April 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] TED
by jdd 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

I just discover TED: http://www.ted.com/ there are talks about open source, but nothing on openSUSE (or suse) I don't really know if we have anything to do with TED, but I liked the subtitles feature of the video system :-) example (the only one on Linux AFAIK) http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_eco… jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- 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] Where to buy openSUSE dvds?
by Andreas Jaeger 24 May '11

24 May '11

Hi, I've had a little look around the web to look where you can buy openSUSE DVDs - just the DVD - and like to know what you are aware of and can recommend? Just some examples I found: http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/linux/suse http://www.thelinuxcdstore.com/index.php?cPath=25&osCsid=60f8bbf19445ce5326… http://easylinuxcds.com/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=opensuse&sid=ya8… Where would you buy if openSUSE was on offer? 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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[opensuse-marketing] physical banner
by jdd 18 May '11

18 May '11

Do you know we can have real banners printed for a very small fee? This one, for my LUG: http://dodin.org/piwigo/picture.php?/44057/tags/377-culte_linux was paid less than $30 (adress as PM only) I would like to make one for the french group, similar to this one: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Banners So, I need the original vector one (svg?) Where can I find it? Of course I will have to ask for autorisation, as it will be translated, but I will first discuss translation content with the french people. thanks 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] Thoughts on openSUSE Conference Name
by Bryen M. Yunashko 06 May '11

06 May '11

Folks, I'm sending this to both the marketing and artwork mailing lists as an action item from the openSUSE Conference Program Committee's last meeting. In a nutshell, we have two names proposed for the Conference: "Collaboration Across Borders II" and "rwxrwxrwx" (or rwx3) which is a play on the read-write-execute permissions of the Linux file systems. While the Program Committee will ultimately choose which one to select, we felt it was fair to talk to both the marketing and artwork teams to hear which ones you consider more feasible for marketability. To the Marketing Team: Think about what would be the pros and cons of marketing the conference for each of the names. For the artwork team: Think about the potential designs you could work with for each name. E.g. t-shirts, posters, banners. You can even do mockups if you wish, but please don't spend a lot of time making up design proposals because I wouldn't want to see your work go to waste if we go a different way. You can read my thoughts on the naming choices for some personal insight on my blog at http://www.bryen.com/whats-in-a-name/. And I would suggest also reading Yaloki's summary (and meeting log) to get a fuller idea of our own pros and cons for each name. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2011-04/msg00333.html I'll gather up your thoughts and concerns and present them to the team at our next meeting this Thursday. Thanks teams! 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] Wiki advanced statistics
by G G 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hi there, is there any kind of advanced statistic page of the wiki? Something like this for example: http://stats.grok.se/it/201104/Italia visits per day/month/year, articles most visited by search engines ... etc. Thanks in advance, Bye hawake -- Linux user number 433087 Linux registered machine number 351448 http://counter.li.org/ -- 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] Who deploys/admins this Marketing List?
by Tony Su 02 May '11

02 May '11

Am just a bit tired of the "Reply To" misconfiguration for this Mail List, would like to contact whoever is the Admin to assist in fixing. Clicking "Reply" should not point to the original individual, it should point to the Mail List. It's been a long while since I've run into this problem which is simple to fix, IIRC I last ran into this because it was the default configuration for the very popular Mailman app. The other time it was even longer ago on a Yahoo mail list... 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] New URLs for Marketing
by Bryen M. Yunashko 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hey folks, We have some useful redirects on our wiki that we should be aware of for marketing purposes. opensuse.org/Upgrade (You already know this one) opensuse.org/Communication redirects to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels opensuse.org/Ambassadors redirects to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:/Ambassadors_list opensuse.org/GNOME3 redirects to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_3.0 All of these redirects should be used instead of the full length URL when using in print (e.g. flyers, brochures, posters, etc.) because they will look cleaner. Enjoy! Bryen -- 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 #173 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi @all! Issue #173 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://bit.ly/jFuFxJ [1]: 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] Thoughts on openSUSE Conference Name
by Helen South 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > But let's wait a bit until the location is announced - one of the > options (which I hope turns out to be possible) would offer > opportunities for an entirely different and cooler conference slogan :D That makes sense. Also I'm thinking that from topics that people propose, something will emerge - whatever people are generally most interested in right now and things they are working on, there might be a bit of a trend. Someone mentioned Cloud - yes, it's something we're maybe hearing too much of but it is still in the ascendant so there could be something there. Any artwork ideas we generate in the process can always be repurposed. Loved Robert's concept too. I thought it was more 3D 8-bit than Lego, but there are many possible connections there with 'old fashioned' ways of doing things, three dimensional stuff, construction, simplification (Factory?) -- 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] Top Keywords Searched after openSUSE 11.4 release
by Manu Gupta 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi All I hope this can serve as a good source of information, for openSUSE search keywords. By the way from 11th March 2011 to 15th April 2011 We have witnessed a 18% increasing in page clicks and 27% increase in impressions. Yohoo!!! Keep rocking :D I have attached the list of queries, changes etc. We should keep the momentum going on. -- Regards Manu Gupta

