July 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Weekly News 185 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 185 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] Back from RMLL (3)
by jdd 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

The next two days (for me, 4 days for the RMLL) where the real "RMLL" (Libre software Meeting) This part was organised in the Strasbourg university, on a large hall, many conferences taking place in the university rooms. Jimmy could not stay, oeilvert could not have free time but some hours from his employer, so I had to keep the boot with only my wife. She is not a computer addict at all and could make usefull work in the translation room, with the net result that I was often alone on the boot. I could however visit when my wife or oeilvert could make me free, and like this I could get a free internet certificate and meet many other opensource actors. Some I already know (at least from the net), and other I didn't yet. Very interesting I could also make many demos. I had some free copies of a french computer news paper with an article about Susestudio, and this is really a winner on the OEM market (I could build an appliance right on the way). I could also show that I run on my netbook the Factory release and this is pretty impressive. As soon as I get back my dsl line, I will be able to post photos and videos of the meeting. Beleive it or not I could meet on my on table a Kde french translator that is from my own town :-). Of course I could also meet Vincent (Untz), that provided me with Gnome DVD. I could spread 50-80 dvd a day and when I was obliged to leave, I let the table full of openSUSE and Gnome DVD's We should try to be at least two on the next time, to ba able to have a boot *and* go round speak with people. I had some openSUSE T-Shirts to give as a gift and did this on what I hope to be a wise way: I gave them to people that appears to be openSUSE fans on other boots (that is not only visitors, but groups members), including a Debian member that asked for one saying he will wear it :-) I noticed two things that many people asked for: caps and summary poster. The summary poster (back of the 11.4 poster) was very appreciated (but may be a bit large), like was the Fedora cheat cube. I had two caps for me and my wife, thanks to Jimmy Pierre, but only two and didn't want to give them away :-). They are from the Novell beginning, pretty difficult to find. May be it could be cheaper to spread caps than T-shirts (and they are visible from a more remote position :-). Thanks to Vincent we had also very small stickers, very good to stick on small netbooks I end with thanks for oeilvert that hosted me for 5 days! jdd NB: Ubuntu had a small T-shirt specially fitted for girls, we shoulod defintively have some (photo to come) -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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] Proposed Sessions for openSUSE Conference
by Bryen M. Yunashko 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

Greetings folks on the Ambassadors, Artwork and Marketing Teams! As you know, the CFP for openSUSE Conference deadline is coming very close this weekend. As part of the CFP Committee, I have reviewed proposed sessions and saw some missing stuff so far, which I think we should consider. I have created four proposals tonight though I have not attached any moderators to them yet. (I wanted to get them in before we miss the deadline.) BoF Proposals: "openSUSE Ambassadors Discussion": A BoF to bring together our openSUSE Ambassadors and discuss strategies for the coming year. (Manu and Kostas, do you wish to lead this session?) "Organizing our Artwork Repositories": A look at the current state of our openSUSE Artwork GIT repository and discussing ideas about ways to improve availability and access of artwork for everyone. (I propose one person from Marketing and one from Artwork to co-moderate this BoF. Any volunteers?) Hacksession Proposals: "Marketing Team - Multimedia Planning" Let's storyboard some ideas for cool openSUSE videos that we can use at events and online. In this hacksession, we will organize our thoughts and create basic storyboards for videos and podcasts (Several of us have had some excellent ideas over the years but we never moved forward on it. Its time we came together and put those ideas to good use. JDD, would you like to co-moderate this with me?) " openSUSE 12.1 Artwork" Review of artwork for 12.1 promotion and 12.1 Desktops (I'm not exactly sure what is needed here, but I put it in anyway. Does anyone from Artwork Team wish to moderate this hacksession?) If any of you have ideas for other topics, *please* submit them soon. It is better for the CFP team to have many topics to review than too few. And I know many of you have awesome ideas. I see a few already from some of you! 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] New SUSE website is live: http://www.suse.com
by Michael Miller 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

