July 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] LinuxDay 2012 in Austria - Call for Papers is online
by xela＠lugv.at 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello OpenSUSE-Team, The 14th LinuxDay in Dornbirn/Austria will take place on Nov. 24th 2012. We are seeking proposals for lectures (german). Interested speakers are invited to submit their proposals until Sep. 23rd. Details can be found here: http://www.linuxday.at/call-for-papers-2012 We are also interested in an openSUSE both. Ambassadors who want to contribute, please contact papers(a)linuxday.at! If none of the german speaking Ambassador finds the time to come to Dornbirn, which unfortunately happend last year, we would at least like to have some 12.2 DVD's to give away on LinuxDay (if that is possible). Greetings from Austria, Xela --- LUGV - Linux User Group Vorarlberg www.lugv.at www.linuxday.at -- 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] Software Freedom Day in Italy
by Alexjan Carraturo 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi to all I was invited as ambassador openSUSE to the Quiliano"Software Freedom Day", (SV, Italy). The event, as per the international calendar, to be held on September 15. In fact, it is an excellent opportunity to present openSUSE 12.2. I realize that the promoDVD of openSUSE 12.2 would not be avaible, and in the form of request for promoDVD have indicated an amount of 0. However, I requested in the request other marketing materials (such as T-shirts, hats, posters, stickers, etc.), which will be very, very useful. I've already started writing the event wiki page. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SFD_Quiliano_12 Currently it is only a draft, but get better in the coming days. Bye Alexjan -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Twitter/Facebook/Identica/flickr: axjslack Personal site: 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] Dentists List (there are 75,000 emails OR US businesses - 4 million emails
by bill 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

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[opensuse-marketing] Makeup mirror suppliers shared photos with you
by Makeup mirror suppliers 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Dear: We have obtained your name and address from internet search,I know you sell fashion and promotion item,and we are writing to inquire whether you would be willing to establish business relations with us. We have been manufacturing promotion gift for many years now.our main products have makeup mirror,cosmetic brush,hair comb/brush,manicure sets, bottle opener,measuring tape etc.At present we are interested in extending our overseas market and would appreciate your respond. Considering our competitive prices and high quality,we expect to establish a long-term partnership With you. We look forward to your early reply. Thanks Best Regards! ------------------------------------ Ike Sale Manager Ningbo Yinzhou Victy Craft Factory

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[opensuse-marketing] Reminder: Apply for travel support to attend openSUSE Summit ends tomorrow, July 20th, 2012
by Izabel Valverde 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Don't forget the deadline! Tomorrow is the last day to apply for travel support to attend openSUSE Summit. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Summit --- The openSUSE Travel Support Team is happy to announce that we are ready to process applications to sponsor openSUSE people to attend openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will happen in Orlando, Florida - September 21-23, 2012. Instructions on how to apply and further information about the Travel Support Program and eligibility can be found http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program Important dates! The Sponsorship Request period for openSUSE Summit ends on July 20, 2012. Responses will be given before July 30, 2012. Some additional comments: * A clear and complete application is faster and easier to process, so please read the wiki page carefully! * We cannot fulfill all requests, keep in mind that there is no guarantee you will get sponsored. * Sponsorship decisions are influenced by the history of the requester, like having followed the requirement of writing a report about a conference you attended with sponsorship or having send in the required paperwork in time. * If you were part of Google Summer of Code as openSUSE student or mentor you should mention it in your application. * If you submitted an abstract to be presented at openSUSE Summit should mention it in your application. The Travel Team sends a reply upon receiving your application. We will then wait for all applicants to send in their requests for the event and only once we have a full overview, responses will be given. Please do not send personal emails, always CC the travel-support team in your replies. Best Regards, Izabel Valverde On behalf of openSUSE Travel Support Team -- 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 Summit & openSUSE Travel Support Team
by Izabel Valverde 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hello all, The openSUSE Travel Support Team is happy to announce that we are ready to process applications to sponsor openSUSE people to attend openSUSE Summit. The openSUSE Summit will happen in Orlando, Florida - September 21-23, 2012. Instructions on how to apply and further information about the Travel Support Program and eligibility can be found http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program Important dates! The Sponsorship Request period for openSUSE Summit ends on July 20, 2012. Responses will be given before July 30, 2012. Some additional comments: * A clear and complete application is faster and easier to process, so please read the wiki page carefully! * We cannot fulfill all requests, keep in mind that there is no guarantee you will get sponsored. * Sponsorship decisions are influenced by the history of the requester, like having followed the requirement of writing a report about a conference you attended with sponsorship or having send in the required paperwork in time. * If you were part of Google Summer of Code as openSUSE student or mentor you should mention it in your application. * If you submitted an abstract to be presented at openSUSE Summit should mention it in your application. The Travel Team sends a reply upon receiving your application. We will then wait for all applicants to send in their requests for the event and only once we have a full overview, responses will be given. Please do not send personal emails, always CC the travel-support team in your replies. Best Regards, Izabel Valverde On behalf of openSUSE Travel Support Team -- 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] larger openSUSE deployments?
by Ludwig Nussel 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hi, I'm currently investigating whether and how openSUSE is used in larger deployments. Does anyone know someone who manages like let's say 30 or more openSUSE machines at once? I'm interested in e.g. what tools are used in such a scenario and what rough edges in the distro we maybe have that could be improved. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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] Re: [opensuse-project] larger openSUSE deployments?
by Ludwig Nussel 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

