November 2016 - 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] Report Software Freedom Day Saturday 19 November, 2016.
by Jimmy PIERRE 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Greetings, It was quite a miserable day, coldish, the City Hall was deserted. A few associations were present and waiting for visitors/members to pop in. When we got to our room, the heating was off and the tables had sort of disappeared. We had to go in other rooms and took possession of “spare” tables from other associations. Bad start! The first person who entered was the President of an association in North Rouen and one of our regulars gave him our contact. I spent some time with him discussing his motivations and what he delivers in his association. As a matter of fact, Libre Office and as he saw the pc of our regular attendee running Leap 42.1, so he came to learn more. I scratched a USB key and burnt Leap 42.2 for him to test. And as we had the 19 boxes to update/reinstall, I started one and showed him how to do it properly and got him to install a couple of boxes alone so that he could be autonomous when he got to his own machines in his association. 50 minutes later, he was done and said good bye! In parallel, we had a few things going: 1. A guy came with an old box (x86) and wanted Leap 42.2 installed. We got desperate and tried a openSUSE 13.2 instead (I know, not supported). His DVD player was KO, so despite numerous attempts, we finally showed him how to create a network install. 2. The IT teacher came round and was eager to see Leap 42.2 going. Which he saw. And as he came with his own USB Key, the iso was burnt to his key. We made his day! 3. Our Greek lady was in as usual and desperately needed help with some text, among other things. We did let Laurence deal with that one! 4. Two girls popped in and wanted the price for lesson on LibreOffice. I replied 1000€. They seemed happy to pay ;-) so I gave them an inset on opensource and FOSS. And also that we do *not* charge a cent… They will come back and bring their machines in next month. 5. A young fellow who had problems in his schooling spent the day with us, he installed some boxes with openSUSE and gave help to visitors. It was good to see motivated people. Later in the evening we found him pushing a bike in the city: they stole his saddle while he was with us!!!! 6. I had my guy with the new laptop that I spent hours tweaking the BIOS and had to make a personal delivery a couple of months ago to his home. He was here for Leap 42.2 upgrade. We did a clean install and again a fight with the BIOS. (Note to self: need to write a how to). 7. We had a guy who wanted some web development. Sadly we cannot indulge in designing and building tailored made web services. I explained that he could by all means get help to install many FOSS on a domain or host his website on openSUSE for example and it would be up to him to build a sort of portal that will call the necessary software. He was deceived that we would not indulge in his wishes…. 8. A guy called me on Saturday early morning and was pretty vague: Is it SFD to-day? I said yes and when he came in hours later, this was quite challenging: a. He had UBUNTU 16.04.1 LTS (64bits) installed and had no Wi-Fi b. He was trying to use his Phone to do tethering with UBUNTU c. No driver found/installed d. Running on battery, so time was of essence I took that case on. After reading some forums etc. I found a guide on openclassrooms.com and by applying the procedure, ndiswrapper et al, I got his laptop working. He did explain that he had a few machines, so burnt a key for him and showed him how to installl openSUSE Leap 42.2 9. There is an association for Rouen area who deals with repairing gear for the public, free of charge. They had a guy to visit us. He would like to install openSUSE on machines that they would repair. Then the people could come to us for help…. As they repair not only computers but also washing machines, dish washers, kettles, electric irons, radio, hifi, I said why not! 10. Then the usual curious people, casual visitors, those who know Linux, those who use other distributions and want to nag us, those who do not have a clue, those who we sort of babysit while their wives go to do shopping. On and off, we had at cruise level not more than 28 people at a time, that we were 5 to handle. We had a lot of fun! Next one for the year 2016: 17th December. -- 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 42.2 Montreal Linux Meetup Presentation
by Sean Rickerd 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hey all, I've been asked to do an openSUSE 42.2 presentation at the local Linux Meetup and I was wondering about the following: 1. This features list is perfect for what I need to do, has anyone done anything presentation-wise yet? Are there decks around? 2. Anyone have a contact where I can get openSUSE swag? (Would only need about 50 of whatever - thumbdrives, pens, stickers, etc...) 3. With SLES for Raspberry Pi being announced, is there an openSUSE for Raspberry Pi image in the wild or is there something in the works? -- Signature Sean Rickerd Ingénieur Commercial/Sales Engineer srickerd(a)suse.com 514.834.5778 ------------------------------------------------ -- 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 42.2 Montreal Linux Meetup Presentation
