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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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