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Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] PDF posters
by Pieter De Decker 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hi Andreas, I already added the posters here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_miscellaneous I could add the slides to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations, but I don't think they're fit for presentations because they've got too much text on them, which takes away a lot of attention from the speaker. I modeled them to be the sort of slides that you might take a look at when you're passing by a booth. That's my opinion - of course you're free to use them how you want. :-) Cheers, Pieter 2011/2/15 Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> > > On Friday, February 11, 2011 11:03:10 PM Pieter De Decker wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > A few weeks ago, I shared drafts of some openSUSE posters I made. I > > finalized the posters tonight. > > > > I've made a total of six posters on various subjects: > > - openSUSE's stable/tumbleweed repositories > > - The community > > - YaST > > - The fact that openSUSE lets you choose KDE or GNOME during setup > > - Driver installs (or the lack thereof) > > - SUSE Studio: roll your own Linux distribution > > > > I've zipped up all posters and you can download 'em here: > > http://www.box.net/shared/hxllbeglvc > > > > Helen asked me if I wanted to make some slides for SCALE, so I made > > 16:9 widescreen versions of these posters. You can get the slides > > here: > > http://www.box.net/shared/mhcya0t2p9 > > > > @Kostas: Here is the source of one of the posters. Can you test if you > > can open it (with correct fonts and images)? If so, I'll upload the > > other five posters so that you can translate them to Greek. > > http://www.box.net/shared/hfmvz1dxeu > > > > I've added myself to the marketing mailing list, so hopefully I won't > > miss any replies now. > > I propose to add links to these to the openSUSE wiki, so that others can find > and use it. I guess it should be added to > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations > > Pieter, could you do this, please? > > thanks a lot for these nice posters! > > 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 > -- 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: openSUSE at LFNW
by James Mason 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Apparently we're doing something right :) - James Mason 'bear454' ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Symons <carlsymons(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:06 AM Subject: openSUSE at LFNW To: James Mason <bear454(a)opensuse.org> Hi James, Thanks for the quick response on IRC. I had just gotten IRC set up on the netbook when you appeared. The information you gave makes the following even more appropriate. Here's what I sent to the Fest Organizers yesterday... " In several volunteer assignment categories, there is a question about which distro to use. The time that students could spend researching distros and debating their merits could be put to better use elsewhere. In a message to his student assistants, Jakob wrote: "I personally like OpenSUSE and Gnome desktop, but it's your call." On Monday, I am going to instruct students to use OpenSUSE/Gnome. (Fred, this doesn't apply to the Tutorium. That's your call.) Rationale: * BTC students are not generally knowledgeable about distros and their relative advantages to Jane Citizen, average user. * OpenSUSE/Gnome is easy to use, solid and visually appealing. (Gak, what about KDE? Try not to think about it B^) * OpenSUSE is a sponsor. * OpenSUSE is an exhibitor. * Several senior level speakers represent OpenSUSE. * James Mason provides local presence, support and advocacy. * The installation media is well-designed and attractive. * OpenSUSE has superb online references. * Installation, updates, package installation are simple, and well supported by the online references. * All of these reflect well on LFNW. -- 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] do you know about sembrandolibertad
by jdd 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

This is a very interesting project: http://www.sembrandolibertad.org.ar/ documents, with source are here http://www.sembrandolibertad.org.ar/2011/04/publicada-la-historieta-vidas-p… as these documents are free, we can change them a bit (changing Ubuntu for openSUSE and translate them (some translations may already exist). Could even be done a banner (vertical, like dazibao :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- 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 #172 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Hi @all! Issue #172 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://bit.ly/dWrgi8 [1]: 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] promo dvd langage
by jdd 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Hello, I just noticed that there is no "HOWTO use it" on the promodvd card box. I'm also guilty as this I so often work in english, I sometime forget than not everybody can do :-(( Many people don't think to use the "F2 language" key at the boot menu. we should find a way to enforce it (warning message? longer boot waiting time?) I think we should think hardly at making as many langages as possible on the demo dvd, in France at least, having it only in english (even is french is called, it's only the keyboard) is not very good 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] Re: whaaaa cool!
by Jos Poortvliet 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

On 2011-04-14 Jos wrote: > Who created these: > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_miscellaneous#Various_subject > s > > Really awesome posters! Shouldn't we print a few of these for the > US?!? > > :D I wonder if this message ever made it to the list... I haven't seen responses... I'm trying to move from my gmail address to my opensuse mail but it doesn't seem to work very well :(

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[opensuse-marketing] upcoming features...
by Jos Poortvliet 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Hi marketeers, You might've seen me ask ppl for what's upcoming for openSUSE. I've created a wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Upcoming_features Please help me add to it :D I know we should have Yaloki's pet project on there, for example... (see my other mail with an almost-ready-article, nobody interested in finishing and publishing it???) Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Greek community @ openfest 2011, 9-10th April (REPORT)
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

The weekend 9th-10th of April 2011, openSUSE community was at Openfest 2011 at TEI Piraeus spreading the word about openSUSE project. We had a booth, in the main room of the event and we also had 4 presentations and a workshop. For more information and pictures, you can visit: http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2011/04/openfest-2011-report.html 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] -ot- missing items
by yancy smith 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

I reloaded a laptop with 11.4 DVD PROMO ed. and it looks great.. But I noticed that Kitra and scribd that was in the marketing page was not on the DVD repositroy -- 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 #171 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 16 Apr '11

16 Apr '11

Hi @all! Issue #171 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=8454 [1]: 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] Contributor Recognition - how can we do it?
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

