May 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] Anyone have any more information on the new website?
by Rolf Riis Bjørnsen 24 May '15

24 May '15

Hi! I just saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u844cs-V__Q#t=1293 That is great! Anyone know anything more about this? I couldn't find anything on Github. Rolf -- 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] Joining the mailing list
by Olawale Abiola 22 May '15

22 May '15

Hello and Good day, My name is Olawale Abiola from Nigeria with a opensuse user account :'stwalez'. I'm getting interested in Linux usage and as well would like to be an open suse ambassador so as to help my community and mates in my school understand and use openSUSE distro. I would like you to fill me in on what to do. 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] Don't search developers. Develop them. Events, events everywhere
by Efstathios Iosifidis 07 May '15

07 May '15

Hello my friends, Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the conference due to family health problems. I saw the project meeting and I totally agree with Henne. Actually I was preparing a post about part of what he said. Here it is: https://lizards.opensuse.org/2015/05/06/developing-developers/ It doesn't matter if the product is the best (SLEbased, SLEless, Tumbleweed). If there are no end users to use and promote it (because usually developers don't), then it's useless to have it. Find out WHY you do what you do and just go out and engage people (as I mention, the term marketing leeds to profits-money). Go to events, bring more people (prefer end users) to community and just help them engage-grow. Help end users to find themselfs in the community. If they like it, they'll become developers. If they're not interested in developing, they'll help make our project fantabulous. Don't forget to have fun. /S -- http://www.iosifidis.gr http://linkedin.iosifidis.gr Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. -- 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] Booth box conversation starers
by Efstathios Iosifidis 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hello, I didn't make it to see Robert's presentation about booth boxes. I guess I'll catch up from youtube. I would like to have feedback from the community, what is the conversation starter item from booth box (or local printed leaflet)? Ideas? As it mentioned, a pen is a good gift but it's not something that our advocates can start conversation about openSUSE. A brochure, is something that the visitor will read once or twice and maybe throw it to trash. Maybe it's the same with the PromoDVD. On the other hand, USB is something that he/she will use almost everyday. If he/she uses other distro (and have it inside our USB), he/she'll have the logo on it and remember to check our distro. If he/she's windows user, he/she will also see the logo and remember maybe the advocate and/or the distro. Personally I find it a good place to start a conversation saying that "It includes an installation and live image of the amazing GNOME and KDE of our awesome openSUSE". If you stop there, then you just gave a USB. Do you continue by giving information where the visitor (mostly the windows user) can find information/support (we printed a leaflet with facebook, google +, twitter, mailing list, IRC etc)? I have an example in my country that a university had a presentation about Ubuntu and during the week, most of those students joined Ubuntu's facebook group. They were asking silly questions such as "do I use sudo with this command?". But it's something we all did when we started. We wanted someone to help us. So, do you give a page with information where they can find you? What else do you do? I think I wrote a post (but definately I made a presentation at a conference). Do you stay behind the table with your laptop and wait the visitor to come talk to you or stay outside of the table and you go to talk to the visitor? I think I saw Jos' presentation once and he said that the tables have to be on the wall behind you. Not between you and the visitor. So visitor enters openSUSE booth and the possibilities to talk to you are high. By the way, it would be awesome if the ISO in the USB stick will be like our PromoDVDs (live and installation) and if possible both archs (although only 64bit will be available from now on, but in my country and I guess other countries, there are pretty old computers too). Don't know if technical is possible. Just an idea. 8GB have to be enough for this, right? Food for though. Thanks for reading. Have fun, /S -- http://www.iosifidis.gr http://linkedin.iosifidis.gr Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. -- 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] Strategy for Help openSUSE Advocate
by Luis R. Domínguez 04 May '15

04 May '15

Hi Everyone, my name is Luis Richard Dominguez, all Call me for Second Name "Richard", i am Free Software Activist from 2006 and openSUSE user from 2011 and Advocate from 2013, My Nick is R1chardQ. I have a Ask, for this Year, exist any strategy to help the openSUSE Advocate Pepple for Marketing or Promote the Project in our community ??? In My opinion, one way of increase the people contributing to openSUSE Project is help to openSUSE Advocate to promote them, with things how to example stikers, DVD, T-Shirts, International openSUSE Speakers, other Things, etc Greetings from Panama Luis Richard Domínguez Fundación Fraternidad del Software Libre de Panamá -- 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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