February 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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Leap's yin to SLE's yang
by ddemaio 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi again. A good symbol to go along with the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3 I believe is the yin and yang. I propose that artwork to market this release show the symbiotic relationship of Leap and SLE with a yin yang design. The imagery should help with the marketing. I put the topic in the marketing work group notes - https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg. If you have any designs you want to share or other ideas on this topic, I'd love to read it. v/r Doug

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Marketing work group for Leap 15.3
by ddemaio 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi all, A few of us plan to meet on March 3 at 18:00 UTC for a marketing work group for openSUSE Leap 15.3. We will be doing the work group onhttps://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing We want to make this a regular thing leading up to the release. We will start to work on the release announcement athttps://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153release We are collecting ideas at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg, so feel free to add some of your ideas for the marketing of the release and please join us if you are able to. v/r Doug

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Marketing work group for Leap 15.3
by ddemaio 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

HI all, One of the topics that came out of our recent meetup was doing a marketing work group for openSUSE Leap 15.3. If you ware interested, please reply. We'll have to find a time that will fit everyone's schedule or we can break it up into two groups so we get different ideas from both. I was thinking a 30 minute meeting every other week. Does anyone else have a different idea? I started this on https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/88421 v/r Doug

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