The board in our project meeting asked me to discuss with you and come up with an idea on how to recognize contributors to openSUSE (say thanks to them), so here's my email that I sent initially to the board and let's discuss what we can and want to do. Basically, I seek a fair process and one that's easy to implement and execute. ;) I've spend quite some time thinking about this and discussing it and therefore this email is a bit longer and list several options and ideas. I already send the contributors on our existing list an email telling them that we're not going to send them anything for now - but seek alternatives. I got quite some positive feedback and have appended it at the end in anonymous form. Btw. especially the marketing team is one of the teams that I guess never made it on the list of getting a box - and I consider this really unfair - so let's find a fair process (or decide there is none and leave it). So, don't ask my why you never before heard about it - this is especially a reason to rethink the whole program and start it new from scratch and that's why I need your combined wisdom, Andreas Background ============ In the past, Novell had a list of contributors to openSUSE. Novell send them one openSUSE box product as thank you. That list has grown over the last 15 years and includes upstream authors of some projects, beta testers and translators. Right now that list contains around 300+ entries. Looking at the list of contributors, I see that it is a pretty unfair selection of folks. There're people in it, that haven't done anything for openSUSE 11.4 and there are people missing. So, this whole concept of who gets a "Thank you" needs a reevaluation. On top of that, we have sent out openSUSE Boxes in the past. With openSUSE 11.3, this was a joint present by open-SLX and Novell, before it was Novell only. The price of the box has increased (official selling price from 59 to 69 EU but we get them far cheaper) - and the shipment of a box world wide is a logistics nightmare with doing the right thing to get them through customs in a cheap way - and then shipment costs a lot as well. Additionally, the collection of the email addresses is an error prone and time consuming process. So, summing up the three different points, we're not going to send contributor boxes out with openSUSE 11.4. As usual, there's a but. I know some people look forward to them - and I would love to send out an individual "Thank you" to those who actually contributed. But this needs: * a light weight process * people that help with it * and an idea on what to do Once we have that, I can go to my management (who urged me to seek alternatives with you - so Novell is interested in sponsoring, we just need a good way!) and ask for sponsorship money. Goals ===== Novell has done in the past the Contributor boxes as a way to say thanks to contributors. openSUSE as community project depends on contributors and this present was also an incentive for them. Our goal is to thank openSUSE contributors for their participation in openSUSE at the time of a distribution release. We want to recognize contribution in a fair and objective way. Where does contribution happen in openSUSE? * bug reports * fixing bugs * packaging * development * system administration * user help in forums/mailing lists/IRC * marketing * translation * ... Question: Do we want to recognize all kind of contributions or only specific ones? Some of that you can easily be scriptable - others not, and that's the part that will lead to another "members committee" and discussions. But only giving it a subset won't work really either - so, what do we want? Some of that you can easily script - others not, and that's the part that will lead to another "members committee" and discussions. Note that only giving it a subset won't work really either - so, what do we want? From Jos: "A suggestion from your friendly community manager would be to send all openSUSE *members* a small gift. It gives people a little reward for going though the effort of becoming member, can be used for some publicity (I'm a media whore, I know) and the membership is a self-selecting group of contributors. Sure there are more contributors but anyone who contributes CAN become a member - not applying is one's own choice. It's the most fair and simple solution, too, and makes sure the members will add/update their address in their userpage in Connect ;-)" What to give? ============= We'd like to have something that really recognizes contribution and people are proud to receive it. Shipment needs to scale so that we easily can send out e.g. to 300 people. Some ideas: - exclusive dinner at openSUSE Conference - distinguished award - put it on shelf/wall to show others what/something to put on - target 300 people Other Ideas: * Add lists of translators for this language to slideshow * Add list of packagers to Release Notes * Self-nominating kind of deal, e.g. to print a poster Our suggestions: * Send something only to recognize (active) members? For example, the openSUSE 11.4 poster with a letter. Sending a letter avoids problems with customs. * Awards at openSUSE conference for contributions in a few categories (KDE does Akademy awards: Winners from last year choose winners from next year; would only need 'starting up' for us) * A welcome present to new contributors (members?) instead of a regular effort. Just send every new openSUSE member a T-Shirt! * How about a file on the ftp tree called just that - Contribiturs Listing all by name ? One would have to have an opt-out for those that don't want to be named. * Special price for openSUSE shop, e.g. for T-Shirts or mugs - basically a voucher. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Feedback from contributors about my email: -- I think a simple thank you mail is enough, or a contributor hall of fame website. If possible a t-shirt is great but not necessary. Contributing openSUSE is fun for all of us. If there is no more fun we will not continue the contribution anymore... even if you send us something. So I would like to thanks for the boxes I got so far. And keep create the best distribution ever.... together. -- have to admit that sending DVD boxes has always been too expensive and in my opinion it was a tricky way to honour contributors. Tricky as it is extremely difficult to measure and compare contributions of each individual (for example a dev vs. translation team member vs bug tracking person vs artist and so on) so some people might have a feeling that their effort goes unnoticed as they did not recieve any phisical.. er... I mean a touchable gift. If you insit on sending some items I guess it could be more cost effecient to contact some TRUSTWORTHY and RELIABLE local leaders and send them something small in large quantities (pins, stickers, etc) and ask them to distribute it some reasonable way. That might help in organizing meetings among local openSUSE users as well - cool giveaways typically go with some nice recollections. ;-) -- Don't worry, I could download OpenSuse, avoiding cost and logistics of shipping boxes world wide. To honor contributors, may I suggest something like Apache Foundation does ? http://www.apache.org/foundation/members.html A contributor could be member of something like OpenSuse Foundation (for example), active or emeritus. --- Hi Andreas! Many thanks for your note. I have valued my copy of OpenSuSE over the years; after all I've been receiving it since the very beginning :) I have always considered it a priviledge, not an obligation that SuSE and later Novell were required to fulfil. I feel grateful and would like to take this opportunity to thank, through you, the organization behind this program. As for being part of OpenSuSE, I feel fortunate to still be in that role as an OpenSuSE member (handle: dbouras), continuing with contributions to setup and bug-fixing as time permits. -- the nice OpenSuse boxes always had more of a symbolic value. Of actual use was the promotional stuff with it, e.g. the "iContribute" shirt or the led flashlight. If shipping is too expensive now, it is simply better to sponsor and be at community events, and give contributors some present there e.g. in exchange to coupons sent to them by mail. Then people still see that you recognize their contribution, they can decide themself whether they want to pass by, you have some way to advertize your sponsoring of events, and the mails do not look like spam. -- In the past when the ISO images wasn't free for download it was THE BIG DEAL. Now the only convenient thing to me is x586+x86_64 on one DVD, but it arrives loooong after I've downloaded both images. The printed guide is fine for a newcomers, unfortunately not in my language and I'm aware that it can't be. May be in some countries downloading is a snail business, but here in Sofia, BG, most of the Internet users have ~20-50 Mb/s international and ~100 mb/s intrastate connectivity. In the same e-mail to Karl I've mentioned that a t-shirt is far more desirable to me (the LED flash light from the 11.2 box was killer item too). Unfortunately, in this case the shipping remains as with any non-virtual item. May be you should consider seeking for any virtual goodies to grant to contributors. Three months installation support (as it comes with the box) is irrelevant as most of the translators are experienced susers. Here is an idea: I would be intrigued on a special price quote for SLES. -- This was good decision. Most of us doesnt need shipped dvd, we can download it etc. Those dvd's were waste of money. --- Thanks for the notification and huge thanks for sending me all the goodies. I am using SuSE Linux since the early days and am a keen supporter of the Linux Desktop. Perhaps you might make use of my feedback (or simply ignore it): For myself, it was always easy to download openSUSE online; thus the boxes were not really useful for myself anyways. However, I was using the boxes to give them as a "gift" to "convert" users (and some of my business clients) to use the Linux Desktop. It makes a far better impression to hand over a nice serious looking box to install compared to a burned noname DVD and a bunch of pro-Linux arguments. The openSUSE T-Shirt I received was a good promotion for the distribution though since people asked me quite a lot about it when I wear it. :) Anyways, thanks for your hard work and thanks for supporting the contributors. --- So far I have typed about stuff for events, and now about how to honor contributors. I have always thought that one t-shirt is great, not sure if it is cheaper than sending the latest version on DVD in a box (as for 11.2 and 11.3), but a t-shirt is pretty much what the world will see under any circumstance. I recall the one from 11.1 as the most awesome one, high quality stamped and the lines in the back show your pride :) Of course, the letter is pretty valued as well. So, in resume, a t-shirt for a contributor is what I would like to have, instead of the DVD, which often comes very late around here (Southamerica). Also, the @opensuse alias for every contributor would be great. --- Since the problems about shipping openSUSE boxes are related to cost and logistic, the only way to avoid them is to provide some online service reserved to contributors. However, at the best of my knowledge, at the moment there is no online service that can be reserved to contributors: high-speed dedicated repositories are useless, since current mirrors are fast; the build service is available to everyone (but in any case it is not a good way to honor contributors since not everyone wants/is able to use the build service); similarly for other online services. At the moment I have no idea on how to honor contributors, since there is nothing interesting for me in openSUSE online services as well as I do not care whether my name appears somewhere in openSUSE as contributor. --- No worries... I can understand the cost issue; meanwhile I imagine most contributors downloaded the DVD from day one and know enough about openSUSE to have no use for the printed manual. As an alternative, here are two ideas: 1- Send something (box, DVD, t-shirt..) to openSUSE Members only => Pros: reduces the number of eligible contributors, thus reduces the cost (at least I suppose so) => Cons: can be seen as unfair for non-members, logistics might still be an issue 2- Offer a discount to buy something from the openSUSE Shop (t-shirt, cap, mug, etc.) => Pros: good for marketing, less expensive than the traditional box (14€ for a t-shirt, instead of ~60€ for the box), logistics are handled by the shop provider => Cons: none? I would personally prefer the second option.. as I work in software development, showing an openSUSE mug or t-shirt at work would inevitably raise questions among colleagues, and help promote openSUSE :-) Hope this helps anyway. -- 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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[opensuse-marketing] making noise about Evergreen
by Kim Leyendecker 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

