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Bryen

14 May 2009 14 May '09

03:22

Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth. We also agreed that we would like to continue the discussion this Friday in a second Community Week session and ensure it is at a time that is accessible for the EMEA and APAC regions. In fact, we most definitely would like to ensure APAC representation at this session. We're in agreement that folks like Sartoru and Vavai would be great for offering insight into the APAC regions. So, we're putting the question to you all... What time would be most effective for everyone to join in a discussion in #opensuse-marketing? I'm willing to get up earlier in my daytime to make sure this happens for you all. Would 10:00 UTC be good for you all? Or earlier? Please let us know ASAP so we can announce a time. So, what did we talk about? 1) Facebook It is clear that we need to address the growing presence of openSUSE supporters on Facebook. There are approximately 4,500 supporters spread out across two groups. And in our opinion, they're neglected and a valuable pool of supporters that we need to bridge. What's also interesting about the Facebook group members is that there seems to be a strong presence of U.S. people. Something we lack presence in most other areas of openSUSE Community. 2) Digg We would like to set up a monthly Digg party where we gather up good and useful articles and everyone diggs those articles. If we can find a method to spread the word to digg a list of articles (not just any openSUSE articles, but good and relevant ones) then we can boost our presence on the web and in google searches. 3) Wiki I will be creating a wiki page that will gather all this information in the next day before our next meeting. 4) Blogging tips We will create a new page that provides advice to our community for how to increase traffic to their sites. Effective plugins that help, tips and tricks, information about SEO, etc. This one could be a bit of a challenge and anyone who has ideas about SEO, please step up and offer your advice. 5) Other areas to look into: Twitter, Laconica/identi.ca, dzone.com, LinkedIn. Any others to suggest? What about social networking services in non-English speaking regions? What can we tap into there? And should we appoint a "guru" for each of the different services? Someone who can study and understand and provide guidance to the rest of the marketing team about a particular service? It is very difficult for any one of us to become experts on all services, but if we divide and conquer :-), we could cover a lot more ground. Looking forward to hearing back from you all and getting to a meeting on Friday! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

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Satoru Matsumoto

14 May 14 May

15:39

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We also agreed that we would like to continue the discussion this Friday in a second Community Week session and ensure it is at a time that is accessible for the EMEA and APAC regions. In fact, we most definitely would like to ensure APAC representation at this session. We're in agreement that folks like Sartoru and Vavai would be great for offering insight into the APAC regions.

So, we're putting the question to you all... What time would be most effective for everyone to join in a discussion in #opensuse-marketing? I'm willing to get up earlier in my daytime to make sure this happens for you all. Would 10:00 UTC be good for you all? Or earlier? Please let us know ASAP so we can announce a time.

As I mentioned in my reply to Zonker's post, for me though, 10:00 UTC is a little bit early. If it will be on Friday, I think I can join the meeting at any time within 12:00 - 22:00 UTC (21:00 Fri. - 07:00 Sat. JST, our local time) because I don't have any schedule for Saturday morning, so that I can be a nighthawk Friday night. ;-) Best, - -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEUEARECAAYFAkoMOzwACgkQXnHIfHE6+z2jdwCXdPivVyuiMyxt/KGc7/NkzS8C hQCeLx5q1Ctoc/Poir2Hj9nTOswGcH0= =WF/i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

15:56

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Bryen wrote:

...

Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth.

[snip]

...

So, what did we talk about?

1) Facebook It is clear that we need to address the growing presence of openSUSE supporters on Facebook. There are approximately 4,500 supporters spread out across two groups. And in our opinion, they're neglected and a valuable pool of supporters that we need to bridge.

What's also interesting about the Facebook group members is that there seems to be a strong presence of U.S. people. Something we lack presence in most other areas of openSUSE Community.

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't plan to join. I know it's popular, and I know it's a much more "flexible" platform than most, but I am spending so much time on line now that I don't have the bandwidth to give to Facebook. I *am* on LinkedIn and Twitter, and intend to stay there.

...

