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[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] Report on Saturday 23 January, 2016.
by Jimmy PIERRE 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Greetings, As everything is still fresh in my mind, allow me to tell you how it went in Normandy last Saturday. The City is facing huge deficits and there will be no city staff around anymore on Saturdays. The main door will be locked/closed and to get in, everybody will need to use the back door. There was no sign post and I demanded one to be handwritten and fixed on main door. For lucky people that could read / understand it, we were there for them :) 1. In a nutshell, the usual crowd responded present. 2. We started a migration a bit on the shy part from openSUSE 13.1 to openSUSE 13.2 32 bit, the very guy who came in December. No backup done, so we did not venture in this upgrade. Instead we gave him a box with openSUSE 13.2 to play with. 3. His wife was into learning open street maps on a Leap 42.1 KDE box 4. Our Greek lady was back, needing a Greek keyboard, expecting that I was God, so I taught her ASCII model like ALT + 225 = Beta etc. She could then type almost fluently in LibreOffice . 5. The lady of December last wanted Leap alongside with Windows 7. OK, backup was done, but Leap complained that C: contained errors…. The full works: scandisk for almost two hours then vanilla installation of Leap. Nothing to declare, tests were done and she was the last happy visitor to go home. 6. VLC still gave us a lot of hassle and we also installed UMPlayer, but there was not such devotion though….. Note to self: Find a 100% openSUSE alternative for demanding geeks to play mulimedia. 7. Another VLC as last month. OK there was a one-click install for Leap and all went well. Other non-nagging issues were taken care of. 8. We had a special guest, he came, he saw, “took possession” of my HP workstation and played the whole afternoon, did not complain or asked questions. When tea time came, he had coffee with the compliments of NUI and the various cakes that our regulars brought in and seemed to have indulged in all pre installed software of Leap. Oh well, if this rendered him happy :) 9. An interesting case, a guy came complaining about UBUNTU, bla bla bla. He said he came a few months back and picked an openSUSE 12.2 DVD which he has now installed. WIFI was KO, so as he was suspicious of us “messing” his box, we got WIFI to work and guess what? He did a full upgrade with the compliments of my 4G SIM card…. He gives tuition at a school, so he said. I did not tell him about openSUSE Education yet because this is another breed. We will see how it goes next month… 10. The best is yet to come: a guy walked in and had a question. He could not remember what was his question…. I shared my email, just in case! He stayed around a bit… 11. A lady came with two kids. No games… Note to self: Erase Gamer Laptop (ASUS) and *install* Leap with the Ethernet cable banged in! 12. There were two candidates for Leap installation. I had prepared a live-fat-stick with flavours of openSUSE. Either USB ports were KO, or something else, could not get it to work. Note to self, *recheck* the live-fat-stick *first* 13. Due to new logistics (see above), we had less people. Just 26 in total but very glorifying exchanges :) 14. The guys from openstreet map did not come this time.... 15. Linux presentation Day 30th April coming soon…. We have plenty of time to prepare this event which by coincidence happens on one of our SFD. Cheers, Jimmy -- 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] Volunteers for oSC16 Program Committee and Organizing Team
by ddemaio 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

*Hi all,** *We are off and running. The call for papers for oSC16 will open tomorrow. The current dates we have are June 27 - June 30 in Nuremberg. There will be an***SUSE Owncloud Summit / Kolab Summit on the front end of the conference and a **Kernel Summit (by SUSE Labs) / Salt Stack Summit.