Dear all! I read a lot about Evergreen on Pro-Linux. The echo their is, that Evergreen is a good thing, but it´s commit to death by almost the whole PL-community because their isn´t any "progress" seen by the users. So I ask you (and of course myself) "Why"? Evergreen is a great project and I think, it´s time to make noise about it and tell the people, what´s the benefit of openSUSE 11.1 Evergreen. I know, their´s a lot to do with the marketing on 11.4 and the development of 12.1 and the rest... But if anyone has some time left, please blog about evergreen or tell facebook or twitter about it! thanks PS: Sorry for crossposting, but I think it´s important for both lists -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE http://www.opensuse.org 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] My participation
by Agustín De La Palma 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Hi all, I send the links where you store photos of my participation in the various events that I have been promoting openSUSE. http://bit.ly/h3SVHj http://bit.ly/hx6n1p http://bit.ly/g3X7U6 http://bit.ly/fbpXQI Thank you very much. And HAVE A LOT FUN!!!! -- Ing. Agustín De La Palma Soporte Técnico CODECO-OJR OpenSuSE Ambassador OSUM Leader No recibo/envío información elaborados en/para M$-Word, M$-Excel, > M$-PowerPoint, M$-Outlook o formatos privativos similares. Le invito a > leer mis razones: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html Linux User 471036 -- Soporte Técnico CODECO-OJR OpenSuSE Ambassador OSUM Leader No recibo/envío información elaborados en/para M$-Word, M$-Excel, > M$-PowerPoint, M$-Outlook o formatos privativos similares. Le invito a > leer mis razones: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html Linux User 471036 -- 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] Panama-FLISoL 2011
by ricardo.a.chung＠gmail.com 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

