openSUSE Marketing June 2011

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[opensuse-marketing] [opensuse] Attention -- Facebook Group Members
by Chuck Payne 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

{ATTENTION} Please pass this a long to your friends that this might effect/ Sorry for the cross post but I want to make sure everyone knows that we will be updating the Facebook following openSUSE Group. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=762429462#!/group.php?gid=2256834487 Once we update to the new group format, all currently a member will need to rejoin. We currently have over 5,500 members, and there is no away I can re-add all. I want to make sure all know, that the group, isn't going away, but is being upgrade to the new format. This was not our choice, Facebook is archive all the old groups and forcing us to the new format. . While I know many may not be a member of Facebooks or this group. I want to make sure what all know about this change. If you have friends that use the group, please let them know. I will be making this change tomorrow night at 02:00 UTC.. Again, I am sorry to cross post, but I know a lot people don't sign up to all the list. Thanks you for your time. Chuck Payne -- (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member/Marketing/Social Media 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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[opensuse-marketing] Request for a live CD/DVD
by Roman Ahmed 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Dear Sir, I would like to use openSUSE. I'm linux lover & using ubuntu. May I get a free Live CD/DVD? Br, Roman Tokyo, Japan Sent from dio's iPhone X -- 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] Strategy voting reminder!
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hi all! In 3 days, the voting for the openSUSE strategy has to be done. We've had only about 1/5th of our members vote and that's not a lot. Now I know we don't have any way to check if members are still very active so maybe most are not. But if you are, please, vote! Find the last article from news.o.o here: http://bit.ly/iB2Dzh And a direct link to voting: http://bit.ly/kZaAC2 You just have to log in with your connect account and VOTE! For 2 years people have been asking 'what does openSUSE want'. We tried to put that in the strategy. Ok, it is not perfect, but that is because we didn't appoint someone to tell us what we want but because we *asked*. And then, yes, you get compromise. Anything bad in there is there either because you didn't speak up (tssss bad bad) or the majority disagreed with you. And that is how it SHOULD work. It is what sets us apart from the other major distributions - we have no dictator or 'steering group'. But democracy also comes with responsibilities - voting! Now, enact your democratic duty, here: http://bit.ly/kZaAC2 Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [opensuse-buildservice] Feedback on OBS Private instance installation at Renault Automotive
by Jos Poortvliet 26 Jun '11

