February 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] openSUSE and KDE in COSCUP Taiwan
by Max 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Dear ALL: I am Max from Taiwan -- openSUSE ambassador and GNOME foundaion member too. ^__^ It's midnight in Taiwan. But I really happy to say "openSUSE and KDE will have one track( 2 days - 14 slot Presentations) at 18 - 19 Aug 2012 in COSCUP Taiwan" (I am sorry, I just make sure the date and slot today) What is COSCUP? http://coscup.org/2011/en/ COSCUP is the largest annual FLOSS conference organized by local communities in Taiwan. The conference has sessions for new users, enthusiastic promoters, coders or anyone who is interested in cutting-edge FLOSS technologies. The goal is to create a friendly and informative environment for people from different communities to make friends, learn new technologies and inspire each other. Open source software is supported by 3 groups: coders, users and promoters. This conference is aimed at all three groups. No matter whether you are a new user, a passionate promoter, mature developer or anywhere in between, you are welcome at COSCUP, the Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters! for COSCUP | GNOME.Asia 2010 and COSCUP 2011 there are 1,000 people together. ^__^ This Year (2012) openSUSE and KDE will get involved with COSCUP. We will have one individual track with 2 days. (About 14 presentaions) Date: 18-19 Aug, 2012 Country: Asia -- Taiwan We will have both booth and Conference in COSCUP 2012. We need your participate^^. For some good | interesting topic with openSUSE ( Yes, we will send call for paper as soon as possible <(_ _)> ) For booth -- We need your help. For anything else..... good to openSUSE Best regards sakana -- 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] 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] Continue the openSUSE Weekly News
by Nitin K Sookun 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hello, In response to the 'openSUSE Weekly News' update of the openSUSE website, I'd like to help in this project. I can help in writing short articles for the openSUSE Weekly News. Do let me know once this project is up again. Regards, -- Nitin K Sookun openSUSE Ambassador Linux Mint Community Leader (Mauritius) FSF Member #9934 Blog: http://hacklog.in Freenode: Ishwon #opensuse Spotchat: Ishwon #linuxmint-help This email has been sent using Linux Mint 12 & Novell Evolution 3.2. -- 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] GSOC poster for conferences etc
by Jos Poortvliet 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Heya all, You might have read that GSOC 2012 is going to happen again: http://news.opensuse.org/2012/02/29/opensuse-gsoc-2012/ We need to tell students that they need to be HERE, with US! So we need a nice GSOC poster. Now google has made artwork for GSOC 2012: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z4BTG1iJDs/TyG9uyApFrI/AAAAAAAAAhY/raFJlaZqdes/s… I slapped a geeko on it but that's of course not good enough :D So, who can design some poster which can be used at conferences and universities to get students into GSOC 2012? I was thinking about taking google's image on the bottom of a poster, adding the blue on top and having some text there, see my crazy drawing here: http://susepaste.org/13964893 Something like that... I've uploaded it to github just so you have something as a starter :D BTW we still need a text for on this poster, too: http://susepaste.org/71297168 ideas? Love, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: Chairman
by Josh Blair 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hello, I would be interested in the position if you are still in need of someone to take it. I would like an idea of what type of time we are looking at per week, though. If the position is filled or there is someone better suited, please pass on my name and information to join the team. Thanks, Josh -- 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] Merging marketing to -project mailing liste
by Bruno Friedmann 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

To achieve somewhat our effort to consolidate communication, you certainly remember the fact that we want to merge some of mailing lists. I've seen a lot of cross-posting between here and project, and most of our actions need also more people involved. Beside the fact that will avoid cross-posting, and so minimize the number of replicated messages you & I can receive and then need to read/archive/reply/delete and so free some of our precious time. I would propose then that when we need a specific topic for our workgroup we just add [marketing] tag on the subject line. So I open a poll on connect to know what we want to do http://goo.gl/9hcYp Please vote before 1st March Thanks -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- 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] [Fwd: GNOME.Asia 2012 Official Announcement]
by Bryen M Yunashko 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Passing along an FYI for anyone interested. Bryen -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Brian Cameron <brian.cameron(a)oracle.com> To: foundation-list <foundation-list(a)gnome.org>, asia-summit-list <asia-summit-list(a)gnome.org>, developing-world-list(a)gnome.org, gnome-cn-list(a)gnome.org, gugmasters-list <gugmasters-list(a)gnome.org> Subject: GNOME.Asia 2012 Official Announcement Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:38:33 -0600 Hosting GNOME.Asia 2012 June 9-15, 2012 Hong Kong It is with great pleasure that we announce that Hong Kong has been selected as the venue of our upcoming GNOME.Asia 2012. GNOME.Asia 2012 follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 release and to help make GNOME as successful as possible. Hong Kong is well known for being one of the largest cities in Asia, with a thriving cultural scene, solid infrastructure, and robust public transportation system. Many countries have a visa-free period for travel with Hong Kong and the city has well integrated international connections. We believe that hosting the event in Hong Kong will bring the spotlight on GNOME and make an impact locally, regionally and internationally in terms of business and community building. Aside from being a business capital, Hong Kong is also well known as a tourist destination that is famous for its food, shopping and many attractions. Potential sites for the conference are the Breakthrough Youth Village Campsite and City University of Hong Kong, and reasonable rates for accommodations have been arranged. We are currently evaluating the best possible dates for the event, and should be able to announce it within the coming week. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the GNOME.Asia 2012 bidding process, especially the great work from Team GNOME Hong Kong and Team GNOME Indonesia. We look forward to working with you more in the future! Brian Cameron GNOME Foundation President =========================================== Best regards Max _______________________________________________ gnome-asia-committee-list mailing list gnome-asia-committee-list(a)gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-asia-committee-list _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list(a)gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- 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] Milestone 1 release announcement
by Kim Leyendecker 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Howdy y'all As Coolo announced M1 today[1], we should think about a release anouncemnt. Did anyone write something already? If not, I'd step up tomorrow and write an article about it. any ideas, wishes etc? thanks, --kdl [1] http://lists.suse.de/opensuse-factory/2012-02/msg00237.html -- 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] GFOSS conference in Greece
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hello my friends, I just saw a post (in Greek) [1] that there will be a day conference. It says that the cost of the conference is 15000Euros and it covers the transportation and accommodation for the speakers from abroad. This conference will be held to 4 cities in Greece (different days). Deadline is March 10th. You can send your participation to http://go.eellak.gr/ellakconf/ Name Last name Company/Project Position E-mail Phone Comments City (that want to present). The first is Athens. I live in Thessaloniki (the second choice) Please, check the side [2] to check last year organization (last year we had a booth at Thessaloniki's and Larissa's conferences). Please, anyone who's interested, contact us (and list). I'll send a participation for a booth at Thessaloniki. Thanks for your support. Have a lot of fun, Stathis [1] http://ellak.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7132 [2] http://conf.ellak.gr/2010/?page_id=21 -- 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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