June 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] roll up graphics
by Peter Czanik 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Hello, I'd like to ask, if there is any ready made graphics for a roll up. I looked around on the github repo, but while I found some really nice material, there was nothing what could be directly put on a roll up (or at least I could not find it...). If you have anything, please send me a URL (or complete files off-list). Thanks, bye, CzP -- 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] Event report: LFNW April 27, 28
by James Mason 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

LinuxFest Northwest took place the last weekend in April, as usual, and was an *amazing* event for openSUSE! Prior to the event, I organized a social media schedule, posting to Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus every day of the week prior, with photos and info about our presence. As an event sponsor[1], we received a 100sq.ft. booth space[2] in a preferred area of the conference hall. This space was put to excellent use, creating an open and inviting area[3], instead of the 'stand in front of my desk' approach offered by most exhibitors: * In the rear, a 21" HP Touchsmart PC was setup with openSUSE 12.3 and KDE, GNOME, LXDE, XFCE, and E17, providing a nice way to demonstrate our desktop experience * Next to the PC we had some space for doing Chameleon[4] and Penguin[5] origami projects. (Origami is a great metaphor for open source... you can expound on that yourself ;) * SWAG was set off to the side, behind a 6ft tall whiteboard (loaned to us by Attachmate Bellingham), to reduce the number of people simply walking by and grabbing stuff, although we kindly offered a kit (brochure, DVD, round sticker, system sticker) to anyone who asked. * The largest volume of the booth was taken up by a pair of lime green (SUSE green?) lawn chairs, and Geeko-themed table. The goal was to get people to 'come in' to openSUSE, and have a deeper interaction with a smaller, interested group, rather than to just hand out stuff to a crowd. We regularly updated the whiteboard with presentation times & locations by openSUSE Advocates, our 'Articles of Faith', and some questions/statements to spur conversation ("Ask me about SUSE Studio!"; "Is your app built with OBS?"). And of course, there was the bubble wrap. Loud green bubble wrap. Why? Just to make some noise, and have some fun. That's the point, right? Speaking of SWAG, we handed out 206 kits, which was fewer than I had anticipated (I ordered 300), but I expect to consume the rest distribution to the local LUG[6] and northwest US TAG offices. This was the first year that a substantial number of people were getting openSUSE via other means: "I already downloaded it"; "Can you put an image on my thumb drive"; "Can you copy the Raspberry Pi image to my SD card"; etc. The biggest change this year, over previous LFNW events, was that all the booth staff were local. In prior years, I've worked with Ted Haeger, Joe Brockmeyer, Alan Clark, Jos, and Bryan Yunashko here at LFNW; this year I put out a 'call for help' through local channels, and had three users (I'm going to call them Advocates from now on) step up to help: Bryan Lunduke - a local developer and media genius/whore, Adrian Klaver - a local Qt developer and avid fan of our KDE desktop, and Carl Symons (who in the end was unable to attend due to family emergencies) - a KDE contributor. We also informally picked up two more helpers: Chani Armitage spent a bit of time hanging around since there wasn't a dedicated KDE booth this year; and Caleb Gebhart, a local student who (hopefully) has signed up for openSUSE+GSoC this year. All in all, it was *awesome* having local help, and I expect to have more people representing different facets of the openSUSE community next year (although I wouldn't mind at all if someone flew in to have some fun)! Jupiter Broadcasting, a WA-based podcasting network was broadcasting live from the event, and recording interviews for use on the Linux Action Show[7][8]. My interview[9] got a fair amount of positive feedback, demonstrating, again, how we're trying to build an inclusive openSUSE community, that is related to, but not subjugated by the SUSE Enterprise. I suppose I should mention the final attendance numbers[10]: "We had 1250 registered attendees and it is estimated that we had a total of about 1400 to 1500 people at the Fest." I need to thank a few people who helped out behind the scenes... although openSUSE would've had a presence at LFNW without them, it wouldn't have been nearly as fun: * Agustin Bethencourt, openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE, for approving SUSE's sponsorship. * Alan Clark, Director of Open Source(and more) at SUSE, for being his usual amazingly helpful self, and getting me a banner and brochures at the last minute. * Darren Clark, Director of Development at Attachmate, for making office resources available for use at the event. Thanks guys! In summary, LFNW was a fun, positive event, with a tremendous amount of support for openSUSE. I'm looking forward to making our presence even better next year! [1] http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/sponsor/opensuse [2] http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/sponsors/map [3] http://goo.gl/HXL2u [4] https://en.opensuse.org/File:Origami_instructions_chameleon.png [5] https://en.opensuse.org/File:Origami_instructions_penguin.png [6] http://blug.org/ [7] http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/36476/linuxfest-nw-pt-1-las-s26e08/ [8] http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/36666/linuxfest-nw-2013-pt-2-las-s26e09/ [9] http://youtu.be/8u3yUF9p9WQ?t=40m35s [10] https://plus.google.com/111293764782511971489/posts/3RYn9qByAvU -- 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] Regarding news.o.o and social media (no twitter link, no google plus title)
