September 2012 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Promo material stock questions
by Marcel Kühlhorn 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hi all, in preparation to a small forums meet-up of opensuse-forum.de I'm putting together a list of things to get for it and stumbled across some questions meanwhile. First: When will openSUSE 12.2 Promo-DVDs earliest be available? The meeting is scheduled for the last September weekend (28 to 30.09.) and it would be a certain nice to have them by then. If that is not possible I'll order them later on seperately from the other items. Second: Is all on this list currently available: - 600 DVDs - 600 stickers (one sticker per DVD) - 400 flyers - 200 small posters (the ones with the calendars on the backside, guess there will be new ones for 2013) - 100 big posters - 20 t-shirts for attendees Third: Are there different T-Shirt sizes? If so I'll have to ask those who already confirmed their attendance what sizes they need. Fourth: Is it possible to get hands on some old toad? That's all for now, looking forward to get some answers. -- Marcel Kühlhorn freenode: tux93 Have a lot of fun!

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[opensuse-marketing] Interviews with speakers from oSC Future Media track
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Heya folks, At the openSUSE Conference we have a 'specia' track about the effects of modern Media on our life - think about the risks of not owning your data in the cloud (and what is done against that by awesome people building Free networks and open cloud software), the benefits open source can bring (using open source technology and methods for disaster relief), and more. These things are very interesting and it is valuable to tell people about it and persuade them to visit the conference! A good way of doing that is by doing a few interviews with these speakers. You can find the list of speakers on http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/schedule/ and I have contact details of all of them. As questions, the following would suffice: - tell us about yourself - what will you talk about - How did you get involved with that and why do you care about it so much, why does it matter? - what do you have to say to the (potential) visitors of the conference, what would you say is your message? I need someone to help me with this. It is easy: all you have to do is mail these folks (I'll give you their addresses), ask them if they ware OK doing an interview, if Ok send the questions, collect the answers, maybe do a bit of back-and-forth if things are unclear, and put it all in 1 or a few articles with me. If you're up for it, you COULD do one or all of the interviews by skype or Google hangout. That is very cool - although you might want to record them to not miss anything :D Upside: you not only get to help openSUSE and do a bit of writing with someone who has some experience, but you also get to chat with these very interesting folks! Who wants to help? /Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Review of openSUSE Education Li-f-e on educationalit.com
by medwinz 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi Jigish, This is the link from educationalit.com http://www.educationalit.com/author.asp?section_id=2181&doc_id=251434& cc to marketing and ambassador list. cheers, -- medwinz http://medwinz.blogspot.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] oSC media plan
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Heya folks, I've been going over our old todo lists for conferences and such to make a short 'todo' for the openSUSE Conf marketing. Lots of things are done already so I skipped those, just planning for the last 4 weeks. I'd love to hear comments/ideas for things to add and especially "I'll do that's" from all of you ;-) For the artwork stuff, I've already asked the artwork team so that's not on the list. /Jos Tip: the interviews are both important and not too hard to do. Also, we have a few VERY interesting speakers so it's fun to do :D I'd really appreciate help with those! openSUSE Conference Media Action Plan Until two weeks before oSC * do and publish speaker interviews * Write announcement of parties * Other announcements? * Create last "why come" article before conf with all stuff coming linked * Prepare tweets etc for these announcements and articles, use bit.ly links for tracking and spread to ambassadors! * pick hashtag and advertise it (probably #oSC12?) Until 3 days before conference * Plan things to be announced and decided at the conf * pre-write those announcements * Create presskit for conference * Send press kit around and prepare some for journalists at the conf During the event * Write daily reports on oSC * Keep the world updated on what is going on at oSC/LD/etc After the event * Create final report of oSC with links to all announcements etc

