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Re: [opensuse-marketing] PDF posters
by Pieter De Decker 21 May '11

21 May '11

**This is a plain-text resend of a HTML message that was rejected by the mailing list** Alright... I have upconverted all Scribus files to v1.4.0rc1 files, rewritten some text and collected all necessary fonts and color profiles for each file. I have the poster and slide sources along with their exported PDFs ready to go. If Jos would be so kind to provide me a Git account and a folder in the artwork repository, I can upload them for everyone to use :) If I release the material under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC-SA license, will that be loose enough to allow everyone to create their local translations and to use them to promote openSUSE? I should point out that the backgrounds on some of the posters/slides are below the recommended minimum DPI, but I don't have the time to search for other suitable background images right now. Also, the YaST logo that I used is only 256x256 pixels, so this may produce less than satisfactory results if printed. Does anyone know where I can find an SVG version of the YaST logo? Pieter 2011/4/26 Pieter De Decker <pdedecker(a)gmail.com> > > Hi all, > > > I would like to put them in git*, how about you getting access so you > > can update them if/when you like? > Yes, I'd like that! :-) I will fix the sources and add them to the > repository for translation as soon as I have some time. That may take > a couple of weeks, I'm afraid. > > > The licensing IS a bit of an issue - it's really helpful if we are able > > to translate flyers etc and for that, artwork needs to be GPL like and > > come with sources... Any way we can convince you to release the source? > I've already released the sources. The Box.net link must be somewhere > on the mailing list, but I'll put the fixed sources in the Git repo > when I have the time. As for the licensing: I've included a text file > in the posters/slides ZIP that collects the licensing information, but > I don't know if the material's licenses are compatible with the GPL > license. Is there an intellectual property expert in the room? > > > We don't have it translated due to some problems with the source files > Are you unable to open them or does the source render incorrectly on > your computer? I'll look into it when my work load quiets down. > > Pieter > > 2011/4/26 Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff(a)gmail.com> > > > > 2011/4/25 Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org>: > > > On 2011-02-15 Pieter wrote: > > >> 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. :-) > > > > > > you're entirely right, the slides belong somewhere - exactly in the > > > place you put them: Slideshow for booths :D > > > > > > I would like to put them in git*, how about you getting access so you > > > can update them if/when you like? > > > > > > * https://gitorious.org/opensuse-artwork/opensuse- > > > artwork/trees/master/slides > > > > > > The licensing IS a bit of an issue - it's really helpful if we are able > > > to translate flyers etc and for that, artwork needs to be GPL like and > > > come with sources... Any way we can convince you to release the source? > > > > > > (I would use it to at least produce Spanish and Portugese versions, I > > > know the greeks already have it in their language. But it also makes it > > > possible for us to update this in the future...) > > > > We don't have it translated due to some problems with the source files > > but anyway we got them printed and they got a lot of peoples > > attention. It is some great piece of artwork and definitely we could > > use it globally. > > Kostas > > > > > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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] Xariseto.gr Bazaar, May 14, 2011 - Report
by Thanasis Rous 20 May '11

