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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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Leap Marketing and sprint
by ddemaio 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Hi all, I'm just sending out a reminder that we will have a Leap marketing meeting in about an hour at 18:00 UTC onhttps://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing. Ideas are being collected athttps://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg Also, tomorrow (04.03), we will have a spring at 18:30 UTC to focus on websites (some other things perhaps), which you can join athttps://meet.opensuse.org/websprints. We're tracking that info athttps://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints v/r Doug

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No torrent file for Leap 15.3 Beta
by Ish Sookun 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Folks, There are no .torrent files for the offline and network images at https://get.opensuse.org/testing. If we do not have torrent files during the beta phase, we should remove the links. I can remove them from https://github.com/openSUSE/get-o-o/blob/main/_data/153.yml and submit a pull request. Should I proceed? Regards, Ish Sookun

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Call for Papers Open for openSUSE Conference
by ddemaio 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Hi all, The article for this is about to be published on https://news.opensuse.org/ The call for papers is open! The call for papers is open until May 4. The dates of the conference are scheduled for June 18 - 20. Please go to https://events.opensuse.org/ to register. Presentations can be submitted for the following length of time: * Lightning Talks (15 mins) * Normal Talk (30 mins) * Long Talk (45 mins) * Workshop (1 hour) The following tracks are listed for the conference: * Cloud and Containers * Community * Embedded Systems and Edge Computing * New Technologies * Open Source * openSUSE

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Leap's yin to SLE's yang
by ddemaio 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi again. A good symbol to go along with the release of openSUSE Leap 15.3 I believe is the yin and yang. I propose that artwork to market this release show the symbiotic relationship of Leap and SLE with a yin yang design. The imagery should help with the marketing. I put the topic in the marketing work group notes - https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg. If you have any designs you want to share or other ideas on this topic, I'd love to read it. v/r Doug

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Marketing work group for Leap 15.3
by ddemaio 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi all, A few of us plan to meet on March 3 at 18:00 UTC for a marketing work group for openSUSE Leap 15.3. We will be doing the work group onhttps://meet.opensuse.org/153marketing We want to make this a regular thing leading up to the release. We will start to work on the release announcement athttps://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153release We are collecting ideas at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/153wg, so feel free to add some of your ideas for the marketing of the release and please join us if you are able to. v/r Doug

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Marketing work group for Leap 15.3
by ddemaio 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

HI all, One of the topics that came out of our recent meetup was doing a marketing work group for openSUSE Leap 15.3. If you ware interested, please reply. We'll have to find a time that will fit everyone's schedule or we can break it up into two groups so we get different ideas from both. I was thinking a 30 minute meeting every other week. Does anyone else have a different idea? I started this on https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/88421 v/r Doug

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