July 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Special Announcement - Ambassador Travel Funding
by Bryen M. Yunashko 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Dear awesome Ambassadors and Marketeers, We are very excited to announce a new program for our Ambassadors to be able to travel to important events in their regions and promote openSUSE. Over the past few months, Jos and I lobbied and recently received approval from Attachmate to create this program. Each quarter, the Ambassador Team will be allowed to reimburse up to $5,000 (USD) for transportation/hotel expenses. How it works: * At least one month prior to the start of each quarter, ambassadors discuss and make a proposal for expenses to events and other promotion opportunities globally. * The Ambassadors will determine the long term event strategy; deciding which events should be supported with these funds. Jos and I will provide any advice or encouragement needed throughout the process. * Jos has final approval of any expenses. Ambassadors will be reimbursed up to 80% of their personal expenses. * Each quarter is as follows: August 1 - October 31 (Proposal Deadline - July 1) November 1 - Jan 31 (Proposal Deadline - October 1) February 1 - April 30 (Proposal Deadline - Jan 1) May 1 - July 31 (Proposal Deadline - April 1) Why we are doing this? We have two purposes here: A) Tto empower the Ambassador Team to strategically develop a plan of action and determine for itself where it can make the most successes. B) To develop a long-term strategy and schedule. This will improve the flow of funding in a quick manner and also help us to determine what materials and other preparations are needed for the entire year. While this is a quarterly program, we encourage the Ambassadors to think long term (up to 1 year) and identify as many potential events globally. This will help us to better allocate our limited resources. (For example, we are already out of Promo DVDs currently. Long-term planning would help us better anticipate our printing needs.) It will be up to you to determine how best to discuss/document/propose actions. Thanks and feel free to ask any questions you may have! 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] How to reward a member that is on fire!!!
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hello, We had a talk about Greek community. I remember that we had a talk in the list about a reward to the ambassador that helps the community. We were thinking to reward the member that is on fire. Bryen anounced Ambassador Travel Funding program but this is only for traveling etc. Do you have any idea? Can you propose us something? Can you help us? Thanks 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] DesktopSummit planning
by Jos Poortvliet 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hi everyone!!! As you might know, SUSE will sponsor the Desktop Summit Berlin, see: https://desktopsummit.org/press/sponsors-announced openSUSE will be there too, and visibly of course! We have people giving talks, bof's and all that, promoting a variety of technology and in general of course just participating in making the Desktop Summit great. As sponsor, SUSE not only is paying money for the DS but also provides some cool stuff: we have openSUSE beer and t-shirts for the Soccer Match on Sunday and we bring the SUSE Studio Kiosk with a number of USB sticks there so people can create their own OS-on-a-stick! Now the DS team is busy enough so we need to help out a bit. A few people need to help handling the beer - I'm sure we can get volunteers for that (yes, drinking allowed as long as you can still carry beer). And we need some help with baby-sitting the Studio Kiosk at the sponsor table! I'm sure if we all help out we can do this easily together. Please add your names to the wiki if you're coming and if you already know when you can help out, add your name there too: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:DesktopSummitBerlin Thanks in advance!!!! Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE for ARM
by Guillaume Gardet 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hi, Is there anyone to know the status of openSUSE for ARM processors? I have sent an email the 5th July to opensuse-arm list but still no answer: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-arm/2011-07/ I hope someone on the marketing list knows something? Cheers, 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] Anniversary of the project,what about try to organize some Party
by Kostas Koudaras 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hi people at 9th of August we have the Project Anniversary, what about organize some meet-up around the world for the people of openSUSE? One other thought is to try and make a really big Hangout at Google plus, what do you thing? Kostas -- 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] Re: [opensuse-artwork] 12.1 Marketing Hackfest... It's on!
by Bryen M. Yunashko 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 18:51 +0200, Marcus Moeller wrote: > Hi all. > > > Jos Poortvliet and I would like to invite members of the Marketing and > > Artwork teams as well as anyone else who is interested, to our > > second-ever Marketing Hackfest, 15-16 September, 2011 (immediately after > > our openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg.) > > Sorry, I will not be able to attend. > > Greets > Marcus Sorry to hear that Marcus. I should probably have mentioned that the Hackfest will also be accessible online via IRC and wiki, so people can participate remotely. I'll make that addition to the hackfest page. 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] openSUSE Weekly News 186 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 186 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] 12.1 Marketing Hackfest... It's on!
by Bryen M. Yunashko 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hello Folks! Jos Poortvliet and I would like to invite members of the Marketing and Artwork teams as well as anyone else who is interested, to our second-ever Marketing Hackfest, 15-16 September, 2011 (immediately after our openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg.) We had our first ever Marketing Hackfest in Los Angeles and the results were extremely positive with very high spirits and participation during our 11.4 release. We will now make an effort to have a marketing team hackfest before each openSUSE release. Please visit http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:12.1_Marketing_Hackfest and add your name to the list of attendees. Those who require hotel assistance will be granted as long as you are an active member of either the marketing or artwork teams. If you are approved for reimbursement, we will contact you. But please sign up soon so we can plan and budget accordingly. Many thanks and very much looking forward to seeing you all at the Conference and at the Hackfest afterwards. Safe travels to you all! 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] desktop statistics...
by Susanne Oberhauser 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi folks, I'd like to find out how many active openSUSE based desktops are in active use. Here's a proposal that evolved from a discussion during lunch break today: The default home page of all browsers on opensuse points to a very simple url, like opensuse.org/home That page is so usefull that almost all users will appreciate it. For example, it just consists of a very plain and simple search bar (like this well-known one: http://www.google.de/firefox/) Or, maybe even better, it simply offers a number of search engines, and it will, based on a cookie, from here on replace itself with that search engine --- or even a blank page (about:blank). The trick obviously is the durable cookie. The day the cookie is set is the first log in of this desktop user. Every time the user comes back, the cookie helps to bean count the life span of this desktop. If the cookie is rejected, I suggest to give an explanatory page, trying to convince that this is a good cookie, respecting privacy and all. In that vein I also suggest to *not* store the preferred search engine on the server, but to put that into the cookie, alongside the first access time, plus a random hash. Rationale behind this: There is tons of guesswork how many desktops we have conquered. This proposal replaces that by facts. Feedback appreciated, S. -- Susanne Oberhauser SUSE LINUX Products GmbH +49-911-74053-574 Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure 90409 Nürnberg GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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 #185 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Hi @all! Issue #185 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=9737 [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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