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[opensuse-marketing] Call for help translation of osc'12 program announcement
by Max Lin 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi everybody, Since openSUSE 12.2 already released, openSUSE Team now move our eyes to openSUSE conference - osc'12. The call for paper(http://conference.opensuse.org/Call-for-papers/) is closed, also the sessions are decided and scheduled, you can check it on http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/schedule/. openSUSE conference will have participants from all over the world, we prepared an program announcement and we looking for somebody help us translation of the program announcement in the different languages, if you willing do this task, started from http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Program_announcement would be good! Thanks for your contribution to keep openSUSE grow up! Best regards, Max -- 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] Slides for openSUSE 12.2 ready!
by Jos Poortvliet 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi folks! If you're going to promote openSUSE somewhere soon - know that we've got your back. There are openSUSE 12.2 presentation templates courtesy of sysrich in our github repo: https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/tree/master/slides/ Also, we have created a introduction to openSUSE 12.2 and updated our other standard slide decks about OBS, openQA, Studio and more. Find them here: https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/tree/master/slides/12.2%20Slides There's also separate openSUSE 12.2 for presentations available in svg and other easy-to-work-with formats: https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/tree/master/slides/12.2%20Presentation%… Remember, we believe in Doing, Sharing and Merging, so if you have any improvements for the slides, translations, other artwork, or translations of our other stuff, just send them to me or create a merge request on github ;-) Oh, and those not yet following us on G+: https://plus.google.com/s/openSUSE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuseproject/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/openSUSE Pls do so ;-) Have a lot of fun and let us know if you use the slides, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] help to get openSUSE stuff for our launch party and workshops
by Aaron Luna 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi, my name is Aaron Luna and I'm an openSUSE Ambassador in Mexico and we are very preparing a Launch Party for the all new openSUSE 12.2 and besides that installation and configuration workshops at other Universities in Mexico, the one great reason is the education and we can do change the thinking of students about IT, and obviously using openSUSE.....having a lot of fun!!! I'm requesting your help to get material support for these events are listed below: posters, shirts, hats, stickers, and some other elements that can help me to carry out this work I have gladly done so far and fortunately has raised awareness of the students. Launch Party: http://www.utfv.edu.mx Workshops: http://www.ugto.mx http://www.uttecamac.edu.mx http://www.utvtol.edu.mx My openSUSE user: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Aaronluna75 You, the openSUSE marketing team ..... determine the amount of elements that could help us. Awaiting your valuable help, best regards. Aaron Luna -- 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] Dia 1 summit
by Victor hck 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi I have read this in the openSUSE summit page: - http://summit.opensuse.org/news/2012/09-23-day_one_the_rain_dont/ I have translated into spanish if you want to share in the web. I can send a HTML file, or I can upload in my forked repo in Github or in Dropbox Bye! PS: I would have liked to be over there!! ;-) -- 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] anyone interested to do this openSUSE Edu interview?
by Jigish Gohil 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi There is this comment here: http://news.opensuse.org/2012/09/14/opensuse-edu-li-f-e-12-2-out-now/commen… "I’m looking to do a brief interview (can be done via email) with an educator or IT person using li-f-e for a post I’m writing at educationalit.com. Basically, I’d like to know how you’ve been using the distro, what you’re looking forward to in the new release, and, finally, why you picked openSUSE over, say, Edubuntu. Here’s my email: ellisbooker(a)gmail.com" Interested? -J -- 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] SpanishTranslation of: Pie for Pi
by Victor hck 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi I have read this link: - http://summit.opensuse.org/news/2012/09-18-pie_for_pi/ For the ossum. This Summit it's in English and In spanish too, so why not to translate this thing?? XD I have made a translation, that I send in this mail. Take a look, and review, and chage what ever you think, and if you want you can upload to the page... Bye! Thank's a lot to Jos, he's everywhere to help me!! ;)

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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] Marketing Jur�dico | Newsletter Inrise Consultoria | Edi��o 27 | Ano 05
by Inrise RH 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

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[opensuse-marketing] Upload of SUSE Studio slides
by Raul Libório 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi, I talked about in the SFD SUSEstudio and would like to make available the slides. I tried to add the wiki but the limit is 2MB. Someone could upload to git? Thanks! -- 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."

