that > they're already doing the best they can with the few resources that > they have.) > > And finally something else that causes friction for new openSUSE > users: it's a pain in the neck having to install proprietary support > for formats such as MP3. I know there are complicated copyright issues > involved with this, but if I recall correctly Ubuntu *does* offer an > easy way to install these codecs. It's just one of those little > annoyances I have with openSUSE. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a > hater... I'm just trying to think about how friction could be reduced > for new users. > > Pieter > > 2011/3/7 Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Bryen M. Yunashko <suserocks(a)bryen.com> wrote: >> > Guys, before this turns into a long spam thread of people voting... >> > this email was *not* meant to vote for either statement. You can USE >> > either statement according to what fits your needs and audience best. >> > >> > Though I appreciate Manu and JDD's votes, even if JDD tends to delete >> > the entire previous thread before responding. :-) >> > >> > Bryen >> > >> > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 18:58 +0530, Manu Gupta wrote: >> >> B >> >> >> >> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 06:38 -0600, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: >> >> > As we get closer and closer to 11.4 release, we proudly boast that >> >> > openSUSE will be the first to ship with LibreOffice. Unfortunately, >> >> > there is already some dispute to that, as some have pointed out that >> >> > Pardus Corporate version ships with the stable version of LibreOffice. >> >> > >> >> > Congratulations to Pardus (and possibly others) that are shipping it. >> >> > >> >> > We must modify our message going forth or we'll lose credibility. >> >> > Discussing with some others quickly on line, we have the following two >> >> > statements that you can choose to use: >> >> > >> >> > A) openSUSE 11.4 is the first major distribution to ship LibreOffice >> >> > >> >> > B) openSUSE is among the first shipping LibreOffice. >> >> > >> >> > Both are good, safe statements that retain truth. >> >> > >> >> > Thanks! >> >> > Bryen >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> > >> >> Bryen, >> >> It might not have been clear and that is why the voting. Too me I >> could read into that we could use both. >> >> Chuck >> >> -- >> (678) 636-9678 >> ----------------------------------------- >> Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. >> ----------------------------------------- >> openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup >> openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member >> skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup >> freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein >> Register Linux Userid: 155363 >> >> 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. >> -- >> 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 > > -- 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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Fw: [opensuse-marketing] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Helps if I spell words correctly!! Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:52:30 To: <oprnsuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org> Reply-To: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice Codecs I agree with really need a popup message asking if they would like to add popup messages to add packman. I also agree with the ipod but gtkpod supports upto Iphone 4 16gb alas I have the 32. I love the lo interface and hate the new ms interface its awful if lo ever switch I hope we can skin it back. If you accept all defaults in the installer you get a working system you can customize later. Biggest question on the installer is KDE or GNOME and this is why I recommend the retail version for newbies as the instruction manual covers all this. Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Pieter De Decker <pdedecker(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:00:00 Cc: <opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org> Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice > Sure if we can convince people to switch from Ubuntu to openSUSE its fine, but > the real question is, how on earth do we convert the billions if dissatisfied > windows users to seriously consider making the switch? openSUSE is a very stable, technically advanced OS, but as with Linux in general there is a lot of friction for first time users. The installer is perhaps the first important hurdle. If the install process overwhelms the user with questions about things they don't yet understand, they'll get confused and abort the install. When I tried out Ubuntu 10.10 a few months ago, I was pleasantly surprised by its easy installer. As much as I like openSUSE, the Ubuntu installer is much convenient in my humble opinion. