June 2019 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] SELF (SouthEast LinuxFest)
by ddemaio 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Hi all, Chuck asked me to post this to the marketing mailing list the report he did from SELF, which took place this past weekend. v/r Doug So when I got there on Thursday the shirts were there, so thank you. The event went well, we had 500 people there, this was the second year for us to do remote access. So for $5 bucks, you could watch any and talks that weekend. I got a talk about using OBS, SUSE Management w/foreman, AWX, and few other open source tools to build a great devops office with having to have the budget of Bruce Wayne. Thank you for doing the kubic design. A lot of people came to the table alone just to ask what that was. So it was great to have something to get people asking questions. So I had one Gigabyte Brik with openSUSE 15.1 on it and my pi box ( I built this about 4 years ago with a pi 2 and Tumbleweed on it ). along with 50 DVD I burnt, next year I need to find a place to buy USB in bulk, I only picked about 4 from Microcenter because of time. More and more people are asking for USB, in fact, I did 3 for Tumbleweed and just one for Leap. I gave away about 15 DVD, one thing seem more and more laptop don't have DVD players. One thing I keep hearing over and over from people was that they moving away from Fedora to openSUSE because of Tumbleweed and Leap Installer. I only had one person talk about BtrFS, this same person asked me about ZFS in openSUSE, which I wasn't able to answer. Overall great. Plus, Southeast Linux Fest always happy to have us. A couple of things I am going to working on so I have them, slides with video. Since it looks like SELF will do more of the remote access video, I am going to try to get a talk in. Also, I am hoping to be done with a new pi box that will use to burn USB on demand. -- 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] A decade later, any update on openSUSE strategy?
by Imad Aldoj 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Hi, Today [through my usual unplanned wiki ride] I landed on this page https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Strategy from the Novell era (2010) and it was a really interesting read, mainly the SWOT analysis. Surprisingly, (or not) a lot of it is still relevant today, even tho on the other hand, a lot happened in the tech world. How *and if* the community demography itself has changed? what challenges do we face today? and where are we heading next? I think this is a good time to look back again and analyze the outcome of the last decade and maybe how other distros did compared to openSUSE (specifically Fedora and Arch) Looking at the last few years, what's your view? would be cool to hear some opinions of people who did the last round. Imad -- 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] Report: Leap 15.1 Release Party in Gran Canaria (Spain)
by Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Last Friday we organized a rather big launch party for Leap 15.1 at a professional school in Gran Canaria (Spain). See pictures at https://photos.app.goo.gl/YSpmFBE3oKqf7M1z5 Although it was targeted mainly to teachers and students of the Computer Administration and Software Development courses, the event was open to everyone. As it can be seen in the photos, it was pretty well attended (around 80 people). Most of the Canary SUSE Mafia was there[*] (Saray, David Kang, David Díaz, Iván, Imo, Xabi, Rubén and Knut) and we installed openSUSE in around 10 computers and answered many questions about openSUSE, Linux and Free Software. To make it more interesting, we turned it into some kind of mini-openSUSE Conference in Spanish, with several presentations about Linux and Free Software. And to make it more fun, we invited local speakers from Red Hat and GNU Health. There were talks about: - Presentation of Leap and the event itself - Free Software for a Living - Crash course of cloud administration (by Red Hat folks) - Configuration management with SaltStack (by Imo) - Ruby on Rails 101 (by Saray and David K.) - Virtualization in Linux for gaming and more (by Rubén) - Version control with Git (by Iván and David D.) - Continuous integration in Tumbleweed (by me) - Free Software in the public health system (by Gnu Health) We also had some merchandising to give away: - Tons of stickers (they worked very well) - Five plush chameleon (people LOVE them, they fight for them) - 20 backpacks - Other random stuff Thanks Douglas for providing the merchandising. It made a difference. All the attendees and the invited speakers were very thankful for the event at all levels, so I think we can call it a success. Cheers [*] Thanks to all of them for organizing the event and to SUSE for allowing them to be there the whole day (it was a working day). -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- 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] A bit confused about the process of submitting POoS interview
by Imad Aldoj 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

Hi, So my interview is almost ready, but the truth is I never saw an interview getting publish "in action" and just wanna make sure I'm on the right track. to my understanding the general process goes like: 1.FInd a candidate 2.interview 3.publish - Do I've to post the interview here [on marketing(a)opensuse.org] for feedback or just let you guys know? - if feedback/review is required, how much time before I can proceed in case no one showed any interest? - when to use news(a)opensuse.org? or just stick to marketing and that's all I need? - How the decision inside the team is made? just as an example last time I suggested changing the name of the project and feedback was positive, what next? - Anything else to be aware of? (about how to operate in the team) Thanks. Imad -- 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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