20 May '11

On May 14 2011, we joined the calling from our friends from the web page xariseto.gr. They had a bazaar in , Thessaloniki, New statue K.Karamanlis (40.622943, 22.951405 in google maps). Xariseto is a festival where people meet and donate their personal belongings which they don't use any more. So as a Linux and openSUSE community we thought that participating in these kind of festivals is really interesting. Me and Efstathios Iosifidis set up a booth in order to inform people about FOSS and openSUSE project. We had all the related stuff about Gnome and openSUSE project around the booth (DVD's , Cheat Sheet, flyer). Many people asked us about the project, but let me inform you abou these interesting questions... 1) What do you offer? What is openSUSE and FOSS? 2) Can i install openSUSE on my PC and also can i use my mother language? 3) Is it difficult to use? 4) Can i use openSUSE in order to write documents , watch videos ,and surf in the net? 5) Where can i found help and more information about the project? 6) In the past i installed SUSE 6.0. Now can i install and use the openSUSE at the same way? (that was one of my favorite questions) 7) My daughter owns a netbook Ubuntu Linux installed, can i install openSUSE? 8) Free Software means Free language? (this question remind me Richard Stallman's quote " Free as in Freedom") So what did we have? What did we present in Xariseto Festival? Why did we take part in? * Event Date: May 14, 2011 * openSUSE Ambassadors: Efstathios Iosifidis, Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias * Event Details o Tell us about the event, What did you do? We were informing people about FOSS and openSUSE project. It's a good opportunity to pass the word since it's crisis and people cannot buy new computers or software. o How many DVDs taken and distributed? About 60 DVDs. We also used the file Greek help flyer o How many people were there at the event. Uncountable. o Did you have a booth? Yes o Who staffed the booth? Efstathios Iosifidis, Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias o Would you go again? Yes of course! o What more can you do to make it better? Furthermore i would like to mention that people from all ages (i could say from 7 years old to 70 years old) asked about the openSUSE project , some of them knew about Linux and FOSS , and others found interesting the idea of using an open source,free software and safe operating system for their pc's , as well as to redistribute it to other people. You can find the photos of the event here : [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20413076/opensuse/xariseto_14_5_2011/1.jpg (Our booth) [2] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20413076/opensuse/xariseto_14_5_2011/2.jpg (Efstathios Iosifidis and our booth!) [3] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20413076/opensuse/xariseto_14_5_2011/3.jpg (A photo with our friends from the web page xariseto.gr) Have a lot of fun! Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias -- About Me-- http://zoumpis.wordpress.com http://www.zoumpis.eu http://en.opensuse.org/User:Zoumpis -- 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 Weekly News 176 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 176 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun :-) -- 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] Re: 11.4 DVD request
by Bryen M. Yunashko 19 May '11

19 May '11

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:30 -0700, Brandon Fouts wrote: > Howdy Bryen - thanks for all the help at LinuxFestNorthwest > > > Can you send me a box of 11.4 DVDs? - at the below address, of course. > > PS - I hope to find a couple of new Ambassadors in King county. Brandon! Good to hear from you again and thanks again for all your hard work in NW US. You did an awesome job promoting openSUSE at LFNW and glad to hear you need even more DVD's! You rock! T http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd -- 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: 11.4 DVD request
by Bryen M. Yunashko 19 May '11

19 May '11

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:30 -0700, Brandon Fouts wrote: > Howdy Bryen - thanks for all the help at LinuxFestNorthwest > > > Can you send me a box of 11.4 DVDs? - at the below address, of course. > > PS - I hope to find a couple of new Ambassadors in King county. Brandon! Good to hear from you again and thanks again for all your hard work in NW US. You did an awesome job promoting openSUSE at LFNW and glad to hear you need even more DVD's! You rock! The way to order DVDs is through this website http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd and you should get them in the next few weeks. If you need it much sooner, let me know and I'll nudge a few shoulders. Thanks again! 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] connect event!
by Jos Poortvliet 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hi all! The openSUSE conference event on openSUSE Connect has been created: http://bit.ly/lTxjLf Join it :D For Desktop Summit fans, there is an event as well: http://bit.ly/kNCnhs Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Ohio Linux Fest
by Bryen M. Yunashko 19 May '11

19 May '11

Are you in the Northeast region of the United States? Want to visit a great FOSS conference and help promote openSUSE? The Ohio Linux Fest is scheduled for September 9-11 in Columbus Ohio. Last year, there were over 1500 attendees and a great reception around the openSUSE Booth. Submit talks too! The deadline for CFP is June 1, so hurry! http://ohiolinux.org/ If you're interested, please contact me and I will discuss the plans with you including any possible sponsorship for travel.. We've been making some great appearances in the United States this year, let's continue that momentum in Ohio! Thanks, 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] Report:Fosscomm 2011 Patras
by Kostas Koudaras 19 May '11

