February 2017 - 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 25th January, 2017.
by Jimmy PIERRE 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

A small quorum gathered home in order to fill our bellies in view of the usual monthly fight with the cold weather. We can report that there was grosso modo again ~50% less visitors and those who attended were new comers on one hand and the core people that run our association. Even if this is the season for Sales in the adjescent shopping mall, there was no crowd loitering at all. We thought that the weather would be milder by midafternoon, but no, this was a linear cold day. We had: 1. A very nice couple who came to wish us Happy New Year and taking an appointment to upgrade Leap 42.1 2. Our Greek lady as usual with various issues. 3. A new lady owner of a dead box that she will bring at our next event for resuscitation purposes 4. Another new lady with a brand new Windows 10 machine and wanted a 180° turn to openSUSE. We advised to keep Windows 10 and install openSUSE 42.2 as dual boot, which we successfully did. 5. Another lady with a broken Leap 42.1 (her neighbor tried to help her out). Sadly, she forgot her AC power supply. She went back home and came back one hour later. I personally took care of the works. Good point, the home directory is not wiped out nowadays, so even though if she did not desperately needed her files in her home directory, she got them back alright! 6. Olivier came for lunch and the event (as usual) 7. Laurence catered for tea/coffee etc. and took care of desperate housewives with Linux related problems. 8. We had a PM from Renault (the vehicles manufacturers) and his wife. The full works, there is a big potential there specially for SUSE. As he came with his work laptop, it was difficult to format the HD :) So he used one of ours with loads of software. His wife is an Event Manager, so all this was new to her. They ended up home for a typical French dinner! 9. 8 “chance” visitors, just curious what’s up. 10. openStreemap was there as usual (a representative that is) 11. A lady came with her laptop in order to better herself, third time around. 12. Nathalie and niece came round for morale support inter-alia. 13. Myself >From the smiles that we got, we realize that these type of events do take people from their daily routine to come in at the deep end to use an OS they did not know about and with a good learning curve. What I discovered, people do take notes. Good point! The lady in 5 took an appointment with our Secretary General to bring her husband *home* as he is not free on weekends. He would like Leap 42.1 (what he actually saw on his wife’s machine) and had some questions. I did distribute Leap 42.2 DVDs and stickers… What can I say, a cozy audience and we had a lot of fun :) Cheers, Jimmy nui.fr -- 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 in Studio and Leap for the Blind
by Sean Rickerd 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hi all, There's an initiative happening here in Québec to create a Linux distro for the blind. Right now, they're focusing on Arch and Debian and I would like to potentially insert 42.2 in there. That said, has anyone ever built a box for the visually impaired? If so, what are some challenges you have seen? Secondly, any idea when 42.2 will be available in Studio? -- 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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[opensuse-marketing] Who maintains Geeko Builder?
by Ish Sookun 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi folks, Any idea who maintains https://geekobuilder.suse.com? I'd like to know whether the props could include new images of openSUSE and SUSE versions and whether flags of more countries could be added? I'd be glad to see the flag of Mauritius. :-) Geeko Builder would be useful to produce marketing materials for the upcoming Developers Conference in Mauritius. Regards, -- Ish Sookun -- 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] oSC17 IRC Meeting - Week 2
by Douglas DeMaio 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hi All, We are going to do a 30-minute meeting today for a quick update on oSC17. The meeting will be from 18:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC.The topics for the meeting are listed below. #topic Status #topic Volunteers / Teams #topic Summits / Events #topic Keynote #topic T-Shirts #topic Gift Bags #topic Videos #topic Ideas #topic Topics for next meeting #topics Links v/r Doug

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[opensuse-marketing] Mauritius: Developers Conference 2017
by Ish Sookun 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi Doug, The Developers Conference 2017 (Mauritius) has been announced for 31 March - 1 April. As every year, I'll be around advocating Linux and FOSS. I'd like to know if there are goodies that I can use for the conference. We had some great gecko moments with the goodies you shipped last year. https://hacklog.mu/devconmru-2016-day-2-linux-installfest https://hacklog.mu/developers-conference-2016-day-3-with-opensuse-bug-hunti… Developers Conference 2017 => https://conference.mscc.mu Cheers, -- Ish Sookun -- 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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