Dear All, It has been a while since I gave some insight of whats new at NUI.fr The more and more I think at it, I reckon than to make a report of an event every month, it does necessitate opening the report template, but most of us would attempt to complete these reports from work and even from a smartphone while travelling. I therefore propose a form and a box for free writing and here you go! This form can be programmed to be emailed automatically to the mailing list. A login would be preferable in order to avoid spam. Since my last report, we kept the monthly event jmll.fr and we noticed that the madding crowd was getting thinner over the months! The question is why? And analyzing who came, why they came and from where they came, the answer was economics. What has economics got to do with openSUSE, open source et al? Well, the municipality rents a room to NUI.fr on a yearly basis, we do keep most material there, and we only take home our brand new laptops, those that we use daily. These premises are located in *the* commercial center of the city and the metro station is adjacent together with a huge parking (not free). We chose this venue because of the number of visitors of commercial center and the practical meeting place for everybody. Many a time (in the past) we found men coming to our venue while their wives went shopping. There has also been cases where men went shopping and left their wives with us in order to better their IT skills. For the last months, with the ongoing recession, people started to avoid the commercial centre and obviously the events hosted in the municipality premises are getting thinner. Other activities held there are: yoga, dancing, photography, chess, embroidery, crafting and around 40 more. The leaders of these other clubs also complain on the number of their visitors. The figures are fractions of what we used to get. 17-déc 2011 = 8 14 JAN 2012 = 6 18 FEV 2012 = 11 We also have staff from mediawiki on board with us now. It would appear that Windows 7 is a good vintage and that people are *not* looking for a substitute. We have two appointments for the next venue i.e. 17th March next: A woman wants to shrink her Windows partition and increase her Linux partition. Another woman left her computer for an erase and a clean install of openSUSE. We do have loads of places where we do our advertising and marketing, including radio, newspaper, FB, twitter, etc. This does not seem to be seen, viewed and heard by the whole population. We are not aiming at a geeks only venue... Anyway, apart from the usual monthly venues, we are also having the yearly RSSIL in Maubeuge the 2nd and 3rd June and RMLL in Geneva 7th 12th July and Software Freedom Day 15th September. I have changed work and is in another bank, they use SUSE there, I need to lure them to openSUSE... Lets get the ball running and stay positive! Keep up the good job and rest assured of my fullest attention and services at all times. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org