June 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] Introduction
by Beau Mathieson 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

Greetings, I would like to introduce myself. I am an open-source enthusiast located in Australia and who in the past contributed to the Fedora marketing team, asides from that, I am a student currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Wollongong. I tend to change my distributions every year or so from Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE, however I decided to stick with OpenSUSE and thought I would contribute back to the community. From the communications I have observed though mailing archives, I have noted a noticeable lack of direction in marketing strategies, a lack of team communication thought meetings (as observed by the Meeting page) and a majority of the resources and priorities are dated. These issues, in which I have identified will and presumably have had an impact on the projects growth (measured by new adopters) and overall consumer engagement. While there is some engagement between contributors, event attendees, etc. If we consider the metrics, that would account from a modest portion of our user base. I personally want to see OpenSUSE grow as I am sure many of you do. I would love to hear what some of you think about these issues or perhaps others in which I have not identified, so please comment. I look forward to working with you all. Kind regards, Beau Mathieson.

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[opensuse-marketing] Report - openSUSE Leap 15 release party Taiwan
by Max 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hi Date: 2018/6/23 Topic: openSUSE Leap 15 release party Speaker: Max Huang Place: SUSE Lab Taipei Attendee: 15 Event page: https://opensuse-tw.kktix.cc/events/opensuse15party Time-lapse photography today https://www.facebook.com/sakanasan/videos/10211882906970154/ Picture in flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/opensusetaiwan/pool/ Slide: http://bit.ly/sakana20180623-2 http://bit.ly/sakana20180623 Notes: >From openSUSE Taiwan group -- 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] Re: Reminder: openSUSE.Asia summit call for paper deadline in 2 days (6/15)
by Max 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi ALL Just reminder, please submit your talk before 6/15. ( Just in 2 days ) Please submit yours at: https://events.opensuse.org Types of sessions We will invite the three types of sessions as below. If you apply for TSP, long talk or workshop is strongly recommended. * Long talk (30 min + Q&A) * Short talk (15 min + Q&A) * Workshop (120 min) If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in touch with the organizing team. You could see more detail here https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/17/opensuse-asia-summit-2018-taiwan-call-… -- 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] Invitation to openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018
by Fuminobu TAKEYAMA 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Hi, I am wondering is there any Asian advocate who have never attend to openSUSE.Asia Summit. The past summits are held in China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Japan. So most of the attendees are from those countries/areas although there are much more countries in Asia. The next summit is going to take place in Taipei, Taiwan on Aug. 11 and 12. We will have 8 days left to submit a proposal of speech (and a financial travel support request). https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/17/opensuse-asia-summit-2018-taiwan-call-… I want to see more advocates at the summit and know how the community in their countries are. If you have interested in, please submit your proposal and join the summit. Cheers, Fuminobu TAKEYAMA -- 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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