by Aslan Ramos 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hi Sean, > 1. This features list is perfect for what I need to do, has anyone done > anything presentation-wise yet? Are there decks around? I use this one as template, because respect the brand of OpenSUSE colors. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/artwork/master/Marketing%20Mater… As reference of branding: https://opensuse.github.io/branding-guidelines/#colors > 2. Anyone have a contact where I can get openSUSE swag? (Would only need > about 50 of whatever - thumbdrives, pens, stickers, etc...) Douglas deMaio is the one. <ddemaio(a)suse.de> :) > 3. With SLES for Raspberry Pi being announced, is there an openSUSE for > Raspberry Pi image in the wild or is there something in the works? We have only available with Tumbleweed, with LEAP I didn't hear anything about yet. reference: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi best regards, ** *Aslan C. de M. Ramos* *Sales Engineer** * On 16-11-2016 12:08, Sean Rickerd wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been asked to do an openSUSE 42.2 presentation at the local Linux > Meetup and I was wondering about the following: > > 1. This features list is perfect for what I need to do, has anyone done > anything presentation-wise yet? Are there decks around? > 2. Anyone have a contact where I can get openSUSE swag? (Would only need > about 50 of whatever - thumbdrives, pens, stickers, etc...) > 3. With SLES for Raspberry Pi being announced, is there an openSUSE for > Raspberry Pi image in the wild or is there something in the works? -- 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 42.2 Montreal Linux Meetup Presentation
by Sean Rickerd 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Thanks Aslan, I'll contact Douglas. Of course I'll respect the branding - been with SUSE nearly 4 years, I've had to adjust when we switched from the original colour scheme to the current. Signature Sean Rickerd Ingénieur Commercial/Sales Engineer srickerd(a)suse.com 514.834.5778 ------------------------------------------------ On 16/11/16 10:05 AM, Aslan Ramos wrote: > > Hi Sean, > >> 1. This features list is perfect for what I need to do, has anyone done >> anything presentation-wise yet? Are there decks around? > > > I use this one as template, because respect the brand of OpenSUSE colors. > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/artwork/master/Marketing%20Mater… > > As reference of branding:https://opensuse.github.io/branding-guidelines/#colors > > >> 2. Anyone have a contact where I can get openSUSE swag? (Would only need >> about 50 of whatever - thumbdrives, pens, stickers, etc...) > > Douglas deMaio is the one.<ddemaio(a)suse.de> :) > >> 3. With SLES for Raspberry Pi being announced, is there an openSUSE for >> Raspberry Pi image in the wild or is there something in the works? > > We have only available with Tumbleweed, with LEAP I didn't hear anything about yet. > reference:https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi > > > best regards, > ** > *Aslan C. de M. Ramos* > *Sales Engineer** > Rua Joaquim Floriano, 466 - 12º andar* > *Ed Corporate - São Paulo/SP* > *+ 55 11 3627-0905* > *+ 55 11 9 9228-5916 * > *aslan.ramos(a)suse.com <mailto:aslan.ramos@suse.com>* > <http://www.suse.com> > twitter <https://twitter.com/susebrasil>facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/susebrasil/>linkedin > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/suse>google plus > <https://plus.google.com/+SUSE/posts>youtube > <https://www.youtube.com/user/susevideo> > “Esta mensagem e quaisquer arquivos transmitidos com ela são > confidenciais e destinam-se exclusivamente para o uso do destinatário. > Se você recebeu esta mensagem por engano, por favor notifique o > remetente, respondendo a esta mensagem e, em seguida, apague a > mensagem e seus anexos do seu sistema. Se você não for o destinatário > pretendido, por favor, note que a divulgação, cópia, distribuição ou > uso para tomada de qualquer ação relacionada ao conteúdo desta > informação é estritamente proibida. > This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you have received > this message in error please notify the sender by replying to this > message and then delete the message and its attachments from your > system. If you are not the intended recipient please note that > disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on > the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.” > On 16-11-2016 12:08, Sean Rickerd wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I've been asked to do an openSUSE 42.2 presentation at the local Linux >> Meetup and I was wondering about the following: >> >> 1. This features list is perfect for what I need to do, has anyone done >> anything presentation-wise yet? Are there decks around? >> 2. Anyone have a contact where I can get openSUSE swag? (Would only need >> about 50 of whatever - thumbdrives, pens, stickers, etc...) >> 3. With SLES for Raspberry Pi being announced, is there an openSUSE for >> Raspberry Pi image in the wild or is there something in the works? > -- 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] Fwd: openSUSE at OpenFest 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria - brief report
