On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Kim Leyendecker <kimleyendecker@hotmail.de> wrote:
11.4 is out, and I think it´s time for post-release marketing now! Maybe with this idea:
We can ask our users, to make a screenshot of their desktops and load up it to Facebook, Flickr or their server and send us the link. We can collect the photos and create a little "our user´s desktop show" with the screenshots.
Awesome!
*What´s the sense of this idea?* We will see, how many are using 11.4 already. And we will show our users, that openSUSE is _their_ distro too. It´s a good chance to make openSUSE more personal to our users.
*How we want to collect the pictures?* As I think today, we can use Facebook. The user upload the photo and post it to our profile. Also we can use planet openSUSE for that. Somebody blog about it, and the user post their desktops as a comment.
How do you expect them to send the link? We need a way to gather the links easily... a nice webform somewhere, preferably to be integrated in a news.o.o story... Who has an idea or way to do this? Yes, I think we should do a news.o.o story on this, including that input box. Then we need to gather the screen shots automatically and have a way to show them. Possible solution for all the above: - we can simply say: use flickr. These days, even I use it (didn't want to create an account earlier) because it has openID support. Then we tell them to use a certain tag, eg #openSUSE114screenshot. Then we have on news.opensuse.org and/or in other places a flickr widget showing these screen shots. This is simple and doable by us. But I would love to hear an idea (and willingness to put the work in) on a better solution which is ALSO doable by us :D
*What the f*ck to do with the pictures?* At first, we have to make clear, that the project is allowed to use the pics for marketing. We´ve got the advantage, that we have _free_ marketing stuff. But the real thing behind this is that we have a (hopefully huge) gallery with our user´s desktop.
*Why that all?* Because the user will think: openSUSE is my Linux! It makes the distro more personal (User: Darling, look, their´s my desktop! And their´s the desktop of our neighbours. And look their! Their´s the desktop of uncle Ronald from Alabama!) Another aspect is, that the user maybe see some nice desktops and get ideas of style his own.
I also think it's simply a cool thing to do. Nice news.o.o article etc etc. And in the way I described (flickr tag & flickr widget) we can easily do it. Kim, you up for writing a draft news.o.o article in case nobody has a better way of doing it? Then we'll just go and do it :D
Hope you will like it! If you still have some questions, don´t be afraid to ask ;)
thanks
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