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[opensuse-marketing] Fw: [opensuse-ambassadors] Welcome our new Greek ambassador
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

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

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[opensuse-marketing] suggestions for cheap goodies
by Jos Poortvliet 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi all, In my previous mail I mentioned stickers, postcards and buttons - in short, simple, cheap goodies. I would actually love some more ideas in that area, I might be able to add those to boxes too ;-) Be a bit specific and include a cost guestimate. And the needed artwork - in short, I'll just order some of the stuff you guys & girls will send me, so that should be easy for me :D for example, a list with a nice graphic for a button (or a series of graphics for buttons) and a size (or sizes) & guestimated price that you found on the web would be something I can work with. Just a "well we could give out lighters with a nice openSUSE graphic" is not terribly helpful unless someone can provide the graphic ;-) Like the other mail - due to me not being around that often, I need someone to mail me the conclusions. Bryen, you stepped up for the other one, you ready to do that for this too? hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #169 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi @all! Issue #169 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://bit.ly/hpo2CJ [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] Thanks for the Material
by Konelix 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hello friends! I want to thank you for the material received yesterday to spread OpenSuse , free software and open source software in Guatemala Central America. Our next event will FLISOL http://www.flisol.net/FLISOL2011/Guatemala/ this we will begin to distribute the material received. Soon I will send you pictures of this event Axel Ruiz indenti.ca konelix IRC Freenode konelix IT Consultant Open Training & e-Ntiers Consulting OpenSuSe Ambassador Guatemala -- 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] GNOME3
by Bryen M. Yunashko 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Folks, As you know, GNOME 3 will be coming out *very* soon and soon after that, we will be providing GNOME3 with 11.4. We will even be shipping LiveCDs to GNOME Foundation with GNOME3 built in. GNOME Foundation is doing a lot of work to organize the launch of GNOME3. But like any other project, there's never quite enough launch parties. We also have our own launch parties (yes some will continue on in the next months ahead even if March 10 was our launch date.) I think it will develop strong goodwill between projects if we can either plan co-launch parties with GNOME Foundation or, in regions where there is no one to have GNOME3 launch parties, consider offering a 11.4 launch party and invite GNOME3 to join in on the launch party. Or, if a GNOME Ambassador is not in your area, consider doing it yourself. I am certain that the GNOME Foundation will appreciate and remember the support that openSUSE has given to raising visibility. GNOME is one of several important desktops that openSUSE provides and we should show our appreciation for the hard work that upstream projects do that help make our own Project even better. Both GNOME and openSUSE are equally generating good noise out there right now. Combined, we can take that noise to a higher level. Along this same vein, I mention GNOME3 because it is just around the corner. But in fact, we should definitely look for other opportunities to co-launch with other projects whose software we use to make openSUSE as awesome as it is today. Any other interesting launches coming up that we should think about? Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] facebooki OBS??
by jdd 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

do you know this? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/ April fool?? 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] Fwd: Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] GNOME3
by Stuart Tanner 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 17:44:37 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > Folks, > > As you know, GNOME 3 will be coming out *very* soon and soon after that, > we will be providing GNOME3 with 11.4. We will even be shipping LiveCDs > to GNOME Foundation with GNOME3 built in. > > GNOME Foundation is doing a lot of work to organize the launch of > GNOME3. But like any other project, there's never quite enough launch > parties. We also have our own launch parties (yes some will continue on > in the next months ahead even if March 10 was our launch date.) > > I think it will develop strong goodwill between projects if we can > either plan co-launch parties with GNOME Foundation or, in regions where > there is no one to have GNOME3 launch parties, consider offering a 11.4 > launch party and invite GNOME3 to join in on the launch party. Or, if a > GNOME Ambassador is not in your area, consider doing it yourself. I am > certain that the GNOME Foundation will appreciate and remember the > support that openSUSE has given to raising visibility. GNOME is one of > several important desktops that openSUSE provides and we should show our > appreciation for the hard work that upstream projects do that help make > our own Project even better. > > Both GNOME and openSUSE are equally generating good noise out there > right now. Combined, we can take that noise to a higher level. > > Along this same vein, I mention GNOME3 because it is just around the > corner. But in fact, we should definitely look for other opportunities > to co-launch with other projects whose software we use to make openSUSE > as awesome as it is today. Any other interesting launches coming up > that we should think about? > > Bryen M Yunashko > openSUSE Marketing Team Well along this vein as osCommerce 3 has just launched, how about promoting openSUSE Lamp Servers with osCommerce don't know quite how it will work - but like you said any excuse to push openSUSE along with the release of another project? (osCommerce 3 releasse announcement has just hit my e-mail seconds before I read this one (I am way behind on my mail).. Just a thought.. -- 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 ----------------------------------------- -- 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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[opensuse-marketing] DVD REQUEST ARRIVED!
by Raul 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hello friends, The requested dvds have arrived! Thanks AJ! DVDs will be used in FLISOL 2011 + GNOME3 Launch Party + openSUSE 11.4 Release! Thanks again! :D -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom openSUSE Member | Linux User #4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Show us your desktop!
by Kim Leyendecker 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

