July 2018 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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 from Libre Software Meeting 2018 in Strasbourg, France
by Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi all, This week-end, the Libre Software Meeting took place in Strasbourg, France. The Alionet association held a booth in order to promote the openSUSE project and the GNU/Linux it builds. It was also an opportunity for us to meet new people and make them know Alionet, the french speaking openSUSE community. Our booth was in the associative village, beside our friends from several projects, such as Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and Mageia. Even if the event drew less people than the last event we attend (JDLL or Libre Software Days in Lyon), I met quite a lot of long time openSUSE users. Some of them has used SUSE or openSUSE back in 2007 to 2010 but switched. There were really happy to get news from the project and to see openSUSE represented during the event. A lot of people were surprised to see us and some of them didn't even know what openSUSE is, unlike other well known projects such as Debian or Ubuntu. I had the same feeling when I held an openSUSE booth in Lyon. I think this clearly shows a lack of representation of openSUSE in the french FOSS ecosystem. This is an issue that we, at Alionet, are determined to address. As usual, the openSUSE goodies are always appreciated. The association made USB keys with Leap 15.0 live on it so that curious users can test it before installing. If everything goes well, we will be present at the following FOSS events : - Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, France in novembre - Paris OpenSource Summit in... guess what... Paris ! in december I hope that we will meet some of you. Since then, stay tuned and have a lot of fun ! -- 'When there is no more room at school, the dumb will walk the Earth.' Sébastien 'sogal' Poher

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[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE LEAP 15 swag
by Sean Rickerd 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Hi all, I'll be presenting at a local LUG to talk about openSUSE 15 and SLE 15. I've already got some Enterprise SUSE stuff coming, but was wondering if I could get some openSUSE swag as well for the attendees. I expect 50 people. Let me know if it's possible and I'll provide my shipping address. -- Signature Sean Rickerd Ingénieur Commercial Principal - Canada/Senior Sales Engineer - Canada 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] CfP for LinuxDay Voralberg
by Marcel Kühlhorn 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Good morning everyone, yesterday I recieved a request from LUGV for some openSUSE presence at the 20th anniversary of the LinuxDay in Dornbirn (AT). The Call for Papers can be found here [1], I'd like to at least get a booth there and would need some more people to help out and not be alone at said booth. @Doug: I assume it would be possible to get a booth box for this? [1] https://www.linuxday.at/call-for-papers-2018 -- Marcel Kühlhorn Have a lot of fun!

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