October 2013 - 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] Re: desktop sneak peek
by Jos Poortvliet 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

On Thursday 17 October 2013 09:52:41 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hey all, > > For the release it would be great to write a desktop sneak peek. Something > that gives an idea of what's new in GNOME and KDE and XFCE etc. > > I can write the KDE part but I spend a lot of time last time on the GNOME > one and it still wasn't very good, so I think somebody else should write > that part. See > https://news.opensuse.org/2013/03/06/sneak-preview-i-opensuse-12-3-for-desk > top-users/ > > as it was last release. The idea is to not just write about what's new but > try to give some 'pro' tips and tricks, that's the part people like most. > So it should be done by a GNOME user, ideally one who follows upstream > news a bit. > > Who can and wants to help with this? Come on, nobody who wants to give GNOME a bit of attention in this release? You guys upgraded from 3.6 to 3.10... That should be a big deal, yes? /J > /J

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[opensuse-marketing] major features - closing today
by Jos Poortvliet 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi, Tomorrow I'm going to start creating a list of top features of openSUSE 13.1 for the announcement. This is based on the wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features If you have done anything worth mentioning to our users, please put it on that page! I would rather not miss major features/changes in the announcement... Beginning of next week I will move that page to https://en.opensuse.org/Features_13.1 and add some screenshots. We still need a lot of help creating screenshots, please put them here: https://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_13.1 Thanks and hugs, J

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: Time to get crackin'?
by Jos Poortvliet 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

On Wednesday 09 October 2013 18:13:29 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Heya, > > Beta is out - aiaiai, that means, we have to be working on the feature > list! I just did the kernel: > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features#Linux_kernel_3.11 > > But there is a lot more. Who can make a summary of what GNOME 3.10 brings > compared to the release of GNOME Shell 3.6 in openSUSE 12.3? That means, > indeed, summarizing the release announcements of 3.8 and 3.10 in one go. > > I wrote most of KDE's 4.11 announcement so I can do the KDE section... > Unless somebody else feels like doing that, of course! > > And there's much more to work on, of course. Michal has created a script to > automatically mail people who work on packages which have seen major > changes and ask them if they can help out, let's see if some do... But we > should try and do our thing as well. > > If you wonder WHAT to do and HOW - there's a wiki page for that! > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Product_highlights_writing Marketing and artwork people! We need screenshots. Lots of them. I have set up a page: https://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_13.1 Please, if you have 13.1 RC1 or factory running, go there, and update a few screenshots from 12.3 to 13.1! > Hugs, > J

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[opensuse-marketing] Event report of Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall
by Fuminobu TAKEYAMA 20 Oct '13

20 Oct '13

Hello all, On October 19th and 20th, I participated Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall and had a booth and a seminar as a member of Japan openSUSE User Group. About 20 people came to my seminar and more than 100 people visited our booth. I wrote an event report in my blog. You can see some photos and PDF version of the flyer that we distributed: http://blog.geeko.jp/ftake/804 Regards, Fuminobu TAKEYAMA -- 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 weekly news
by Shrinivasan T 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Friends. I am back to OpenSuSE after 2009. It is matured so much, stable and lovely. I like to show some love on this. Do we have any weekly news system for OpenSuSE like "ubuntu weekly news" https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter It will be nice to have such news letter. Point me if it is already there. Else, shall we start one? Share your thoughts. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge -- 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] OpenSuSE weekly news
by Victor Hck 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

More interesting blogs are in planet opensuse - http://planet.opensuse.org/global/ Maybe Jos can give you more answers... 2013/10/15 Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>: > Thanks for the reply. > > Shall we start with such weekly newsletter? > > With some contents like > Interesting blogs > Forum questions > Latest happenings > New packages > Meeting info > > Etc > > Do we get few contributors to collect content? > > On Oct 15, 2013 7:04 PM, "Victor Hck" <correohck(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi ! >> Not weekly, but when there are something important here: >> https://news.opensuse.org/ you can read it. >> >> bye >> >> 2013/10/15 Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>: >> > Friends. >> > >> > I am back to OpenSuSE after 2009. >> > >> > It is matured so much, stable and lovely. >> > >> > I like to show some love on this. >> > >> > Do we have any weekly news system for OpenSuSE like "ubuntu weekly news" >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter >> > >> > It will be nice to have such news letter. >> > >> > Point me if it is already there. >> > >> > Else, shall we start one? >> > >> > Share your thoughts. >> > >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > T.Shrinivasan >> > >> > >> > My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com >> > Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : >> > http://kaniyam.com >> > >> > Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.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] Interesting stuff
by Victor Hck 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hi all !! Today I have discover this web, maybe is interesting for somebody... - http://tentsocial.com/blog/ some interesting articles: - http://tentsocial.com/blog/bid/267887/The-Ridiculously-Exhaustive-Social-Me… - http://tentsocial.com/blog/bid/306423/How-to-Create-Great-Social-Content-IN… Bye! -- 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] Sponsoring LUG@UCLA
by Troy Sankey 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

To whom it may concern, The Linux Users Group at the University of California Los Angeles will be hosting several Linux-related events during the upcoming school year, and would like to distribute openSUSE 12.3 promotional media to students and other attendees. Would openSUSE marketing be interested in providing some of these CDs? Thanks, Troy Sankey LUG@UCLA President http://linux.ucla.edu/

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[opensuse-marketing] Aproveche sus últimos créditos: Cursos bonificables FTFE 300€: Inicio 21 Octubre
by Global Human Capital Group 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

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