11.4 is out, and I think it´s time for post-release marketing now! Maybe with this idea: We can ask our users, to make a screenshot of their desktops and load up it to Facebook, Flickr or their server and send us the link. We can collect the photos and create a little "our user´s desktop show" with the screenshots. *What´s the sense of this idea?* We will see, how many are using 11.4 already. And we will show our users, that openSUSE is _their_ distro too. It´s a good chance to make openSUSE more personal to our users. *How we want to collect the pictures?* As I think today, we can use Facebook. The user upload the photo and post it to our profile. Also we can use planet openSUSE for that. Somebody blog about it, and the user post their desktops as a comment. *What the f*ck to do with the pictures?* At first, we have to make clear, that the project is allowed to use the pics for marketing. We´ve got the advantage, that we have _free_ marketing stuff. But the real thing behind this is that we have a (hopefully huge) gallery with our user´s desktop. *Why that all?* Because the user will think: openSUSE is my Linux! It makes the distro more personal (User: Darling, look, their´s my desktop! And their´s the desktop of our neighbours. And look their! Their´s the desktop of uncle Ronald from Alabama!) Another aspect is, that the user maybe see some nice desktops and get ideas of style his own. Hope you will like it! If you still have some questions, don´t be afraid to ask ;) thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador http://www.suseusers.de.vu powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC2 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-default 2.6.37.1-14 | using Tumbleweed openSUSE/Slashdot Profilname: openLHAG (OpenLHAG) Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] ambassador reports
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi boosters, The marketing team has been brainstorming on how to give ambassadors a tad more attention in openSUSE; motivate them to make a bit more noise; and reward them for what they do. Now we have a few ideas, but for one, we thought it might make sense to use connect. Yes, it could probably be done via the wiki and other ways but I know you guys have a hammer and might see this as a nail :D *what is the problem* the ambassadors _sometimes_ create event reports. We want those reports for several reasons: - to have an idea of what they are doing - to measure how much we do - to motivate others - to SHOW what we do Unfortunately, not so many event reports are made although we're fairly sure many events have openSUSE attendance. This is due to several issues. *First*, not all ambassadors are so connected to us - many are not 'official ambassador' or their English skills are minimal and they are not internationally involved. I will send a follow-up mail with ideas on how to solve that. *Second*, filling in an event report on the wiki is not exactly easy for many. Some send one by mail - which is fine but leaves little record. *Third*, the reports receive little visibility. They are mentioned somewhere in the weekly news if you're lucky and of course on the marketing ML, but that's it pretty much. Numbers in it are not saved, we don't realy do anything with it as there is no real easy record. *The solution?* Ideally, the reports would end up in a central place, some database... And ideally, they would be connected to the ambassadors - so they can build up a trackrecord of events they have visited. Once we have this we can also show reports on eg news.o.o in a feed box on the side for example, or on our homepage. We can analyze and use statistics (for promo), promote events, do monthly articles - all kinds of things. We have an events page on en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_events which suffers from similar issues - most people don't create a page because it is not easy and not localized. *connect.o.o* In short. We wonder - would Connect not offer a much better way of handeling events, event reports and the like? Would it not offer a better place for ambassador user accounts (with associated event reports as track records)? Culd it offer an easy place for ambassadors to add info for an event and afterwards add a report & pictures which we can then display in the planet feed (localized, if needed)? In case you think this is relevant, chuck and manu might have some time to help with this both in 'how to do it' (I would also love to think abou that) and the doing itself. Cheers, Jos

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