April 2018 - 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 on SFD 25th November, 16th December 2017, 27th January, 24th February and 24th March 2018.
by Jimmy PIERRE 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Report on SFD 25th November, 16th December 2017, 27th January, 24th February and 24th March 2018. We have been over busy and being the only English speaking person, I will make quite salient and interesting encounters. We always started the day eating lunch together and brief on the activities and designate who does what. The visitors count is constant ~35 people, steady audience. We have the usual visitors and “chance” visitors. Over these five months, we made new contacts: 1. A guy popped in and wanted a webmaster, could not help because he had all his requirements in his mind and could not clearly explain what he wanted. I sent him back to the black/white board. 2. A blind person accompanied by a usual visitor wanted to ‘try’ openSUSE. I did not approve a change as his brail system was already using Ubuntu. We do not fix a working computer. He said that he had a spare PC, so I proposed to install openSUSE on the spare PC, next time. 3. A few visitors discovered our “party” they were from Marseille, we spent time talking about food et al. They had no computers, they were just visiting. They saw what we do and how openSUSE worked though. 4. The person who came in October finally bought the HP that we recommended. We started installation but when it came to transfer the old files, we had to visit her the next day Sunday to finish the job. 5. JC came with his wife, he had bought a new motorbike and wanted some changes to his profile pictures on FB and also other Social sites. 6. I noticed that Raspberry was not something that got the visitors excited. 7. However, WSL seem for them a Try before ditching Windows. I did explain that we did not recommend that they made the big step without a net. We always go through dual boot step first (just in case). 8. Our Calc student is getting better and better. 9. The teacher took a few DVDs for his esteemed students. 10. There were *two* LUGs in Rouen. The other one seem dormant and his attendees bring their sick computers running UBUNTU for repairs. Change management is of essence. We therefore give an openSUSE DVD to those who can install by themselves and for others, we have to either repair/reinstall UBUNTU or install openSUSE if they readily say *YES*. 11. From the dissidents of the other LUG, we have strange demands: email not working, hard disk replacement, in a particular lady who wanted to run Linux on a PC of 2008; repeat 2008. We could not because openSUSE Leap is 64 bit. 12. Another visitor left her PC and I personally took 6 days on and off to repair the beast…. 13. New people wanted information, some came for goodies (could not handle that one), DVD, Linux Magazine, asking for a donation (yes average of 2 people per session) 14. VLC is still an issue; It seems to me that the right repository (Packman) should be the one readily added so that it is installed smoothly. 15. We had people attempting to migrate 32 bit 13.1 openSUSE to Tumbleweed 32 bit. 16. An interesting issue, new faces and old faces not coming back. I met with a lady while doing food shopping last week and in the conversation, I asked her why don’t you come back and see us? Her answer puzzled me: All is working, so no need to visit you. Is it so? Well, we need to celebrate :D 17. Coming back to Tumbleweed, one of our visitors migrated a 64 bit openSUSE Leap 42.3 to Tumbleweed and had quite a new “distribution” on box. Reinstallation was required and I told him to stop reading articles on the Internet unless he knows what he is doing. 18. Other clubs came round as usual, but I do not expect them to move to openSUSE, they do have issues, but we are not volunteering to move them around. One of them will come in April with his laptop; he has lost the wireless module….. 19. There is a project manager who came on two different dates, he sort of mingled but he is not technical. 20. Our Greek lady is back, latest episode, she has viruses on 7 USB keys. I have taken them home for cleaning. 21. We also noticed a new comer who says he comes from Mascarenes area in the Indian Ocean, we started to discuss on fauna and recipes before getting into the nitty gritty. He had a quite old computer aged 11 years and never used Linux before. 22. The new challenge is to get openSUSE and SUSE working on WSL *with* a DE, XFCE will be nice. I successfully installed XFCE on Kali, UBUNTU and Debian. I personally demonstrated WSL and meanwhile at home succeeded in installing xfce on SUSE and openSUSE LEAP. 23. Linux Presentation Day is back 28th April ( https://nui.fr/blog/linux-presentation-day-2018-a-rouen-normandie/ ), if there are some spare Linux Magazines and some bits and pieces, I would be so ever grateful. Four more events left before Summer holidays. We will have more fun :D Best, 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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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Podcast Revisit
