March 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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