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[opensuse-marketing] 76th International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece-->REPORT
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hello friends, The period that all openSUSE community was in Nurnberg, I organized our presence at the 76th International Trade Fair in Thessaloniki. You can find the report http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:76TIF Some points: 1. There were only 300pcs of DVDs. There were not enough. Kostas was in Nurnberg and I couldn't get more (if Kostas has more). 2. Personally I had to cover 80% of the schedule of the Fair. I had to organize SFD as Greek openSUSE community in Florina (it's 2.5-3 hours by bus). I also organized the SFD in Thessaloniki and I've contacted a opensource blog to for an interview about openSUSE, SFD and our presence there. At the end of the event, me and Kostas were interviewed about openSUSE and community by Linux Inside, maybe the only Linux magazine in Greece. We're waiting next issue. 3. I met lot of people that they said their first distro was SUSE and they bought it with the manual. That's why I tried to create the form to learn from them the reason they left. 4. I made a contact with 2 major mobile companies in Greece and with 2 journalists. 5. For those of you who know about what Carlos and Kostas did in LA marketing hackfest, I did it with more than 20 neighbor booths. People-business owners liked that and the positives of open source software. 6. I didn't have feedback from our community to contact the organizer of computer exhibitions in Cyprus to join their organization, so I didn't contact him. The same thing happened with another one in Kavala, city near us. 7. The only negatives (for me) were that I didn't join the conference and although our universities are closed because of riots against new educational system, my university opened for a week but I couldn't take the test because I was attending the event at the Trade Fair. Lame. Anyway, That's all. I must write something also in Greek. Have a lot of fun. 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] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] openSUSE Magazine
by differentreality 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hey all! Sorry for the late response, long travelling hours and still trying to get settled :) I am really happy that we already have people replying, giving ideas and ready to help out. As this is a totally new idea we highly value opinions and ideas. @Chuck: Technical articles like that are certainly useful. Please let me know with which article you would like to begin! - Regarding tips&tricks this is also great for weekly news and at the same time maybe we can find useful tips/tricks in older weekly news issues and use them all together - some of them are not too long articles and the subject is definitely interesting. Do you think you could take this up on you as well and prepare something for a tips&tricks section of the magazine? @Kim: People's view is very important and I believe would also personalize the magazine. So I would say go for it! Clarification: when you say documentary, are you thinking video or written interview - because documentary brings video in my mind but we need articles/writing. So how are you thinking of beginning this? @piyoosh: Yep, it will definitely *not* include just events. It will certainly have a large variety of topics related to openSUSE, that's why we need ideas from all of you. @Elson: sure, help and motivation for new users I believe is always something we want, right? Step-by-step tutorials, tips&tricks for users are all very useful things. Do you have something specific in mind? Could you prepare a relevant article? Or do we have any interesting articles already written which we could perhaps edit if needed and use? @Mike: perfect, if you want to write something please feel free to do so, otherwise as soon as we organize all the ideas we could make some proposals on subjects that need articles and you can choose, what do you think? @Tanmaya: Absolutely, release related articles are generally needed, so yes, please get right to it. I assume you could write something about 12.1 release? @Peter: Success stories are always something positive and we definitely want positiveness in our magazine, right? Do you have something specific in mind you could put in writing? I would like to point out that it is amazing how many nice ideas we got and I really hope we can see some articles as well soon. Many articles could also be used immediately and be issued in weekly news or news.opensuse.org and when time comes of course to our magazine! As we still have not concluded regarding the exact structure of the magazine we don't really know exactly how many articles we will need for each subject etc. It could be the case that we might need not to use some articles, *but* this should not discourage absolutely anyone from writing because we will surely use your article one way or the other! The first step for the magazine is to get some context for it - your articles that is :) We will have a variety of subjects, from technical to simple things for newbies and we will focus on communities, individuals as well as events that have taken place. Maybe this is also a good chance for ambassadors to send something like a review regarding events that took place in their city/country? What do ambassadors think about that? We are still open for ideas and with Prashanth we will be processing all that info really soon (plz give us a couple of days as we just got back from Germany) and we will put everything together so that everyone knows where we stand on subjects. In the meantime, we are looking forward to receiving your articles and if you need any kind of clarification or assistance please let us know. I think if we can get an article for all the above subjects that all of you mentioned it is an excellent start for our magazine-effort :) Thanks to all, Stella Rouzi (aka differentreality) On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Kim Leyendecker <kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de> wrote: > Am 17.09.2011 18:39, schrieb jdd: >> >> Le 17/09/2011 18:30, Kim Leyendecker a écrit : >> >>> you think so? Maybe as a series? >>> >> yearly magazine! > > hm, then forget about the series... > > -- > -o) Kim Leyendecker > /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE > _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+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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[opensuse-marketing] images from the OSC
by jdd 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hello, I hope anybody returned safely from the OSC, many people had a much longer travel to do than I had! I could make a photo blog on facebook during the OSC, here (it should be visible for anybody) https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-OSC-openSUSE-Conference-of-jdd/199882016… I expect soon to have the same images on my gallery, eventually with better quality enjoy :-) 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] Slides of SFD 2011 - Salvador/Bahia - Brazil
by Raul Libório 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hi friends, Follows the presentation used in today's SFD. The theme was: openSUSE 12.1 - what comes around? (in PT-BR) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/935037/palestras/2011/SFD2011_-_openSUSE_12.1_Raul_… Cheers, -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom openSUSE Member | Linux User #4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -- 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 #193 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Hi @all! Issue #193 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=11026 [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Weekly_news/FAQ Have Phun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns http://saigkill.homelinux.net -- 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-ambassadors] openSUSE Magazine
by Piyoosh Mukhija 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

