April 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] Chamäleon - Bilder
by Olaf Runge 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Hi, ich weiß nicht, ob ich mit der von mir ausgewählten Mailadresse richtig liege. in meinem letzten Urlaub auf Madagaskar hatte ich Gelegenheit, einige schöne Fotos von Chamäleons dem Logo von openSuSe anzufertigen. als langjähriger Nutzer und Fan der Linux-Distribution openSuSe wollte ich versuchen etwas zum Gelingen des Projektes beitragen und diese Bilder zur Verfügung stellen. Teilt mir einfach mit, ob Interesse besteht, und wie ich diese dann Euch zukommen lassen kann. Ein sehr gelungens Foto füge ich dieser Mail als Anhang bei. Es grüsst Olaf Runge Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Str. 7 53225 Bonn

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[opensuse-marketing] Why openSUSE site shows Debian logo?
by Ilya Chernykh 31 May '12

31 May '12

http://storage7.static.itmages.ru/i/12/0409/h_1333994460_1791153_5bda7e8dae… -- 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] Need design help
by Jos Poortvliet 20 May '12

20 May '12

Heya all, I'll be printing a number of nice, glossy brochures for artists using openSUSE. If this works out we can improve on it and do something more with the concept of having non-openSUSE projects endorsing us at our booths. But for now, I have added 2 openSUSE pages to the last pages of the whole document (below a cut-down version of the document). I have text, images - and even a quote from the Krita maintainer suggesting artists that openSUSE is the best out there :D What is less good is that my design skills - or lack there-of - are very visible. last two pages will be the inside- and outside of the last page of the brochure (it's a 24 page small book, a4 size). I need somebody to make them look pretty. They can be redesigned any way anyone of you see fit... Anyone willing to make this look a bit better? Again, JUST care about the *last two pages*. it would even be fine to send me a PDF or even image with just the last 2 pages as output back - I can then do the change myself on the original document (which is 50 MB, hence this smaller one). http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/about-krita-oS.odt It would be nice to have it sometime this week... :D Thanks, Jos -- 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] Quick guides, brochures for FLISOL
by cheperobert 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hi all, On Saturday 28 we have the FLISOL, and I want to give some quick guides, brochures printed of openSUSE. For now I have this already in my hands. http://lamiradadelreplicante.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/ahora-que-se-viene-op… What else do you recommend? -- Saludos, cheperobert -- 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] Novell login does not work
by Ilya Chernykh 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

I cannot login Suse Studio. -- 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] Webcasting solution
by Roger Luedecke 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Found a solution that should suit. http://www.bigbluebutton.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] OBS 2.3 release announcement review
by Adrian Schröter 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Hi, I drafted a very-very first version of our OBS 2.3 anouncement. If someone wants to improve it or fix my broken english it would be great. I plan also to add some pictures. We will not release before of end of next week (maybe later, depending on some work regarding the official support). It will appear on our openbuildservice.org site and be sent out via usual announce channels: The <a href="http://www.open-build-service.org" title="OBS Home Page">Open Build Service</a> version 2.3.0 brings new features esp. in the Maintenance and Release Management area and is the latest stable maintained version. It is recommended to update to this version to get improved security protections and <a href="http://www.open-build-service.org/contact/">official support</a>. OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes <ul> <li>Update coordination: One or more maintenance groups can decide if and when to start or release an update. This includes also the tracking of new, running and processed updates.</li> <li>QA and Review integration: The current state of an update is always visible and trackable. Review processes can be integrated.</li> <li>Release Management: Isolated build and tested updates can be release or revoke via OBS mechanism.</li> <li>Multiple code stream support: An issue can be handled for multiple code streams.</li> <li>Documentation support: The documentation of an update for the end-user is integrated</li> </ul> This functionality is already used for doing the <a href="https://build.opensuse.org/project/maintenance_incidents?project=openSUSE%3…" title="Running openSUSE Incidents">maintenance updates for the openSUSE distributions</a>. The features can be used altogether or in parts for own products. Furthermore the version 2.3 provides <ul> <li>A greatly improved web interface, including user management, syntax highlighted source editor and improved source diff review views</li> <li>Improved Cross Build Support via Qemu</li> <li>Functionality to hide entire projects</li> <li>Issue tracking support, tracking documented fixes in external bugzilla, fate and CVE instances in packages.</li> </ul> It is recommended to read the <a href="https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/blob/2.3/ReleaseNotes-2.3" title="OBS 2.3 Release Notes">Release Notes</a> before updating an instance. OBS packages can be found in the <a href="http://https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools">openSUSE Tools project</a> or as <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Appliance">an appliance</a> which can be used on hardware or in VM. Your Open Build Service team LINK_TO_PICTURE <strong>About Open Build Service</strong> The Open Build Service (OBS) is an open and complete distribution development platform. It provides the infrastructure to easily create, release and maintain software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions on different hardware architectures. It is developed under the umbrella of the openSUSE project, but is licensed under GPL and used by other open source projects like MeeGo or Tizen. It is also used by universities, ISV's and companies like Intel, Dell, SGI. <strong>Support Offerings for Open Build Service</strong> -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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] writing help for openstack?
by Jos Poortvliet 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

anyone interested in this writing job? It's about openStack on openSUSE which is available thanks to work by B1 and the boosters (among other things, you need to figure out if they worked together on this!) I wrote down a few pointers and links where you can get info for the article but otherwise - it is empty and you'll have to set the direction. http://news.opensuse.org/?p=13018&preview=true I think it's best to make it a kind of big-ish announcement: openStack is availalbe for openSUSE, this is where to get it and how to use it (short) with links. And some history on where it came from (B1, SUSE becoming platinum partner of openStack, boosters worked on it, etc). Should be done in the next few days... Who's up for it? /Jos

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