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPJi4FTuQQ&feature=fvwrel I want to draw attention to two things: - The installer starts copying files when the partitioning is finalized, which saves time. - The partitioner is, in its easiest form, a simple draggable slider that lets the user set the amount of space used by Ubuntu. I've opened a related openFATE request some time ago: https://features.opensuse.org/311027 Here are some general reasons why Windows users may not want to switch: - "At least I know the Windows way of doing things. I don't want to learn use an OS that does things differently." -- Here are a few examples: the RPM packaging system (as opposed to downloading EXEs from the software vendors), the file system (/path/to/file versus C:\path\to\file), the absence of drive letters (drives are mounted as a directory, e.g. /mnt/cdrom), symbolic links, several desktop environments (as opposed to "Windows Explorer"). I could go on, but you get the point. - "It doesn't have iTunes, so I can't manage my iP[a-zA-Z]+ with the same ease." - "I can't use Microsoft Office on Linux." -- Although LibreOffice is the best free alternative to MS Office I've seen so far, it doesn't offer 100% compatibility with MS Office and it has an Office XP-era interface. (LibreOffice is provided for free of charge and is maintained by devoted developers in their spare time, so I know that they're already doing the best they can with the few resources that they have.) And finally something else that causes friction for new openSUSE users: it's a pain in the neck having to install proprietary support for formats such as MP3. I know there are complicated copyright issues involved with this, but if I recall correctly Ubuntu *does* offer an easy way to install these codecs. It's just one of those little annoyances I have with openSUSE. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hater... I'm just trying to think about how friction could be reduced for new users. Pieter 2011/3/7 Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Bryen M. Yunashko <suserocks(a)bryen.com> wrote: > > Guys, before this turns into a long spam thread of people voting... > > this email was *not* meant to vote for either statement. You can USE > > either statement according to what fits your needs and audience best. > > > > Though I appreciate Manu and JDD's votes, even if JDD tends to delete > > the entire previous thread before responding. :-) > > > > Bryen > > > > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 18:58 +0530, Manu Gupta wrote: > >> B > >> > >> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 06:38 -0600, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > >> > As we get closer and closer to 11.4 release, we proudly boast that > >> > openSUSE will be the first to ship with LibreOffice. Unfortunately, > >> > there is already some dispute to that, as some have pointed out that > >> > Pardus Corporate version ships with the stable version of LibreOffice. > >> > > >> > Congratulations to Pardus (and possibly others) that are shipping it. > >> > > >> > We must modify our message going forth or we'll lose credibility. > >> > Discussing with some others quickly on line, we have the following two > >> > statements that you can choose to use: > >> > > >> > A) openSUSE 11.4 is the first major distribution to ship LibreOffice > >> > > >> > B) openSUSE is among the first shipping LibreOffice. > >> > > >> > Both are good, safe statements that retain truth. > >> > > >> > Thanks! > >> > Bryen > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org > > > > > > Bryen, > > It might not have been clear and that is why the voting. Too me I > could read into that we could use both. > > Chuck > > -- > (678) 636-9678 > ----------------------------------------- > Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. > ----------------------------------------- > openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup > openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member > skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup > freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein > Register Linux Userid: 155363 > > 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. > -- > 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] Launch party in Thessaloniki, Greece for 11.4
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello my friends, We organized a party in Thessaloniki, Greece, 3 days after the release of 11.4. You can check our announcement at our blog. http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2011/03/thessaloniki-114-launch-par… You're all invited. 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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[opensuse-marketing] How to contribute to openSUSE?
by Michael Miller 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi openSUSE marketing team I've been considering ways to contribute to the openSUSE project now that I've been using it as an OS for several months. I have a background as an engineer, but I could probably contribute more effectively on the marketing side these days. So, I'm reaching out to this team for ideas. I may have met some of you already via email since I started promoting openSUSE inside of Attachmate recently but now I'd like to get more directly and personally involved as a contributor to the openSUSE project. It's a great distribution and a great project. Let me know what I can do to jump in and help! Best regards, MM

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Fwd: Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] [opensuse-marketing] Time to get social. Help promote openSUSE 11.4.