This short notification to show you https://picasaweb.google.com/RICARDO.A.CHUNG/FLISoL_2011_Panama#55947202832… Proudly openSUSE Best, Ricardo A. Chung openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama Message sent from my IT Mobil Support Office -- 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] Renaming of OBS - progress & competition!
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hi all! I've presented the OBS rename finally to the Novell Leadership Team. They had a few questions but mostly, they just want some time to diggest the request and think about it. Next week I'll hopefully know more. Then of course we have to figure out things like trademarking etc etc etc... So it won't be ready overnight! Meanwhile, while preparing for this presentation, I made an analysis of 'competitors' to OBS. I thought it might be intereesting for you all so I put it on the wiki with the talking points! http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OBS_talking_points Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE poster source file request
by Kálmán Kéménczy 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

hi there, I just receive the DVD package (thanks to AJ) and I have found few posters in it. I love these and I would like to reprint it in Hungary, maybe in bigger size. I would like to have the source file of these poster if possible. thanks for help kalman -- 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] T Shirt Idea once the stocks are over :D
by Manu Gupta 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hi All I have a TShirt Idea somewhat similar to Arch / GNOME Like we can just have the slogan - I am using openSUSE / I am openSUSE / I love openSUSE (more can be added) Small, but effective piece of promotion. We can also add the same for badges, flyers and stuff like that too -- 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] Report, videos and pix from the FOSS Confernece (Ukraine)
by simka 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

================================================================= Ambassador's report on FOSS Conference in Ukraine ================================================================= I'd like to share my experience on organizing Free and Open Source Software Conference in Ukraine that took place at my University on 15th and 16th of December 2010. The purpose of the conference is to popularize free and open source software among students and attract their attention to the problems of IT. It's the second time we run this conference, and I must say we got some improvement since the last year. Not only, had we 47 papers published in our booklet, 75 presentations (see the plan of the conference http://fossua.org/plan-konferencii-foss-2010/), 84 speakers and somewhat less then 200 visitors during these 2 days, but also the quality of the whole event was on much higher level than the one we had last year. Though, it took us almost a year to prepare for the event, help students to make their presentations and read prove their papers, but it was worth it. Still I must confess that the last few months just before the conference were pretty tough on me and working on 2 jobs i'd spend nights reading the papers of the students and making the final preparations. Video conference with openSuse representatives Andreas Jaeger and Jos Poortvliet made the even more vivid and interesting for our participant who were coming from different parts of Ukraine and Russia. The youngest speaker was 14 !!! years old and came from the South part of Ukraine - Herson city. Booklets with FOSS Conference papers, calendars, magnets (for fridge), and DVDs with the openSuse distribution sponsored by Novell made awesome presents for our participants who love IT. High interest from the students to the problems of FOSS made it possible to prepare great presentations, make posters, magnets (mentioned earlier), and help us to run this event. We've made a new site for the conference http://fossua.org and if you're interested to see the pictures from the conference, please take a look at http://fossua.org/foss-2010-photo/ Please also see the videos with some of the presentations from the conference ( 50 separate video files) http://fossua.org/video/ You can find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/foss_ukraine or join our club in a social network http://vkontakte.ru/club20844095 I'd like to thank Novell and Jos Poortvliet and Andreas Jaeger in particular for their sponsorship, help and support and we hope to have you as our guests on the next event we're going to have on 15th and 16th of December 2011 :) If you have any questions concerning FOSS Conference or would like to make any suggestions or participate next time, please let me know. (You can find me on LinkedIn.com as Kostyantyn Ovechko) Best regards, Kostyantyn Ovechko

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: Pictures and more FLISOL 2011
by OpenSuse Español 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

2011/4/9 OpenSuse Español <opensuse.es(a)gmail.com> > Saludos he asistido al FLISOL 2011 Celebrado aquí en Costa Rica, fue todo > un éxito. > > Adjunto Fotografías de la Actividad. > > > Para observar mas fotografías de la actividad: Fan Page: Comunidad de > Software Libre de la Universidad de Costa Rica http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=63017314265&aid=303946 > <http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=63017314265&aid=303946%20> > > > *Y respetuosamente le solicito si es posible Poster´s, Almanaques, > Sticker, DVD´s y Camisetas para promocionar mas el openSUSE en Costa Rica, > Saludos me despido* > > José Cordero > > > Nota: Actualmente Gestiono: http://twitter.com/openSUSE_ES y el Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/openSUSEES > > > > ------- > > 2011/2/18 OpenSuse Español <opensuse.es(a)gmail.com> > >> Saludos soy de Costa Rica, soy el que actualmente gestiono la cuenta >> twitter: @openSUSE_ES >> >> Creo tener la capacidad de Distribuir 500 DVD´s >> >> Shipping details: >> >> *Name: Jose Cordero Zuniga >> ** >> **Address: Frente al Parque de Zarcero; *Almacen Osman Gonzalez >> >> *City/Town/etc: Zarcero >> >> **State/Province: Alajuela >> >> **Postcode: 21101 >> >> **Country: Costa Rica >> >> **Phone: 50688780564* >> >> >> >> >

