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[opensuse-marketing] Report summer 2018 SFD 28th April, 26th May, 31th May, 23rd June
by Jimmy PIERRE 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Greetings, I am a bit “free” these days as France is at a standstill as every summer. The audience was steady as usual except an enormous peak on 31st May as I will narrate below. On the 3 Saturdays, we started with lunch and we loaded the gear in the cars and headed to the City Hall. I moved the SFD dates nearer to the end of the month as the venue is near a commercial Mall and a Tramway station there are more people hanging around. Even if they do not pop in, at least, the *see* an activity going on. 28th April was Linux Presentation Day, new heads popped in I would say 25 and only one guy and a woman were sort of motivated to asked questions after my slides. The woman had an issue with her Apple ID, hummm LPD/Apple…. Then the guy “confessed” that he has installed Mint and needed some advice as he did not know what to do. Luckily, another attendee had his laptop with Mint, so we left them together and a *long* demo on openSUSE Leap 42.3 and 15 Beta. We carried on with some technical things. 26th May, hurrah, we had pre-loaded up 9 spare laptops (Thanks Doug for the early GM) and also burnt 35 DVDs. People came in and out, some timid people just over looking on each other shoulders (We set up the room in a U where people can sit freely. Nothing much happened apart from JC who wanted an update to openSUSE Leap 15 now and then. The 35 DVDs got sort of new owners, all gone. Again, people had some issues and we gladly helped out. As usual, we bought coffee/tea/chocolate to the visitors. 31st May, End of year event. This happens in the evening. It is organized by the City to close the season and associations are welcome to have a stand so that people can see what they do… No counting here, local citizens just poured in. Some discovered Linux, some knew already, some were concerned on usability and the trick is to lure them to openSUSE by passing via open source on Windows. The future will tell. Anyway, food was served with the compliments of the city. 23rd June. Last SFD for the season. Many topics: byobu, GitHub, ip commands, WordPress and openSUSE Leap 15 etc. The command line was *very* popular as we had to demystify the terminal as it is easier to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15. Then, in order to do some practical insets, we played with WordPress a lot and this seemed to please the audience. We will renew this in September. The woman with the Apple ID came back. In fact she could not update her OSX!!! Then we had a few people who came for their issues with Linux et al. A lady had a serious problem with VLOOKUP in Calc. We are now getting ready for the big venue 8th September where 270 associations are on display in open air. More info here: https://rouen.fr/forum-asso Afterwards, SFD as usual on 29th September, 27th October, 24th November, 15th December. We will definitely have 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] 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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