March 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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