26 Jun '11

I think it'd be awesome if we could contact Xavier and do an article about this for news.o.o... I'm pretty sure we already have half the info we need for that in his mail to -builservice below :D On 2011-06-23 JAFFREZIC Xavier <xavier.jaffrezic(a)renault.com> wrote: Hi everybody, I'm working at RENAULT Automotive and we are involved in the GenIVI alliance. For testing purpose, we need an OBS private instance for building our software stack and keep all of application graphics confidential. So I have started to install and configure a OBS instance using the opensuse wiki : http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_private_instance (written by Dominig Ar Foll as I understood) This was very useful for preparing the hardware, configuring the disk, downloading all the software images. With all these in formations, I was able to start quite quickly the OBS instance. I think, the wiki should contain a section concerning the quick test installation using only one hard drive (containing every things) . This solution wouldn't be safe at all for data's, but this would reduce the disk preparation to copying the appliance to it . But, the wiki is very complete to set an production OBS instance (with lots of optimizations) . But to set up this kind of Instance, you need an agreement from the management because you will need to buy a few equipment and the agreement could be easily obtained from a Demo based on an initial quick and dirty OBS installation. When the appliance started, it clearly does nothing and problems have started . (And there is no error message anywhere . That's driving crazy) First what was missing in the wiki was the proxy configuration (Dominig, with it great experience and with lot of patience, help me a lot to set up this proxy configuration). So, I have added a small section in the wiki corresponding to this. While the proxy is configured . the OBS still does nothing (Aaaargh !) Here is comes the tricky part . All tutorial on the net are based on copying the prj prjconf from another OBS instance, for which a login is required . I didn't understand anything to all of these . But it seems also that OBS has evolved a lot and all of these exotic manipulation aren't any more required for quickstarting a linked OBS . (but they maybe are for a standalone OBS instance) . Well, as a complementary information, I have used the 2.2.80 version on the OBS Appliance. Dominig show me the alternative way and almost everything can be done using only the WebUI .. Yes in that case, your OBS will be linked to an higher OBS instance, but this is sufficient for beginning .. So, the only thing that couldn't be done by the WebUI is to setup the OSC configuration file . (in fact, I don't now if it is mandatory regarding the OBS configuration but it's a very easy way to check that the OBS is properly configured). The tricks that Dominig has proposed is modify the .ossrc file to make the "apiurl" line pointing to the OBS that your are trying to configure. In that way, this insures that retrieval information mechanism will be done by the OBS itself. So it will also insure that the proxy settings are correct (remembering some headache!!!) . After that, thing becomes quite easy. I have used the OBS setup on the WebUI and select one of the 2 preconfigured choices. After switching back to the osc command line on the OBS itself, I have issued some osc ls MeeGo.com (as MeeGo.com is predefined settings) command which returns nothing . But osc ls MeeGo. Com: x (where x is not a project name) and I get the complete list of all available project on the linked instance : That means, my obs is now alive and working !!! The final point was to define a build target . It take some times to understand that would be done by configuring properly the home projet of the Admin . (Now, I know that could be done on any project .) Dominig explain me what I need to add with raw config editor in the home:Admin project. He says, put the following line inside the Admin:project <repository name="MeeGo.com"> <path repository="standard" project=" MeeGo.com:MeeGo:1.2.0:oss"/> <arch>i586</arch> </repository> I understand a bit later the exact meaning of each line . Finally I upload a source package (from meego source) and it build ... bingo ! So as a conclusion, setting up a linked Private instance of an OBS is not complicated . But, I didn't find this on the net . And clearly the name OBS didn't help for this. Working in automotive world, we are sometimes searching for information about the CAN (Controler Area Network) technology which is the embedded automotive network . You can easily imagine that CAN isn't a relevant keyword with Google. OBS seems to have nearly at the same efficiency!!! So I think, I will add this configuration method on the opensuse wiki . My chance was, that Dominig is a very nice guy and I met him at a previous GenIVI workshop . Without his help, I would be still searching on the web !!! (and surely becoming crazy..) Xavier JAFFREZIC RENAULT Automotive Research Depatrment Software Specialist -- Disclaimer ------------------------------------ Ce message ainsi que les eventuelles pieces jointes constituent une correspondance privee et confidentielle a l'attention exclusive du destinataire designe ci-dessus. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire du present message ou une personne susceptible de pouvoir le lui delivrer, il vous est signifie que toute divulgation, distribution ou copie de cette transmission est strictement interdite. 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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #181 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

Hi @all! Issue #181 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://bit.ly/kjonBr [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] marketing communication process
by Jos Poortvliet 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Dear friends, I've written a writeup on our marketing communication process: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_communication_process I think, to smoothen our communication, we need to try and automate as much as possible. Right now, especially social media requires some handwork and it's not always clear who does what. Ideally, news.opensuse.org articles should go automatically to twitter, facebook and linked-in. They already go to planet. Blip.tv and youtube already go to planet automatically as well as twitter (but afaik not identi.ca, we should probably try to make identi.ca follow twitter automatically). Blip.tv and youtube don't go to facebook and linked-in, afaik, the owners of these accounts should make sure that happens. Bryen also promised me to do a writeup on how he does facebook etc. I had a look at how to automate things but I can't figure out how to make sure news.o.o articles automatically go to all sites we have. Anyone who knows more? Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 12.1 Marketing Hackfest
by Bryen M. Yunashko 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

As some of you are making plans to attend the openSUSE Conference and setting up your reservations, we feel it is a good idea to tell you in advance of our preliminary plans for the Marketing Team. Manu and I will begin outlining the plans for 12.1 Promotion in the next few weeks (after he is done with exams). Much of this schedule will be based on our findings during the 11.4 Post-Mortem meeting and subsequent discussions. While no concrete plans have been made yet for that schedule, one thing we are definitely going to have is a Hackfest immediately following the Conference in Nuremberg. If you can, please schedule to stay an additional two days as our hackfest will be September 15-16. Further details to come soon, but we wanted you to be aware so you can schedule your reservations accordingly. We will also let you know soon about sponsorship for staying those extra two days. 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] Out of 11.4 PromoDVDs!
by Andreas Jaeger 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

We've distributed now 30000 PromoDVDs to several locations world wide - from both Nuernberg, Germany and Provo, US! The next production of DVDs is planned for November - after the release of openSUSE 12.1. Therefore, please do not order further DVDs from us! Thanks a lot to all that helped with sharing these DVDs! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj(a){novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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] Issue #180 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

Hi @all! Issue #180 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=9289 [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] openSUSE Weekly News 180 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 180 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. 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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