March 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] Akademy-es
by Victorhck 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hi listmates!! It's great to see that openSUSE support this KDE event in Spain as Platinum sponsor!! I'll attent this year to Akademy-es too. Happy hackin' & 've phun !! -- GPG Key: 0xC9B7E22A Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ Enviado desde mi teléfono con K-9 Mail. -- 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] NUI.fr reporting on past two events
by Jimmy PIERRE 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Greetings, How it went in Normandy on 27th February last: As explained last month the City is facing huge deficits and there is no city staff around anymore on Saturdays. The main door was closed and in order to get in to get in, everybody (in the know) used the back door. Aarg! Well against all odds we were kept quite busy! 1) Members of other clubs, namely Chess came round in order to use our 4G router and see if the PC were free to use. 2) We had the Greek Ph.D lady back, struggling with her courses on a USB key and trying to read some emails. She also brought some cakes as it was her birthday. Very basic IT followed, tar, zip et al…. 3) The guy from the city hall came with an old NEC, Windows was the part giving him trouble, so I went for SLED 11. Installation took time and in the end only thing bothering him was VLC, well me too… 4) More cakes in here, husband and wife with openSUSE 13.1 willing to upgrade and wife with ASUS tablet wanting to play games/email/web browsing etc. There was no power supply and we found out that Leap openSUSE could be installed. We told him to come back next month with a power supply….. 5) The lady of January came and brought cakes as well. Leap and Win7 were working fine! Now she wanted SKYPE, PDF Creator and a few other things that kept our 4G router hot! 6) VLC is a real pain, a guy brought his PC in with Ubuntu and in seconds, VLC was installed, apt-get … We use the Rolls Royce of package installer YAST and no VLC in the end. Always missing a lib here and there. Google and Google….. Not quite! 7) Openstreetmap gave a couple of lectures 8) Sort of family event, two men visitors and both had their sons with them. The kids were very polite and as if they did not exist, so their dads could move around and see what’s up! 9) My nephew came from Nanterre (133 kms), also with his elder son (5 years) he is in the army and discovered openstreetmap. Before he actually joined the army, he came and helped us at NUI booth at Solutions Linux. I had one USB key left and he got it. Let’s hope that the whole regiment does not come round. 10) The teacher came as usual and was not ready to change his openSUSE 13.2 in his classrooms to Leap yet! He had his ears opened and was quite happy that no one was cursing us! 11) Someone wanted to see our RPI2 working, Aarg! It was as if extracting my tooth, and I had to show Berry Boot, sic. 12) Due to new logistics (see last month report), we had less people. Just 27 in total but very intense :) That’s All Folks, and we had a lot of fun!!!! Report of 19/03/2016: I do not have my tongue stored away in my pocket, so I took one of my favorite pens with a white cap and wrote to the Mayor *demanding* better logistics as we have been animating insets and sessions every month since 2005…. We have now a big room on our own, some 90 SQ Meters comprising a back office, storage for our boxes, gear et al, all that on the ground floor where people can see the events, enter, roam, settle etc. here is what happened on Saturday 19/03: a. It was also the birthday of our Secretary General Laurence and to stay in line with an old French say: “The rain do not stop the pilgrims”, it was business as usual. I smuggled a big cake and tea/coffee/juice of course with the compliments of NUI :) b. Rejoice was afterwards of course, so we started earlier and in France all LUGs were celebrating “Libre en fête” (Free Festival) on the same date. People were not lured by #LEF and sadly no one told us that they came because of #LEF. c. Ok, our Greek Lady was in of course, this month we were into Content Management, complete works!!!!! d. The guy from the City Hall still wanted some java modules and in the end, we went for SLED 11 SP4. Took some time and all was OK and guess what VLC!!!! So help me God. e. The President of a club in Normandy some 80 KMS away came to see RPI 3, yeah, great, but no image to install as plug and play from openSUSE. Where there is life, there is hope! He will come back next month. f. Didier one of