by Stuart Tanner 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

On Monday 07 Mar 2011 20:22:21 Chuck Payne wrote: > > To all the ambassador, now is your time to do your job and promote, > promote, and promote.> > > Please if I forgot your favorite Social Network group, please let me know. > vkontakte.ru is another one you didn't think off its very popular amongst Russian users and as I am sure you know Russia is the 3rd biggest market behind Germany and USA (and in front of the UK). -- 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 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] help us to finish that feature guide!!!
by Jos Poortvliet 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi all, The openSUSE 11.4 feature guide is almost done but there are a few sections yellow - they need help. This includes security, server and network related stuff, most of it is on the bottom of the document*. Anyone with some time to spare: PLEASE have a look at this, 10 minutes can make a huge difference! If you change anything, put your name in the author list too :D https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ApIe- wzRQDEyGtoq82BZ8aakAd3a7ZZObIZlj3p1tQk/edit?hl=en&authkey=CO7y4kU This document will be send to journalists on Monday evening so they can prepare for the release; it will form the basis of the release announcement we hope to finish on Tuesday; and we'll fill it up with screenshots then put it on the wiki to show the world how much cool stuff openSUSE 11.4 ships :D So it really deserves some attention, help your tired marketing team out! cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Time to get social. Help promote openSUSE 11.4.
by Chuck Payne 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Lady and Gentlemen, On March 10th it time to get Social. It's time to take a moment and help promote the release of openSUSE 11.4 to the massess. So we are asking all members to help promote openSUSE 11.4 via the social networks. Via Facebook, MySpace, Twitter/Identi.ca/FriendFeed/Google Buzz, and Linked/Xing. I will also like to ask that you help vote openSUSE 11. on Free Software Daily (Link to come on Thrusday) On Facebook we asked that you share the news from the two openSUSE groups. We are also willing to post your news on to those pages. Anything to get the news out. We will asked everyone to help us get the word out on Identica/Twitter/FriendFeed. We will be using the hash tag #opensuse. We asked that if you can please retweet, doesn't have to be right away, but if you wait 10 to 20 minutes from the last retwit that would be great. We like to get on the front of twitter home page. We know that some of you don't use twitter so you use one of the above, it would be great to get top of those services as well. If you don't mind posting new on your LinkedIn or Xing account as well, that would be prefect. The key is to use these Social Networks to help promote the release of openSUSE 11.4. We have a ton of members world wide. Post in English and Posted in your native tongue. I really like to see on the openSUSE Facebook page, stuff in other languages so that we can show all on Facebook that we have a very large openSUSE Community. To all the ambassador, now is your time to do your job and promote, promote, and promote. Please if I forgot your favorite Social Network group, please let me know. Lets make March 10th, a truly get openSUSE Release Day. (PS. Sorry for the cross posting, you can give me lashes after March 10th, but I want to make sure everyone gets this. ) -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. -- 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] FOSDEM 2011 Trip Report
by Henne Vogelsang 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hey, better late then never :-) A month ago on the first weekend of February the openSUSE Project went to Brussels, Belgium for FOSDEM - The Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting. openSUSE community members from Germany, the UK, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the US gathered to learn new things about various FOSS projects, run an openSUSE booth and participate in the cross-distribution developer room. Conference ---------- The conference schedule of FOSDEM was packed as usual. They run a main track including 4 keynotes, around ~15 developer rooms and lightning talk track. At FOSDEM you always miss more interesting talks then you attend, the choice is amazing. The main tracks were mostly about the web, the cloud and office applications. In the DevRooms you find tracks of many major upstream projects like Mozilla, GNU or MySQL/PostgreSQL but also topic focused tracks like Cross-Desktop, Systems Management or Open Source Telephony. Visitor wise