by douglas 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Hi all, I am posting a report Dimitar wrote about having an openSUSE Booth at OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's an excellent report, so if you have a chance, please give it a read. v/r Doug I have good news. Our event was really great, at least according to me and my fellows, and the feedback from some of the visitors I spoke to after the event. The booth was visited by more than 200 people. Most of them weren't shy and asked questions ranging from "what is openSUSE?" to "how you will make me switch to openSUSE?". In general we had several types of people vising the booth: - completely unaware about openSUSE - the biggest part; - aware of openSUSE, but using different distribution - some of them were ex- openSUSE users; - users or administrators of SUSE Linux Enterprise; - current users of openSUSE - unfortunately this was the smallest group, but we are going to change this. We have plans of establishing a local community, but I will contact you about this in a separate e-mail, most probably after the release; More than 60 people took part in our Photo Booth challenge and most of them won a t-shirt (we made 67 additional t-shirts, beside the ones you sent). We also gave away several t-shirts to people who were very well prepared on the subject or gave correct answer to a question like - "do you know what animal is the logo of YaST?". We even managed to do a live install of Tumbleweed on a tricky hardware - one volunteer came with its HP Pavilion x360. We ran into number of issues but at the end we succeeded. We also wrote ISO images for some of the visitors. This reminds me that we identified several issues or possibilities to be more prepared for the next event in terms of range and amounts of swag. I will send you my summary and thoughts on the topic in separate e-mail next week. On top of the written above, we were contacted by two or three people that are let's say important Linux persons in the area. Eventually we will take part in additional micro events speaking about openSUSE or its Eco system. We will see. This is what we still have and what we gave away (from the original materials): - Web camera covers - 0 (105 given away out of 105); - Pins - 0 (9 given away out of 9); - Foam clouds - 0 (20 given away out of 20); - Sticker - Funny chameleon - 0 (43 given away out of 43); - Sticker - openSUSE big, green - 0 (94 given away out of 94); - Sticker - OBS - 30 (77 given away out of 107); - Sticker - Tumbleweed - 38 (81 given away out of 119); - Sticker - Portus - 32 (31 given away out of 63); - Sticker - small square openSUSE - 23 (77 given away out of 100); - Sticker - small triple openSUSE - 20 (70 given away out of 90); - Cheat Book - 9 (47 given away out of 56); - T-Shirt - Tumbleweed size S - 0 (1 given away out of 1); - T-Shirt - Tumbleweed size M - 0 (1 given away out of 1); - T-Shirt - Tumbleweed size L - 1 (0 given away out of 1); - T-Shirt - Tumbleweed size XL - 1 (0 given away out of 1); - T-Shirt - Tumbleweed size XXL - 0 (1 given away out of 1); - T-Shirt - Leap size S - 0 (3 given away out of 3); - T-Shirt - Leap size M - 0 (3 given away out of 3); - T-Shirt - Leap size L - 0 (3 given away out of 3); - T-Shirt - Leap size XL - 1 (3 given away out of 4); Plus one long term asses - the table cover. One question - shall I send back what's left or I shall keep it for the upcoming events? And the stats about the materials that we have prepared locally: - Cheat sheet - 160 (40 given away out of 200); - Flyer - 80 (120 given away out of 200); - Business Cards openSUSE Advocate - 21 (29 given away out of 50); - T-Shirt - woman, size S - 2 (10 given away out of 12); - T-Shirt - woman, size M - 6 (6 given away out of 12); - T-Shirt - woman, size L - 2 (5 given away out of 7); - T-Shirt - man, size M - 0 (12 given away out of 12); - T-Shirt - man, size L - 1 (11 given away out of 12); - T-Shirt - man, size XL - 4 (8 given away out of 12); - Sticker - openSUSE + OpenFest - 80 (120 given away out of 200); Plus one long term asset - roll banner with the funny chameleon. I will publish a more detailed report during the weekend. It will be linked to the event announcement in the community site. And separate version will be published on my blog. Just one more thing I took the liberty to correct something in the community site - the countdown link was pointing to http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2 instead to http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.2. King 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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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Announcement
by Douglas DeMaio 13 Nov '16

13 Nov '16

Hi all, Thank you for your help in translating the Social Media Plan an all the other translations you have don't for openSUSE. The release announcement is finished and we kindly ask for your help in translating the release (https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_42.2) so that we can maximize our efforts for publicizing the release of openSUSE Leap 42.2. I think the easiest way to do it is like what we did with 42.1(https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Release_announcement_42.1); create a wiki page on your native language and add the hyperlink to your language code on the announcement. Thank you all for your help. 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 - Bring ceph to live workshop - Taiwan
by Max 13 Nov '16

13 Nov '16

Hi We plan to have monthly workshop or speech in Taiwan, from Sep 2016 to Sep 2017 We had Bring ceph to live workshop. Date: 2016/11/12 Topic: Bring ceph to live workshop Speaker: Alex Lau Place: Mizilla Space Taipei, Taiwan Attendee: 9 Event page: http://opensuse-tw.kktix.cc/events/ceph-opensuse-workshop-101 Picture in flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/opensusetaiwan/pool/ Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/AvengerMoJo/opensuse-storage-workshop-2016 Notes: * We plan to have openstack with openSUSE next month :) >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] 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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