March 2015 - 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] social media for oSC15
by Douglas DeMaio 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hi all, Here is a list of promotions we would like to blast out on social media regarding the openSUSE conference in The Hague. Please consider translating them and using them for social media pages in your own language. Thank you for the assistance and we hope to see you at oSC15. v/r Doug 1)ARM software development on openSUSE Learn how to use openSUSE on ARM for kernel and microcontroller development @oSC15. 2)Pacemakers, Death by Storage, and Shooting Servers in the Head Why High Availability Clustering is awesome - Find out @oSC15! - http://bit.ly/1EPurh0 3)YaST the Ruby Way Learn about the YCP killer and Zombie-YCP killer @oSC15! 4)Optimizing Linux Servers - what has been changed from last year? Interested in fast and optimized Linux servers? oSC15 can teach you more about OpenStack, Cloudstack and containers like LXC and Docker - http://bit.ly/187f9re 5)Positively Popular Packaging Packaging your software consistently across a multitude of user environments is what sets great software apart from the mediocre. Learn about it at #oSC15 6)Hardening Your Linux Server Don't get caught with your pants down sysadmins. Gain more knowledge on Harding you Linux Server at #oSC15 7)How to Improve YaST 8)News from the YaST Kitchen Want to know what is cooking on YaST? Take your chance at @oSC15 - http://bit.ly/1M3Nf1K 9)Ansible Project Deploy A re-usable Ansible role to deploy your projects. #oSC15 - http://bit.ly/1E2sOZx 10)Containers with systemd-nspawn Learn about other options for building and managing containers @oSC15 - http://bit.ly/1EPxs0S 11)Packaging Workshop, Part 2 Packaging for heros, learn from Lars about compiler options, package dependencies and more @oSC15 - http://bit.ly/1xa5zKC 12)openSUSE Infrastructure Learn from Lars about how openSUSE runs it's own infrastructure? Come to @oSC15 to find out - http://bit.ly/1GmETeq 13)Taming Tigers with Puppet ... or chef, or cfengine, or … @oSC15 - http://bit.ly/1bx5Z9J 14)Monitoring at SUSE See how SUSE R&D integrates complex, secure and high available monitoring @oSC15 - http://bit.ly/1AcyqhH 15)Relax-and-Recover simplifies Linux Disaster Recovery Get the basic knowledge you need about Disaster Recovery. When a disaster does happen, be prepared. At #oSC15, we will show you how - http://bit.ly/1KPPPIm 16)Showing keys in public. Find out how vulnerable your security methods are @oSC15 -http://bit.ly/1Bm4SDh 17) Testing Fedora in openQA Start testing anything in openQA in less than 24 hours. Using Fedora Linux as an example, attendees at #oSC15 can see how easy it is to design an openQA test suite - http://bit.ly/187g0se 18) Distributed storage Ceph Scaling petabytes of data made easy. Learn about it @oSC15 - http://bit.ly/1Ht1aIM -- 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] [DRAFT] Screenshot contest article
by Nenad Latinović 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Hey guys. You can preview the text for the tomorrow's screenshot contest article here: https://news.opensuse.org/?p=19146&preview=true The text is kind of freakishly formatted currently, but I'll fix it tomorrow before publishing it, and equip it with links and some funny pictures. So please, do focus on the content, if I maybe missed out on something. I'm focusing on forums and Connect for a reason - to make the most of our existing infrastructure and to not gather proposals all over the internet. I made a test poll and tried it out, and it seems as though polls on Connect will take it nicely also. Once again, please do come forward if you have any objections/suggestions, otherwise this is going out tomorrow early afternoon at the latest. Kind regards, -- Nenad Latinović holden87(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] Screenshot contest part 2
by Nenad Latinović 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Hey guys, an update to the screenshot contest I recommended couple of weeks ago. (source: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-marketing/2015-02/msg00000.html) I've contacted UnixStickers for sponsorship, and while they did respond, they took their time, and the mail was only an inquiry into the frequency and amount of goods they would have to provide. After that, I received no response for quite some time, so I've sent another mail. No response to date. Now this is aimed mostly at you, Doug DeMaio - You've said to me you can take care of the sticker prizes? I'm really anxious to get it going, and if UnixStickers responds somewhere along the line, I could take that burden off your hands. The rules are written up in the link i posted, what i'd need from you is to send a sticker pack to each month's winner. Workflow: - On 31st of March, I'll post a news article informing our community about the screenshot contest and outlining the rules. I'll then open an appropriate forum topic in the screenshot section, and distribute the news on reddit and the Diaspora's official openSUSE account. I'd need only G+, TW and FB profile maintainers to distribute the info further. With all mentioned above, does green mean go? :) Kind regards, and a great spring weekend to all. -- Nenad Latinović nenad.latinovic(a)posteo.de -- 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 on Bad Voltage
by Douglas DeMaio 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

> > For oSC15: it likely won't happen. Even if it made sense for the > conference (and there is space for it in the schedule) we probably won't > have the time to pull together the needed sponsors to cover the airfare (we > did it many months in advance for SCALE) and schedule it with the crew. > But doing a live show at a future oSC would be absolutely awesome. > > On the topic of the openSUSE review on the next episode: It would be > awesome to get someone on the next episode to talk about openSUSE. Maybe > Richard Brown or Doug DeMaio or... someone else? It would be a roughly 10 > to 15 minute chat about openSUSE history and, in general, talking about > what's great about it. Thoughts? Hi Bryan, I'll be snowboarding in the Alps at 2,300 meter with patchy wifi and a bunch of beer for the next week and a half. Don't hate on me too much. I recommend Andrew Wafaa do the interview on this occasion and that Richard be the secondary choice. cheers Doug -- 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 on Bad Voltage
by Henne Vogelsang 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Bryan, On 11.03.2015 19:16, Bryan Lunduke wrote: > we probably won't have the time to pull together the needed sponsors to > cover the airfare With openSUSEs travel support program[1] covering airfare happens faster than you can say Tomato juice! The money part of the equation shouldn't be an issue, would that make it more likely? Henne [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 on Bad Voltage
by Douglas DeMaio 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Hi all, Bad Voltage is calling out the openSUSE community and asking them to write what is special about openSUSE. They are doing a joint review on openSUSE. Tell them your opinion about openSUSE, what you like about it and what makes it special at http://community.badvoltage.org/t/1x37-spooning-with-everybody/10218/9 You can listen to their talk about openSUSE at http://www.badvoltage.org/2015/03/06/1x37/ Respectfully, Douglas DeMaio douglas.demaio(a)suse.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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Events for the year
by Douglas DeMaio 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

On 01/14/2015 06:27 PM, Jimmy PIERRE wrote: > Hallo Douglas, > > First semester 2015 programme for NUI.fr (Basically every third Saturday) > > Are you willing to organize an openSUSE booth? Hi Jimmy, Could you send me your address so I can send you some openSUSE items. -- Respectfully, Douglas DeMaio Senior Consultant, openSUSE douglas.demaio(a)suse.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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Slovak open source conference - openSUSE presentation
by Ferdinand Galko 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Big thanks to all who helped me to obtain presentation materials. Best regards Ferdinand -- 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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