September 2014 - 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] Beta 1 Pizza Party Promo Items request.
by John Unland 04 Oct '14

04 Oct '14

Hello! I'm John and I am having a Beta Pizza party on October 17th, and I was wondering if I could get promo items (Shirts, stickers, CD's etc.) from you all? I am having about 8 to 10 people attending. It's small but I would really like to show every one openSUSE! Thanks. -- 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] Request for design and marketing for openSUSE Conference 2015
by Hans de Raad 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Dear all, today we've had our first IRC meeting regarding the organization of openSUSE Conference 2015 (in The Hague NL on 1-4th of may 2015)! Minutes of that meeting can be found here: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… One of our highest priorities at the moment is the creation of artwork (logo's and website theming) and composing announcements to raise awareness about the conference. We hope that we can stand on the shoulders of the Geeko giants and re-use what has already been used (and worked) in the past and create what isnt there yet. So here is some general info and trivia about The Hague and The Netherlands that might be of use in creating the materials needed: - Official flag colors NL: Red - White - Blue in horizontal stripes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands ) - Official logo of the city of The Hague: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_The_Hague - Semi official sign for the city of The Hague is the Stork bird - Colors of The Hague are green (Yay!) and yellow: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_Haag#mediaviewer/File:Flag_of_The_Hague.svg Of course The Netherlands are famous for their: - cheese - windmills - wooden shoes - the fact that most of our country is well below sea level - the Delta works - cows and farming in general - the best soccer team in the world that has not ever (yet!) been worldchampion - throwing awesome conferences - and more cheese Hopefully this will provide some inspiration! Regarding the marketing announcements, i will contact warlordfff separately and get back on this later. If we are going at this the wrong way, then please tell us so we can get up to speed with the openSUSE way of doing things! Best regards! Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl -- 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 Networks
by Kostas Koudaras 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hey there Marketing people A quick question, who is handling what in Social Networks those days? 13.2 Beta is out, spead the news :D Have fun Kostas -- --- \m/ --- If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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] New News
by Nenad Latinović 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hey guys. First of all, let me apologise for being absent for so long, but i was finishing up my bachelor's thesis, and am official a BA in Literature now. I'm entering the master's lit studies in october. So that's that. I'm back and eager :) So, considering the results of the survey, what are your thoughts on the news site? What I've seen is many people wanting to switch to a more OMGish format, while also wanting power-user topics and tutorials. Now, I'm fine with the second part, but for that, we need a power user to write the news. Maybe I should create a call for newsmen for specifically power-user topics (they could write also about whatever else they want, of course, it's openSUSE :D)? Do you agree on that? And anyway, I've been just trying to feel the pulse a little, to see what you guys think about the state of the news. Kindest regards to all you geekos! -- Nenad Latinović nenad(a)latinovic.info -- 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 for openSUSE _PR
by ben＠benhenderson.nl 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

Hello openSUSE marketing friends, In the Dutch language below, is Frits Veerman asking for a lot of openSUSE PR material. This because he is already 2 years bizzy with promoting openSUSE in the Netherlands Soon there is a big event in Utrecht specially for people of 50 and older, he will have a stand for open sourge and openSUSE specially together with the Dutch Linux Magazine. He needs posters, pamflets, DVDs and all you can miss. Also has Frits Veerman maked contact with the Dutch Linux magazine for a article in that magazine. Please contact Frits on the adress below. Frits Veerman Omroeplaan 34 1276 EW Huizen Tel 035 5258780 // 0651341926 In Dutch Al ongeveer twee jaar ben ik nu ongeveer bezig om OpenSuse meer onder de mensen te brengen, via HCC en andere media er is nu medewerking van een Linux blad en per 1 november gaat de eerste presentatie van start verder is in bespreking een mogelijkheid om op de Beurs 50 plus ook een presentatie te houden Voor de presentatie van 1 november ik graag wat documentatie en reclame artikelen ontvangen Mijn vraag is dat mogelijk en eventueel enkele dvd’s om uit te delen mijn naam is Frits Veerman omroeplaan 34 1276 EW Huizen Tel 035 5258780 // 0651341926 Greetings Ben Henderson aka: Benmh Met vriendelijke groet Ben Henderson Rotterdam -- 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 2014-2015
by Vincent Wong 07 Sep '14

07 Sep '14

To the openSUSE marketing team, The Linux Users Group at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) will be hosting a variety of Linux-related events and participating in showcases during the upcoming school year, and would like to distribute openSUSE promotional media to students and other attendees. We appreciate the openSUSE 12.3 DVDs you provided us last year, which we were able to distribute and use. Would openSUSE marketing be interested in providing some newer CD/DVDs or other promotional material? Thanks, Vincent Wong LUG@UCLA President 2014-2015 https://linux.ucla.edu/ -- 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] Forum des associations de Ramonville (France)
by jdd 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

Hello, As I just received the booth kit, I used it for the local "forum des associations" of my Linux users group location, just here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.55000/1.48364 but being local, this meeting is much crowded, it's the place where, each year, local non profit organizations share they activities. Probably more than 2000 people visited the meeting on this afternoon (September 6, 2014, today). The most visible part of the booth kit is the table cover, specially here where everybody was given a yellow paper cover, so our green was the only one or nearly :-) http://dodin.info/piwigo/picture.php?/103961-img_20140906_140832/category/5… The small whiteboard set on the table, visible on the photo, is a $5 one found at the next paper store, recommended. Here I didn't show all the openSUSE stuff, because it was not an openSUSE booth but my LUG one :-). But there was lot of sticker (including keyboard key stickers (to cover the infamous "windows" keys :-). usk flah keys where much appreciated, but it's a shame that they didn't hold openSUSE live dvd (it's a bit long to write them - approx 10mn each) I also had from my own collection a geecko buddy (plush), and a penguin cd holder :-) http://dodin.info/piwigo/picture.php?/103962-img_20140906_140839/category/5… Here the green among yellow color: http://dodin.info/piwigo/picture.php?/103963-img_20140906_140851/category/5… notice the "CULTe" banner, my LUG's. I have the same for openSUSE but couldn't fit it atm. Notice such a banner is only $25 and extremely visible - recommended. I could take these photos before the crowd come, but I couldn't show the green vest (like the road workers yellow ones), because I weared it and had nobody to take a photo of me :-(. Here the boot when people come: http://dodin.info/piwigo/picture.php?/103964-img_20140906_152058/category/5… We had a reasonable success for such meeting, around 30 people asked questions, on this I know that around 5 to 10 will come later at local meetings. What can be noticed is that we had a 15 years old visitor (that chatted with me all along the summer), and that we have since some years more and more women on the attendance, on this afternoon, 3 women for one man :-) next meeting, the "capitole du libre" 2014 (http://2014.capitoledulibre.org/) our booth last year: http://dodin.info/piwigo/picture.php?/100833-img_20131123_124033_30141/sear… of course this one is free software oriented so the audience is much more familiar :-). If you know of free software meeting not too far from my town (Toulouse), or willing to help me come (with money), let me know, I'm ready to move a bit. jdd -- http://www.dodin.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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