April 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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Marketing Meeting Minutes from April 28
by ddemaio 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hi all, I want to give a bit of feedback from out marketing meeting we had tonight. We worked on the flyer and updated the counter to reflect the countdown. We could use help from the community on the updating screenshots for openSUSE Leap 15.3 for the various desktop environments and open source tools. Please upload your screenshots to https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.3/Screenshots We are also kicking around an idea about how we can have some sort of social media badge, image or overlay,so that people can change their profile picture to help raise awareness about the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3. Ideas are welcome, so please reply to this if you have any thoughts. Please use hashtags#openSUSE #Leap153 when posting social media so we can do some follow-up statistics on the hashtags. Music lovers. The topic of a podcast has been brought up over the years. Some people might want to do a local podcast as it has more reach in the language. We think it would be a good idea to have the sounds of the podcasts be similar to that the intro and outro music is branded. If you are interested in this, please let us know. If people would be interested in coming together as a team to develop this idea or a podcast, please reply to this email. Our next marketing meeting will be May 12 at 18:00 UTC in the bar at meet.opensuse.org/bar v/r Doug

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Leap 15.3 Translations and Marketing Meeting
by ddemaio 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Hi all, We will have a marketing meeting tonight (April 28) at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing The meeting later today will focus on a few things like screenshots, timeline for release and an open discussion on other things we can do to help promote the release. We've been working on the release announcement for a while and have finally completed it. The release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.3 is ready for translation. We have about 5 weeks until the release. It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language and help promote the news of that release. Currently the release is only in English. Please link your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code language code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes) or the language for those contributing to https://news.opensuse.org/2021/03/10/a-message-to-the-opensuse-community/ I have placed the release announcement on the openSUSE wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3. This is the single point from where I will take all the links of the translated versions. Please remember to link your translated version to your ISO 639-1 Code on https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3 We have social posts that can be translated at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan. For people running an openSUSE social media page who would like to post the content, please mark down the name for the person who will be responsible for posting the content on the wiki. v/r Doug

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Leap 15.3 Release Announcement and Social Media messages
by ddemaio 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hi all, We've been working on the release announcement for a while and have finally completed it. The release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.3 is ready for translation. We have about 5 weeks until the release. It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language and help promote the news of that release. Currently the release is only in English. Please link your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code language code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes) or the language for those contributing to https://news.opensuse.org/2021/03/10/a-message-to-the-opensuse-community/ I have placed the release announcement on the openSUSE wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3. This is the single point from where I will take all the links of the translated versions. Please remember to link your translated version to your ISO 639-1 Code on https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3 We have social posts that can be translated at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan. For people running an openSUSE social media page who would like to post the content, please mark down the name for the person who will be responsible for posting the content on the wiki. v/r Doug

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Leap 15.3 marketing meeting update from April 14
by ddemaio 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Hi all, I wanted to send everyone an update from the marketing meeting we had yesterday. We finalized the release announcement (https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3 <https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153release>) last night so the next step will be to send it off for translations, which should give the community a good amount of time to translate it. I want to send it out with an updated version of the social media messages on https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan, which will also need translations and people to post the messages on the local language social media pages. We will have another marketing meeting on April 28 at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing The plan for that meeting will focus a bit on brainstorming, the imagery that goes along with the release and whatever gets threaded here before the next meeting. v/r Doug

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openSUSE Conference meeting and Leap 15.3 marketing meeting
by ddemaio 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Hi all, I wanted to reminder everyone of two meeting we have this week. We will have a meeting today (every Tuesday) at 18:00 UTC for the planning of the openSUSE Conference. This meetings will take place in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar as recommended by those attending. While doing a live meeting, we will post topics and updates to the #project chat on openSUSE Discord. We are looking for people to help stream the talks, so if you are interested, please join us or contact me if you can't make the meeting. We will have another marketing meeting on tomorrow (April 14) at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing The plan is to finalize the announcement and start working on the social media launch plan. If you have ideas for social media post for the release of Leap 15.3, please go ahead and add them to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan Contributing to https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.3 are also welcome. Cya later. v/r Doug