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[opensuse-marketing] A FREE WAY TO TRY OPENSUSE WITHOUT INSTALLING IT
by beta.opensuse＠yodasp.com 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hello everybody! We are a small team working on setting up a public cloud service to provide desktops and applications access through the web. The service is expected to go live-beta in 2013. In the meantime we have decided to periodically offer temporary services as demo-beta so that we can better test the technologies and the integrations we are working on. We hope that users will provide us feedbacks so that the final service will provide what users want. As a first demo-beta, we chose to start with our beloved openSUSE and are preparing to offer a time limited demo-beta for the lately released 12.2 KDE environment. Anybody interested can subscribe to our "openSUSE Beta" [1] offer from our site, http://www.yodasp.com, and get access to openSUSE 12.2 KDE systems to try them out for free. Please, read the "How does it work ?" description from the subscription page as this demo will be time-limited, restricted to a small number of users based on a FIFO subscription, and will offer dynamic systems where any uploaded data will be periodically deleted. Another interesting part is that we have chosen to use the wonderful ownCloud [2] workspace environment to get access to the openSUSE systems through the NoMachine FreeNX [3] technology. For any additional information, please, refer to beta.opensuse [AT] yodasp [DOT] com and, please, "Have a lot of fun!" [1] openSUSE Beta subscription direct link: http://goo.gl/h6vbG [2] ownCloud software: http://owncloud.org/ [3] NoMachine FreeNX: http://www.nomachine.com/ We hope to make openSUSE 12.2 KDE try-out a good experience ! --- YODASP team openSUSE Beta -- 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 12.2 Edu Li-f-e Lokalisierung
by Jens Ruhnau 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Ich habe soeben die open SUSE Distribution von Distrowatch.com heruntergeladen und enttäuscht festgestellt, daß das System im Live-Modus nicht Deutsch lokalisiert ist (bis auf die Tastaturbelegung)! Ich nehme openSuse als eine Distribution wahr, die sich nicht zuletzt an deutschsprachige Anwender richtet, und besonders an Anwender aus dem Ausbildungssektor (vielleicht sogar Windows-Nutzer). Diese Zielgruppe möchte aber dort abgeholt werden, wo sie sich befindet. Mir erscheint es deshalb nicht konsequent, den Anwendern nach einem Download von 3,2 GB zusätzlich ca. 500 MB für Updates des Systems aufzuzwingen, die ausschließlich die deutsche Lokalisierung betreffen. Die hätten noch locker auf die DVD gepasst! SCHADE, weshalb also dieser Umstand? Mit freundliche Grüßen JR -- 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 Edu Li-f-e 12.2 released
by Jigish Gohil 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hello Community Here is the announcement, thanks to all those who contributed to it: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/09/14/announcing-the-release-of-opensuse-e… Spread the word Cheers -J PS: News team, could you copy this over to news.opensuse.org please? -- 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] coming up openSUSE Edu Li-f-e release
by Jigish Gohil 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Hello Community We will be releasing openSUSE Edu Li-f-e based on openSUSE 12.2 probably on Friday, 14th Sept., release announcement is in works, here is the link for google docs. Your feedback by directly making improvements on the doc is very welcome. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xbF2QF1jlYrD0dTYgkoLKARAOmbCrbXMpf4LXxV… Let me know if anyone wants to test the iso before the release for the publicity work, will make the link for that available. Also do make the usual noise accompanying the release by all means available to you :) Kind regards -J -- openSUSE Education Team member -- 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 some help with presentation for SFD. What subject to present?
by Efstathios Iosifidis 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hello, I need your help on something. As you already know, 15th of September is Software Freedom Day. Although I added that we'll do something in Thessaloniki (my city), a friend from Florina called me that they'll make a day conference and if I want to go to make a presentation there. The audience will be doctors, school teachers, people that own a store and some locals. There will be media covering the event. Well, I planed to present how to change the daily programs that they use with open source (even financial ones). Unfortunately, now that I see the schedule, someone else will present the same subject (different title though). So I have 30 mins to present something. What possibly can I present openSUSE related that will be interested to the audience. Also, if there something ready (presentation file), I prefer that, since it's exams period for me and on Monday I must take a huge test. Thanks for your help. Green means go!!! Stathis -- 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] Too Early to be thinking about SCALE (Los Angeles, Feb)
by Tony Su 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Am strongly considering going to the upcoming SCALE 11 http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/ The call for presentations has already gone out, and this time I'm seriously considering doing at least one (maybe two) presentaitons... - TCP/IP optimization and tuning, what every User from Home to Enterprise needs to know - HTML5/CSS3/Javascript apps, Is this the future of Linux Desktop? Well, at least the first one, and only maybe the second. Before I respond to the SCALE organizers, I thought I might touch base to see what openSUSE has planned, if booth support and more is needed. Tony -- 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] 12.2 Professional-style presentation template
by Richard Brown 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

