April 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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[opensuse-marketing] A poster or wall paper
by Manu Gupta 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi All I tried this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4977997/openSUSE/heart.svg Check this out and let me know 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] 11.4 Release Party poster
by Fernando Mejia 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Greetings friends, I've been working in a small poster for the 11.4 launch party for our city Guatemala, and this is what I have: http://en.opensuse.org/File:Launch_party_guatemala.png It's based on the openSUSE posters background and made in Inkscape. I'm not quite shure if it's okay to use the geeko and yastie image like that... but if you are interested I can give you a printable version for your local launch parties with your information in it. Just email me at feranto(a)opensuse.org.gt . The poster is very straightforward so just bring me the following details, translated to your languages: -Place : <Your launch party location> -Date: <The date and time of your launch party> -Activities: <The activities you will be hosting> -Your LUG website feranto openSUSE Ambassador en.opensuse.org/User:Feranto -- 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 is Good for us
by Kálmán Kéménczy 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

I have been waiting for this kind of article on the biggest Hungarian portal, index.hu for ages: Linux is Good for us http://index.hu/tech/2011/03/27/jo_lesz_nekunk_a_linux_is/ k -- 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 Marketing Materials and openSUSE:Presentations pages
by Kostas Koudaras 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hello to all openSUSE Marketing people and Ambassadors out there Currently I am working on openSUSE:Marketing materials (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials) What I would like is either the links or the actual files of materials like 11.4 posters, fliers, the Cheat-cube, the paper-penguin Carlos made(I actually need the .svg file from that to make it more neutral so everybody can use it and adjust it to his/her needs) as long as other stuff that exist around so that I can gather them all and upload or link them to the Marketing Materials page. I am also giving links from git so if something I asked is actually there please let me know since I haven't seen all of git yet. Also banners in English or any other language needed ;-). I want to focus on ending if possible that page so that people who want to make an event or set up a booth and want to print some material, to be able to find everything there(at least the basics) without getting lost in the wiki.If anyone want's to help, feel free. Also maybe Jos should consider in printing some of this stuff (like the cheat-cube) and send that along with DVD's, stickers and other promo material since it's a really cool thing to have ;-) Just a thought... I also accept to send me presentations to upload them to openSUSE:Presentations (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations) I know that many of you have one or two or more that it is not uploaded there, Just send me the files by e-mail and I will upload them and maybe write a few words about it. Again especially presentations that are not in English needed. Come on people, lets roll Hope to hear and get something from all of you Marketing people and Ambassadors out there Kostas Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [opensuse-project] Versionitis - Results (Or: The next openSUSE release is openSUSE 12.1)
by Andreas Jaeger 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

For those that don't read the project mailing list or news.o.o, I'm forwarding what I just send to opensuse-project, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-project] Versionitis - Results (Or: The next openSUSE release is openSUSE 12.1) Date: Wednesday, April 06, 2011, 10:06:30 From: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> To: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org The voting on how to do the versioning is over and the "old school" has won by 55 per cent (of 98 participants). Thanks to all that participated in the two votes and the discussion around the topic. As Coolo said in http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2011-03/msg00516.html, we'd like to make a small change to the numbering: We will not have a .0 release but only .1, .2, .3 release. Since we have releases in three months, the November release is always the .1 release, the July release the .2 and the March release the .3. So, the plan is that the next release will be called openSUSE 12.1 and launched on the 10th of November, 2011! Two years later - on the 14th of November, 2013 - we will then have the openSUSE 13.1 release. So, the next four releases are: * November 2011: openSUSE 12.1 * July 2012: openSUSE 12.2 * March 2013: openSUSE 12.3 * November 2013: openSUSE 13.1 Detailed results for logged-in openSUSE members are available at the connect poll page and I have reproduced them here as well: * A: "old school": Like currently but only counting the right number until 3: 55% (54 votes) * B: "Fedora style": Just integers: 29 % (28 votes) * C: "Ubuntu style": YY.MM: 16 % (16 votes) This is also consistent with the results of thefirst public voting (see http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/03/28/opensuse-release-versioning-poll-on- last-three-options/ ). Note that openSUSE does not have a major and minor numbering, even if it seems so. There is right now no difference in any way between what we would do for openSUSE 11.4 or 12.0 or 12.1 – and no sense to speak about openSUSE 11 or openSUSE 11 family. We also had in the past no process on how to name the next release (when to increase which parts of the number). I think this new versioning is still consistent with the old one but also an improvement since it's now clear that we change the first digit every two year. The first poll showed that half of our users prefer a date based versioning and the other a consecutive numbering. So, depending on your point of view, you can see this as a mixture of both or as consecutive numbering ;) So, time now to make openSUSE 12.1 a great release! 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-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org ----------------------------------------- -- 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] Fw: How to raise awareness of the brand and much needed retail funds through retail sales
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

