September 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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announcement of new spanish forum
by victorhck 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

Hello listmates! Since April 2021 the official Spanish forum for openSUSE (forosuse.org since was outside openSUSE infra) was offline due technichal issues (vBulletin version, PHP, hosting issues, etc) The current moderators were waiting since then for the Admin to fix this issues (also we provided help or support with that), but we didn't get news about the process. So we decided to ask help and a place in forums.o.o infra. Malcom Lewis and Jim Henderson have done the best and now, we have a spanish forum inside openSUSE infra, great!! :) (but still is not available for everyone) I want to ask if a text as anouncement (available in etherpad.o.o¹) of the new "release" of spanish forum inside forums.o.o written by mods can be published in news.o.o? But, we don't have a date which spanish forum will be open for everyone. If the text fits in news.o.o when we have the final date I can share here to publish the text... Kind regards. [1] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/RoqXd3sdDfxYMLj_IOl_ -- ------------------- GPG Key: 0xcc742e8dc9b7e22a Fingerprint = 6FE2 3B1F AAC8 E5B7 63EA 88A9 CC74 2E8D C9B7 E22A Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ Mi blog sobre openSUSE, GNU/Linux y software libre: https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/ Herramientas para proteger tu privacidad https://victorhck.gitlab.io/privacytools-es/

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Hacktoberfest
by ddemaio 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Hi all, Last year we participated in Hacktoberfest, which is an event run by Digital Ocean and DEV that encourages people to make their first contributions to open source projects. The event is a month away and it would be ideal to have a few projects within openSUSE host an event. Whether it is an event to teach people about a project, teach someone how to maintain a package or just a class abou improving documentation, any contribution will help. There is a page about Hacktoberfest on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/hacktoberfest2021 where you can list your ideas. I'll put the topic on the list for our community meetings so we can discuss it later today and next week. Get more info about Hacktoberfest at, https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com. v/r Doug

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