2) Digg We would like to set up a monthly Digg party where we gather up good and useful articles and everyone diggs those articles. If we can find a method to spread the word to digg a list of articles (not just any openSUSE articles, but good and relevant ones) then we can boost our presence on the web and in google searches.

So can everyone else. :) The "action" at the moment seems to have moved away from "traditional" social media like Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, RSS feeds / readers, etc., to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. I hang out with social media marketing types and there is plenty of free advice on how to use the tools. What's most important is that you *first* establish metrics, goals, campaigns, adoption funnels, key performance indicators, etc. for the openSUSE web sites. Once you have that, you can measure the effect of campaigns in Digg, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. in real time. It's part art and part science. So what *are* the goals of openSUSE marketing in general and the web sites specifically?

...

4) Blogging tips We will create a new page that provides advice to our community for how to increase traffic to their sites. Effective plugins that help, tips and tricks, information about SEO, etc. This one could be a bit of a challenge and anyone who has ideas about SEO, please step up and offer your advice.

I am just learning this stuff, but I can find you people who have this in their blood. :) Having Zonker on ZDNet is a big win. :)

...

5) Other areas to look into: Twitter, Laconica/identi.ca, dzone.com, LinkedIn. Any others to suggest? What about social networking services in non-English speaking regions? What can we tap into there?

There are new services springing up like weeds, but Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are the big gorillas. Writer time and reader time are finite. I only speak English, so I can't help you there.

...

And should we appoint a "guru" for each of the different services? Someone who can study and understand and provide guidance to the rest of the marketing team about a particular service? It is very difficult for any one of us to become experts on all services, but if we divide and conquer :-), we could cover a lot more ground.

What I would suggest is for one person for each of the three majors -- LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. I think you're going to be severely constrained in availability of people because they either need to have a well-paying day job with a company that allows, or better yet encourages, involvement in open source communities, or is on the payroll of Novell.

...

Looking forward to hearing back from you all and getting to a meeting on Friday!

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community)

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Bryen

16:16

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 08:56 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

...

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Bryen wrote:

...
Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth.

[snip]

...
So, what did we talk about?

1) Facebook It is clear that we need to address the growing presence of openSUSE supporters on Facebook. There are approximately 4,500 supporters spread out across two groups. And in our opinion, they're neglected and a valuable pool of supporters that we need to bridge.

What's also interesting about the Facebook group members is that there seems to be a strong presence of U.S. people. Something we lack presence in most other areas of openSUSE Community.

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't plan to join. I know it's popular, and I know it's a much more "flexible" platform than most, but I am spending so much time on line now that I don't have the bandwidth to give to Facebook. I *am* on LinkedIn and Twitter, and intend to stay there.

Then you should come to our meeting and give your thoughts on the tools you do use. No matter if you're not on Facebook.

...

...
2) Digg We would like to set up a monthly Digg party where we gather up good and useful articles and everyone diggs those articles. If we can find a method to spread the word to digg a list of articles (not just any openSUSE articles, but good and relevant ones) then we can boost our presence on the web and in google searches.

So can everyone else. :) The "action" at the moment seems to have moved away from "traditional" social media like Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, RSS feeds / readers, etc., to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. I hang out with social media marketing types and there is plenty of free advice on how to use the tools.

What's most important is that you *first* establish metrics, goals, campaigns, adoption funnels, key performance indicators, etc. for the openSUSE web sites. Once you have that, you can measure the effect of campaigns in Digg, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. in real time. It's part art and part science.

So what *are* the goals of openSUSE marketing in general and the web sites specifically?

That's a very good point and something we should address in the meeting. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

...

...
4) Blogging tips We will create a new page that provides advice to our community for how to increase traffic to their sites. Effective plugins that help, tips and tricks, information about SEO, etc. This one could be a bit of a challenge and anyone who has ideas about SEO, please step up and offer your advice.

I am just learning this stuff, but I can find you people who have this in their blood. :) Having Zonker on ZDNet is a big win. :)

Having Zonker is always a win-win. But having all of us on all things spreading the word of openSUSE is an even bigger win.

...

...
5) Other areas to look into: Twitter, Laconica/identi.ca, dzone.com, LinkedIn. Any others to suggest? What about social networking services in non-English speaking regions? What can we tap into there?

