[opensuse-marketing] MKTG: Helping Hands Project
I'm very excited to inform you of several initiatives launched by the openSUSE-GNOME Team to promote openSUSE 11.0 and grow our community. The GNOME Team feels this is an excellent project to work with the Marketing Team on and your feedback and assistance in marketing will be greatly appreciated. 1) To Inspire and Suggest: One thing we want to do is write more articles, HowTos and other efforts to float about on the Internet. We recognize that there are usually two problems that exist. a) Someone wants to write an article but has no idea what to write about and b) Someone has an idea but no time to write (or can't write) To that effect, we have created a new wiki page for the submission and exchange of ideas. http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Topics_To_Write. Any suggestions on expanding or tweaking this would be greatly appreciated. 2) Helping Hands Project - This idea was inspired by Captain_Magnus and myself. Oftentimes, when visiting an IRC Channel or attending a meeting, the chatter is too technical. This scares away new users who may not consider themselves techies but genuinely want to learn about openSUSE and how to use it as a regular joe user. Sadly, after several weeks after a distro is released, these users tend to stop using openSUSE. Once people have decided to try openSUSE, we want them to STAY with us. :-) Helping Hands is a series of live discussions by experts in various areas of openSUSE GNOME and applications that run on GNOME. We hope this becomes a weekly event. For one hour, an expert will present on his/her topic of choice and answer questions from users. Eventually, while this is clearly GNOME-centric at this time, I hope to see this program expand to other areas of openSUSE, including KDE, CLI, etc. What a great way to grow our openSUSE family! Once we're ready to go in about two weeks, I hope we, the Marketing Team, can work together to spread the word. We want users to visit us and experts to volunteer their time. It is only an hour of their time and a great way for them to promote their project. As I am the coordinator of this project, I could really use your help in finding ways to make this an even better and sharper marketing tool for openSUSE. http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos -- ---Bryen--- Let's rejoice a "There are no dumb questions" culture. But I really need you to have a "No dumb answers" policy before I answer your question. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hi Bryan,
I'm very excited to inform you of several initiatives launched by the openSUSE-GNOME Team to promote openSUSE 11.0 and grow our community. The GNOME Team feels this is an excellent project to work with the Marketing Team on and your feedback and assistance in marketing will be greatly appreciated.
I'm excited to be informed! :-)
1) To Inspire and Suggest: One thing we want to do is write more articles, HowTos and other efforts to float about on the Internet. We recognize that there are usually two problems that exist. a) Someone wants to write an article but has no idea what to write about and b) Someone has an idea but no time to write (or can't write)
To that effect, we have created a new wiki page for the submission and exchange of ideas. http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Topics_To_Write. Any suggestions on expanding or tweaking this would be greatly appreciated.
I'd like to see a push for articles for other areas of openSUSE as well. For GNOME specifically, I think a "adapting to GNOME" for soon-to-be former Windows users would be a great help. If you're used to Windows, how do you: Add a printer Install software Add a user Configure sound Modify the look of the desktop etc.
Helping Hands is a series of live discussions by experts in various areas of openSUSE GNOME and applications that run on GNOME. We hope this becomes a weekly event. For one hour, an expert will present on his/her topic of choice and answer questions from users.
Great idea -- we need to publicize these pretty heavily. The Ubuntu folks have done pretty well with their "open weeks" or whatever -- we might want to think about organizing something like that very soon after 11.0.
Eventually, while this is clearly GNOME-centric at this time, I hope to see this program expand to other areas of openSUSE, including KDE, CLI, etc. What a great way to grow our openSUSE family!
I'd be happy to do a Vim session ;-)
Once we're ready to go in about two weeks, I hope we, the Marketing Team, can work together to spread the word. We want users to visit us and experts to volunteer their time. It is only an hour of their time and a great way for them to promote their project.
As I am the coordinator of this project, I could really use your help in finding ways to make this an even better and sharper marketing tool for openSUSE.
When you have the schedule and whatnot in place, we can start promoting it. I'd put the word out on opensuse-announce, news.o.o (well enough in advance to make it in openSUSE Weekly News for at least one week) and also promote it to any publications likely to run an announcement. (Might also invite a couple of friendly community journalists to attend and see if they might write or blog about it) Any other ideas how the Helping Hands project might reach more users? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 08:49 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi Bryan,
Helping Hands is a series of live discussions by experts in various areas of openSUSE GNOME and applications that run on GNOME. We hope this becomes a weekly event. For one hour, an expert will present on his/her topic of choice and answer questions from users.
Great idea -- we need to publicize these pretty heavily.
The Ubuntu folks have done pretty well with their "open weeks" or whatever -- we might want to think about organizing something like that very soon after 11.0.
Eventually, while this is clearly GNOME-centric at this time, I hope to see this program expand to other areas of openSUSE, including KDE, CLI, etc. What a great way to grow our openSUSE family!
I'd be happy to do a Vim session ;-)
Once we're ready to go in about two weeks, I hope we, the Marketing Team, can work together to spread the word. We want users to visit us and experts to volunteer their time. It is only an hour of their time and a great way for them to promote their project.
As I am the coordinator of this project, I could really use your help in finding ways to make this an even better and sharper marketing tool for openSUSE.
When you have the schedule and whatnot in place, we can start promoting it. I'd put the word out on opensuse-announce, news.o.o (well enough in advance to make it in openSUSE Weekly News for at least one week) and also promote it to any publications likely to run an announcement.
(Might also invite a couple of friendly community journalists to attend and see if they might write or blog about it)
Any other ideas how the Helping Hands project might reach more users?
Best,
Zonker
Eventually, I envision a system where Helping Hands has a more top-level role in openSUSE. Each section would manage its own Helping Hands program, because obviously each section knows its users better. Each would manage its own schedule. But at the top, it would be more globally coordinated to ensure all Helping Hands "chapters", if you will, be adequately publicized and unified. I'd be happy to work on setting that up, if there is a global interest expressed. Getting new users and KEEPING them is the cornerstone of a great distribution, in my opinion. As soon as a schedule is determined this week, I'll let you all know about it. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Bryen wrote:
Eventually, I envision a system where Helping Hands has a more top-level role in openSUSE. Each section would manage its own Helping Hands program, because obviously each section knows its users better. Each would manage its own schedule. But at the top, it would be more globally coordinated to ensure all Helping Hands "chapters", if you will, be adequately publicized and unified.
Sounds like a very good idea.
I'd be happy to work on setting that up, if there is a global interest expressed. Getting new users and KEEPING them is the cornerstone of a great distribution, in my opinion.
Absolutely. It makes no sense to spend a lot of time discussing how to reach out to new users if we have no idea how to keep them involved after their first use of the system.
As soon as a schedule is determined this week, I'll let you all know about it.
Thanks! Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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