Hi Beau, Thank you for emailing the marketing mailing list. Thank you for your willingness to help out. You are correct, the marketing meetings stopped a long time ago - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting Overall, most of the marketing is done by people in the community who take it upon themselves to support and help the project at events globally. I'm the point of contact for ordering and sending out the marketing material. Of course the marketing topics can be discussed in greater detail on the mailing lists and I try my best to get the community what they need for events. Sometimes this can be rather challenging with sending items across boarders given all the difference regulations and policies of governments. We lean toward not having committees, meeting, etc. like other projects and focus more on expanding the awareness of openSUSE and all the things you can do with the distributions and tools. Progress is happening, but since openSUSE is really a project full of projects, it can be quite challenging to get the correct message. Sometimes what might appear like an ununified marketing approach is actually intentional because we have projects that we believe should not have a strong openSUSE branding like http://port.us.org, http://machinery-project.org or https://www.uyuni-project.org. You might have noticed subtle changes taking place like software.o.o., opensuse.org, and the wiki all moving toward a branded look. Of course there are many other things to marketing and I think that we could improve on having some stock graphics for new releases and other topics like we did with https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/clear-748x1024.png. Something for beginners like what GNOME has with https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/ and https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/ could be useful for the project. Of course, anyone is free to start this on their own initiative. I noticed your mention of metrics just this past weekend there was a post on the openSUSE factory mailing list regarding the metrics - https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-06/msg00271.html. You can find the metrics at http://metrics.opensuse.org. Thank you for your thoughts and I would certainly like to read more about any ideas you might have for expanding openSUSE's marketing efforts. v/r Doug On 06/25/2018 06:28 AM, Beau Mathieson wrote:
Greetings,
I would like to introduce myself. I am an open-source enthusiast located in Australia and who in the past contributed to the Fedora marketing team, asides from that, I am a student currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Wollongong. I tend to change my distributions every year or so from Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE, however I decided to stick with OpenSUSE and thought I would contribute back to the community. From the communications I have observed though mailing archives, I have noted a noticeable lack of direction in marketing strategies, a lack of team communication thought meetings (as observed by the Meeting page) and a majority of the resources and priorities are dated. These issues, in which I have identified will and presumably have had an impact on the projects growth (measured by new adopters) and overall consumer engagement. While there is some engagement between contributors, event attendees, etc. If we consider the metrics, that would account from a modest portion of our user base. I personally want to see OpenSUSE grow as I am sure many of you do. I would love to hear what some of you think about these issues or perhaps others in which I have not identified, so please comment. I look forward to working with you all.
Kind regards,
Beau Mathieson.
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