January 2021 - 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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Article about Leap 15.3
by ddemaio 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

Hi all, An article about the relationship between openSUSE and SUSE was released today that discusses Leap 15.3. Please share where you can. This will help increase the knowledge of what openSUSE Leap 15.3 is all about - https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-pa… v/r Doug

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Results meetup and promotion discussion
by ddemaio 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

Hi all, I just want to bring your attention to the meetup we are doing over the next two Saturdays. We will be going over the following. Topics that will be discussed in the Jan. 23 session include: * Address pain points * Knowledge transfer * Promotion (How are they learning about projects) Topics to be discussed in the Jan. 30 session include: * Tools driving switchers to openSUSE (Where are users coming from) * Discuss flagship project/s * Expanding global users * Increasing diversity * Increase usage with people under 34 The meetup will take place at https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020 <https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020>. Here are some etherpads to help with the discussions we will have: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/results-diagnosis-ideas https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/creativesquad-pitch (Creative Squad) - https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/r.37d6e97950a6b96124a5898648c20572 (questions 1) https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/EOY2020Meetup <https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/EOY2020Meetup>(questions 2) v/r Doug

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Fwd: [openSUSE/news-o-o] OAK AI Kit device (#74)
by ddemaio 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

Per our previous discussion, here is a PR about efforts with Leap, TW with some hardware. I've not merged the PR as I would like to see what people think. I think this seems to fulfill the requirements we listed before was: news.opensuse.org is meant for the publishing of official news about the openSUSE Project and it distributions. Only articles about official packages in the distribution should be published. Articles written to increase awareness of a package and the advertising of home repositories is discouraged and may be subject to the removal of the article. We advise that information that fits the following circumstances be published on the author's blogs, on an email list or other appropriate communication channel and not published on news.opensuse.org: Information about a call to action for the community Information about an open-source project, its community and users "How to use" or "tutorials" about packages (official or unofficial) thoughts? v/r Doug -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [openSUSE/news-o-o] OAK AI Kit device (#74) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 09:54:19 -0800 From: Alessandro de Oliveira Faria (A.K.A.CABELO) <notifications(a)github.com> Reply-To: openSUSE/news-o-o <reply+ACEUOES6EJPIUIW5GZOGVQN6BW34VEVBNHHC52PCN4(a)reply.github.com> To: openSUSE/news-o-o <news-o-o(a)noreply.github.com> CC: Subscribed <subscribed(a)noreply.github.com> As an opencv official contributor, OAK AI Kit, openSUSE Member and Intel Innovator I submit this contribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at: https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74 <https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74> Commit Summary * OAK AI Kit device File Changes * *M* Gemfile.lock <https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74/files#diff-89cade48462044ee1b6…> (53) * *A* _posts/2021-01-15-OAK-available-for-openSUSE.md <https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74/files#diff-28ea8f6184e9681cd0a…> (35) * *A* wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oak.jpg <https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74/files#diff-ba1a564fddc4e921427…> (0) Patch Links: * https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74.patch <https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74.patch> * https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74.diff <https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74.diff> — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/pull/74>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACEUOESXSXRZQZNOJYL5N7LS2…>.

