March 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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lifecycle wiki page
by ddemaio 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hi all, There was a recent post on reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/m1xl56/is_opensuse_leap_ready_to_be…) that made us take a look at how to present our lifecycle page (https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime) and info to be added to the marketing of Leap 15.3. There were several comments on reddit that can be summarized as there is a lack of clear information on how long the lifecycle of Leap 15.x will be going forward. When the info on https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime was originally written, there was some clarity on major versions lasting a minimum of 36 months. We know Leap 42 and 15 exceeded that lifecycle. It looks like we're at a point where we evolved and need to provide a bit more clarity for people based on the reddit comments I propose we change the lifecycle page to include the following sentences and include the info in the marketing of Leap 15.3 and beyond (for the foreseeable future): Leap *Major Release* (15.x) extends maintenance and support until a successor. At present, a successor has not been declared; Leap 15's lifecycle fully aligns with SUSE Linux Enterprise. There is a projection as of March 2021 that Leap 15 will extend to Leap 15.5. Both major versions of Leap 42 and 15 were supported more than 36 months. Any thoughts, changes, removals or additions to the above sentences. v/r Doug

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March 31 Marketing work group for Leap 15.3 and April 1 sprint
by ddemaio 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Hi all, As a reminder, we will have our next marketing group meeting on March 31 at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing The local times for some people might have changed since daylight savings. We will work on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153release and look at the topics on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg Our next sprint is on April 1 at 18:30 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/websprints. You can view what was discussed in the running log of topics on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints v/r Doug

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Re: Leap's yin to SLE's yang
by Gerald Pfeifer 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

On Wed 2021-02-24, Aaron Burgemeister wrote: > Yin and yang are more about opposites (dualism) than anything judgmental > (good and evil), or that is my understanding. That's also the image I had in mind: two elements intertwined, engaging with one another, complementing each other. > Anyway, I think there could be some value in this (yin/yang) comparison, > but there may also be some drawbacks to consider while moving forward. When I talked to a journalist a week ago, without ever talking about yin and yang, though admittedly using my hands to help articulate the dynamics, she asked me about yin and yang. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/open-source/opensuse-leap-ready-be-new-… has the article that came out of that. It also has a graphics that a colleague with much better design skills than me created based on a paper and pencil sketch of mine. And that, too, has a bit of that. > One feeds into the other, and in the same way I believe Tumbleweed > feeds into Leap, so I have typically appreciated (as somebody who has > been around SUSE for a while, so not a newbie in that regard) more > of a continuum of Tumbleweed -> Leap -> SLE, which can celebrate the > fun/excitement/newness of Tumbleweed, the practicality of Leap, and > the stability of SLE without passing much other judgment. If you aren't part of that yet, please consider joining the openSUSE marketing team! (Seriously.) On Wed 2021-02-24, ddemaio wrote: > Perhaps the title was not the best, but it was more about getting > attention. It worked. And it resonates. The only pitful would be labeling one explicitly as yin, the other as yang (or anything good-bad or black- white, which of course the classic symbol is). Gerald

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Leap Marketing and sprint
by ddemaio 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Hi all, I'm just sending out a reminder that we will have a Leap marketing meeting in about an hour at 18:00 UTC onhttps://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing. Ideas are being collected athttps://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg Also, tomorrow (04.03), we will have a spring at 18:30 UTC to focus on websites (some other things perhaps), which you can join athttps://meet.opensuse.org/websprints. We're tracking that info athttps://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints v/r Doug

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No torrent file for Leap 15.3 Beta
by Ish Sookun 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Folks, There are no .torrent files for the offline and network images at https://get.opensuse.org/testing. If we do not have torrent files during the beta phase, we should remove the links. I can remove them from https://github.com/openSUSE/get-o-o/blob/main/_data/153.yml and submit a pull request. Should I proceed? Regards, Ish Sookun

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Call for Papers Open for openSUSE Conference
by ddemaio 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Hi all, The article for this is about to be published on https://news.opensuse.org/ The call for papers is open! The call for papers is open until May 4. The dates of the conference are scheduled for June 18 - 20. Please go to https://events.opensuse.org/ to register. Presentations can be submitted for the following length of time: * Lightning Talks (15 mins) * Normal Talk (30 mins) * Long Talk (45 mins) * Workshop (1 hour) The following tracks are listed for the conference: * Cloud and Containers * Community * Embedded Systems and Edge Computing * New Technologies * Open Source * openSUSE

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