my good lads was there with his openSUSE 13.2 and happily showing people around g. Olivier another good lad was there and fighting with NVDI card and also tidying up the back office/storage h. New comers, one came for Joomla, here we went for MySQL, PHP et al and when I showed Wordpress, his jaw fell! i. Another new comer had Mint and did not know what to do with…. So I gave him some exercices, ssh, libreoffice etc from KDE / Leap, maybe he will turn his back and endorse openSUSE j. I noticed a guy moving around, I think that he was not here for openSUSE but what he could lay his hands on. I discretely asked my guys to watch him and snatched back from him a RG45 cable that he was going to put in his bag! k. This time we installed Leap on the computer of the couple, the wife did not attend (by experience, this is not interesting). Ah, all ok here except the camera on the laptop was not recognized by Leap l. We had a guy with a brand new laptop and scary to change to openSUSE, Note to self: create a few Live DVDS from susestudio.com m. Interestingly, many people stopped by, asked questions. Never saw people curious of what was going on. n. We closed even later as we have our own keys now, “we had a ball”, tired and went for a Brooklyn Brown Ale from NYC and Elvis (look alike) at the Amercian Grill. So we definitely had a lot of fun :D Plans for 2016: 1. Linux presentation Day #LFD (International Event) 30th April coming soon…. We have plenty of time to prepare this event which by coincidence happens on one of our SFD. 2. 28th May SFD 3. 25th June SFD 4. 10th Sept Associations day in Rouen 5. 17th Sept SFD – International event 6. 15th Oct SFD 7. 19th Nov SFD 8. 17th Dec SFD I might have a shopping list coming your way for #LFD for starters…. Best wishes, 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] Promo materials for Developers Conference (Mauritius)
by Ish Sookun 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Hi folks, There will be a Developers Conference in Mauritius over three days from 28 - 30 April 2016. Last year I participated in the conference and met a lot students and geeks hopping around to learn more. I think the conference is a nice venue to evangelize openSUSE. Do we have openSUSE Promo materials around that I could use? Regards, -- Ish Sookun - Advocating openSUSE since 2010 :) - I blog at HACKLOG.mu Try openSUSE, https://www.opensuse.org -- 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] openSUSE at Open Design Conference -
by Marina Latini 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Dear community, this is the report of the second Italian event of the year. ----------- February 20th, 2016 - Pordenone (Italy). We participated to the Open Design Conference[0][1] in Pordenone, in Italy. This was the second Italian promotional event of this year and a great opportunity to share our experience with Fedora's and Ubuntu's communities. The main focus of the event were the open source design softwares. There were about 100-120 attendees and we talked about the differences between Tumbleweed and Leap, OBS, SUSE Studio, and openQA. We had a booth, a talk about SUSE Studio and openQA and a round table with Ubuntu and Fedora. [0] http://www.pnlug.it/open-design-conference-2016/ [1] http://www.pnlug.it/2016/02/08/open-design-conference-2016-il-comunicato-st… https://twitter.com/search?q=openSUSE%20%23ODC2016PN%20since%3A2016-02-19%2… Have a lot of fun! See you to the next event in Gonzaga (MN) - Italy Marina aka deneb_alpha -- Marina Latini http://www.libreitalia.it openSUSE Advocate: deneb_alpha -- 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] openSUSE Night Italy 2016
by Marina Latini 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

February 16th, 2016 - Torri di Quartesolo - Vicenza (Italy). The openSUSE night in Torri di Quartesolo was the first Italian promotional event of this year and a nice opportunity to promote our distribution and our Project in a GNU/Linux User Group. There were about 15-20 attendees and we talked about the operating system and the latest news related to Tumbleweed and Leap, the softwares, the community, OBS, SUSE Studio, and openQA. After this introduction we started a demo session installing openSUSE. P.S. A big thank you to ddemaio for the gadgets! https://twitter.com/search?q=openSUSE%20from%3Adeneb_alpha%20since%3A2016-0… Have a lot of fun! Marina aka deneb_alpha -- Marina Latini http://www.libreitalia.it openSUSE Advocate: deneb_alpha -- 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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