vetter(a)physik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: > we are running a computer pool for students with 48 machines on openSUSE > 12.1. Ususally we try to install "almost everything" except software that > is really annoying when $HOME is on NFS (e.g. beagle in former times). Ah, the famous "zzz All" entry :-) > and images (tar.gz method) for new machines (or new harddisks) and zypper > dup for upgrading on working machines to new releases. These upgrades take > place in the break between semesters. So for that I guess you have to log into each machine and run and watch zypper dup manually? > Printing seems to be one of the most complicated problems in universe ;) Yeah :-) > For updates we use the automatic online update. Problem here was: > SuSEconfig is not run. But this problem decreases, since SuSEconfig does > less from release to release. > Another thing I'm not quite sure about is: when e.g. openssl library is > updated, a lot of services are affected (zypper ps can tell you), but the > services are not restarted automatically. Since our machine run rather > long (until next kernel update or crash or power plug pulled) they only > get restarted when we do a zypper ps manually and either restart services > manually or reboot. Well this should not be necessary, but I'd feel better > if zypper ps shows nothing. Indeed. With systemd it should even be possible to automatically determine the service for each pid. Maybe worth filing a feature request. > To change the configuration on all machines, we usually copy the > configuration file(s) to all machines and restart the service. We have > scripts using SSH with authorized_keys for that. Problem is, if a machine > is not online, it does not get the change and one must remember to change > it, when the machine comes back. If there is a better solution, please let > me know. Isn't that someting puppet or func try to solve? cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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: [opensuse-project] larger openSUSE deployments?
by vetter＠physik.uni-wuerzburg.de 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Hi, we are running a computer pool for students with 48 machines on openSUSE 12.1. Ususally we try to install "almost everything" except software that is really annoying when $HOME is on NFS (e.g. beagle in former times). In older times we used autoyast to install a new version of openSUSE. But autoyast is just taking too long to install such a long list of software, and when you forget about a small thing, the turnaround time with such a big number of packages to install is too long. So we switched to autoyast and images (tar.gz method) for new machines (or new harddisks) and zypper dup for upgrading on working machines to new releases. These upgrades take place in the break between semesters. zypper dup usually works great. But somehow from 11.4 to 12.1 the update-alternative files for java were messed up resulting in a non-working java plugin for browsers. Found out by accident last week. Since our university uses Novell iprint for charging the students for printouts, we had to find out, that cups 1.5 does not work with iprint client. And so we had to build cups 1.4 for openSUSE 12.1. Printing seems to be one of the most complicated problems in universe ;) Students love n-up printing to save money. But somehow this seems to confuse printers from all kinds of different manufacturers (HP, Lexmark, Sharp). There is also no clear statement how to do it right, because for some PDFs you better use n-up printing from acroread and for others you can only use okular and cups n-up printing. Failure of printing "the right way" (TM) will result in hanging or resetting the printer. Since the machines are administered by central root, we disable NetworkManager, Update Notifications, and so on. Bad thing is, this changes from release to release, and we have to consider all desktop flavours (KDE, Gnome, LXDE, ...). For updates we use the automatic online update. Problem here was: SuSEconfig is not run. But this problem decreases, since SuSEconfig does less from release to release. Another thing I'm not quite sure about is: when e.g. openssl library is updated, a lot of services are affected (zypper ps can tell you), but the services are not restarted automatically. Since our machine run rather long (until next kernel update or crash or power plug pulled) they only get restarted when we do a zypper ps manually and either restart services manually or reboot. Well this should not be necessary, but I'd feel better if zypper ps shows nothing. To change the configuration on all machines, we usually copy the configuration file(s) to all machines and restart the service. We have scripts using SSH with authorized_keys for that. Problem is, if a machine is not online, it does not get the change and one must remember to change it, when the machine comes back. If there is a better solution, please let me know. Wow, that was log. I didn't intend a such long post ;-) -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Andreas Vetter Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Universitaet Wuerzburg -- 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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