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: meting to night ..
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

yancy smith <free.adim.south(a)gmail.com> writes: > The meting with my local Lug and my speech was fun .. and > informative, but the DVD of 11.4 and the other stuff was stuck in > Greensbough NC (75 miles according to ups website) and even if thy > was in the local hub 2 miles away before Anderson (I was in Greenville > SC) they wanted to send and realse to Anderson center only.. their > contract.. so I get them tomorrow and give them out personally and > at the next month's netting nohting going to wate with me . Yeah, timing was bad - that's why I say on the web page it needs two to three weeks. I had expected that an inside US shipment would reach you if it leaves on thursday but lesson learned... > thanks AJ for all the help if I still had fun gripping with ups ...LOL ;) Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE on FLISOL Mexico
by Manu Gupta 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hi Guys.. You are doing a great job.. Can you post this on the ambassador ML too, after all they should also know the awesome work you do :) Regards Manu On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Raúl Reyes <rrhcaifan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > One more ! > > FLISoL FES Acatlán UNAM México > > Thanks to Marketing-Team & Mike for the promotional material, > the event was successful. > > -- > rrh > @ahuixotl > > > 2011/4/11 Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> >> >> Awesome congrats.. :) >> >> Regards >> Manu >> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Miguel Barajas <migbarajas(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > Just to let you know what we do in the biggest Free Software >> > Installation Festival in LATAM, here in Mexico we where in 5 venues >> > where this festival was celebrated >> > >> > UNAM http://unam.mx >> > UPIICSA http://www.upiicsa.ipn.mx/ >> > UAEM http://www.uaemex.mx/ >> > Telmex Hub http://www.telmexhub.mx/ >> > >> > http://flisol.info/ >> > >> > Here some pics: >> > >> > http://fb.me/SdpqySYZ >> > http://bit.ly/h3SVHj >> > http://bit.ly/hx6n1p >> > http://bit.ly/g3X7U6 >> > http://bit.ly/fbpXQI >> > >> > We give away about 250 Promo DVDs, 50 big Laptop stickers, 50 small >> > Laptops Stickers, 10 T-shirts, etc. Was a very good Festival for US, I >> > can't wait for FLISOL2012 >> > >> > Regards! >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Miguel Barajas - GnuOwned >> > Follow me on Twitter @gnuowned >> > openSUSE Member >> > openSUSE Ambassador >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Manu Gupta >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org >> > > -- 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] Re: Plasma Active, was: Re: [opensuse-project] future features
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

On 2011-04-08 Sebastian wrote: > Hi *, Jos, > > On Monday, April 04, 2011 18:07:16 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > I've received a few requests already from ppl asking "what will the > > next openSUSE release bring". Now I know a few things being worked > > on, from Webpin2 to the bretzn/appstream stuff. And of course the > > obvious "latest software packages". But I guess there are other > > ideas people would like to work on, right? > > Quite. :) > > We (open-slx) are doing a Plasma Active device-independent user > experience, based on openSUSE and Plasma. I've just blogged about > Plasma Active, as many of you won't have heard of it yet: > http://vizzzion.org/blog/2011/04/plasma- > active-a-desirable-user-experience-encompassing-the-device-spectrum/ > There's more information on communitybase: > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active > > .. and a video for the impatient: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GAFfjscVyg > > In all due modesty, I've an insanely great openSUSE in my hands, > running on a tablet computer. :) We're working on it on the > opensuse-kde list, and on the active(a)kde.org list, packages have > been developed in the OBS, and the sources are upstream at KDE's > Git. There are 11.4-based packages and a live iso. The status is > "boots and kinda works", lots of showstoppers. We're targeting our > first stable release end of Sept. > > I understand that non-desktop or -server stuff may not be everybody's > cup of tea, but those who would like to lend a hand on making > openSUSE rock on all kinds of new devices are very welcome to do so. > (See > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Tasks for some inspiration.) > > Plasma Active is also quite different in its approach to the > upstream/downstream: we're a cross-stack, multi-disciplined team > (designers, hackers, testers, packagers, ...), working across > borders dedicated to create a desirable user experience. > > As to marketing and communication, please do not overhype this thing > at this point. Those that can be of value to our mission should > surely know. We've worked out a communication strategy in the Plasma > Active team, so if you're planning to do any substantial PR around > it right now, I'd much prefer if we first concentrate on making it > really rock, and above all that we coordinate it. Abse-fracking-lutely cool. I've seen some stuff about it on planet KDE already and mentioned this in a column I wrote for linuxuser (UK magazine). It'll end up on the wiki page ;-) At what point do you think this warrants an article for news.o.o? > Cheers,

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE on FLISOL Mexico
by Miguel Barajas 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Hi there, Just to let you know what we do in the biggest Free Software Installation Festival in LATAM, here in Mexico we where in 5 venues where this festival was celebrated UNAM http://unam.mx UPIICSA http://www.upiicsa.ipn.mx/ UAEM http://www.uaemex.mx/ Telmex Hub http://www.telmexhub.mx/ http://flisol.info/ Here some pics: http://fb.me/SdpqySYZ http://bit.ly/h3SVHj http://bit.ly/hx6n1p http://bit.ly/g3X7U6 http://bit.ly/fbpXQI We give away about 250 Promo DVDs, 50 big Laptop stickers, 50 small Laptops Stickers, 10 T-shirts, etc. Was a very good Festival for US, I can't wait for FLISOL2012 Regards! -- Miguel Barajas - GnuOwned Follow me on Twitter @gnuowned openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador -- 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 #170 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hi @all! Issue #170 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=8342 [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 -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- 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 #170 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hi @all! Issue #170 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=8342 [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] RMLL
by jdd 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

The "Libre Software Meeting" (RMLL) will be held in Strasbourg in the second/third week of july (9-14) http://2011.rmll.info/ This is the larger international free software fest in France. Being near the Est french side, it could be easy for openSUSE official to come. I hope to be able to attend. I wrote to the organisation (no answer yet), but alone I wont do much good :-( usually it's held in an university campus, so accomodation and food are cheap. I had little answers on th french list until now :-( Josh offered to help (including with money), but we first have to have attendees :-) jdd NB I cross post on project and marketting, don't knowing what is the best list last year web site: http://2010.rmll.info/spip.php -- 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] Linux Magazine with 11.4 DVD & poster is arriving
by Bruno Friedmann 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

