August 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] PC Pro Linux magazine and what they say about openSUSE
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Heya all, A reminder: PC Pro magazine is crowd-sourcing their Linux coverage, a great chance to add some Green to a largely Ubuntu-centric magazine! Bruo Canning (in CC) has already done an awesome job on the page about openSUSE and I did some additions myself but a bit of review and fine tuning won't hurt. Remember, we have the openSUSE Talking points which could be very helpful: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points This link takes you directly to the page: http://78.31.104.140/~jonbray/mediawiki/index.php?title=OpenSUSE Thanks and hugs all, 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] [OT] openSUSE haircut
by Raul Libório 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hello, http://www.drchapatin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pics-082.jpg someone has courage? :) -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ openSUSE Member | Linux User #4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -- 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] Gplus Counter
by DuBois, Scott L. 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hi All, Just wanted to give a heads up that the counter that was posted yesterday in G+ is working. I was thinking maybe just leave it as the last post until after release so it stays there at the top of the list? -- God bless ! Scott DuBois www.ROGUEHORSE.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] time for helping out with something?
by Jos Poortvliet 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Heya, If you feel like helping out a bit with openSUSE 12.2 release marketing, there's a rather important task to be done: populating http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots What needs to be done is: taking the screen shots from here: https://github.com/openSUSE/Press-Kit/tree/12.2/English/Images And uploading them to http://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots ! I'd be VERY grateful for help! Hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] For openSUSE 12.2 release
by Izabel Valverde 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hello all, Who tested openSUSE 12.2 RC2 and can tell one sentence why you are so happy about openSUSE 12.2? openSUSE 12.2 will be released in 8 days and we would like to know your good thoughts. Thanks in advance, Izabel Valverde -- 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] Box Set in the Shop
by DuBois, Scott L. 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hi All, Just wanted to pass on an FYI that no one has forgotten we will need to update the box set in the shop sooner or later too... : ) http://shop.opensuse.org/ -- God bless ! Scott DuBois www.ROGUEHORSE.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] Short success story
by Strainu 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Hi, First, sorry for replying to another thread, hope it won't mess you email client. I want to share a small openSUSE brand awareness success story with you. Last month I was in Washington for Wikimania and in one of the days I went to visit the Capitol wearing my openSUSE T-shirt. While I was waiting at the ticket counter, a guy from the Capitol police came to me and said: „hey, are you using opensuse?” I said yes and he continued: „it'a great os, i love it because i don't have all those problems with viruses.” I was very happy to see people on the street recognised our brand and were aware they could interact with us. Strainu -- 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] Call for help: 12.2 feature collection
by Christopher Hofmann 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

Hi all, openSUSE 12.2 will be released on Sept 5th, so there are only about 3 weeks left. To prepare a proper press release we need to collect the most interesting new features of 12.2. For collecting them we need help. So if you know of any super-duper-high-end-brand-new things that are on 12.2 and should go into a press release feel free to add them to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features A good source for finding more product highlights might be http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ChangeLog If you are coltish, feel free to read http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Product_highlights_writing and help us to bring the collected items in a proper form Sorry for the cross post, Christopher -- 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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