March 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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