by ddemaio 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Hi Attila, Yes, I can talk with Ludwig about doing it. Just let me know what date we should plan for. v/r Doug On 04/05/2018 10:13 AM, Attila Pinter wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > Excellent, love the topics - especially the ARM one -, thank you for > your inputs. I think if we do monthly a 20min interview show that > would be great. I'm pretty sure we can commit to it. > Next Monday-Tuesday will get the equipment we ordered - hopefully - > and also can start working on the previously mentioned technical > details. We are very new to this so any inputs are welcome ;) > > One last thing tho: once our side is technically ready would you be > able to help us scheduling the first guests? > > Br, > A. > > On 04/03/2018 02:13 PM, ddemaio wrote: >> >> Hi Attila, >> >> Excellent. I came up with the list below. I think the following >> could be the first two: >> >> Ludwig Nussel for Leap 15 >> >> Richard Brown for openSUSE, openQA and Kubic >> >> The topics below could be rearranged for the show. It a good list to >> start with and we could add more for things we feel could be >> appropriate. Some might take a bit more coordination depending on how >> many people are involved. >> >> >> On 04/03/2018 07:14 AM, Attila Pinter wrote: >>> >>> Hi Doug, >>> >>> So we are very much in April and we are still fairly busy, but would >>> like to make preparations for the show. You mentioned earlier that >>> you have some topics prepared already, would be great to take a look >>> at that. Also trying to figure out some sort of a structure for the >>> "show" such as: >>> >>> * The length of each show, >>> >> I think 15 to 20 minutes (tops) is an ideal time. >>> >>> * Organizing the agenda per show, maybe starting with news and >>> revolving around major topics, interviews as the closing part of >>> it?, >>> >> This could be just a short segment of the show. Maybe the first 2 >> minutes about what's new and what some of the major topics are. We >> could probably take a bit of this from the mailing lists. >>> >>> * Frequency of the show? (Thinking of every 2 weeks or monthly), >>> >> I really think it could be hard for a set amount of time, but I would >> recommend monthly as every two weeks could really start to take some >> time. >>> >>> Will setup the podcast to be available over iTunes, provide some >>> sort of rss feed and happy to host a webserver as the podcast's >>> home. Maybe anything else? >> That would be great. >>> >>> Would appreciate your inputs. >>> >>> P.S.: @Eric in case you are still interested - but lack the time - >>> in doing the podcast would be more than happy to collaborate ::) >>> >>> Br, >>> A. >>> >> >> Dominique Leuenberger for Tumbleweed, GNOME Next and VLC >> >> Andrew Wafaa and Andreas Faber about openSUSE on ARM / openSUSE Embedded >> >> Andrew Wafaa for Travel Support Program >> >> Yan Sun for openSUSE Asia >> >> Yan Sun, Ana Maria Martinez, Stella Rouzi and Sarah Julia Kriesch for >> women in openSUSE and women in open source >> >> Ancor for Jangouts and YaST >> >> Douglas DeMaio for Getting Started with Linux magazine, project >> outreach and openSUSE Beer >> >> Axel Braun about GNU Health on openSUSE >> >> Christian Bruckmayer and Ana Maria Martinez about Open Build Service >> >> Christian Bruckmayerand Stella Rouz on Open Source Event Manager osem.io >> >> Sean Rickerd for SUSE band >> >> Kai Wagner for openattic >> >> Markus Feilner for openSUSE Documentation >> >> Antonio Larrosa and Luca Beltrame for KDE and KDE Spain >> >> Cornelius Schumacher for Hackweek >> >> Robert Schweikert for openSUSE Cloud images >> >> Michal Hrušecký for Turris Omnia with openSUSE Kernel >> >> Sven Seeberg about raspberry pi cluster with openSUSE >

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Podcast Revisit
by ddemaio 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Hi Attila, Excellent. I came up with the list below. I think the following could be the first two: Ludwig Nussel for Leap 15 Richard Brown for openSUSE, openQA and Kubic The topics below could be rearranged for the show. It a good list to start with and we could add more for things we feel could be appropriate. Some might take a bit more coordination depending on how many people are involved. On 04/03/2018 07:14 AM, Attila Pinter wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > So we are very much in April and we are still fairly busy, but would > like to make preparations for the show. You mentioned earlier that you > have some topics prepared already, would be great to take a look at > that. Also trying to figure out some sort of a structure for the > "show" such as: > > * The length of each show, > I think 15 to 20 minutes (tops) is an ideal time. > > * Organizing the agenda per show, maybe starting with news and > revolving around major topics, interviews as the closing part of it?, > This could be just a short segment of the show. Maybe the first 2 minutes about what's new and what some of the major topics are. We could probably take a bit of this from the mailing lists. > > * Frequency of the show? (Thinking of every 2 weeks or monthly), > I really think it could be hard for a set amount of time, but I would recommend monthly as every two weeks could really start to take some time. > > Will setup the podcast to be available over iTunes, provide some sort > of rss feed and happy to host a webserver as the podcast's home. Maybe > anything else? That would be great. > > Would appreciate your inputs. > > P.S.: @Eric in case you are still interested - but lack the time - in > doing the podcast would be more than happy to collaborate ::) > > Br, > A. > Dominique Leuenberger for Tumbleweed, GNOME Next and VLC Andrew Wafaa and Andreas Faber about openSUSE on ARM / openSUSE Embedded Andrew Wafaa for Travel Support Program Yan Sun for openSUSE Asia Yan Sun, Ana Maria Martinez, Stella Rouzi and Sarah Julia Kriesch for women in openSUSE and women in open source Ancor for Jangouts and YaST Douglas DeMaio for Getting Started with Linux magazine, project outreach and openSUSE Beer Axel Braun about GNU Health on openSUSE Christian Bruckmayer and Ana Maria Martinez about Open Build Service Christian Bruckmayerand Stella Rouz on Open Source Event Manager osem.io Sean Rickerd for SUSE band Kai Wagner for openattic Markus Feilner for openSUSE Documentation Antonio Larrosa and Luca Beltrame for KDE and KDE Spain Cornelius Schumacher for Hackweek Robert Schweikert for openSUSE Cloud images Michal Hrušecký for Turris Omnia with openSUSE Kernel Sven Seeberg about raspberry pi cluster with openSUSE

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