this years edition was more crowded then ever before, a lot of times you stood before closed doors because the rooms simply couldn't take any more people. They even managed to fill up the largest room, which is one of the largest auditoriums in Belgium with 1400 seats, up to the limit (and more). openSUSE Booth -------------- The project booth was also a big success. On our two 22" touchscreens we showed our distribution, including a GNOME3 preview, and our tools like the Build Service and SUSE Studio. People are in general really interested and are amazed at the speed we can pick up new developments from the wider FOSS community. A lot of great conversations about many technical and social details took place on our booth. We also handed out around 1.000 promo DVDs, countless stickers and project folders. As the Nürnberg folks chartered their own Bus to Brussels they brought 20 cases of our own openSUSE Brew "Old Toad" and we sold them for an Euro and donated the money to FOSDEM. The same we did with around 400 T-shirts. This made our booth a hotspot and a fun place to hang out and we were able to draw in many people with this. Additionally the FOSDEM crew and the local IT chair were of course really happy to receive some donations from us. As a direct result of this the students from the IT chair took a couple of hundred promo DVDs to distribute on the campus. It's stuff like this that brings the openSUSE project back on the map as contributors to the wider community. Cross-Distro DevRoom -------------------- openSUSE also participated in the Cross-Distro DevRoom. We held 7 talks in the track with topics ranging from Vincents AppStream initiative over Bernhards openQA system to Jos having a chair on the "distribution collaboration manifesto" panel discussion. All talks where well received and especially on the topic of distribution tools we can always amaze people of what we have in production and can do with it. We are unchallenged in this area! Of course we also helped with the organization and took over a huge part of the moderation, additionally we were responsible for the videotaping of the talks. Here is a list of talks we held in this devroom. Amazing openSUSE - Jos Poortvliet Application Installer - Vincent Untz Distribution collaboration manifesto - Jos Poortvliet ZYpp your distro - Dominik Heidler Duncan Mac-Vicar P. How to make QA-engineers start drooling - Bernhard M. Wiedemann One source to rule all binaries - Sascha Peilicke You can find them and all the other talks that took place in this DevRoom on our blip.tv channel http://opensuse.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc Conclusion ---------- FOSDEM is the last big true FOSS community event. No big corporate market stalls with sales representatives in them, no boring marketing talks, no bullshit. Just Free and Open Source Software community coming together to collaborate, teach and have fun with each other. One has to note that they pull this event off only with volunteers and donations which is very impressive. A nice thing this conference showed is that the topic of cross-distribution collaboration, which we brought up on the openSUSE Conference '10, is catching on. There are more an more things happening around this (AppStream, Bretzn, etc.) and we start to see a cultural shift in the wider community. Developers finally step up and talk to each other and leave the distro bashing to the religious user crowds. We believe this is a major game changer for the future. All in all FOSDEM is, and will continue to be, a highlight in our calendar. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 Seminar in Mauritius
by Nitin K Sookun 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hi folks, I received a proposal from University of Mauritius Computer Club to organize a Linux Seminar there. It'll be a 2-days seminar where we should demonstrate & explain to the students how they can use Linux in their daily life, academic projects etc. We would provide all those attending this seminar a certificate of attendance/appreciation, with logos of local sponsors printed. I'd like to know if I could print logos of openSUSE & Novell as well, since during the whole seminar we'll demonstrate activities using openSUSE and at the end we'll distribute openSUSE Promo DVDs. Is there a formal procedure before using the openSUSE and Novell logos? Kind regards, Nitin Sookun Freenode: Ishwon -- 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 11.4 in Amazon EC2
by James Tan 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Hi all, You can now run openSUSE 11.4 in Amazon EC2, with this set of public AMIs (Amazon Machine Images): http://blog.susestudio.com/2011/03/opensuse-114-for-amazon-ec2.html Cheers, James T.

