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
Hello
I personally think that this is a concern that should be also shared
with our marketing team looping them in.
We probably need to advertise server, edge stories bit more in our
annoucements. There will be a bit more EDGE advertisment in Micro
related articles.
Thank you for raising the concern
Sasi Olin píše v Po 14. 03. 2022 v 15:48 +0100:
> On Mo, Mär 14 2022 at 15:30:52 +0100, Richard Brown <rbrown(a)suse.de>
> wrote:
> > Maybe the laptop being the only computer you can see on
> > www.opensuse.org?
> >
> > Maybe because the Tumbleweed description mentions desktops and
> > office
> > applications but no obvious server/cloud/edge/embedded use cases?
> > (Samba and git straddle multiple realms).
> >
> > Maybe because the Leap description only mentions 'pick your
> > desktop...'
> >
> > Maybe because news articles like
> > https://news.opensuse.org/2022/03/02/leap-reaches-beta-build-phase/
> > emphasise Plasma, GNOME, Enlightenment, but don't mention a single
> > use
> > case besides desktop, and asks users to test it on " on multiple
> > laptops, workstations and other hardware devices"
> >
> > Conciously or not, I'd say openSUSE has a desktop bias problem that
> > it
> > needs to address, especially when it comes to how we talk about
> > ourselves.
>
> I hope you will be glad to learn I'm trying my best to make both
> get-o-o and www-o-o (which has been in the works for 3 years and
> isn't
> really expected to be finished anytime soon) appeal to a wider set of
> audiences than just desktop users (while also making it easier for
> the
> specific audiences to find their way around the project).
>
> The thing that stops me the most is that I'm not a copy writer and I
> can't come up with good text to market everything about the projects
> and its output well at all, I got plenty of help from others in this
> area already, and so things are moving at a faster pace, but this
> seems
> to be a general issue with our websites, text is kind of a mess and
> people don't understand things we try to communicate.
>
> Finding out anything about the project, the distros is a matter of
> asking a lot of questions to the community on communication platforms
> instead it seems, which we are frankly happy to answer, but not
> everyone will ask before they just give up after trying to look it up
> for themselves.
>
> Also Richard, I hope I don't have to state the obvious, but I did not
> see any bug reports/issues on the subject of the websites targeting
> desktop more. I really wish I could read y'alls' minds, so I knew how
> to please you in what our messaging on the core websites is, but I
> can't do it no matter how hard I try.
>
> LCP [Sasi]
> https://lcp.world/
>
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Best regards
Lubos Kocman
openSUSE Leap Release Manager