19 May '11

FOSSCOMM 2011 was held in Patras on the 7 to 8 May from Patras Linux User Group (PLUG) and the Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology (Computer Laboratory / Computer Center), University of Patras. The conference was very interesting with several additional speeches, several parallel events (booths from communities and projects, parallel talks, workshops) and live streaming. The Greek openSUSE community has united to present this two-day conference in Patras. There, we met people from other communities, discussed and promoted openSUSE and FOSS. The community participated at the conference with the following presentations and parallel events: Saturday, May 7, Presentation by Bruno Friedmann, for the openSUSE project and its future. Presentation by George Bratsos for the release of openSUSE 11.4 and the new technologies and innovations brought by the distribution. Presentation by Kostas Koudaras who presented the Greek openSUSE community and their actions, the project dealt with and the events it has organized. Presentation by George Koutsikos, for the Enlightenment Project. Presentation by Athanasios Elias Rousinopoulos about a subproject of openSUSE, the openSUSE Medical, which contains tools used by the branch of medicine. Presentation by Efstathios Iossifidis about the Greek Gnome community and the release of Gnome 3 and the new technologies and innovations. Lighting Talks by members of the Greek openSUSE community about sub-projects with which we participate, but also things that we do all together. Introducing YaST (Efstathios Agrapidis), Add / Remove software in openSUSE (Athanasios - Elias Rousinopoulos), Weekly News - The Greek way (Efstathios Agrapidis), Evergreen Project (George Tsiapaliokas), Tumbleweed Project (George Bratsos), KDE Akokandi (Antonis Tsiapaliokas), Guidelines for mariners, using openSUSE Community tools (Efstathios Iosifidis). Sunday, May 8, Presentation by Efstathios Agrapidis for the revolutionary OBS platform that solves packaging problems. Presentation by Efstathios Iossifidis on how we can create an openSUSE distribution with SUSE Studio. Workshop by Efstathios Agrapidis to create .deb and .rpm packages with OBS. The openSUSE community booth was one of the largest in the organization and except the dvds, posters,, flyers, cheat-sheets etc. we co-hosted the booth of the Greek community of Gnome, the Enlightenment Project and the amazing people of other communities who were there to assist and promote their favorite project and FOSS in general. On Saturday evening the openSUSE community had a Release party for the distribution of openSUSE 11.4 at the hotel where he resided. The party achieved its purpose because, apart from the cake we ate and the beer we drunk, we came closer to people from other communities such as the Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD and OS-arena. At the end of the night Red Hat people visited our party, with whom we shared the same roof (hotel). :P The workshop ended with a farewell message from the organizers of Fosscomm whom we thank for the wonderful organization even though the misfortunes of the second day which left us without power and wifi internet access for the most part. More photos can be found in our group on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=153638841330360&ref=ts -- 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] Conference Promotion task list
by Bryen M. Yunashko 19 May '11

19 May '11

We now have a wiki page detailing the items we need to take care of for promoting the conference at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Promotion_2011 Some parts are still WIP, but there's a number of items that y ou can already volunteer to pick from. If you have any questions or feel there are items to add/modify/delete, please feel free to do so! Thanks, 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] Need Lizards for FrosCon 2011
by Jan Krings 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hey Lizards, on August 20th/21th, there is the "Free and Open Source Software Conference" in St. Augustin near Cologne (Germany). Until now, without openSUSE. I have no problem to organize the booth, but atm. I'm the only person from the openSUSE Community, who want to go to the FrosCon. And alone, it makes no sense. The deadline for the Call of Projects is the 23th May 2011. So we have not much time to decided if there is a openSUSE booth or not. If there is another person who wants to helps me I'm happy. More are of course better. http://www.froscon.de/index.php?id=41&mid=154&ret=15&L=1&L=1 Greets Jan Krings -- 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] Interesting ... Fwd: Linux Expo to Sponsor Software Freedom Day Activities
by Izabel Valverde 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hello everybody, Hi Tony, Hi Drew, Did you get this? :-) Izabel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Linux Expo of SoCal <scale-announce(a)socallinuxexpo.org> Date: 2011/5/13 Subject: Linux Expo to Sponsor Software Freedom Day Activities To: valverde.izabel(a)gmail.com The Linux Expo of Southern California, parent organization of the popular Southern California Linux Expo, announced today that it will sponsor events during the observation of Software Freedom Day 2011, to be held Sept. 17, 2011. By doing so, the Linux Expo expands its efforts to popularize the use of Free and Open Source Software beyond the Southern California Linux Expo, which is held annually in February. The Linux Expo will accept proposals from Southern California groups for events observing Software Freedom Day, and will issue five grants of up to $500 each to support each event. The funding may be used for space rental, media duplication, printing costs or other expenses related to their event. Groups from San Luis Obispo County south to the California-Mexico border, and from the Pacific Ocean east to the California-Nevada border, are encouraged to apply. Interested groups can send their proposals to press(a)socallinuxexpo.org. All proposals must be received by July 31, 2011. -- 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] Some Questions about openSUSE
by Stuart Tanner 17 May '11