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #165 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hi @all! Issue #165 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=7246 [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] nui.fr activities 2011
by Jimmy Pierre 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hi friends and colleagues, I owe you an old report, so here it is. Saturday 18th December, quite coldish.... We took the gear and went for the last event for 2010. Event Date : 18 Dec. 2010 Event Sponsors : NUI.fr openSUSE Ambassadors : Jimmy Pierre Helpers : Laurence Seigneury, Johnny Castel, Jr. & David Event Details Tell us about the event, What did you do? : Demonstration of installation of openSUSE 11.3, libreoffice, chess & games, yast, ssh, WordPress, repositories, wi-fi etc. How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 51 How many people were there at the event ? 36 (People too busy with Xmas shopping) How did you promote the Event? Facebook : No Twitter : No Others : Usual channels (forums, rss feeds to web sites and our four domain names nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org, jmll.info , no radio, no newspapers) (Sorry guys, I have noticed that social networks seem to make these type of events too trivial while an email is more probing) Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? : Yes, we had a medical Doctor, so we know that every patient will see his openSUSE screen. A network manager for a local big company, I discretely gave him SLES/SLED as well. Our usual visitors and the teacher were quite happy to be part of this last event. Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. Who staffed the booth? All of the above. Would you go again? Yes, 12-mar, 16-avr, 14-may, 28-may, 18-jun, 9 - 14 Jul, 17-sept, 15-oct, 18-nov, 14-dec What more can you do to make it better? Swap our 16 or so boxes into laptops because it takes too much time to setup the room. Get hold of goodies. There are 4 of us now attempting to check material for next week event and we are out ISOs to get upgrade our boxes. Cheers, Jimmy -- 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 install tutorial (part 2)
by jdd 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

install part 2, partitionning http://opensuse.blip.tv/file/4843070/ jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- 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] Rally for 11.4! openSUSE Needs YOU!
by Bryen M. Yunashko 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Folks, We're just days away from the release of the much anticipated openSUSE 11.4 on March 10th. Everyone raise your hand in the air and start chanting the openSUSE Song! Okay, we don't have an actual song, but maybe we could do the openSUSE Geeko Dance some of us tried to create at the Marketing Hackfest :-) But we still have a lot of work to do as we enter this final weekend before release day. We have compiled a checklist at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_Checklist . Please take a moment to look through the list and if you see something interesting to do, claim it and complete it. Or if you see something already claimed by someone else, and you'd like to help out, let that person know. openSUSE Project truly appreciates your help in advance and we're all looking forward to what promises to be a great release cycle! Yours truly, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- 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] Re: release notes
by Jos Poortvliet 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

On 2011-03-04 Helen wrote: > Hey guys, > > just went to try to contribute (cautiously) to the release notes but > I'm not too sure where to start, as I'm not clear on what is 'cut and > paste' and what is fresh writing. For instance I googled the start of > the Gnome Shell entry and see that it matches this - > http://gnomejournal.org/article/85/easy-breezy-beautiful-gnome-shell > > so I assume it needs a rewrite (or else attribution to Marina > Zhurakhinskaya). > > Usually if I'm cut and pasting into a document I find it useful to > comment the text so that I know what is 'our own words' and what is > reference text. I don't want to rewrite material that is already > finished! > > Is the Evolution text highlighted yellow for this reason? > > Could you please pop in and highlight/comment any text that you've > purely cut/pasted and needs a rewrite? I am going through the document from top to bottom right now. Basically, whatever is done has proper headings (I use 1-2-3-4 from the headings functionality in Google Docs) and is normally written out. So it is quite easy to see where I am right now but to make it even more clear I will insert a red line. Any section that I have 'finished' but that still needs work (as in addition of apps) I will mark yellow. The whole text which is finished needs review for english language use so that is something you can do easily. Those still adding things: thanks! Everything which is below the RED line can still be added to; everything that is above it - mark additions YELLOW! @everyone who doesn't know where the feature guide is: HERE! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ApIe- wzRQDEyGtoq82BZ8aakAd3a7ZZObIZlj3p1tQk/edit?hl=en&authkey=CO7y4kU# Cheers and thanks, Jos > thanks > > Helen

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[opensuse-marketing] Launch Parties and 11.4 in general
by Jos Poortvliet 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hey you, some of you've been working on launch parties - please put the relevant links on http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:11.4 - on the bottom :D Any other additions there are welcome. I am working on the feature guide but still need quite a few screenshots - chuck and Bruno have been helping, will you two have a bit more time in the next few days? And can someone help us get the finished text on the wiki? It is almost 11.4 time, we need to step it up a bit if we're to have good release marketing D: Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 11.4 is done! Please help with Launch!