It arrived this morning in box! Just awesome, nice great and find a place on the wall already! just Top Class !!! -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- 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 box for sale on the shop
by Koushik Kumar Nundy 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hi all, Just curious why the Europe / Asia shop < http://shop.opensuse.org/shop-eu.html > shows a photo of the openSUSE 11.3 box on the "Buy openSUSE" widget. The link points to < http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE >, which is basically selling 11.4 boxes. Is it an oversight? If yes, those with admin rights, please correct. Thanks, ~kknundy -- 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] did somebody already quote issuu?
by jdd 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hello, My local library published it's journal there, this made me discover this service (issuu). There are already openSUSE documents on it. http://issuu.com/search?q=opensuse is it valuable? seems mostly aimed at pdf documents, the presentation is friendly it's possible to include this in your own pages or to upload them directly in issuu raw test page: http://dodin.org/smartlook/ have infos? shall we use it? 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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Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Marketing Materials and openSUSE:Presentations pages
by Kostas Koudaras 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

2011/4/7 José Oramas M. <jose.oramas.m(a)gmail.com>: > Hi Kostas, > > Here is the file of the presentation I gave on FLISOL2010. > The presentation is in spanish, the title (translated in english) is "Ten > Reasons that make openSUSE a distribution suitable for everyone" > I think that even when this presentation was in the time of 11.2/11.3 > transition, it mentions some openSUSE related resources like suse Studio or > OBS. Additionally, I think that it can be easily updated for current and > future releases of openSUSE. > > BTW, I have the video of this presentation, If you want it I can provide it > too. > > Cheers, > > José Hi Jose thank you for the presentation, I will upload that on Monday due to a pile of work I have these days and A conference I have and I will be out for 3 days. Yes I would like to send me the video too and I am pretty sure I will find its place on the wiki ;-) You won some Hugs from me :-) Have fun Kostas > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > 2011/4/1 Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com>: >> >> On 2011-03-17 Kostas wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> >> >> I hope you did get a lot of stuff, Kostas, if not, ping Carlos and >> >> others direclty. I know Bryen asked for the presentations from SCALE to >> >> sexy them up and upload them, I'd hope he has a bunch. And mine, some >> >> ppl commented it had bugs - maybe you have time to improve it, I >> >> haven't >> >> had any time for that :( >> >> >> > >> > I will ping people directly, since I got nothing :-/ >> > >> > Maybe people need some motivation in order to send them, so... >> > >> > People send me now your presentations and win a Hug for each >> > presentation, a big Hug from me >> > The first 10 win two hugs for each presentation. >> > Hurry up... >> >> I have two presentations for you to review and upload to git and wiki: >> openSUSE 11.4 updated and extended version: >> >> https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B55dbL7kyNzAMDc1M2ZlYjQtMzM1YS00MTI3LWIyNj… >> (*warning: 25 mb*) >> about openSUSE generic (with the kitties :D) >> >> https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B55dbL7kyNzAMDVkMWY0NzAtOThmMS00NWRiLThhNj… >> (13 mb) >> >> Free to be used by anyone, of course :D >> >> I am also working on an OBS presentation with many screenshots but I >> am letting OBS people review it first. >> >> Cheers, >> Jos >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org >> > > -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Show us your desktop!
by Kim Leyendecker 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

===== *Semi-long e-mail* ===== Hello everyone! I mailed with Karl for using suse-art.org for this project too, and he gave me a "ok" and he will do, whatever he can do :) I think, now, it´s up to us to promote the whole thing and receive a lot of desktops. ===== *Additional information* ===== *What can you do now?* * You can blog about it! (Like me, have a look at http://www.kimleyendecker.blogspot.com) * You can mail some people who might be interested in sharing their desktops * You can make noise about it on Twitter, Facebook, Identi.ca and other social networks you know. *What will I do now?* * I will send an e-mail to the ambassador list with a few information and will link to this mail, so that we can use this thread for organize the project, and the thread @ambassadors for ambassador-related things * I will continue blogging about it on my blog * I will create and compile an article on news.o.o * I will create a wiki page as soon as possible and spread information there! *What about the media for distribute*? The latest information is, that we want to use *flickr* and *facebook* for hosting (flickr) and counting the likes (facebook). *What´s the goal of it?* Well, it´s just a part of my plan for world domination ;-) No, seriously, we want to see, how individual our users create their desktops and spread the message out, that openSUSE 11.4 supports each individual kind of use case. *How can I contribute to it?* Just make noise about it, discuss in this thread, and for any other things, mail me (or Jos, but he´s got still 500+ mails to read, so please mail me, I will forward it, when it´s relevant for him.) ========================================== thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE http://www.opensuse.org 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] An article about openSUSE 11.4
by Guillaume GARDET 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Not very friendly with openSUSE : http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/OpenSUSE-114-reviewed/ Guillaume -- 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] Release specific marketing material
by Koushik Kumar Nundy 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hello everyone, I was wondering if you had any marketing material specifically targeting the release, say posters saying "openSUSE 11.4 arriving, March 10" or something even more general, like openSUSE 11.4 artwork, that could be used to signal the onset. I would really appreciate a link. Also I'll take this chance to ask again if anyone has a link to the 11.4 promoDVD or normal DVD label. I seriously need to get some printed asap. Thanks, ~kknundy. -- 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] money
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi all, Despite not reading all mails here, I have a request. The USA office in Provo is out of posters & flyers and that kind of stuff. Now we still have them in the EU, but shipping paper across the pond is quite insane. Yet having these materials is important: we ship them to our ambassadors, together with the DVD's so they can have a good presence at conferences! So I found some money in my budget - enough for a nice number of posters, flyers, postcards & whatever you think will be helpful. But I don't have time to scavenge our git repository and wiki for appropriate material. Moreover, much of it is outdated. So. If you want to help our ambassadors, now is the time to step up. I simply need a list of artwork to print: - a (link to) a BIG poster design or two to print, appropriate for a wide audience at conferences. Can be an existing poster, can be a new one - I don't care. - one or more (links to) smaller posters. I think the "suse is cool" series made for SCALE would be good enough for this, maybe some improvements are possible or needed?!? - (links to) folders. We have one but it ain't that good. I would suggest to finish the folders on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials - ping me on IRC, I want to help with them! They will need design (Carlos, Javier, Bruno, Helen?). Need to be an a4 or Letter (preferably both) with 2-side printing. You could make a triple-fold or double-fold, I don't care :D - (links to) postcards, sticker designs, button designs, other things. - and whatever you think should be in the boxes. I know several of you have been thinking about that, so now is the time to step up and make sure I can add those things to the boxes! I will then see how much I can afford for each of those. A hard requirement: it has all to be online with sources somewhere!!! And I will probably have to ask the artists who made the final design to work with the AJ & me and the printing company as most printing companies don't have Scribus or Inkscape :D And a second hard requirement: I mailed earlier that I have a hard time keeping up with the list. So I need someone to mail me the things I ask for around april 8-9 ;-) So, who steps up to relay me the results? Bryen, seems like your thing? Cheers and thanks, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] School DVD's
by Joe Brandt 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