There are new services springing up like weeds, but Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are the big gorillas. Writer time and reader time are finite. I only speak English, so I can't help you there.

...
And should we appoint a "guru" for each of the different services? Someone who can study and understand and provide guidance to the rest of the marketing team about a particular service? It is very difficult for any one of us to become experts on all services, but if we divide and conquer :-), we could cover a lot more ground.

What I would suggest is for one person for each of the three majors -- LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. I think you're going to be severely constrained in availability of people because they either need to have a well-paying day job with a company that allows, or better yet encourages, involvement in open source communities, or is on the payroll of Novell.

That's what we need to find out, who in our circle knows what.

...

...
Looking forward to hearing back from you all and getting to a meeting on Friday!

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community)

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-- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky

I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Bryen

16:18

Ok judging from what people have replied plus told me on IRC, let's meet at 14:00 UTC. This should make Zonker happy because I think he wants to sleep in tomorrow a bit. :-) So see you all at 14:00 UTC (Zonker, that's 10 a.m. to you) in #opensuse-marketing on the Freenode IRC network. See you all there! On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 11:16 -0500, Bryen wrote:

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On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 08:56 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

...
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Bryen wrote:

...
Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth.

[snip]

...
So, what did we talk about?

1) Facebook It is clear that we need to address the growing presence of openSUSE supporters on Facebook. There are approximately 4,500 supporters spread out across two groups. And in our opinion, they're neglected and a valuable pool of supporters that we need to bridge.

What's also interesting about the Facebook group members is that there seems to be a strong presence of U.S. people. Something we lack presence in most other areas of openSUSE Community.

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't plan to join. I know it's popular, and I know it's a much more "flexible" platform than most, but I am spending so much time on line now that I don't have the bandwidth to give to Facebook. I *am* on LinkedIn and Twitter, and intend to stay there.

Then you should come to our meeting and give your thoughts on the tools you do use. No matter if you're not on Facebook.

...
...
2) Digg We would like to set up a monthly Digg party where we gather up good and useful articles and everyone diggs those articles. If we can find a method to spread the word to digg a list of articles (not just any openSUSE articles, but good and relevant ones) then we can boost our presence on the web and in google searches.

So can everyone else. :) The "action" at the moment seems to have moved away from "traditional" social media like Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, RSS feeds / readers, etc., to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. I hang out with social media marketing types and there is plenty of free advice on how to use the tools.

What's most important is that you *first* establish metrics, goals, campaigns, adoption funnels, key performance indicators, etc. for the openSUSE web sites. Once you have that, you can measure the effect of campaigns in Digg, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. in real time. It's part art and part science.

So what *are* the goals of openSUSE marketing in general and the web sites specifically?

That's a very good point and something we should address in the meeting. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

...
...
4) Blogging tips We will create a new page that provides advice to our community for how to increase traffic to their sites. Effective plugins that help, tips and tricks, information about SEO, etc. This one could be a bit of a challenge and anyone who has ideas about SEO, please step up and offer your advice.

I am just learning this stuff, but I can find you people who have this in their blood. :) Having Zonker on ZDNet is a big win. :)

Having Zonker is always a win-win. But having all of us on all things spreading the word of openSUSE is an even bigger win.

...
...
5) Other areas to look into: Twitter, Laconica/identi.ca, dzone.com, LinkedIn. Any others to suggest? What about social networking services in non-English speaking regions? What can we tap into there?

There are new services springing up like weeds, but Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are the big gorillas. Writer time and reader time are finite. I only speak English, so I can't help you there.

...
And should we appoint a "guru" for each of the different services? Someone who can study and understand and provide guidance to the rest of the marketing team about a particular service? It is very difficult for any one of us to become experts on all services, but if we divide and conquer :-), we could cover a lot more ground.

What I would suggest is for one person for each of the three majors -- LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. I think you're going to be severely constrained in availability of people because they either need to have a well-paying day job with a company that allows, or better yet encourages, involvement in open source communities, or is on the payroll of Novell.

That's what we need to find out, who in our circle knows what.