** ** **** **We are asking for volunteers to participate in the *Program Committee and the Organizing Team.If you are interested in participating in the Program Committee or the Organizing Team, please reply or email ddemaio(a)suse.de. Those interested in the Program Committee should also include FTeodori(a)suse.com in their reply. * **Responsibilities of the Program committee are:** **** ** * Selecting proposals for program * serve as an advocate for the conference * coordinate needs to the organizing team (social events, set up, etc.) * Work with summit leaders planning their summits at oSC to ensure their program needs are met. ** **** ** **The organizing team will have a monthly meeting to organize the following:* *** ** **Session Host** ** **Information / Registration Volunteers** ** **Marketing* * *At events* * *Through social media* * *Writing articles* * *making videos* * *taking pictures* * *Make posters* * *Make Guide for online and physical handout (trains, food, etc.)* * *Reach out to schools, businesses with invitation (design invitation)* * *Book with program schedule and abstracts* * video posts of oSC on YouTube* * * **Welcome Bags* * *Handouts* * *Tshirts* * *USB* * **Setup* * *Add wifi* * *Video and audio* * *beamers* * *computer equipment* * *chairs* * *tables* * *power supply* * *recording crew* * **Entertainment / Social Events* * *Bands* * *Social Event* * **Food and Drinks** ** **Need for New **Video and Audio **Equipment ***

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[opensuse-marketing] board elections
by victorhck 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi all. Why not to blog about boards elections in news.o.o ?? It's an important event, and there's nothing to read there... And what about the Jitsi meeting, or similar with members who have stand up for elections? Would be great (IMO) 've phun! - -- - ------------------- GPG Key: 0xC9B7E22A Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWmRg6AAoJEMx0Lo3Jt+Iqhf4P/38W9cFc7V61rt8l2DAqMN3f OLGVC5oiw5Jvk54qYVyhv16nI8iChTh4X2wg1mwsndduc+RdljskY9RPT69gpXCH +iaWRQlLCiya/CsjfSAdpEBhQpX+bkbzHz7SLcyyIPhMHan7RYf2M2hME4cjYc+C RKNYmrlQLswjloSeXo0HYXrDE3Wz1ktjZcFHNMAxTsrdW6TcP8WhfX72KcuWRzG3 qSvcnmrZlaM0wLXX+eKPCciOMDxFicau9KQvqg0BVb3QMXRGhODIig//iZwCzo1M qdhOr190CcMZm+qCIEXFF5Eaq7EQ2E9IwmfusEGwUcpyb5ZCgt2PqFRKrN5xNwGG UaCohESQ8nlRCBDncRGdx/OIk0yJNcE3gNROQjnmmHL3putEtVbJUlptU3B4i/Sj qYiNmR3Za8yHr/3CiOnhIQAGFW2jOx1c41q356mHT7+oZ4AW7y7CbunD6JIljHEV BTreqovb9d0t6OHn9WvqBMZRjeNd4wyXtFCpZTz/zrjYxnqvHODkV19Uruaj2bRN urSZiEJzQ0L0UemADBsM90IEe9qHfFH6gf7sDqAjy2RK9EjAvsclswtHkY9VMNke Nfm35BcmnnN14sEjAzrg7tzWs7xCHSiCgkb1lRssLqiJiypDXRMk9UjbYN1uT5io i7kVOC613mWYy6vUOZB/ =AN6A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Report on 12th December 2015.
by Jimmy PIERRE 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Greetings, That was the day before Regional Elections in France and people sort of hibernated, except a few pinguins….. Like those from NUI and myself :) Father Xmas bag with a few goodies from Doug (thanks my savior) and waiting for the bona fide visitor and/or the reckless visitor running away from the Xmas shopping :) 1. We had a Greek lady (phew… living in France) who had just brought a brand new Lenovo laptop. I did not have the courage to “migrate” her to openSUSE Leap 42.1 nor did I give her a DVD. Instead, we took this opportunity to teach her LibreOffice because that will be the entry point to use openSUSE desktop (Gnome/Plasma …). She has a Ph.D so she was receptive… 2. Two lads came round, one with openSUSE 13.2 and the other with SLED 11 SP4. Both had VLC issues, in a nutshell VLC KO… tried many scenarios but to no avail. The one with 13.2 took a openSUSE Leap to reinstall everything because the box has been tempered with a lot and VLC was really a pain….. The other one will come next month to troubleshoot further…. 3. A couple walked in, the man wanted to upgrade 13.1 to 13.2 and the lady a Samsung tablet with GPS issues. We will soon rename our association to Samaritans and Co. Sic. No backup was made and here was no particular issue to address, the operation was postponed for January, but what I did not know, she asked information to openstreetmap who was here as well and she used a couple of gigs on my SIM card to download new firmware et al. Ok, proud to announce Smaritans and co is up and running…. 4. We had 3 school teachers (they came separately). Oh well, one of them is a regular, so father Xmas (FX) was generous. He helped out a few newcomers having a quick start! 5. Two employees (senior) of the city walked in. They do go into extra gratia considerations for us, again FX said thanks for 2015. Not wanting any change of the city software for the time being…. They had a look round and were happy that the crowd looked pretty much interested in what they were doing. They have been invited to have dinner forthcoming Friday at home! I am cooking! 