August 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] Monthly article from the Board
by Jos Poortvliet 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Dear Board, The openSUSE News team has been thinking, and after the pain of doing so had subsided, we came with the conclusion that the endeavors of our dear board are by and large interesting enough to share with our community ;-) Or, in other words, at oSC we met and discussed what regular articles we'd like to have on news.o.o and one of those was a monthly Board report. Would you, dear board, be interested in doing that? And if so, what date would you like to pick for it? Let me arbitrarily propose the 2nd week of every month on the Thursday... Mail the content on Tuesday at the latest to news(a)opensuse.org and we'll get it edited and scheduled for the Thursday. For your convenience, I will try to set up an automated KICK THE BOARD mail which will remind you a few days before the deadline, simultaneously kicking ourselves to make sure we don't forget to put it up. My mail client has this newfangled "send later" feature which can schedule mails, so let's use it ;-) Hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Monthly GSOC article
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Dear GSOC team, YOU PROMISED a montly GSOC article. And I PROMISED to make a schedule happen. I failed, you didn't - there was a GSOC progress article ;-) But now, we should make it a real monthly ordeal, as we discussed at oSC. Can we? Can we? To help make it happen, I propose we pick a recurring date for the articles (say, the 3rd week of every month, on Thursday) and a deadline (the Tuesday before that Thursday). So the news team has time to beat it into shape and schedule it. And remember, pictures are appreciated! My fancy mail client has this new 'send later' feature which I'd love to test on you - I can schedule monthly reminders that will kick both you and the openSUSE news team to make sure this all happens as planned ;-) How about it? Hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Monthly status updates
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Dear Travel Support Team! At the openSUSE Conference you committed to doing monthly status updates of the TSP. Yes, don't bother denying it, we have proof. And several witnesses. Come clean. So, if you still feel up to it, I propose to pick a recurring date for the article, say, the first week of every month, on Thursday. Then a deadline for sending the article to the news(a)o.o team; let's say the Tuesday before. So we have time to beat it into shape and schedule it. And remember, pictures are appreciated, so are links to blogs and such! What do you think? Cheers, J

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[opensuse-marketing] 21 oct. Grafología de la firma aplicada a la selección de talento, Bonificable 300€
by Curso online RRHH 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

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[opensuse-marketing] OBS awesomeness!!!~
by Jos Poortvliet 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Shayon! We decided at oSC that you would write a 'GSOC Success Story' about your OBS work :P Still feel like doing that? If so, <motivational guru voice>Let's make it happen!</motivational guru voice> ;-) As a reminder, the goal of the article was to show GSOC is super cool; and showing that by talking about a successful project (your OBS comment thing) done by an extremely cool student (you) mentored by extremely cool people (no idea who mentors, Henne?). So we need some factual info (what was the plan, how is it going, what are the results), quotes from the cool people involved (student, mentor, GSOC team) and a few screenshots. What do you think? /J

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[opensuse-marketing] Deadline Extended - CFP: EIIC 2013
by info＠eiic.cz 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Dear Authors, We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message. Due to several requests on further extensions on submissions, we have considered extending submission on EIIC 2013 conference as follows: ======================================================================= Registration and Full Paper Submission Deadline: August, 19, 2013 (EXTENSION) ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES ======================================================================= * Submission of full paper: August 19, 2013 (EXTENSION) * Notification of Acceptance: August 26, 2013 (EXTENSION) * Camera Ready Submission & fee payment deadline: September 1, 2013 * EIIC 2013 Conference Date: September 2 - 6, 2013 ======================================================================= 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 19, 2013 (EXTENSION) * Notification of Acceptance: August 26, 2013 (EXTENSION) * 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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[opensuse-marketing] LUG @ UIC Requesting DVD's
by Carlos Ortega 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Hello, My name is Carlos Ortega, I'm the treasurer of the LUG student group at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Part of what we do is to promote both the use and understanding of Linux. Because of this we would appreciate if we could get a hold of some official OpenSUSE DVD's to give out in our upcoming fun fair. While I understand that this may not be possible, it would mean a great deal to us. If this is not possible can you provide information on either purchasing or making our own DVD's. Thank You Carlos Ortega University of Illinois at Chicago -- 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] roll up graphics
by Peter Czanik 07 Aug '13

07 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] oSC Meeting
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Dear Marketeers! There was a meeting at oSC to talk about marketing, strategy and hugs. Mostly hugs, of course. Here some notes, courtesy of Izabel (I left the hugs out to keep it short): The first three items we could tick off quickly as they are pretty much taken care off by others: • Local coordinator / Advocates - in progress by board & ambassador team • Release marketing: http://board.opensuse.org/projects/opensuse-13-1-release • Events: TSP + New merchandizing cover this. ∘ Adds list of events to TSP app -- Izabel • GSOC promo ∘ Goal : Grow! ∘ Issue: ‣ Reputation of low success ‣ Reality of low success rate ∘ Solution: ‣ Celebrate successes • Articles on News -- GSOC team • Shayon's work on OBS should be visible on OBS itself -- Shayon ‣ Grow quality -- GSOC team • Prefer existing Contributors • SUSE will most likely help with mentoring existing contributors ∘ Must stay umbrella and work with others << Google likes it, we might even loose our own GSOC slots if we don't do it • reviving news.opensuse.org => 2 articles/week: Tuesday & Thursday ∘ Create Queue -- Jos ∘ Maintain it with weekly report -- Jos ∘ Regular articles planned: ‣ Monthly Events -- TSP / Kostas ‣ Monthly Board / Team Reports -- Board ‣ Monthly GSOC progress article based on student reports -- Saurabh ∘ Article sources for the rest: ‣ The usual news articles, sneak previews around releases etc -- all ‣ Go over our github and get articles out of there -- Manu ‣ Go over historical articles and revive some for re-use -- Manu / Jos ∘ Concrete article ideas: ‣ OBS article -- Shayon We also decided that 90% of the talk on the private news ML should move to opensuse-marketing@ for greater transparency and opportunities for more people to join our work. • Strategy There are strategy discussions again and we should try to prepare how to talk about them. Of course we don't know what the strategy will be in the end but we have some clues. We did some brainstorming on key messages and targets for our communication around the new direction, if and when it is there. ∘ direction things seem to be taking: ‣ FACTORY: • more stable (tumbleweed-ish?) • automated testing (openQA in OBS?) • maybe new name ‣ RELEASE: • smaller core, • more quality, • longer release cycle, • emphasis on OBS, • new name ∘ target groups for communication (check articles if they are covered): ‣ Users ‣ Developers ‣ Press ‣ Business ∘ key messages (basic ideas for articles/check articles if they are covered): ‣ Stable, quality, reliable, tested, process ‣ focused, core ‣ learning curve / easy ‣ stays the same ‣ flexible, choice (OBS) ‣ unique Feedback welcome, help too!

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