March 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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