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conference 2024: openSUSE social media/marketing
by Tobias Görgens 30 Jun '24

30 Jun '24

Hi there, I've said that I would like to manage openSUSE social media stuff (e.g. announcing member of the month, announcing birthdays etc) What I need: - list of active people (with birthdays/email address) - access to existing openSUSE accounts - ...

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Discussions from oSC24 Branding workshop
by Simon Lees 29 Jun '24

29 Jun '24

Hi all, For those not at the openSUSE Conference yesterday we had a marketing brainstorming session. The full notes are at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/oSC24branding One of the things we discussed was going back to using this list as the primary place for discussion of marketing branding issues. With that in mind below I will post the full discussion feel free to split out parts and reply to them in order to continue the discussion. There are also some github issues mentioned if discussion does move there for certain issues (such as the website) it would be great to post a heads up here as well so the wider group is aware. === Feedback from the naming talk / discussion === Struggle to keep people in a marketing team. Users are there for specific reasons "Using openSUSE" has to many meanings Messaging about contributions should be clear An opportunity with 20 years and using that to distinguish ourselves further Have the opportunity to establish the identity in a more of a self-identity Create as a positive message Nothing is changing in within these seperate projects "We are a project from this "umbrella" project" Explore the scope a bit. Repeated overhead/tasks might not be in the interests of the project. I.E. - Repeating websites, some other items Trying to communicate the diffentciation better - how do they coincide with one another Clear messaging Consistency Changing the brands of the distributions (if the project's name is changed) could be the time to do it. At the same time given the other changes we shouldn't try and rename tumbleweed / leap etc otherwise we will loose all recognition The board will help initiate the discussions going forward working with SUSE. === How do we build a new community around branding? === * We don't have enough people can we make this clearer * We should elevate someone who does artwork to the same level as say a package manantainer * Can we find social media managers again? * Run a call for members again focused on non code contributions, now that officials and rules have changed (Board Todo). * We should highlight active members to all parts of our community, (Board, create a starting list of people to highlight), can we federate it out and get people to do it. AI. Tobias Görgens * Big badge on the website for doing XYZ * Create a marketing team wiki page or fix (https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_team) https://de.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_Team === Other topics === Wiki clean up sprint. Add / Create / Publisise schedule on some form of callender. So that we know when to start working on flyers. Discussions about the new website: https://github.com/openSUSE/www-o-o/issues https://www-test.opensuse.org/ Marking mailing list for official communications. https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.opensuse.org/ -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

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Ruby Unconf Sponsoring
by Jan Zaydowicz 24 May '23

24 May '23

Dear openSUSE Team, we are a small group of Ruby enthusiasts organizing a Ruby Unconference in Hamburg Coming back after a long pause due to covid. This year on 10th-11th June the Ruby Unconf 2023 is back! We are currently looking for sponsors to support us in making it happen. After 2018 I would love to welcome you as a sponsor of the Unconf again. All Information about sponsoring and the available Option can be found in this PDF <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l9KVDwe2HM57GTyM8tD6OEsPHlsBV9Ss/view> or on our website <https://2023.rubyunconf.eu/#sponsoring>. Please let me know if you are interested. Greetings from Hamburg Jan Zaydowicz Ruby Usergroup Hamburg & Ruby Unconf Hamburg organizer Digital sustainability is important to us, which is why we use links instead of attachments when sharing documents to avoid double storage and to reduce our carbon footprint.

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Translations for openSUSE Leap 15.5 Release Announcement & Image for Release
by ddemaio openSUSE 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi everyone, I have placed the release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.5 on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.5 It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language to help for this news to be released in different languages. Currently it is only in English. Feel free to link your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code language code. We recently discussed the use of translations tool. Please make sure you give the translations a thorough read through in the translated language should you use decide to use some of these tools we discussed[1] If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, if you want to design some sort of image to go along with the release of Leap 15.5, please write me or chat on the marketing telegram at https://t.me/openSUSE_Marketing. Have a wonderful weekend. v/r Doug [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/translation@lists.opensuse.org/thr…

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ALP Marketing Discussion at Community Meeting: Week 35
by ddemaio 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Hi all. On Thursday's meeting (Thursday at 19:00 UTC), we will go over plans for marketing for ALP. Trying to get an idea about how we want people to talk about ALP. We'll discuss it and see what type of narrative we can develop for it. We will also go over the asknot-ng ymls. The meeting will be in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting You can view the meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting. v/r Doug

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Leap 15.4 retro feedback is due to tomorrow night
by Lubos Kocman 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

Hello openSUSE! The Leap 15.4 retrospective survey is still open until 22.06.2022 at 23:59 UTC. You can access the survey at survey.opensuse.org. If you downloaded Leap 15.4, please make sure to give us feedback. It will not take more than 2 minutes as the survey has only two questions. We have not received even half of the responses that we have received for 15.3. The openSUSE release team would highly appreciate any sharing or advertisement. Thank you Lubos

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Re: Threat to privacy by preinstalled operating systems
by Lubos Kocman 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

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/ > -- Best regards Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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Help with Leap 15.4 wallpaper needed
by Lubos Kocman 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Hello openSUSE marketing team I'd like to ask you for a help with refreshed Leap 15.4 wallpaper. Original plan that we've communicated on the community meeting was that SUSE Branding team will provide us wallpapers with SLES look and feel, but that idea seem to have faded, as team is not able to deliver it in our Beta timeframe. But that opens a new door to us. I'd like to ask you for a help to make a call for refreshed Leap 15.4 wallpapers. Ideally the wallpaper should reflect the transformation that has happened to Leap over past two years (Closing the Leap Gap), where Leap is now combination of SLES rpms and Community rpms. I personally like to refer to this as a bridge in between Community and Enterprise. But any ideas are welcome :-) Any ideas for campaign that could be driven by the openSUSE marketing team? Ideal deadline to have the wallpaper would be the Leap 15.4 Beta code submission deadline is February 16th which leaves is with bit more than a month. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap Let's collaborate in https://github.com/openSUSE/branding/issues/132 Thank you! -- Best regards Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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Please help with advertising Leap 15.3 QU1 refresh
by Lubos Kocman 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Hello openSUSE marketing team! may I ask you for a help with advertisment of Leap 15.3 Quarterly Update 1 (install image) refresh? This is what we have so far (to my knowledge). Any help is very welcome! Thank you Original annoucement: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/… Reddit repost: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/qkcnj1/opensuse_leap_153_quarter… Retweet under openSUSE: https://twitter.com/lkocman/status/1455147404794204165?s=20 Twitter has still pinned original teaser (does anybody know how to update it?) https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1448583800997416963?s=20 Teaser blog post https://news.opensuse.org/2021/10/14/respin-of-os-leap-images-are-coming/ Lubos

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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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