17 May '11

All I am looking for a suitable answer to this question. Can you explain the genius behind the all software created named ‘openSUSE’? -- Kind Regards Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux Delivering openSUSE Retail to the UK 24 Vincent Street Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: +44-1204-410474 Mob: +44-7868-028028 www.bolin.org.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Spread the Conference word via Facebook!
by Bryen M. Yunashko 17 May '11

17 May '11

As you all know, today we formally announced the openSUSE Conference 2011 as seen here:http://news.opensuse.org/2011/05/16/opensuse-conference-2011-to-be-cre… I've created a Facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202207046487042 Please visit the page and invite as many people as you think might be interested to attend this event. We will add more invitationals on other social media sites soon, but for now, we have Facebook to start with and let's move forth. The more people know about us, the more we can expect an awesome event. 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] Introduction.
by Richard Clinker 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi there. Nelson (ketheriel) suggested I join this mailing list after I responded to a forum thread about contributing to openSUSE. (http://forums.opensuse.org/english/other-forums/community-fun/surveys-polls…) Well, I've put together the start of what could be an article something along the lines of what ketheriel had in mind. You can find it at http://bumblebee.homelinux.net/openSUSE-article.odt. I'd be grateful if those with the appropriate contacts could forward it on to maybe get some responses that'd go toward the finished piece so it can then be published wherever you see fit. I hope it's a useful contribution. Best Regards, Rich (skaterich on the openSUSE forums.) http://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardclinker -- Sent from a PC running openSUSE 11.4, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.10. Please virus scan any attachments. They will not have been scanned by me! -- 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] banner for cheap
by jdd 16 May '11

16 May '11

It's a very good addon when building a boot to have a banner. You can find an example here (including photos of the actual banner) - the banner is printed on heavy material, the one made specially for banners and with eyelets. You have to give a pdf ith the good L/l ratio: http://dodin.org/opensuse/artwork/ there are both jpg and svg (source) to allow localisation. In France, I ordered from: art2creation(a)hotmail.fr the cost of one banner, 200x40 centimeters, including all costs (package and delivery) is *23* euros which I find extremely cheap. Just a note: the above e-mail is said to be from France, but the delivery is from "Farra Company, Aleppo, Syria" (that may be a problem for some people). But may be you can find similar prices elsewhere (I found it on e-bay) 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] Fwd: Publicity Material for Southwest Computer Conference
by Jos Poortvliet 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi all!!! See attached, anyone able to come up with something on such short notice? ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Publicity Material for Southwest Computer Conference Date: Tuesday 10 May 2011, 01:29:44 From: Orv Beach <orv(a)orvsplace.net> To: "Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks(a)bryen.com> CC: jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com I just realized we're only 3 weeks away from SWCC. You've volunteered to help create marketing materials, and I appreciate that! What we need is: - Larger posters (suitable for putting on a media tripod) - perhaps ANSI C or ANSI D sized. These would have some basic info about FOSS software (WHY you'd want to use it, WHAT it does for you, WHERE to get it, etc.) Maybe 2-3 with varied info on them. - Some handouts with more detailed info on them. Either 8 1/2 x 11, or larger if it's in trifold format. Note - all of the info should be focused on desktop use. This is a desktop users' conference :-) Feel free to use color if you like. Although it's way more expensive to print, it will be better received and I actually have a real printing budget for SWCC this year :-) Whatever you come up with I can have printed locally, so we don't have to worry about shipping anything. Digital formats would be fine (I assume PDF, but anything format Kinko's can handle will work). And, whatever you come up with, I'll need by about May 30th, so I have time to get it all printed and collated, if necessary. Thanks for whatever you can do for us! Orv -----------------------------------------

