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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[opensuse-marketing] Please preview
by Lars Vogdt 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi Team Can someone please review the following post: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=12535&preview=true It's the same posting Marcus Rückert sent around via opensuse-announce. If everything looks green in your eyes, please press the release button (or tell me to do so ;-) With kind regards, Lars -- 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] Something to think about for future conferences
by Andrew Wafaa 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Aloha all, Just came across a flyer[0] that RedHat are dishing out for those attending FOSDEM. Worth a thought of emulating it for both SUSE & openSUSE at the next round of conferences. 0 = http://people.redhat.com/duffy/fosdem/redhat-fosdem_2012.pdf -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- 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] Google Code-in Blog Post
by Manu Gupta 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Hi All, If anyone can help me with a blog post related to Google Code-in and Google Summer Of Code in 2011, it will be great. I would love to forward it to the Google guys and maybe we can land at their open source blog. Let me know if anyone volunteers -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] 12.2 Wallpaper Artwork Submission Is Over - Voting Open
by andi robert 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hello my dear friends of the community Our wallpaper submission deadline for openSUSE 12.2 is now over. We asked a few of our artists to help us create a good selection of wallpapers for the upcoming release. Our deadline was fixed very early since the wallpaper is has become a key element in creating derivative artwork, such as Twitter banners, Facebook profile pictures, DVD sleeves and many other things. Hence our early date, we wanted to work on our artwork early enough so that we can make more derivative artwork faster and with improved quality. We understand that there may be people in the community who have worked on wallpapers for 12.2 and have not yet submitted them to the wallpaper artwork page located here http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wallpapers If you know of anyone who is worked on a wallpaper and would like to submit them, please let us know via email. You can reply to this email to let us know as well. That way we can include everyone who wanted to give this contest a try. If no there are no replies by Monday January 23, 2012, we will assume that such wallpapers cannot make it into the contest. Another change we made this time is that we will choose one default wallpaper and then two other wallpapers as extras in case users would not want to use the default wallpaper. For this I am trying to find out what packages can carry the default wallpaper and what package can carry the other 2 wallpapers chosen. Please, if you know, post it on this email thread. I believe coolo might now, would you let us know what is more recommendable in case we want to include more wallpapers? As usual, you can review the wallpapers on the page mentioned above and start voting just like it was done last time. One more thing, thank you so much artists for your great and valuable work. openSUSE should look pretty awesome after your contributions made it to the release. Thank you again. PS: My emails are imperfect. I may have omitted important information. If so, please add it to this thread. -- 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] [Event Report] Cerea Fair - Italy
by Marina Latini 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Hi all! >From Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th January 2012 has took place the Cerea fair (VR) in Italy. I and other members of FSUGItalia have participated at the “Electronics and amateur radio fair” in Cerea (Verona) presenting openSUSE to the public. We must start by saying that, as is typical of these kind of events, the fair has been a great success, big participation and queues in front of the entrance from the early hours of the opening. From rumours heard during Sunday, overall, there were about 20000 visitors. The organization of the fair has given us a great place, the first booth near the entrance! In addition to openSUSE promotional material, we set up the stand with 4 notebooks and 3 netbooks. The computers were equipped with openSUSE 12.1 configured with different desktop manager to emphasize the flexibility and power of a distribution, that can work perfectly on the newest hardware as well as the oldest. A large number of people came to ask us about what openSUSE is. The computers exhibited have attracted the attention of passers, that, in many cases, were unaware of the existence of the GNU/Linux operating systems, and those few who knew them already, usually were familiar only to Ubuntu. Both categories of people were surprised to discover and try openSUSE. In particular, we noticed that the most interested people in learning openSUSE were those in the age group of fifty years and older, and that, in many cases, showed a remarkable familiarity with GNU/Linux.In detail, many of them have told us that already use Ubuntu, but they wanted to leave it because they are not comfortable with the Unity interface. The most frequent question was inherent to the differences between Ubuntu and openSUSE and what are the advantages of this second operating system. Before the event we had contacted representatives of the LUG (Linux User Group) near Cerea, and during the fair, we have delivered to them promotional material to distribute. Because of the enthusiasm of the audience, we had to ration the promotional material (promoDVD), because otherwise they would not be enough for both days. On Sunday evening we had distributed all the material at our disposal (300 promo DVD and all flyers) and someone have also asked the posters! An event with such a big audience is definitely challenging and very tiring but we have got a great success that has rewarded us for all the efforts made to achieve this participation. The enthusiasm and interest of the people involved also the organizers, that have proposed to us to participate in future editions of this fair. Here: http://denebinside.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/report-cerea-fair/ you can find the report (Italian/English) of the Cerea Fair (Italy). Other useful informations are reachable here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cerea_Fair We are editing a video and uploading a photo gallery; as soon as possible all the materials will be online. Regards, deneb -- Marina Latini http://www.fsugitalia.org openSUSE Ambassador: deneb_alpha http://www.educoo.it -- 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] Review pls: 11.3 EOL Article
by Bryen M Yunashko 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