I believe it'd be a good idea to not just include events, but some tutorials/troubleshooters as well. In such a case, the magazine can be more attractive to the new/novice openSUSE/Linux users. Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija http://piyoosh.mukhija.info Regards, Piyoosh Mukhija http://piyoosh.mukhija.info On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Piyoosh Mukhija <piyoosh(a)mukhija.info> wrote: > > I believe it'd be a good idea to not just include events, but some tutorials/troubleshooters as well. In such a case, the magazine can be more attractive to the new/novice openSUSE/Linux users. > > Regards, > Piyoosh Mukhija > http://piyoosh.mukhija.info > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:28 PM, differentreality <differentreality(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all! >> >> One of the ideas that popped up during the marketing hackfest here >> today was that of making an openSUSE magazine with focus on the >> conference proceedings and the cool stuff that happened since the last >> conference. The magazine would contain articles on the main highlights >> of the past year (Year is the time period between two conferences), >> interviews with key people, reviews and articles about the current >> conference etc. >> >> We would like to get a feedback on the idea and a few key topics that >> you think should be covered. Any authors who want to help with >> articles, please say so on the mailing list as we need more people to >> work on the articles. The topics, however, should focus on either key >> events that took place since last conference (like tumbleweed, >> evergreen, connect etc) or should be an article about oSC11 (or any >> particular session of it). We would also like a few miscellaneous >> topics that relates to openSUSE and linux at large. >> >> I hope all of you would like the idea and would contribute to our >> efforts to make openSUSE even more famous and awesome. Please let us >> know your thoughts (& your willingness to help). >> >> For additional info you can reply to the mailing list or send an email >> to differentreality(a)gmail.com ( plz use as subject: openSUSE magazine >> ) >> >> Regards, >> N.B.Prashanth - nbprash.mit(a)gmail.com >> Stella Rouzi - differentreality(a)gmail.com >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+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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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Weekly News 193 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 193 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] BetaPizza Party
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Sep '11

11 Sep '11

Hi all, Bernhard Wiedemann came up with the idea to organize a pizza party around the beta release of openSUSE. For those who don't know yet, the next milestone for openSUSE 12.1 (number 6) will be renamed Beta! So, maybe some of you want to organize a party too... We will announce this on Thursday, but a temporary article is online: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=10998&preview=true Please let me know thoughts and suggestions. Feel free to fix/improve the wiki pages I created for this or tell me what you need ;-) Thanks, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Issue #192 is ready for translation
by Sascha Manns 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

Hi @all! Issue #192 of the openSUSE Weekly News is ready for translation [0]. We collected some FAQ here [1]. [0]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=10966 [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] Greek openSUSE community and 76th International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hello my friends, Unfortunately I cannot join the oSC. Every year we have an International Trade Fair in Thessaloniki. Last year we were there. This year I made a contact and we'll be there as well. Please check http://bit.ly/pzp31n As they say, they expect 250000 visitors. Check out http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/2011/09/opensuse-greek-community-an… for the preparations. Have a lot of fun. 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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