by Andreas Jaeger 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

I'm happy to announce that the DVD ISOs of openSUSE 11.4 are finished. As usual a distribution is a product of many hands - both from the openSUSE community and the various upstream communities whose projects we use: Some developed great software, or wrote documentation, or translated documentation and software, build packages for openSUSE, tested everything, wrote bug reports, helped to get the bugreports to those that fixed it, fixed bugreports, supported those that were using openSUSE 11.4 in the development phase, told others about openSUSE 11.4 via blogs, videos etc. Thanks to all of you! I'd like to thank especially Coolo who drove as release manager the creation of 11.4 until he became ill. I had some catching up yesterday and checked in only a few fixes that were critical for installation and missed for sure some important fixes. So, for those and other important fixes, please follow the Maintenance workflow as explained at http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Maintenance so that users can get quickly fixes for these. The next big thing now is the launch of openSUSE 11.4 on Thursday, 10th of March. Please support the marketing team *NOW* with getting everything ready for the launch. Join us on the opensuse-marketing mailing list and on freenode IRC channel #opensuse-marketing. The central web page is http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:11.4 and it needs quite some love at the moment. Please help document what we've done! We will also have some launch parties, including one in Nuernberg on the 16th of March. More details are at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties Please setup your own parties as well! 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

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[opensuse-marketing] blog comment regarding Mono in Libre Office
by Helen South 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Someone who knows may wish to answer this comment on Susan Linton's blog here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/who-contributes-most-libreoffice --------------------- "Mono Anonymous's picture Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 16:55. My major concern is that Novell develops a regime of addons intended to make Libreoffice Mono dependant. Like they try to do with Gnome. Heavens forbid." ---------------------- -- 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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[opensuse-marketing] 11.4 install tutorial (part 1)
by jdd 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

I had to redo the install clip to fit the new artwork. with more comments, it's longer, so to be done in three parts. Here is the first one http://jdd.blip.tv/file/4834002/ please comment, specially if I missed some errors, I have to advertise it asap It's not possible to reuse exactly the same text as before, the images are not exactly the same :-( jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- 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] Article for review: "openSUSE Servers with One Click"
by James Mason 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

It was discussed briefly during the Marketing Hackweek that I should put together a few articles emphasizing that openSUSE is well suited to server use (and isn't just a desktop OS). Here's my first go, please review/edit/hack/delete as you feel is appropriate ;) http://news.opensuse.org/?p=7229&preview=true http://news.opensuse.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=7229&action=edit - 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] openSUSE and LibreOffice
by Jan Holesovsky 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hi all, Since I experienced some very poor communication about LibreOffice recently, I thought it would be good to reach out to this list... I mean this: http://news.opensuse.org/2011/02/26/opensuse-11-4-rc2-steps-out/ It is of course right to point people to the known bugs; but before it is done publicly, it should be researched if the bugs are still valid at all - in this case the bug claimed to be present in LibreOffice was fixed quite some time ago, in a duplicate bug report. Worse - the form chosen in the article was insulting to all the developers who spent days (and some nights too) on getting LibreOffice the best choice for openSUSE. It is also undermining the efforts of the LibreOffice marketing team. I am sure you all know the benefits of the switch to LibreOffice (if not, I'll be glad to follow-up), so _please_ - make the communication appropriate: - openSUSE supports LibreOffice, many of the LibreOffice developers are openSUSE members, when you do not communicate properly about LibreOffice, you harm openSUSE - reach to Petr Mladek <pmladek(a)suse.cz>, the LibreOffice packager for openSUSE, whenever you want to have the most recent list of known bugs, or when you need to check what is the real status of the release, or of a concrete bug. Should you fail to reach him, try me, or Michael Meeks. Also Petr's blog [1] is a good source of the relevant