i All, I've uploaded an update to my 'Professional-style' openSUSE presentation templates with 12.2 style colours and artwork It's what I'll be using at the Summit for my talk on YaST, and figured others might want to use it to - Sorry it's so late It can be downloaded from GitHub here: https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/blob/master/slides/12.2%20professional%… Enjoy Richard / ilmehtar on IRC -- 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] Handouts für "Altdorfer Linux-Tag"
by René Poley 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich bin Mitgleid der LUG "GLUGA" (GnuLinux UserGroup Altdorf) und möchte auf diesem Weg mit SUSE in Kontakt treten, um Sie für unser Vorhaben zu begeistern. Wir sind eine Gruppe von ca. 30 begeisterten Linux-Nutzern und treffen uns regelmäßig in Altdorf zu unserem Linux-Stammtisch. Im Laufe der Jahre haben wir immer wieder neue Mitglieder aller Altersklassen gewinnen und für die Benutzung freier Software begeistern können. Da unser Stammtisch als eine lockere Gesprächsrunde zu verstehen ist, gerade bei interessierten Einsteigern aber immer wieder der Wunsch nach Vorträgen, Workshops und Information im Allgemeinen aufkommt, haben wir uns entschlossen künftig einmal jährlich einen Informationstag zum Thema "Freie Software" zu veranstalten. Der Veranstaltungsrahmen, die Räumlichkeiten und freiwilligen Helfer stehen bereits fest und wir befinden uns im Endspurt unserer Planungsphase. Um potentiellen Umsteigern und Linux-Interessierten auch etwas in die Hand geben zu können, möchte ich Sie hiermit ersuchen, uns mit SUSE-Werbemitteln, Datenträgern etc. zu unterstützen. Ein großer Teil unserer Mitglieder benutzt selbst openSUSE und wird in den Vorträgen darauf eingehen, sodass es sich anbietet, an geeigneter Stelle Handouts zu verteilen. Der LTA wird am 13. Oktober 2012 im Stadtzentrum von Altdorf (bei NÜrnberg) stattfinden und ich/wir möchte(n) Sie bitten uns kurzfristig mitzuteilen, inwieweit Sie Interesse haben uns zu unterstützen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen René Poley -- 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] Social Media photos
by Bryen M Yunashko 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hey folks, I admit I have never followed the way we handle social photo sharing for our events in the past, for obvious reasons. However, I need to ensure we provide all the proper hashtags for upcoming Summit and oSC. How did we do it in the past? What did we use? Flickr? Picasa? Do we tell people to #opensuse tag their photos? A good overview would be much appreciated. Thanks! Bryen -- 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 counter
by Koushik Kumar Nundy 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hi, I know everyone is busy and excited with the upcoming release. Congratulations for the same. In this regard, I'd like us to remember what a tool as simple, yet as elegant as the counter makes to our cause. While going through some old mails, etc, I noticed the fact that the counter seems to be up at atleast two locations[1] [2]. I was wondering if this is intentional due to legacy links that might be out there or a simple oversight? [1] https://countdown.opensuse.org/ [2] https://counter.opensuse.org/ Cheers, ~kknundy. -- 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] Release Artwork for Facebook and Google+
by Marcel Kühlhorn 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hi all, to promote the upcoming release of 12.2 on Facebook and Google+ I created pictures for Facebooks Timeline and Google+ Cover-Photos. There are two images, one saying "Coming Sept. 5" and one "Available Now", each in English and German. Since I'm still waiting to get access to the artwork git repos the images can be downloaded from here for now: http://tux93.org/files/openSUSE/ If someone needs the *.xcf files to create images for their own language pleas let me know. -- Marcel Kühlhorn freenode: tux93 Have a lot of fun!

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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] openSUSE ambassadors
by Sergey Tumanov 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

Hi, everyone! A week ago I wrote a request for participating in openSUSE ambassadors team but didn't get any response (I wrote to ambassador-welcome(a)opensuse.org) With whom is better to contact? Kind regards, Sergey -- 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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