January 2012 - 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] having fun... ???
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Heya all, I'm looking for a fun slogan or picture - something that makes people laugh. Like a t-shirt saying "ROCK IS DEAD (and paper killed it)" or one of the better xkcd comics ;-) Something for a sticker, poster or a t-shirt... Any ideas? /jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Dream openSUSE Initiative
by andi robert 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hello my dear friends The artwork team recently had a meeting in which a couple of ideas were proposed. One of them is the Dream openSUSE Initiative. The idea behind this proposal is to have a wider understanding of what a desktop environment is for each of our users. All of us work with openSUSE and many time we tweak and change our graphical environments to fit our particular needs, we would like to know about these changes that you have made to your graphical environment under openSUSE to better determine what defaults work for our users. We are currently gathering these screenshots here http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Dreamopensuse The steps to be part of this investigative initiative are as follow Set up your computer desktop they way you want it Take a screeshot Submit your screenshot at our wiki Note: If your changes, settings or tweaks are not readily visible, show us a screenshot of your settings managers or explain the settings changes that you have made. This initiative is not about artwork as much as it is about usability among our members. Therefore, when submitting screenshots, make sure that your special usability settings are also noticeable. Note: The wiki page is not perfect, of you feel inclined to make changes to it, please do so. :D Andy (anditosan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Artwork Meeting Reminder
by andi robert 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hello all Please make yourself part of the artowork meeting on saturday, january 28, 2012 at 19:00 UTC We will choose the winners from the wallpaper contest and discuss a couple of ideas for artwork in the upcoming release. If you would like to make some inquiries to the meeting, please make them known in our meeting wiki page http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Art_meeting Thank you -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Tee shirts for openSUSE
by Manu Gupta 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi All, Have a look at this tee shirt design http://www.24hoursloot.com/product/cc9bd180d7b570747ee5c052fa7007df Either we can have such a design or order a few quantities with openSUSE as its handle, would definitely look cool Cost of 1 tee shirt is around 9 USD. However if we make our own, maybe prices can go down. -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Fw: SourceForge featured projects: openSUSE-Education !
by Lars Vogdt 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

FYI: ...and if you have a look at http://sourceforge.net/, you'll find openSUSE-Education listed there *hooray*! We are very happy that we have been selected. One question: is there someone who can write something about it "somewhere"? As Rich mentioned, there's also the possibility for a podcast, but currently most of the developers and admins are busy with fixing packages and keeping opensuse-education.org online. So if there's someone who can participate, please stand up! > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rich Bowen <rbowen(a)geek.net> > Date: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:22 PM > Subject: SourceForge featured projects > To: Rich Bowen <rbowen(a)geek.net> > > > Hi, > > Rich Bowen here, from SourceForge. I wanted to let you know that your > project will be featured on the front page of SourceForge.net next > week. Hopefully this will bring some more traffic to your project, and > perhaps some new developers to your community. > > Your project was selected because it was one of the 25 fastest growing > projects last week, in terms of visits to your project page. > > So, perhaps you want to take this opportunity to ensure that your > project summary page is as you want it. > > Also, you may be aware that we've started doing podcasts on some of > our featured projects. I'd love to do one on your project. If you're > at all interested, please let me know, and we'll schedule a time. I'm > in the Eastern USA timezone (GMT -5) if that helps you select a time. > You can listen to some of what we've done for other projects here: > https://sourceforge.net/blog/category/podcast/ > > Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community. > > -- > Rich Bowen :: rbowen(a)geek.net :: @rbowen > Community Growth Hacker > SourceForge.net :: @sourceforge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] IDLELO 5: March 19 - 23 2012
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

For those of you who receive other lists, there's IDLELO in Nigeria-Africa. Do you think we can organize something there too? The address is: http://www.idlelo.net/ Have a lot of fun, Stathis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE night in Milan: What type of event?
by Alexjan Carraturo 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi to all After the success of the fair in Cerea, we are invited to organize a "openSUSE Night" in Milan. The idea would be to present, in a famous "lug" of Milan, openSUSE. We're planning to make the first presentation of openSUSE, with one or two talks, then a Q&A space, and finally do "installation party". Looking at the list of the types of events, I saw that this looks like a "Launch Party", but, we are organizing that event for Feb. 25, maybe a little late for a Launch Party. What type of event I could use? Tips? Since the event in my city, and being a guest of this "lug", I would not need any kind of budget, but could really help me Marketing material (Few promo DVDs, t-shirts, stickers, posters and the like). Can I request the material here (http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd) as usual? Thank you in advance Alexjan Carraturo -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org) Fedora/openSUSE Ambassador member of FSFE Italian Team Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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