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.
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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?
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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,
**
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*Sales Engineer**
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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?
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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.
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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,
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> 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?
>
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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
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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
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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
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