November 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] Requests DVDs for Campus Party event hat has 5000 or more expected
by CABELO - openSUSE 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Reason: Distribution openSUSE 12.2 DVD on the lecture about augmented reality in the plataform GNU / Linux (openSUSE). Link of the event : http://www.campus-partyhttp://www.campus-party.com.br/2013/software-livre.h… Thanks Title: Mr Full Name: Alessandro Faria (A.K.A. CABELO) Company: NETi TECNOLOGIA Street1: Rua Duque de Caxias, 1107 Zip: 14701-430 City : Bebedouro County/State : São Paulo Country : Brazil Phone number : +55 17 9128 0624 E-Mail Address cabelo(a)opensuse.org Amount of DVDs : 100 ~ 200 What additional promotional material do you need (if available)? NONE Deadline (use the ISO format YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 2011-03-31 or NONE) : NONE -- Alessandro de Oliveira Faria openSUSE member & Ambassador Phone +55 (17) 3343.3020 Mobile +55 (17) 9128.0624/(17) 7811.0248 Nextel 55*8*49402 SkypeIn +(55)113-7119137 Ext: 335 cabelo(a)opensuse.org alessandrofaria(a)netitec.com.br Blog: http://cabelovivaolinux.wordpress.com Pagina Pessoal: http://pt.opensuse.org/Usuario:Cabelo "Colaborar atrai amigos, competir atrai inimigos ..." -- 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] Holiday Season Banner
by Bryen M Yunashko 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

As our current banners around the web are starting to get stale, I suggest we create some holiday web banners. They would be posted at: - Forums - www.opensuse.org landing page - Facebook Timeline cover (851x315 px) - Google+ - icons for Twitter, Facebook Profile Pic, etc. I recommend that we be careful though. Do not make the banner religious, do not target a specific religion (for example, I'm Jewish, so Christmas means nothing.) It should either be broad (Season's Greetings + Happy New Year) or inclusive (All major holidays represented across multiple denominations). The latter one being more difficult and challenging to do. Currently, the openSUSE Election Committee is using these spaces to broadcast the upcoming Board elections. But we'll be finished with that by Dec. 17th, so new holiday banners can be posted at that time. It might be a good idea to review and develop time-appropriate banners that can be used later down the line throughout the year so we don't scramble with creativity at the last minute. 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] FB admin request
by Chuck Payne 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Helen, I don't see you as a friend any more so I can't add you. Chuck On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Helen, > > I will add you in a bit. > > Chuck > > On Nov 25, 2012 6:56 PM, "Helen South" <helen.south(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> >> could someone add me back as admin on the openSUSE page please. >> I'd removed myself over the weekend but changed my mind. >> >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/openSUSE/45393742283 >> >> I'll 'message' the page so you can find me. >> >> BTW do you think the style of my recent posts is ok? People seem to be >> liking them. >> >> Maybe we should do a new banner, it's almost at 5000 likes, a nice >> little milestone. >> >> -- >> IRC: helen_au >> helen.south(a)opensuse.org >> helensouth.com >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF) skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June 8-10, 2012 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.org -- 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] FB admin request
by Helen South 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

could someone add me back as admin on the openSUSE page please. I'd removed myself over the weekend but changed my mind. https://www.facebook.com/pages/openSUSE/45393742283 I'll 'message' the page so you can find me. BTW do you think the style of my recent posts is ok? People seem to be liking them. Maybe we should do a new banner, it's almost at 5000 likes, a nice little milestone. -- IRC: helen_au helen.south(a)opensuse.org helensouth.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] YOU ALL ROCK!
by Jos Poortvliet 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Dear ambassadors and other marketing folk, If you've read my blog you know why I have been rather quiet lately. But I did work: in the last weeks I collected a big list of our events to help us in the openSUSE Team in SUSE decide how and where to put our effort. While going through that list, I found all these awesome reports and blogs. A really cool highlight is one made by Marina Latini from Italy about the Cerea Fair: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cerea_Fair There is a super cool youtube video of the event and a link to a big blogpost and many images! But many of you did awesome as well - images, blogs, lots of stuff. And I want to say a big THANKS for that - it made my day :D Logs of hugs, /Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Long article on how to participate
by Helen South 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Ages ago we wrote this article on how to participate (especially for non-coders). It's not finished yet. I'd been thinking of developing each section into a full length short article for a magazine series but never had the time to do anything with it. Given the current discussion on new user participation, I wondered if it was worth doing something with. Open to ideas. find it here: http://piratepad.net/jNxlTtU8EB (also, do you remember the long OBS article we wrote and translated a while ago, did that ever find a home? It would be a shame for it to just disappear.) -- IRC: helen_au helen.south(a)opensuse.org helensouth.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] Downtime article for 1st December awaits review
by Lars Vogdt 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi Marketing Team! I like to get the following article on news.opensuse.org reviewed: https://news.opensuse.org/?p=14600&preview=true&preview_id=14600&preview_no… I contains some information about the scheduled downtime of parts of our infrastructure. I hope it is not too confusing. We will hopefully get the openSUSE landing page (www.opensuse.org) and some important wiki pages migrated to another data center - but this can just be coordinated during normal work hours next week. To keep our users informed as soon as possible, I like to publish the news as soon as possible - and adapt the article once we have something new there. If someone finds the time to go through my ugly English there and maybe enhance the text with some new pictures, I would really appreciate this. With kind regards, Lars -- Lars Vogdt <Lars.Vogdt(a)suse.com> - OPS Engineering Services Team Lead - SUSE Linux Products GmbH - GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany - HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- 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] Promotional materials
by oprea.luci＠gmail.com 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi, For events to be held in Romania in the next period we kindly ask you to send me some promotional materials (100 DVDs openSUSE), key chains (20 pcs), posters (2 pcs), caps (20 pcs) and t-shirts (20 pcs). The next event will take place on November 24, 2012. Event announcement http://www.suseromania.ro/2012/11/14/atelier-de-instalat-gnulinux-la-cluj-n…. Best regards, Lucian Oprea PS. The form of http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd not work -- ----------------- Lucian Oprea Telefon: 0745 592602 Ambasadors openSUSE Romania -- 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] Spende an das OpenSUSE Projekt
by phjdo＠web.de 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich möchte OpenSUSE gerne mit einer Spende unterstützen, habe jedoch nur die Möglichkeit gefunden, eine Box (z.B. 12.2 mit DVD und Handbuch etc.) von Open Press zu erwerben. Von diesem Geld soll ein Teil an das Projekt abgeführt werden. Könnten Sie mir bitte sagen, um wieviel € es sich denn hierbei handelt. Ich habe eine Box für knapp 40 € bei Amazon erworben und hoffe natürlich, dass auch mindestens die Hälfte beim Projekt landet. Lieber wäre es mir, ich könnte direkt auf ein Konto meine Spende überweisen, da DVDs und Handbuch zwar nett sind, ich sie aber eigentlich nicht dringend benötige. Besteht vielleicht auch die Möglichkeit per Überweisung zu spenden? Vielen Dank für Ihre Mühe Mit freundlichen Grüßen Philipp Döbereiner -- 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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