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Hello mates, I want to mention something that I think I'm doing wrong (if not, then please someone take a look). Everytime I hit the twitter button, I get: openSUSE News: TITLE of the artivle via @openSUSE There's the link missing. Also when I hit the google plus button, I get a link with the sentence "openSUSE News Blog". There's no title of the article. Everytime I post the article, I manually get the link and the copy>paste the title of the article. What do I do wrong? Thanks, Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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] FSF Hungary conference
by Peter Czanik 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hello, Yesterday the Hungarian openSUSE community participated the annual FSF Hungary conference. The conference did not have as many participants as usually, as it's summer and the exam period at universities (previously it was mid autumn), but still a nice number of visitors. We had a booth and also a talk about "Why openSUSE?" with introduction to openSUSE 12.3, OBS & Co.. At the booth we distributed the remaining openSUSE 12.2 DVDs we had (as there aren't 12.3 DVDs available...). At the booth we had some very interesting little machines to attract attention: a raspberry pi, a CuBox and two passively cooled mini PCs, one of them an AMD the other one an i7. Many people came to see the machines and went away with brochures and DVDs to test openSUSE :-) Bye, CzP -- 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] Ohio Linux Fest
by Jos Poortvliet 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Hey folk! I was wondering if any of you had plans for going to Ohio Linux Fest... ;-) Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] 1st CFP for EIIC - Virtual Conference
by info＠eiic.cz 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Sorry if you received multiple copies of this email. The 2nd Electronic International Interdisciplinary Conference September, 2 - 6, 2013 Virtual Conference http://www.eiic.cz This is the call for papers for the 2nd Electronic International Interdisciplinary Conference which is going to be held at www.eiic.cz, from September 2-6, 2013. Could you please distribute the EIIC'13 CFP to your colleagues, students and networks. CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY: * Goce Delchev University, Stip, Macedonia * Budiness Academy Smilevski, Institite of Management, Macedonia * ITALL Ltd., Research Company from Slovakia ============================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full paper: August 2, 2013 * Notification of Acceptance: August 23, 2013 * Camera Ready Submission & fee payment deadline: September 1, 2013 * EIIC 2013 Conference Date: September 2 - 6, 2013 ============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The main objective of EIIC 2013 (www.eiic.cz) is to bring together researchers from all over the world with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience. It will represent an international forum to give an overview of the most recent trends. RELATED TOPICS Potential topics are solicited in, but not limited to the following topics: - Business Management, Consulting, Sales - Marketing, Advertising - Economy and Business Economics, Banking, Financial - Public service, Law - Financing and Accounting - Psychology, Sociology and Pedagogy, Social Science, Families, Work, Activism, Lifestyle Choices - News, Media, Internet - Education, Science Education, Home Schooling, Math Education, Environmental Education, Distance Education - Medicine, Healt, Alternative, Beauty, Fitness, Neurology, Pharmacy - Veterinary medicine - Art, Religion, History, Culturology, Philosophy, Architecture, Photography, Design, Literature - Linguistics - Ecology, Forestry, Earth Science - Agriculture - Natural science - mathematics - Natural science - chemistry - Natural science - biology - Natural science - physics - Geographical - Electronics, Electrical Systems, Electrical Engineering - Energy - Industrial and Civil Engineering - Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Open Source, World Wide Web - Information Technology - Wireless Technology, Databases, Graphics, Security - Networking - Transport and Logistics CONFERENCE PROCEEDING & JOURNAL PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be undersingle blind peer review process and all accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding with ISSN and ISBN. Authors of the best selected papers from the conference will be asked to prepare extended version of their paper to be considered for publishing in International Journals, see: http://www.sci-pub.com/home/ FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact us at info(a)eiic.cz. Website: www.eiic.cz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you do not want to receive any more informational emails, visit http://www.my-conf.com/unsubscribe.php?c=FX2DWn+Hiz5hHP25D/fTqvNngO/+dN1aVF… -- 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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