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oSC21 Meeting: April 6
by ddemaio 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi all, I just wanted to send out an update of the meeting we had yesterday about the openSUSE Conference. Have have listed the bullets of what was discussed below. To summaries some of the key takeaways from the meeting. We will be doing meeting every Tuesday at 18:00 UTC. The meetings will take place in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar as recommended by those attending. While doing a live meeting, we will post topics and updates to the #project chat on openSUSE Discord. I will also continue to post the meeting notes on the mailing list for the community to read if they don't attend the planning meetings for oSC21. We believe the best way to do the conference is to have pre-recorded talks during the event and have the speaker present for a live Q&A session after their talk. We will have to figure out how to do this There also an option for a live workgroup via Big Blue Button in the tool venueless that we will be using. We hoping to get some volunteers to help with the conference planning, so please email me if you are willing to assist. Anybody with OBS (broadcast software) experience who are willing to help, please contact me. If you haven't submitted a talk yet, please do so by logging into https://events.opensuse.org/ and submit proposal. v/r Doug #topic Status #info The CfP ends May 4 #info Registration 55, Submissions 14, 8 hours #topic Venue #Info opensuse.venueless.events/ #info If you want to help, I can make you an admin. Please let me know. Email ddemaio(a)opensuse.org #info most documentation I have is in German #topic Keynote #info Our keynote speaker will be Sheng Liang - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Liang <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Liang> I would like to have another speaker and have reached out, but don’t have confirmation. They are still evaluating. Does anyone have any ideas for other people who might be a good keynote? #action ddemaio to email Mathew Miller about keynote discussing mutual collaboration? Also, Maybe have a Fedora Social hour during the conference #info Keynote from Sheng is planned for Friday toward the later have of the first day on June 18. #topic Recording or Live Stream #question we will need to discuss the structure. Does it make sense to have everyone record their talks and then just do a live Q&A? #info We might need some backup for recording. If someone is good with OBS (broadcast) and wants to help, let me know. #info In contact with c3voc and the venueless allow for stream. #agree Have talks recorded and play talks according to schedule. Presenters to be present for live Q&A. #topic Moderators #Info I’m still trying to figure out the tool. It would be good to have more moderators to introduce the talk. #info Volunteers should contact ddemaio #topic Sponsors #info SUSE and Fedora are sponsors. #info Sponsors package updated and prices decreased #link https://en.opensuse.org/images/4/42/OpenSUSE_Conference_2021_Sponsorship.pdf #topic T-Shirts #Info We will be sending out a t-shirt ordered from a sub-website freewear.org #info IMPORTANT - For some depending on the country the t-shirt is going to, you may have to pay a customs/import charge. If you don't pay the fees, Customs will proceed to destroy the shipping. openSUSE will still be charged the t-shirt and the shipping cost. Please don’t order a t-shirt if you don’t plan on paying a customs fee should you have to. #link (not up yet) https://www.freewear.org/oSVC/ #topic Volunteer Team #info If you want to volunteer to help with the conference, please email ddemaio(a)opensuse.org <mailto:ddemaio@opensuse.org> with the subject “oSC21 Volunteer Team” #topic Social media posts #info If you submit a talk for the openSUSE Conference, please post it to social media and tag @openSUSE #info posts can be developed once the talks have been approved and the schedule complete.

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marketing workgroup and social media posts
by ddemaio 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi all, I wanted to send this info out after our marketing meeting yesterday. We are pretty close to finalizing the release announcement and plan on sending out in a couple weeks for translations. We will have another marketing meeting on April 14at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing <https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing> At that meeting, we hope to finalize the announcement and start working on the social media launch plan. If you have ideas for social media post for the release of Leap 15.3, please go ahead and add them tohttps://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_planThere is no need to wait until April 14. We'll discuss what we have an come up with more during the meeting. Also please consider contributing to the https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.3 page. It is shaping up pretty good and I want to thank those who have already helped to develop the content. Have a great day. v/r Doug

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