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Meeting minutes for suseportal.cz discussion 12.01.2021
by Lubos Kocman 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Meeting minutes can be also found here https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/suseportalcz_discussion Proposed meeting time Feb January 12th 18:00 https://meet.opensuse.org/HollowSummariesWriteHourly Language: Preferred Czech as this is a Czech user portal writing exclusively in Czech language. Attendees: Dan Čermák, Luboš Kocman, Mark Stopka, Vojta Zeisek Meeting minutes: lkocman: We should relation in between *.opensuse.org and suseportal.cz. And opensuse.cz? news The end goal could be that news.opensususe.org are using weblate for translations to other languages and the czech-translation simply available over the *.cz domain. Translated articles would be currently published on suseportal.cz as a short to medium term goal. Translation of news.o.o is not very handy. Better'd be if news.o.o would be some normal CMS (WP, Drupal, ...) with multilingual support... Vojta: Handling translations directly in news.o-o sounds like better option. cs.opensuse.org (wiki) lkocman: I'd like to avoid duplication of information on Czech wiki site This is more general problem --- function of wiki (vs. doc.o.o etc.) CMS vs gitops topic. We've agreed that gitops seems to be the future of publishing. opensuse.cz redirects directly to opensuse.org, users can click on the list-button which offers Czech language. So there is translation done via weblate, but it's not in use in case you get to portal via opensuse.cz. * openSUSE.cz doesn't have to be necessarily redirect but rather a landing page. Dan: that's basically get.opensuse.org Vojtech: opensuse.cz sounds like a better place to publish any sort of Czech content. Marek generally prefers mixed content about SUSE/openSUSE to ensure content "flow" and possible revenue. Who's the audience in this case? E.g. BFU will not read a sophisticated article about Czech deployment that might be otherwise very appreciated by storage SMEs. The only place which currently has some news in Czech language is: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/suse-ceska-republika Lubos: It might make sense to reach out to people who publish articles on linkedin and see if they'd be interested in publishing articles there and collecting articles from our distributors (DNS) and sponsors. Either SUSE CZ or DNS could be the owner. We suppose that SUSE might not be interested in owning the domain/portal. Action items: Reach out to Doug regarding preference to use suseportal.cz to Czech content on *.opensuse.org (respective .cz). But then we lose the benefit of SUSE portal, promotes both SUSE and openSUSE content. (Doug is fine with this) pointer of opensuse.cz -> Czech content of opensuse.org has to be fixed anyway. https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o/issues/953 Send copy of this report in the morning to users-cz(a)lists.opensuse.org and marketing(a)lists.opensuse.org Reach out to people behind https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/suse-ceska-republika/ regarding possible ownership of portal and publishing mixture of content from SUSE/openSUSE/sponsors/distributors. Next step would be to ask the DNS distributor for their interest in the domain and possibly other partners. That discussion should ideally involve partner manager for Czechia. - provide feedback to Mark -> Mark will follow-up with DNS opensuse.cz makes sense also for BFU :-)

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Social Media Appearances
by Vinzenz Vietzke 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hi, looking at what was going on last night on openSUSE's Twitter account [1] I'd like to know, who has access to the social media accounts of this community. Indeed there is a list on the wiki but it does not look complete as @openSUSE is managed via Grouptweet. [2] The tweets from last night were nothing severe, imho. Yet there was a slightly irritation about them. That and as conjunction with the recently bad mouthing on CentOS [3] we need to talk about quality standards of community representation somehow. Cheers, vinz. [1] https://twitter.com/openSUSE/with_replies [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts#Twitter [3] https://twitter.com/TheTechScribe/status/1339927973613416449

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What is going on with openSUSE Twitter and Mastodon?!
by Neal Gompa 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Hey all, I have been seeing a disturbing trend in the openSUSE Twitter[1] and Mastodon[2] accounts, where we are sending messages tearing down the CentOS Project[3][4][5][6]. As an openSUSE contributor who spends *a lot* of time trying to use and promote openSUSE sensibly, I was disheartened by the lack of professionalism and support to our fellow project trying to develop a contributor-oriented community like we have for openSUSE Leap. The worst part about it is that the attacks are a "stone and glass house" kind of affair. openSUSE Leap has roughly the same lifespan as CentOS Stream, and contributions to CentOS Stream effectively work the same way as contributions to openSUSE Leap does. If people start teasing apart what we actually *offer* compared to CentOS Stream, they will be disappointed to find that we're not that much different from them. And the truth is, I couldn't be happier! If anything, we should be supporting that project, and drawing parallels to openSUSE Leap as a *model* of how CentOS Stream can be done. We've successfully integrated the enterprise and the community together in a stable, reliable, rock-solid platform. When openSUSE made the change to openSUSE Leap, nobody from Red Hat or Fedora said bad things about us. In fact, they've been generally supportive of our efforts. I have personally had conversations with a number of folks at Red Hat talking about the model of excellence that is openSUSE Leap. And now, Red Hat is taking a "Leap" of faith with CentOS and RHEL, and we're tearing them down for trying to be more open? That's utterly hypocritical and I'm disgusted. As a member of the openSUSE community, I'm disappointed and saddened by how we're not trying to support each other. Our friends at Red Hat and Fedora have supported us, this is our turn to support them. That doesn't mean we can't take the opportunity to talk about openSUSE Leap. There is plenty to love about openSUSE Leap for folks everywhere. But tearing down CentOS to promote openSUSE Leap is not the right way. Regards, Neal [1]: https://twitter.com/openSUSE [2]: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse [3]: https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1339648215713509377 [4]: https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1339956419462918147 [5]: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/105389999148802875 [6]: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/105390670556405421 -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

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