June 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] more news in news.o.o
by Manu Gupta 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

Thanks a lot Victor!!! This is a call for help The openSUSE Asia Summit team is looking for volunteers as well. We need people who can 1. come up with ideas for articles 2. write articles 3. review them. and also improve existing ones for the next year. If people are interested, I will start a separate thread for this discussion. Best On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot Victor!!! > > This is a call for help > > The openSUSE Asia Summit team is looking for volunteers as well. > > We need people who can > 1. come up with ideas for articles > 2. write articles > 3. review them. > > and also improve existing ones for the next year. > > > If people are interested, I will start a separate thread for this > discussion. > > Best > > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:21 AM, victorhck <correohck(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi listmates. >> >> This is only my point of view about some lack on news in news.o.o. >> I say this because there's nothing to read there about Alfa2 release, >> and maybe would be useful to comunicate about issues in Tumbleweed (like >> recent pam config issue or libqt5 righ now). >> >> Yes I know that there's mailing list for that, but maybe more "noise" in >> news.o.o for non mailing list followers would be apreciate. >> >> Douglas are doing a great work there, but maybe more help, will give >> more interesting articles to share and spread... (yep, you can answer: >> itch your own scrath and do it, but english it's not my native language, >> and I can't help with that, I do that in spanish ;) ) >> >> Just my opinion, nothing more... BTW I was checking some Conference >> videos, great to offer a webm option to watch them and even download!! >> Seems that was a great event, you had a lot of fun & hack there! >> >> Keep on rockin' >> >> >> -- >> ------------------- >> GPG Key: 0xC9B7E22A >> Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: >> https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ >> >> > > > > -- > Regards > Manu Gupta > -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] Activity-Responsiveness-Readiness
by aelaric 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

correohck(a)gmail.com has great points about news. At Fedora, the ambassador's program there is well defined, very active, and the responsiveness is almost always just about immediate. The involvement and recruiting route for members and ambassadors for openSUSE is currently confused with dead and outdated links on the openSUSE web pages. I mention this because I went through it myself recently to get to Ambassador status. There are also references to mailing lists that are no longer used; I was routed to this one by a friend who let me know that the one referenced on the web pages was defunct. We can go to technical conferences and encourage involvement from users and also recruit them to get involved as ambassadors, however if they get to the web pages and the links that route them to the status of ambassador are outdated or no longer used, that tends to give the impression that we are not an active or responsive community, and even that sections of the website have been abandoned. We need an active effort to get the openSUSE web pages up to date and we need a well defined route to openSUSE advocacy for new recruits, as we pull them in at the technical conferences. Otherwise the work, effort and energy we put in on behalf of openSUSE towards new interested users and potential new Ambassadors could be wasted effort. New users, Ambassadors, and advocates are the future of openSUSE. --aelaric -- 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] more news in news.o.o
by victorhck 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Hi listmates. This is only my point of view about some lack on news in news.o.o. I say this because there's nothing to read there about Alfa2 release, and maybe would be useful to comunicate about issues in Tumbleweed (like recent pam config issue or libqt5 righ now). Yes I know that there's mailing list for that, but maybe more "noise" in news.o.o for non mailing list followers would be apreciate. Douglas are doing a great work there, but maybe more help, will give more interesting articles to share and spread... (yep, you can answer: itch your own scrath and do it, but english it's not my native language, and I can't help with that, I do that in spanish ;) ) Just my opinion, nothing more... BTW I was checking some Conference videos, great to offer a webm option to watch them and even download!! Seems that was a great event, you had a lot of fun & hack there! Keep on rockin' -- ------------------- GPG Key: 0xC9B7E22A Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/

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[opensuse-marketing] Test
by aelaric 20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16

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[opensuse-marketing] Report on Community Centre Festival 27th May & SFD 28th May.
by Jimmy PIERRE 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Report on Friday 27th May 16 ====================== Hi all, Mind you, the crowd was some 44 minutes early, we were given some strategic space, just 4 – 5 meters from the entrance, so that everybody could see us. The population was mostly non geeks and we spent quite some time explaining FOSS, Linux, openSUSE, SUSE, Tumbleweed, other flavors as well because they heard that x or y was good…. I started to believe that as there was a cold buffet afterwards sponsored by the City Mayor, that we had just a madding crowd. Promises of coming to our monthly sessions were unanimous. Only future will tell. Did find some time to show a few things to a few Saint Thomas about openSUSE et al. The laymen have no idea of Linux, what is Linux etc. We made no installation, just plain discussions. Then came the food and all the stands were deserted out of the sudden. >From the caterers, we were told that there were 207 meals served. We packed past 21:00 as the next day we had SFD. Report on SFD Saturday 28/05 ====================== Back in business, thanks God for that. Total visitors = 37 What we did: there has been 6 new installations of Leap in progress and one as a VM on Virtual Box. A corporate admin wanted SUSE for demo purposes on a 32bit laptop. Our 4G hotspot became red hot. More than 12 GB of ISO from suse.com We have a regular visitor Hélène with Leap as well, maintenance visit: needed CEWE (not working till now) Thunderbird and some FireFox tweaking. Senior team members helped around. openStreetMap was present as well. We had a guy from South Korea (tourist) who stopped by. I burnt a DVD of Leap for him to take home. We had a Chinese guy as well, but he is a student in Rouen University and he is supposed to be back next month. A few timid people just smuggled in and out, Not in our statistics…. Many visitors came because they learnt about SFD and after touring around, promised to come back. I was surprised, many women came, I would say three out of ten. Looks like if the heavy rain/flooding had something to do with this peak of women visitors. I have a weapon for this, I put them in of Laurence, our Secretary-General hands as well as Marila…. We did get them coffee with compliments as well as cakes brought in by members and Hélène baked biscuits. Who said that openSUSE was not a fattening business? Anyway, we managed to close in time before the deluge! La Seine do cross Rouen too before the estuary of Le Havre. We are very excited about our future. Until next time, Thanks, 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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