- openSUSE Marketing

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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openSUSE Sprint Thursday June 10
by ddemaio 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

Hi all, Our monthly Thursday sprint that was scheduled for June 3 at 18:30 UTC has been moved to tomorrow, June 10, at the same time. We have moved the meetings to in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. You can view the topics on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints v/r Doug

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openSUSE Sprint Thursday May 6
by ddemaio 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi all, Our monthly Thursday sprint was scheduled for June 3 at 18:30 UTC. For some, that day is a holiday. I am uncertain of whether to cancel the meeting this month because of this. If only have the people might show up, it might make sense to postpone or cancel it. Let me know what you all think. Should we cancel, postpone or go on with the meeting? The meetings will now take place later in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. v/r Doug

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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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