http://news.opensuse.org/?p=12487&preview=true I'd like to get this published at some point today (Saturday.) If any of you can review and comment on suggested edits, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko -- 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] Disc Pricing
by Gary Guenot 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Weekly News in hiatus
by Roger Luedecke 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Apparently OWN has halted since the editor has gone away. I may be able to help, but would need more details in regards to it. -- 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 2012 Events Calendar
by Bryen M Yunashko 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Exhausted but not done (it's 1 a.m. now), I have added a bunch of events to our wiki page at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events#2012 Please review the list when you have a chance and add more events. I know there's a lot more we can list here. The more we list and claim, the easier it will be to prepare for them and request funding/DVDs if necessary. If there is an event that is unclaimed, feel free to claim it. If there is an event that you cannot go to but you know there is someone in that area, contact that person and get that person to claim in the name of GEEKO!!! There are several more that I need to find out about and will add them accordingly as soon as I get further information. Thanks to all, Bryen M Yunashko -- 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] Interview
by Stefan Sayvanski 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Dear SuSe community, I am currently working on my final Bachelor Projekt at The Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. The theme is "Critical success factors for Open Source Software Projects" so the profile of openSUSE is exactly what i am looking for. My task is to do Interviews with experts on this topic, so i would be very happy if there is someone who is willing to give me a face-to-face or per skype interview. Thank you for your time. Best regards, Stefan Sayvanski -- 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] Feedback for received openSUSE Promotion DVDs
by Peter Michl 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Once again I want to thank open SUSE for this great support. I have received 300 Promotion DVDs to support my pupils. This time the DVDs had a very great response from my pupils. Few days before they where delivered a bunch of pupils even asked when I will receive them. Therefore it didn't surprise me that the DVD's last for about one month. Thank you very much, my pupils like the DVD's and they install open SUSE at their home computers also not only to be prepared for lessons but even for their private belongings. I am very glad about this great opportunity and wish open SUSE a happy new and efficient year 2012. Peter Michl -- 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 10.3
by Michael Straub 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hallo und Guten Tag Ich habe eigentlich nur eine Frage: Besteht noch irgendwie die Möglichkeit eine komplette Kauf(Handels-)version der OpenSuSE10.3-Distribution zu erwerben? Damit meine ich die DVD, Handbücher etc. Vielleicht liegt ja in irgendeinem Lager noch so ein Karton rum ;-) Die "Netzversion" beinhaltet ja nicht alle Pakete, und ohne diese propriätäre Pakete funktioniert ja z. Bsp. die DVD-Wiedergabe unter Linux ebenfalls nicht, oder? Es wäre nett, wenn ich diesbezüglich eine schnelle Antwort bekäme. mit freundl. Gruß Michael Straub -- 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] sourcefabric
by jdd 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

I just notice this: https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/532311-sourcefabric-the-open-source-n… I can try to install a copy of newsscoop on my own server if you think it valuable (I don't do it right now because it involve some work) your opinion? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- 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] News Article Review: osc11 Feedback
by Andreas Jaeger 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

We did a survey about the openSUSE Conference and I've written an article based on Izabel's analysis: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=12409&preview=true Please review and improve etc - I'll publish tomorrow, thanks Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger 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,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 12.1 Release Event in St. Ingbert / Germany
by Jörg Stephan 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hi there, i just wanne inform you that we will have an Release Event on 16. Jan. 2012 starting at 18:00 CET at Key-Systems Headquarter Im Oberen Werk 1 66386 St. Ingbert / Germany There will be free softdrinks and snacks available. Regards Jörg

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