October 2016 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Social Media Plan for openSUSE Leap 42.2
by Douglas DeMaio 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Hi all, We are nearing the release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 and we encourage everyone reading this email to help promote our newest release, however you want to do that. To help promote it, our marketing team has been brainstorming a few ways to promote it. One of those is to post messages on social media. The social media plan is updated in English at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan Please consider translating it and posting it to your local or region openSUSE pages/profiles as well as to your own personal pages. We also encourage you to come up with your own tweets, posts, etc and just tag #openSUSE. Additionally, if you are interested in translations contributions, we would certainly welcome contribution to the project. With https://l10n.opensuse.org/, you can easily help translate release notes for 42.2 - https://l10n.opensuse.org/projects/release-notes-opensuse/leap_42_2/. I want to thank our contributors who have already translated the release notes. Also, please consider translating our landing page - https://l10n.opensuse.org/projects/landing-page/master/ There are more than 50 languages offered to translate and the dashboard gives an easy overview of what languages have been translated and those that could use translations. v/r 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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[opensuse-marketing] Two reports Sept, 10and Sep 17.
by Jimmy PIERRE 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Greetings, Report on Saturday 10 September, 2016. ============================= This was an open air event with 326 associations and 4000+ visitors over a few acres. We mostly spent time answering questions on our activities to general members of the public. There was no need to switch the laptops on as it was too bright on one hand and on the other hand, the future adherent might be distracted, even worse impressed and run away! We did not count the number of visitors but we were well situated and you *had* to pass in front of our stand before making your way anywhere else. We have been doing that for a few years now and, it’s more marketing, a presence than anything else. We finished our stock of pins early in the morning and handed a lot of self-made propaganda/literature in French. The Joke of the day: Do you know what people think that we do? Weather reports because they saw the word : Cloud :D In the evening, all four, Marihla, Laurence, Olivier and myself of us went for a beer in an American Grill and the fun went on :D OK, it was a great day, we had a ball !!! Report on Saturday 17 September, 2016. ============================= One week after association’s day, we hosted our usual monthly SFD. It was quite interesting because a week earlier, we made new “friends” but at 14:30 we were us and us. After a while, a young lady and two lads came in, no idea what we were up to and they seem a bit more curious at our cell phones and other gear lying on the tables. Easiest thing to do is to be diplomatic, hence separate them. It paid for because there were more eyes from us to watch them independently. After about half an hour, they went away and nothing went missing. In the meantime; my usual admirers arrived: - Greek lady, for digging out “missing” files and convert in opensource. - My Enterprise Admin broke his laptop and brought in a brand new one and was eager to get going with SUSE. I explained the good things around Leap 42.1 and Tumbleweed. We went for Leap 42.1. This was the new BIOS and installation was not easy. In the end, I took his laptop home and I had all my tools to get going and this was fun too. I drove to his place to take bis baby back on the Sunday afternoon. - A lady came for her usual guidance but this time brought her companion. She wanted VLC to work on Leap 42.1, else any other multimedia program that could read various codecs. There was a Ubuntu fanatic around and he pointed out that he does an : apt-get install vlc and since he has accepted unitarily third party non foss drivers, vlc works immediately. She was not worried at all and would happily wait for Leap 42.2. Anyway, her companion got lost with all that was going on and instead read his emails…. - Didier brought a few friends for a discovery tour on Linux. - We had two ladies, one with a broken computer (at home) thinking that we could use a crystal ball to repair remotely her computer and hanged to the Ubuntu guy for advice. Later I learnt that she was a person from a union and thought that she could manipulate anybody. The other lady needed an email client and some tweaks on Windows 10. She was already using FF, so we went for Thunderbird. We had to teach her how to use Thunderbird. The reason for being here was to better her IT knowledge before plunging at the deep end with openSUSE…. She attended the various workshops: installation of Leap 42.1, adding Gnome on a box, my fight with the BIOS of the laptop, partitioning a disk, building a VM, even chatted with the “case” below. - The best is yet to come. A guy came in, with issues on using Facebook. Not our cup of tea. In fact he needed to change his pic. Wait, he was on more than a dozen Social Network Sites and thought we would do that for him. I explained that he needed to do the RT*M and do it himself. So for four hours or so, he went from site to site and do his update… - The Ubuntu guy: I forgive him; he was trying to be helpful and not canvassing people / lure people to Ubuntu. I did have a word with him in the back office and he promised to talk about Linux not Ubuntu. So he has not been tagged as “persona non grata”. He has something like 15 years on * Linux. I gave him an ISO of Leap 42.1 to test. - A mum came with a lad of 18 years old or so. She explained to me that he was shy. She left him in our custody and after 15 minutes or so, the guy disappeared altogether. We had many encounters with people passing by and we did not have the big crowd again this year because it was *again* the National Heritage week end, so people were visiting castles, dungeons, palaces, museums, monuments etc. Anyway, I am on a business trip on 15th October, and the guys will handle without me. I will manage the works on 19th November. We will need to load our boxes with Leap 42.2 beforehand. 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] Features list for openSUSE leap 42.2
by Douglas DeMaio 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

