August 2011 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] ambassador reports
by Jos Poortvliet 23 Feb '25

23 Feb '25

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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[opensuse-marketing] talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] TED
by jdd 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

I just discover TED: http://www.ted.com/ there are talks about open source, but nothing on openSUSE (or suse) I don't really know if we have anything to do with TED, but I liked the subtitles feature of the video system :-) example (the only one on Linux AFAIK) http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_eco… 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] Feedback form for events
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hello my friends, After Berlin, I was thinking something for Greek community but maybe it's better to go global. Well, the guy at his talk said that we must take feedback from the end users since developers just create their software without asking the needs of the end user. Since the meaning of selling isn't that the seller convienced the buyer but the seller covered buyer's needs, I was thinking to create a form that we can print and have with us at the events (simple paper). Some questions about our product or some general questions about GNU/Linux (replies yes/no). Maybe that way we can help our developers to make a better product. -- 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] poster project again
by Jos Poortvliet 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hi all!!! I've gotten the budget together to do the awesome poster/calendar project we did last year again. You know, the one with the calendar of FOSS events on one side and the Beer poster on the other side. For this year, we're gonna do it even bigger, in the international Linux Magazine and the USA Linux Pro Magazine! So we should of course have new artwork :D Final artwork is required on the first of Oct, just 4 weeks from now. All the rest would be pretty much the same as last year. we deliver the graphics for the front side, they design the calendar on the back. Specs for pir artwork are: Size: 400 mm * 574 mm, plus 3mm additional bleed on each side, Hi-res PDF, 4-colour, CMYK. Now we can get that two ways. First, I can get the SUSE marketing people to design something for us. Either Robert, if he has time, or someone in the corporate marketing. The other option is of course all of YOU. But we're all very busy with the openSUSE conference and the openSUSE 12.1 artwork. And if we make this, it has to be REALLY GOOD. Because there is the calendar on one side, we have to have a really cool poster to make people hang up the openSUSE side! The question thus is: can we come up with something good in 3-4 weeks, or should I start asking inside SUSE? Think about it carefully: of course you all CAN come up with something cool, BUT do we have time between working on the openSUSE conf and openSUSE 12.1 and all other things like the flyer etc? If we rush it, it might not be good - and then everyone will hang up the calendar side :( Let me know your thoughts. Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] press status for the conference
by Jos Poortvliet 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi all, I'd like to try and give a little overview of the status of promo/press matters for the conference. Latest stuff: A 'press alert' should go out today in Germany (or should've gone out yesterday). I'm trying to get an international alert out as well. We've been writing a fair bit on news.opensuse.org which reaches the majority of our own community and we have ads on LWN.net and the magazines of our other two media partners. Otherwise, it depends on what the press picks up... Of course, blogs and writing articles for other sites is still very much welcome!!! > What kind of press kit do we have? One which is almost done ;-) The contents: - Welcome to oSC & SUSE Labs and introducing "RWX" - Some history, facts & figures on oSC & SUSE Labs - Goals and expectations of oSC & SUSE Labs 2011 - about openSUSE - about SUSE (being reviewed now, if you'd like to look at it, just let me know in a private mail) > Which press contacts are activated? Vera has invited 5 journalists and we get 3 journalists who are media partners. On Tuesday we have a 1 hour round table in the nuremberg office with SUSE management, we'll have a dinner with them (most likely Tuesday night) and they of course get the press kit. Otherwise we'll just let them loose on you all... :D > Wjhat are your plans for the last days before the conference strats? We have a few more articles coming, including the announcement of the 'drone contest' where we give away a AR Drone to a lucky attendee. This one is still being finished, sorry, complicated... What can you do to help? - TALK TO PEOPLE. A lot of people still don't know about oSC, unfortunately! Invite them on IRC or wherever you see them. Personally, that works best! - Blog and do whatever you can to get the word out. We're at a little over 200 registrants right now - which is a bit better than last year but still very much short of the 500 people we were hoping for! HELP! Tweet, dent... Try to submit articles to websites... Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Mobile openSUSE
by Kostas Koudaras 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hi I am writing something about openSUSE on mobiles. So far I have found the bellow apps on android: -openSUSE Conference 2011 -openSUSE Built Service client -SUSE Gallery -openFATE -obs -YaSTroid Anyone knows if there are more? Also if someone knows any app that might exists for iphone please tell me about it, a short description would be appreciated ;-) Thanks in advance Kostas Koudaras -- 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] Fwd: [opensuse-factory] Status: Milestone5
by Andreas Jaeger 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Who's going to write an announcement? Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [opensuse-factory] Status: Milestone5 Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 04:19:23 PM From: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)suse.de> To: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org Hi, The show stoppers we had this morning are all fixed, so in good hope that the current checkin round will magically make everything perfect, I raised the version to M5, so we can publish it tomorrow. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org ----------------------------------------- -- 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] opinions
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Heya all, I wrote a tutorial on getting Linux 3.0 on openSUSE as well as on how to upgrade to Tumbleweed. Its not a great fit for news.opensuse.org so I wonder - what website should I submit it too, in your opinion? Cheers, Jos

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Software Freedom Day
by Richard Brown 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Thank you for the support I've moved and updated the article. It now has a link to my SFD SUSE Studio image, which can also be found here http://susegallery.com/a/207Oh1/sfd-suse-imaging-appliance Enjoy Richard >>> "Bryen M. Yunashko" 08/30/11 11:16 PM >>> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 00:05 +0200, K. Dennis Leyendecker wrote: > Am 30.08.2011 23:52, schrieb Richard Brown: > > Hi All, > > > > > > First mail to the list! You probably know me as Ilmehtar on IRC - last meeting I volunteered to put some stuff together for Software Freedom Day. > > > > > > I've been snowed under with work, so haven't managed to do as much as I wanted but got started and the fruits of my labour can be found on the wiki here:http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Freedom_Day > > > > > > I'm putting the finishing touches (including SFD special branding) on my SUSE studio imaging appliance which I hope to have published in the next hour or two - I'll be correcting the link on the article as soon as I have the gallery location > > > > > > Any comments/suggestions/additions and help welcome! > > Hi, > > here a few comments from my side: > > First, the article is awesome! You wrote it pretty well. Not too short, > not too long and it gave me the most important information! But, please > use for next events the following scheme: > > http://en.opensuse.org/*openSUSE*:Software_Freedom_Day > > this is in common with the other articles about such events, okay? :-) > > But a really nice article, keep on doing such work! And I´m looking > forward to the appliance. I´m always interested in derivates ;-) > > thanks and a nice evening (morning?) > > Kim / openLHAG Agreed! Robert, thanks for stepping up on this task. Glad to have you on board and looking orward to seeing you in a couple of weeks. I suggest we also write an article for Software Freedom Day for our news.o.o website showing our support for SFD. It can be written and uploaded now and auto-published on the 17th even if we're already busy with other stuff that day. :-) Anyone volunteering? Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help(a)opensuse.org -- 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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