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[opensuse-marketing] Not everything that Ubuntu does is gold
by Chuck Payne 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

This was from a twit from Linux Magazine Natty Narwhal with #Unity: Worst #Ubuntu beta ever http://ow.ly/4svkY <- El Reg not happy with beta release. #LMNews http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/01/ubuntu1004_beta_review/ Pup -- (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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Fw: [opensuse-marketing] Fw: [opensuse-ambassadors] Welcome our new Greek ambassador
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Oops sent to wrong list!! (I'm not thinking straight today) Apologies Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry� smartphone -----Original Message----- From: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:34:53 To: <opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org> Reply-To: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Subject: [opensuse-marketing] Fw: [opensuse-ambassadors] Welcome our new Greek ambassador Meant to send this to the list I wish it would just reply to list instead of the person sending to the list!! Sent from my BlackBerry� smartphone -----Original Message----- From: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:32:55 To: Kostas Koudaras<warlordfff(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: stuart(a)bolin.org.uk Subject: Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Welcome our new Greek ambassador Welcome to the tean Anastasios. Nice to have you onboard. Stuart :) Sent from my BlackBerry� smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:49:26 To: Ambassadors list<opensuse-ambassadors(a)opensuse.org> Subject: [opensuse-ambassadors] Welcome our new Greek ambassador Hi openSUSE Ambassadors Please all give a warm welcome to Anastasios Ksouzafeiris , our new ambassador from Greece. Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE as he told us in his own words. * What have you done already for openSUSE? I have help Greek openSUSE Community organize the trip at Athens and Patra for two main FOSS events in greece. Also I've help Jos with the wiki maintenance and making some bars and pages on it, and spread it to the Ambassadors community. More specified the "Talking Points" page and making navigation bars and linking in the pages below. And a week ago i installed openSUSE 11.4 to a company as main OS for working Libre Office in their offices. As far i haven't contributed a lot on this but i will do my best in the next few days/months with various work. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. In the near future and more specific on Monday, i make an agreement with 1 Institution here in Thessaloniki and after a discussion we had they will change the Linux Lab and Lesson from Mint & Ubuntu to openSUSE. I will help the teacher with the installation in the main server that students connect and learning CLI (command line interface). Also i will do a mini speak to the class for openSUSE. After this i will be in the 2 main events in Greece (OpenFest, Fosscomm) as a booth supporter and in the second one i will be speaker for OBS with an other openSUSE Greek Community member (Eustathios Agrapidis). As well after these events I will try to find another events or speaking places to promoting openSUSE. Of course i promote it to everyone that i support as my main work (Systems Administrator). * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? I am ready for this and i will do the best i can. After all these years as linux user/supporter i feel it's time to work hard for this. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? The best kept secret of openSUSE i think that it is the Wonderful community. The people that i know from the community as far are awesome and so labor with great ideas on their heads. * Why do you love to do this? As an open source supporter i love to talk people about this and how things works for free! * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started learning Linux in 2003 with my friend and since then is my main OS. With openSUSE I involved after a talk I had with a member from Greek Community (Eustathios Iosifidis) and since then openSUSE have been my addiction. My level of experience in Linux it is very good because of my job i work to a company as Systems Administrator on Linux/Unix machines. -- 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-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org N��r��y隊Z)z{.�隮G��x>�{.n�+��Ǩ�h��]�ب��\�i��zا��^��)z{.��+

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[opensuse-marketing] Gnome 3.0 / Launch Party in Manchester
by Stuart Tanner 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

As per Bryen's email earlier I have contacted the Manchester Team at Free software UK and I am attending their launch party. But I don't get away free so I have to give a talk about "openSUSE / Novell / Gnome" Relationship.. Based on the fact I am a KDE User by heart I am looking for tips, ideas and sub topics that I can put together to take promote the gnome side of suse. Any offers? -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44(0)1204 410474 Mob: +44(0)7868 028028 www.bolin.org.uk Distributing openSUSE in the UK Registered Linux User: 529825 -- 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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