Hi openSUSE marketing team! Just wanted to let you know that the new SUSE website has just gone live! http://www.suse.com Best regards, MM -- Michael Miller Vice President, Global Alliances & Marketing SUSE michael.miller(a)suse.com (O) +1.360.752.6718 (M) +1.360.920.3647 Great Minds UnITe BrainShare 2011 Register at novell.com/brainshare Follow us at twitter.com/brainshare -- 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 Medical IRC Meeting Etherpad (July)
by Athanasios-Ilias Rousinopoulos 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hello Mates, I would like to inform you that the Etherpad for the openSUSE Medical IRC Meeting (July) is now available at : http://ietherpad.com/Mo5jljnvcd Feel free to express your opinion , or add your topic. Recommendation : PLEASE ADD YOUR TOPICS UNTIL FRIDAY 22/07/2011 17:00 UTC/GMT + 3 hours , SO AS THE MEETING TOPICS BE PUBLISHED IN THE NEXT WEEKLY NEWS ISSUE (185) !!!! Regards , Rousinopoulos Athanasios-Ilias openSUSE Medical Project Leader -- 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 12.1 Milestone3 Announcement
by Andreas Jaeger 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hi, who's volunteering to write an announcement? Coolo thinks M3 is ready ... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj(a){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] Back from RMLL
by jdd 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

The RMLL JGP success for us is really a Jimmy Pierre success. Jimmy is with us from a great number of years, beginning to work with Novell before Novell buy SuSE :-) He is comming in most important french Linux event with lot of laptops, network switch (including GSM router!), openSUSE T-Shits and caps... and he is a true animator. His membership application was rejected because he do not write much and often advertise for his group (NUI - Novell Users International) but we should really reconsidere this as he is very well known as openSUSE fan and his group existed prior openSUSE :-) in France. If he was not there my work would have been much harder! So Jimmy provided the computer background. However, the weather was half rainy (and then computer protected under covers) or sunny (and latop computers unreadables). We had large posters (good), but it's far from being attractive enough. *we have to find some way to attract people* We have to come on boots with some kind of gadgets, moving, flashing, a "wow" effect *off screen*. Happily, I was hosted in Strasbourg by "oeilvert" an openSUSE forum moderator, and his main revenue is from embedded Linux hardware. On the RMLL ground was a small modell car, running round, with a small poster (RMLL) handed by a Tux. This was attractive and oeilvert took contact with the builder of this car. I expect from them some result in the near future. But is some people here have ideas... I have some: * one or two usb webcam making sort of Kinect for Linux, allowing the public to move on screen moving the hand on front of them (not the whole body, we don't have enough room), or better move some tux around the computer (usb driven?) - may be play music without touching the computer * some linux embedded vehicule with webcam, able to follow a line on the ground (or somebody!) * ... ideally the gadget should be funny, attractive for children and very cheap (to allow copying on openSUSE boots all around the world) (to be continued) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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] Back from RMLL
by jdd 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

The RMLL are one of the main french meeting around free software. I attended it from Jully 9 to Jully 12 and will report here on the purpose nof keeping experience from it. Just now I have no Internet connection, DSL being closed since last thunderstorm, I only connect from McDonald, so dont expect too much responsiveness from me :-( * Organisation The main organisation was pretty loose, the web site was open only one month before the meeting and room reservation only 15 days before. The meeting was with two parts: the first two days (week end) was "JGP" (Large Public Days). It was done under tents, on one of the main Strasbourg market place (good), but the theme of the two days was vague (we should have done an artwork with the public, to make it see the free software in use). The net result was that there where very little boots (less than 10) and nearly none followed the theme. The Public was not there. I don't know what kind of advertisement was done. Strasbourg is a very nice town, extremely pleasant to visit. On the sunday morning the local news paper wrote a full page on the RMLL subject (extremely nice) - alas the day was rainy and making computer work under the rain is quite difficult, even dangerous, so we didn't had the expected success. That said, the public that come was veri friendly. Dispite the mandatory theme we could have openSUSE boot, thanks to Jimmy Pierre. The DVD where spread on a common commercial boot driven by the organisers (to be continued) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Hi dear ambassadors, From the event reports that I've got I made the article which should be below: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=9740&preview=true This preview SHOULD work, really. I enabled anonymous preview. If it doesn't work, ping me, Bryen, AJ or anyone else from the news team on IRC - it seems that wordpress on news.o.o forgets this permission sometimes! Please review it, tell me what I've missed and what mistakes I made. On a sidenote, if you put images online, it is best to put them on Flickr in the openSUSE Group (like Max did, thanks!) and preferably with a Creative Commons license. I can only use images which are free to use. I cheated this time and used Max' picture, I hope he doesn't mind :D Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Shifting marketing meeting slightly?
by Andreas Jaeger 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

I'd like to have a osc11 meeting on Tuesday and it overlaps with the marketing meeting. Could we shift it a bit, please? Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj(a){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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