I am a student at State College of Florida and an openSuse advocate. Would it be possible to get 30 @ 11.4 DVD's for my computer science teacher to distribute to his classes? Any stickers, pens or other swag would be appreciated and dispersed as well. Joe Brandt 4424 4th Avenue East Bradenton, FL 34208 941-746-0432 -- 1024D/F47CD897 2004-08-29 Joe Brandt 100% Microsoft free and loving it. <joe.brandt(a)gmail.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 program
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hey marketing team, Based on our IRC discussion yesterday a more extensive proposal, connected to the mail I just send to the boosters with you in CC: Our ambassadors are often local (many don't even speak English, or barely); so what we do with/for them has to be translatable, easy to read or in their hands. They often spend not a huge amount of time on openSUSE; so what we do for/with them should not take much time. And the fact they are ambassador gives them some credibility; so we should make that clear. Currently, we have an ambassador mailinglist. Some ambassadors are on there; many are not (like most of the active people in Brazil or Greece - despite those countries being among the most active for us, as far as we know). They usually have a local mailinglist (not on openSUSE infrastructure) which they use for planning and discussing. First, I would like to propose to bring such mailinglists to openSUSE infrastructure. That means - let ambassadors ask for a language/region specific mailinglist. Not too many rules, if they feel they need one for something, give it. But there should be one limitation: at least one or two active people on that list should be on the international ambassador mailinglist; and we need a one-way, moderated mailinglist to reach ALL ambassador lists at once for things that concern everybody. Second, let them create a localized ambassador team page on the wiki (or on connect.opensuse.org, dunno what makes most sense). Actually, it'd be great if they had an English page which is translated - so each team (the Greek team, Brazil team etc) has a page on the wiki; and it is translated in their language(s). They can have links there to the mailinglist and the forum place they hang out, as well as their IRC channel(s). This will allow countries/regions to build their own team. Yet, due to the requirement of having 1-2 ppl on the international list, we are connected. Now we need to make sure there is communication as much as possible. The ambassadors should get the word out on what they do - that's what the ambassador report stuff is for, which I mailed to the Boosters team. I hope we can make that happen. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] SUSE Studio
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Dear friends, We have an interesting opportunity before us to communicate to people who might not be fans of or very much aware of openSUSE. Novell is setting up a mailinglist system for SUSE Studio. Users of Studio are categorized in ISV, individual user, corporate user and open source project. Now the second and last categories we could spam once a month or so with something like a newsletter talking about openSUSE. Just an idea of course, we could also send them daily viagra mail but I bet they'll block SUSE Studio mail if we do that :D Now we can discuss the usual riff-raff of ideas. I can think of a few myself - as usual, ideas are cheap. It's the work that counts. So let me introduce, just for this discussion, an interesting rule: if you add an idea, that means you are willing to do it. For example, if person X will say "we could do a monthly newsletter" that means that person X is willing and committed to do it. Or doesn't share the idea. NOW let's see how many ideas there are ;-) Cheers, Jos (in an experimental mood, combined with a cold, headache, backpains and way to much work on his plate to be able to sit back and relax or sleep, meh meh meh)

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[opensuse-marketing] Need some quick graphics
by Manu Gupta 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi All I know it is abrupt but I need some help Have a look at this http://suseware.com/trial/extended.php I will like all of us to apply our minds to get a set of images that can work as a slide show instead of the 11.2 box.. Also, please check the links below.. see if something is missing I know I have to add twitter, identica and facebook Thanks a lot 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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[opensuse-marketing] setting up a mailing list
by Helen South 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

The Aussie Ambassador, Tim Serong and I agree that a mailing list is the preferred means of communication for Australian users. With our presence in Australia growing stronger, a separate list for local discussion would allow us to activities and events without cluttering other lists . I know there's been some discussion around local lists recently - was there any consensus regarding use of email lists? I'd be keen to go ahead with this if that's ok. Who should I ask to approve and implement the list? thanks 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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