info. - phrases like "not quite ready for the production environment" are very sensitive, and should be used only when you know what are you doing ['you know what you are doing' usually means 'you have communicated it with Petr' ;-)] - when you need anything about LibreOffice quickly, reach to us in the #libreoffice channel on irc.freenode.net, there's always somebody awake there ;-) For the openSUSE-related stuff, search for pmladek, mmeeks, kendy, thorsten, or other people with the opensuse/member IRC cloak - and of course, there is also a LibreOffice marketing team too, reachable at marketing(a)libreoffice.org I am sure we can do better the next time - do reach to us, we are eager to help. Regards, Kendy [1] http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/pmladek/ -- 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 installed on Scouts Computers
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hello mates, The last few month we were working on a project. I contacted a Scout Team that they had computers at their place given from the bank. They replaced theirs with better and faster technology and the bank donated them to the scouts. They wanted something faster and to be fixed. All of them were old. In association with GreekLUG (they provided us with some old hardware they didn't need), we started upgrading. During work, one of the computers went for recycling. Personally I got a computer from a friend and I donated to the scouts. So after we finished the installations of hardware and software, we set them up. The kids were happy and they were playing with the new interface and games. Unfortunately, they don't have internet. 2 of the computers are so old that it's hard to play a game. 2 of them are with LXDE and only one of them is with Gnome. We wish they had 2-3 powerful computers so they can have a lot of fun with openSUSE. You can see a small report with pictures here: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2011/02/opensuse-installed-on-scout… 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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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: Ask not what your distro can do for you...
by James Mason 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

I sent this out to the rest of the studio dev team. I'll update everyone of what we get done. As of now, it looks like we'll be able to have 11.4 support on release day; we're just having 1 issue with Kiwi we need to wrap up in the next day or so to make it happen. - James Mason 'bear454' ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Mason <jmason(a)novell.com> Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM Subject: Ask not what your distro can do for you... To: studio-devel(a)suse.de Cc: bear454(a)opensuse.org Last week was the openSUSE Hackfest[1], and among the discussions was some brainstorming on how Studio could cooperate to promote the 11.4 release. Release day is a big deal for openSUSE: it's one of the few events that the media in general will take notice of. We should help openSUSE make the best of that by doing what we can for release day ( Thursday, March 10 ), and help ourselves by taking advantage of the extra interest generated that day :) First and foremost, is to support creating 11.4 appliances, and upgrading of existing appliances to 11.4. Additionally, we have some great opportunities to build a base of 11.4 appliances to work from. openSUSE offers 'Live' desktop CDs for both GNOME & KDE, and the community provides additional ones for LXDE & XFCE. These are build in OBS using kiwi recipes. We could provide additional formats for these live desktops as 'official' openSUSE builds, simply by importing the kiwi config and sharing the built appliances. That would give openSUSE the ability to share not just Live CDs, but Live versions of all the formats, which many users (and especially reviewers) prefer, as they will be virtualizing instead of doing full installs for the short term. Another opportunity, the one I am most excited about, would be to finish the Turnkey Linux appliance set we started during our last Appliance HackWeek. Andy Fitzsimon has built a substantial repository of consistent, beautiful icons for these appliances[2]. All we need to do is upgrade the existing set of appliances, and provide some method of accessing the set (a tag, or making them all featured, etc.) This is an elegant way to show not only the flexibility of openSUSE, but to highlight how Studio enhances that. I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts & additional suggestions. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest [2] http://paste.opensuse.org/37877314 -- James Mason, 'bear454' SUSE Studio Developer Novell -- 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] teachingopensoure.org
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi all, During a talk the teachingopensoure.org site came by - a site for those active in open source and education. Who knows our edu team mail address so we can tell them about it? I'm flying above Sao Paulo right now so I can't google it ;-) XXXX Jos

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