6. Openstreetmap gave his usual lecture but non on the real FX timetable, sadly enough because a man brought his 2 and an half years old son around. I completely forgot to debug games, so the kid had to indulge in geek talks but the dad was here for serious matters, like ssh! 7. A strange guy walked in, went round, and out of the sudden disappeared while taking away a couple of DVD… Maybe a spy as now the coalition of UBUNTU or else as 5 different associations against poor us…. Since 1st of January last, Rouen is the capital of Normandie, so help me God! 8. Didier came with his PC and it was a real fight to get it going 9. A man asked us about a similar feature to accept all third party and/or non free software like Debian does with apt-get (particularly for video cards) 10. 6 ladies came round and 22 other men with normal questions and answers etc. All usual members/visitors were taken care by FX. We had cakes, compliments of NUI and some members, tea/coffee/soft drinks as well. Chocolate was part of the diet and we happily closed down before cleaning evrything because the next day there were electoral booths in this very room. 11. A late comer wanted a software dealing with Astronomy sort of mathematical exploitation of Astronomical data, we were all dumb :( I must say that we had very bad times this year. Old Novell/Microsoft agreement did pushed us out of RMLL last Summer. Just banned! Now, not less than 5 local associations have made a coalition to push UBUNTU and in their blogs sometimes giving contra indications on openSUSE. Against all odds, we nevertheless had 10 sessions in 2015. Leftovers for 2016: 1. Rsync server 2. lftp server 3. Many gigs in the “cloud” 4. Scratch all our 21 boxes plus 9 laptops with 32bit openSUSE/SUSE or 64 bit where available…. 5. Mastering UEFI installation 6. Mastering live-grub-stick in lieu of multisystems 7. Mastering dual booting Tumbletweed 8. Ordering banners 9. Keeping websites/blogs alive and well 10. Change NUI name because of legacy gossiping? Linuxuniversity.fr been reserved liNuxUnIversity. (NUI) I will need to decreet same and change the legal paper work/bits….. Cheers, Jimmy -- 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 @ FOSDEM - Chance for free travel from Nuremberg, DE
by Richard Brown 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

(Apologies for the cross-posting) Hello All, It's that time of year again! FOSDEM is at the end of the month (30 & 31 Jan) and as usual, openSUSE will be there, big, bold and as green as ever FOSDEM is one of our biggest events of the year, and is an exceptionally good opportunity to see what is going on in the big wide open source world and start conversations collaborating across our various projects. Kostas has arranged for a booth at the conference, and I believe he is still looking for volunteers to help man it. I would expect a formal Call for Volunteers in the next few days, but anyone who is keen to help can probably email him directly already - warlordfff(a)opensuse.org . Given all the changes regarding Tumbleweed and the launch of Leap lately, I'm expecting even more interest in the openSUSE booth than usual this year, so the more volunteers the better. The openSUSE Booth is the focal point of our presence at FOSDEM, always with lost of people coming up and asking questions. In between attending tracks I'd encourage all openSUSE contributors to stop by, say hello, and help out at the booth, even if it's just answering questions of passers by. We are one of the more active projects out there these days, FOSDEM is one of those chances to really show it. For those of us lucky enough to live near Nuremberg, SUSE are sponsoring a coach which will be taking as many as we can from SUSE's HQ in Nuremberg to Brussels Most of us are staying at the NH City Centre or NH Stephanie hotels, so picking a hotel near there will be most convenient - I cannot promise the bus will be able to drop everyone off at their own hotel. It will be leaving *promptly* at 10am on 29th, and returning late on 31st (it's a long drive, but a lot of fun) There are currently 14 seats available, please email Michael Haefner (mhaefner(a)suse.de) if you're interested in coming along Thanks, Richard Brown openSUSE Board Chairman -- 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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