Hi packagers, You all do great work packaging and getting new features into openSUSE. Please consider writing a small or large paragraph for the openSUSE Leap 42.2 features page (https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Features_42.2) to highlight the packages you submitted for the upcoming release. Once these are complete, the list will replace the https://en.opensuse.org/Features and 42.1 will be archived. You can add new features to the page later if you want, but writing something on the page before the release would help marketing the packages you submitted for the release. v/r 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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[opensuse-marketing] Screenshots for 42.2
by Douglas DeMaio 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

Hi all, If you are running 42.2 RC1 and would like to help us get some screenshots for the wiki page, we would really appreciate it. There are already a few 42.2 screenshots on https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.2/Screenshots v/r 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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[opensuse-marketing] Report - Docker and openSUSE workshop 101 - Taiwan
by Max 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

Hi We plan to have monthly workshop or speech in Taiwan, from Sep 2016 to Sep 2017 We had Docker and openSUSE workshop 101 Taipei. We try to use OBS ( https://obsproject.com/ ) live broadcast our event and save to youtube. We already create openSUSE.Taiwan channel here ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChe5J_as5QUE7zaRWvCKwTQ ) You could see 2 videos with today's workshop in the channel. ( Sorry for the Chinese :p ) Date: 2016/10/22 Topic: Docker and openSUSE workshop 101 Speaker: Max Huang Place: Mozilla Space Taipei, Taiwan Attendee: 15 Event page: http://opensuse-tw.kktix.cc/events/docker101-tpe Picture in flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/opensusetaiwan/pool/ Notes: * Slide: https://goo.gl/dhCZUD >From openSUSE Taiwan group -- 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] Leap 42.2 Brainstorm
by Douglas DeMaio 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hi all, I wanted to do a brainstorming on the marketing openSUSE Leap 42.2 via this etherpad - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/leap. There are a few things I already listed, please feel free to add ideas. If you all want to do a meeting, please recommend a date and time. v/r Doug

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[opensuse-marketing] An openSUSE Advocate wannabe questions
by Dimitar Zahariev 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Dear all, My name is Dimitar Zahariev and I want to be an openSUSE Advocate for Bulgaria. Currently I am working as a business intelligence / data integration consultant with open and closed source solutions. I am using openSUSE on a daily basis as my primary operating system. I can provide further personal / professional information if needed. Now straight to the point. I want to organize an openSUSE booth at our open source event later this year. The event is called OpenFest (http://www.openfest.org/2016/en/) and it will take place on 5th and 6th of November. Last year there were more than 3000 visitors. As a first attempt there will be only a booth, even though I will have probably a lecture or two, but they will be on a different topic. For the booth I'm planing to have: - big monitor with running presentation(s); - laptop with a live system for demo purposes; - give away stickers; - flyers; - roll banner; - some ruffle prizes; I read all the information provided in the Advocate Portal and followed all the steps there, but any suggestions and / or opinions are more than welcome. I know that I can build and order most of things locally (and pay for them, which I will most probably do), but I wanted to know is there an option for some kind of help from openSUSE? By help I don't mean to receive something for free, but for example to obtain it with a discount from somewhere, it will save me money and time. And there are things that are hard to find, for example the plush Gecko... Perhaps later this year I will organize a launch party as well. It will be in the second part of November or the first half of December, but this is another story. :) Thank you in advance for your feedback! Kind regards, Dimitar Zahariev -- 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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