July 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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openSUSE Sprint on Thursday, August 5
by ddemaio 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Hi all, Our monthly Thursday sprint is scheduled for August 5 at 18:30 UTC. If you plan on attending, let me know. Otherwise I will cancel this months meeting since I'll be on holiday. I will only attend the meeting if I know people will attend. I recommend we move the meeting location to https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting if w do have a meeting. v/r Doug

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Need a hand, geekos?
by Nenad Latinović 19 Jul '21

19 Jul '21

Hi there, geekos, It's been a while. I used to be a part of the openSUSE marketing team some 7 or 8 years ago, mostly writing about the project for the openSUSE news, and yes, also the Commandline Tuesdays https://en.opensuse.org/Command_Line_Tuesdays series. I was known as holden87 back then. Many years have passed, and nowadays I am a father, and professionally doing SEO in a digital agency after a longer stint in tourism marketing. I am also learning how to code, just sent out my first Hello world a couple of days ago :) I returned to Linux a couple of months ago, as I was finally in a state where all my tools were working on it. And yes, my only true love, the geeko :) Aynway, if there's anyone doing any marketing-related work and you need a hand, count me in. What I can do: - offer a little time daily or couple of times a week - do search engine friendly-copy (truly user friendly copy is usually friendly for search engines) - participate in the community discussions - help around with docs and such - SEO-related stuff, should you need it/want it What I want to gain from this: - help the project thrive, as I like it - gain knowledge in developer-relations - gain experience in evangelizing to a technical crowd as a sort of tech-liaison - grow the geeko If there's a strategy you guys have built, please let me know, so I can see how to help out. If not, I can help build one as that is my forte. As we used to say - have a lot of fun :) -- Nenad Latinović nenad(a)latinovic.si

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openSUSE Sprint on Thursday, July 1
by ddemaio 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hi all, Our monthly Thursday sprint is scheduled for July 1 at 18:30 UTC. We have moved the meetings to in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. The plan is to go over the various topics listed on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints and revisit topics we've gone over in the past months. Feel free to add a topic. v/r Doug

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