April 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] Our presence at FOSSCOMM 2016, Athens-Greece
by Efstathios Iosifidis 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hello lizards, I wrote a short report at http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr/2016/04/what-happened-at-fosscomm-2016.html We had 2 presentations. 1. "Why you should use Tumbleweed". Not enough audience since it was the first presentation after key note, not at the main room. A "mistake" was that we didn't use the word "openSUSE" at the title. Anyways, there were enough people and had plenty of questions about rolling, openQA, Tumbleweed. 2. "openSUSE Leaping ahead". This was between 2 very interested presentations, so there was audience where we could present what's new on Leap. We also had a booth with limited swag for the first day. People came and asked us about difference of Leap and Tumbleweed, about how GNU is the distro right after it's installed, where they can use Leap and where Tumbleweed. We had a demo laptop with Tumbleweed GNOME. Organizers said that there were about 800 people registered. Personally I could say I saw 200-300 different people. Maybe it's because the conference held at university. More pictures at https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/113385548251515365143/albums/62749741760… and (article in Greek) https://opensource.ellak.gr/2016/04/18/avlea-me-poli-chirokrotima-gia-tin-f… -- http://www.iosifidis.gr http://linkedin.iosifidis.gr Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. -- 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] Argumente, die den Einsatz von openSuSE in missionskritischen Netzwerken rechtfertigen
by Oliver Ludwig 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hallo all@SuSE, ich selbst verwende SuSE seit Version 4.3 in eigenen Netzwerken und Netzwerken, in denen mir als Systemadministrator die Entscheidung, oder vor allem die Verantwortung übertragen wird - auf Servern aller Art bzw. an allen Knotenpunkten, an denen es um IT-Sicherheit geht. Windows hat seine Berechtigung, aber es gibt in meinen Augen nur wenig, was Windows besser kann, als eine Linux-Box. Ich arbeite aktuell in einem Unternehmen, in dem bisher nur Windows eingesetzt wurde, vor allem, weil der externe Dienstleister nur Windows kann. Für diesen Dienstleister ist Linux "Wildwuchs" und vor allem deshalb riskant, "weil es keiner kontrollieren kann" ... ich hoffe, Sie kennen solche Argumente. Auf Grund der langjährigen Zusammenarbeit werden diese Argumente ernst genommen. Seit nunmehr 12 Monaten gibt es für den Dienstleister nichts mehr zu tun und nichts mehr zu verdienen: Storage Systeme, Router und Firewalls, NAS-Systeme ... all das kann Linux ... natürlich zu einem unschlagbaren Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis. Aber ich kämpfe hier allein. Im IT-fernen akademischen Umfeld. Vielleicht können Sie mir mit Erfahrung und Argumenten helfen, wie man Akademiker davon überzeugen kann, dass Linux (openSuSE) eine professionelle Lösung, und nicht nur ein System von Hackern, Spinnern und Freaks ist. Der Kostenfaktor ist hier leider von untergeordneter Bedeutung. Und bitte: MICH müssen Sie nicht überzeugen. Ich weis, was Linux ist und wo es überall eingesetzt wird. Aber ich bin kein Akademiker. Ich vermute, das spielt dabei eine Rolle. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Oliver Ludwig * VMware Certified Professional (VCP4) * Oracle Certified Administrator (OCA) * Oracle Certified Support Specialist Mob: +49.1520.1709919 mailto:oliver.ludwig@oludwig.com -- Oliver Ludwig Lortzingstr. 25 09119 Chemnitz Fon: +49.371.40482251 Mail: info(a)oludwig.com Web: www.oludwig.com -- 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 Theme for Jekyll Blogs
by Richard Brown 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi all, A few weeks ago I finally got rid of my old wordpress blogs and replaced it with something more 2016, the Jekyll static site generator https://jekyllrb.com/ I've put together an openSUSE theme for Jekyll https://github.com/sysrich/beautiful-jekyll-opensuse For people who don't want to bother setting anything up, Jekyll can be used directly with github pages - The README covers how to fork the theme and set it up on minutes. Jekyll isn't quite as easy as wordpress to live with, but it is a lot more secure, a lot faster, and I'm using it as an opportunity to practice my 'git' skills, which are becoming increasingly important for contributing to lots of different parts of our project, not just developer ones. You can see the theme in action on http://rootco.de Credit to Dean Attali for the original theme, and our own awesome Cynthia & Zvesdana for their work on www.opensuse.org which was surprisingly easy to merge into this theme. Remember, if you have a personal blog, please make sure it's aggregated on http://planet.opensuse.org - the openSUSE community is interested in whatever crazy (or not crazy) stuff you are up to. All you need to do is add it to https://github.com/openSUSE/planet.opensuse.org/blob/master/planetsuse/feeds which you can do via a github pull request, or email admin(a)opensuse.org Regards, -- 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] Marketing materials for National IT program in Nepal
by Aatish Neupane 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hello, I am Aatish Neupane, a 4th Year Computer Engineering student at Kathmandu University, Nepal. Each year at Kathmandu University, we organize "IT Meet" program. It is an ICT event organized by Kathmandu University Computer Club (KUCC) and Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DoCSE) to encourage interaction between students from various institutions of Nepal and youths from various walks of life. Event includes talk programs, hackathons, hardware and software competitions, etc. Being the coordinator at Kathmandu University Open Source Community myself and an active user of openSUSE, I am thinking of promoting openSUSE at that program. The dates for the program is April 29-30. Although I am late to write this email, what kinds of help can I expect from the marketing team? If it is feasible, we would like to get promotional DVDs and marketing materials for that date. If we can get that by April 28, we could successfully promote openSUSE on this program. My estimates for promotional DVDs is about 200+. Please see the attached proposal for the program. Note that this proposal is the one we use to approach sponsors here. So, please disregard any financial details. Webpage for the IT Meet program is under construction but it will be available at http://itmeet.ku.edu.np. Some links Kathmandu University website http://ku.edu.np IT Meet 2014 http://www.ku.edu.np/news/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=1060&blogId=1 Regards, Aatish Neupane<div id="DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><table style="border-top: 1px solid #aaabb6; margin-top: 10px;"> <tr> <td style="width: 105px; padding-top: 15px;"> <a href="https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-em…" target="_blank"><img src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/logo-avast-v1.png" style="width: 90px; height:33px;"/></a> </td> <td style="width: 470px; padding-top: 20px; color: #41424e; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. <br /><a href="https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-em…" target="_blank" style="color: #4453ea;">www.avast.com</a> </td> </tr> </table><a href="#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>

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