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[opensuse-marketing] Non-standard compliant website list
by Roger Luedecke 16 May '11

16 May '11

One thing that keeps people from adopting Linux is the problem of websites being designed using MS only technologies, or that block non MS browsers or OSes. Would it be feasible for us to set up a list of commonly used / important websites that do this, and lobby those sites to adopt modern stadards, and to blitz whatever reviews possible to indicate their failure and lower their ranking, thus pressutring them to adopt standards? -- 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] Monthly Meeting Reminder: 17-May-2011 15:00 UTC
by Bryen M. Yunashko 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi All, this is a reminder of the monthly team meeting for the Marketing Team at 15:00 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday.) Our meeting topics will focus on the following two areas: 1. Upcoming events: Review of upcoming events and what resources we need to prepare for those local events. This will take no longer than 15 minutes. 2. The remmainder of the meeting will focus on promoting the upcoming openSUSE Conference. A formal announcement is very imminent and we are going to need to focus a lot of energy on promoting the conerence since we don't have that much time left to the conference date and the things that need to be done in the interim. See you all tomorrow at 15:00 UTC. See http://bit.ly/mQCZFu for the time in your local area! 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] Wiki Blitz
by Roger Luedecke 15 May '11

15 May '11

A frustration for me was often the lack of content in the wiki. I think we should have a sprint to fill in or migrate a large amount of articles in the wiki. Friends and clients often bemoan forum trawling to try and find solutions (Ubuntu users). Even if its just a copy and paste to start with, thats better than keeping it all blank. -- 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 - Web Widget Advertising?
by Tony Su 12 May '11

12 May '11

Wondering if openSUSE has an online ads, similar to Google Adsense (banners, etc) Aside from my personal preference to further provide openSUSE exposure deploying standardized images that send people directly to openSUSE, I'd sure like to deploy something other than the largely monopolistic Google Adsense that has bought up all the competition is sight. TIA, Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Weekly News 175 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 175 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun :-) -- 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] Fwd: [opensuse-project] Enlightment Derivative from openSUSE
by Manu Gupta 11 May '11

11 May '11

Can we have a news item for this? Encouraging derivatives is a good idea in my opinion also ask the author his permission to do this The only problem is it is not named openSUSE but I think that can be ignored Regards Manu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ricardo Chung <amon0.thoth1(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Can we get on this To: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:36:32 AM Kostas Koudaras wrote: > 2011/5/6 Per Jessen <per(a)opensuse.org>: > > Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > >> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:26 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > > http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a- > > usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/ > > > >>> 128Mb RAM is too little I suspect. I don't think YaST will run in > >>> less than 196M. > >>> > >>> Anyway, decent secondhand PCs with comparable performance are > >>> available on ebay for about USD25, maybe a little more. :-) > >> > >> As it ships pre-installed I doubt we need a full fledged yast around > >> this to get an installer running. It's rather 'fixed' hardware, so a > >> simple dd before shipping the sticks might very well be worth it. > > > > Good point. The question (perhaps) is, how do those ARMs perform? I > > have some 5-6 year old laptops with 1.5GHz Celerons and 512Mb RAM - > > with 10.x, they were still a very capable work platform, but with 11.4, > > they're much too slow. > > What about if we install 11.1 or 11.4 with Enlightement? > we could try and experiment on it, I have some people that would like > to try it and see if it's possible, I will send an e-mail to see if I > can buy one or two so that we can experiment on that. Maybe you could try with http://sites.google.com/site/petitelinux/download wich is based on openSUSE 11.4 with Enlightenment. Petite Linux is an openSUSE build, created using susestudio.com, featuring the Enlightenment (e17) Desktop Environment Features: Fits on a (live) cd, just insert the cd, reboot, try it out No need for choices, it works as-is No clutter, just functionality > > If something like that is possible we could organize a hackfest inside > the oSC, what do you think about that? > > > /Per > > > > -- > > Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2°C) > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org > > Kostas -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 video drivers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+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: I would like to be an ambassador
by Roger Luedecke 09 May '11

