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openSUSE Sprint Thursday May 6
by ddemaio 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hi all, Our next sprint is this Thursday May 6 at 18:30 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/websprints. You can view what was discussed in the running log of topics on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints and . Please join us 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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March 31 Marketing work group for Leap 15.3 and April 1 sprint
by ddemaio 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Hi all, As a reminder, we will have our next marketing group meeting on March 31 at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing The local times for some people might have changed since daylight savings. We will work on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153release and look at the topics on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg Our next sprint is on April 1 at 18:30 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/websprints. You can view what was discussed in the running log of topics on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints v/r Doug

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Re: Leap's yin to SLE's yang
by Gerald Pfeifer 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

On Wed 2021-02-24, Aaron Burgemeister wrote: > Yin and yang are more about opposites (dualism) than anything judgmental > (good and evil), or that is my understanding. That's also the image I had in mind: two elements intertwined, engaging with one another, complementing each other. > Anyway, I think there could be some value in this (yin/yang) comparison, > but there may also be some drawbacks to consider while moving forward. When I talked to a journalist a week ago, without ever talking about yin and yang, though admittedly using my hands to help articulate the dynamics, she asked me about yin and yang. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/open-source/opensuse-leap-ready-be-new-… has the article that came out of that. It also has a graphics that a colleague with much better design skills than me created based on a paper and pencil sketch of mine. And that, too, has a bit of that. > One feeds into the other, and in the same way I believe Tumbleweed > feeds into Leap, so I have typically appreciated (as somebody who has > been around SUSE for a while, so not a newbie in that regard) more > of a continuum of Tumbleweed -> Leap -> SLE, which can celebrate the > fun/excitement/newness of Tumbleweed, the practicality of Leap, and > the stability of SLE without passing much other judgment. If you aren't part of that yet, please consider joining the openSUSE marketing team! (Seriously.) On Wed 2021-02-24, ddemaio wrote: > Perhaps the title was not the best, but it was more about getting > attention. It worked. And it resonates. The only pitful would be labeling one explicitly as yin, the other as yang (or anything good-bad or black- white, which of course the classic symbol is). Gerald

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