09 May '11

On 05/08/2011 11:56 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > Hi > > I am Manu and along with Kostas and Carlos we are the Ambassador > Welcome team. We are > glad that you like to join openSUSE as an ambassador to promote > openSUSE. > > We have a couple of questions for you: > * What have you done already for openSUSE? > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you > want to do the next 6 months. > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? > * Why do you love to do this? > * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of > experience? I haven't done much inside the project formally as of yet, just participation on forums, openFATE and IRC. I do however help friends and clients migrate to openSUSE; usually from Windows. I host the Inland Empire Linux Users Group and Workshop, ambassador Drew Adams co-hosts. As openSUSE is my preferred distro, I inevitably evangelize it and have converted three people from Ubuntu so far. Later this month I am hosting a special event as part of a "Day of DIY," Introduction to Linux. I anticipate having a good number of people in attendence since it is for the Saturation Festival crowd. I intend to use that as an opportunity to hand out disks with quick-start pamphlets. The casual Linux user may not know the power of the YaST tools in openSUSE. I think YaST is one of the biggest reasons to go openSUSE. I have used linux lightly over the last three years or so. I learned Bash and Unix via the Mac OSX. My first successful install of a distro was openSUSE. I'm hardly a guru, but I usually know more than anybody else I know. I can usually with time and cursing figure out any problem I or a client is experiencing and fix it. > The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the > ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other > ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: > * share with them what you like to do > * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how > many people joined > * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what > you want to improve > * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as > well > We have our weekly LUG, which varies in attendance. We are hoping to be able to use the Saturation Festival as a means to boost membership. We are going to make fliers for the LUG/Workshop and place them around local campuses of the Universities and Community Colleges. > Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so > please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the > openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are > their needs. Linux usage is unusually rare in this region. Frankly not so surprising though. It will take some time to ascertain the full size, establish a community, and then know the needs. There has never been a LUG in this area. > We'd like to send your answers to the opensuse-ambassadors list and > thus introduce > you as new ambassador. Please keep this in mind when answering and if you > don't agree, please tell us! > > For adding you to the ambassador list at > http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list, please tell me: > your country, region/city and your user page in the wiki. United States Riverside, California. http://en.opensuse.org/User:Shadowolf7 > For details of creating a user page, see: > http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ > > We know that openSUSE is very special to you and you might be tempted > to give it a capital "O" but that's wrong, so please remember > openSUSE is always spelled "openSUSE". > > 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Thoughts on openSUSE Conference Name
by Jos Poortvliet 08 May '11

08 May '11

On Saturday 30 April 2011 03:34:49 Helen South wrote: > 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?) Hi all, Next monday we still have time to print a cool poster for LinuxTag. So we need to decide on a theme sunday. As you've seen in the mail to -project, we have a conference location. I am putting information on the wiki right now (Klaas, didn't you promise to do that? I need to keep beating on you, don't I?). So, what should we do? Just say - most like RWX^3 so let's go ahead with the poster stuff??? Or does anyone have a better idea based on the information on the location we have (see project ml)? Unless somebody has a better idea, Robert prints the RWX themed poster and we get ahead with that. One thing on that poster, btw - Robert, I do agree with some here that the 4th character on the design - well, I have no idea what that is supposed to depict... But having ppl check the site to find that out is fine with me too. Your call. Which needs updating too, who is up for modifying the http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Conference page? You can take content from our current call for papers draft We could also create a http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ConferenceMobile page. Please get content from what I'm writing on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP and http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011 Cheers, Jos

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