...
...
Looking forward to hearing back from you all and getting to a meeting on Friday!

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community)

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-- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky

I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community)

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

18:17

Let me make sure I've done the time zone stuff right -- that's 2009-05-15 07:00:00 Pacific Daylight Time, Freenode IRC Network, #opensuse-marketing channel, correct? P.S.: should we announce this on Twitter? I'm @znmeb. I'll DM some of my openSUSE friends for sure. :) On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Bryen wrote:

...

Ok judging from what people have replied plus told me on IRC, let's meet at 14:00 UTC. This should make Zonker happy because I think he wants to sleep in tomorrow a bit. :-)

So see you all at 14:00 UTC (Zonker, that's 10 a.m. to you) in #opensuse-marketing on the Freenode IRC network.

See you all there!

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 11:16 -0500, Bryen wrote:

...
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 08:56 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

...
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Bryen wrote:

...
Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth.

[snip]

...
So, what did we talk about?

1) Facebook It is clear that we need to address the growing presence of openSUSE supporters on Facebook. There are approximately 4,500 supporters spread out across two groups. And in our opinion, they're neglected and a valuable pool of supporters that we need to bridge.

What's also interesting about the Facebook group members is that there seems to be a strong presence of U.S. people. Something we lack presence in most other areas of openSUSE Community.

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't plan to join. I know it's popular, and I know it's a much more "flexible" platform than most, but I am spending so much time on line now that I don't have the bandwidth to give to Facebook. I *am* on LinkedIn and Twitter, and intend to stay there.

Then you should come to our meeting and give your thoughts on the tools you do use. No matter if you're not on Facebook.

...
...
2) Digg We would like to set up a monthly Digg party where we gather up good and useful articles and everyone diggs those articles. If we can find a method to spread the word to digg a list of articles (not just any openSUSE articles, but good and relevant ones) then we can boost our presence on the web and in google searches.

So can everyone else. :) The "action" at the moment seems to have moved away from "traditional" social media like Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, RSS feeds / readers, etc., to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. I hang out with social media marketing types and there is plenty of free advice on how to use the tools.

What's most important is that you *first* establish metrics, goals, campaigns, adoption funnels, key performance indicators, etc. for the openSUSE web sites. Once you have that, you can measure the effect of campaigns in Digg, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. in real time. It's part art and part science.

So what *are* the goals of openSUSE marketing in general and the web sites specifically?

That's a very good point and something we should address in the meeting. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

...
...
4) Blogging tips We will create a new page that provides advice to our community for how to increase traffic to their sites. Effective plugins that help, tips and tricks, information about SEO, etc. This one could be a bit of a challenge and anyone who has ideas about SEO, please step up and offer your advice.

I am just learning this stuff, but I can find you people who have this in their blood. :) Having Zonker on ZDNet is a big win. :)

Having Zonker is always a win-win. But having all of us on all things spreading the word of openSUSE is an even bigger win.

...
...
5) Other areas to look into: Twitter, Laconica/identi.ca, dzone.com, LinkedIn. Any others to suggest? What about social networking services in non-English speaking regions? What can we tap into there?

There are new services springing up like weeds, but Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are the big gorillas. Writer time and reader time are finite. I only speak English, so I can't help you there.

...
And should we appoint a "guru" for each of the different services? Someone who can study and understand and provide guidance to the rest of the marketing team about a particular service? It is very difficult for any one of us to become experts on all services, but if we divide and conquer :-), we could cover a lot more ground.

What I would suggest is for one person for each of the three majors -- LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. I think you're going to be severely constrained in availability of people because they either need to have a well-paying day job with a company that allows, or better yet encourages, involvement in open source communities, or is on the payroll of Novell.

That's what we need to find out, who in our circle knows what.

...
...
Looking forward to hearing back from you all and getting to a meeting on Friday!

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community)

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-- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky

I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community)

-- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community)

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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

18:25

On 05/14/2009 02:17 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

...

P.S.: should we announce this on Twitter? I'm @znmeb. I'll DM some of my openSUSE friends for sure.:)

yes. :0) Generally speaking: If you think "should I announce this on [insert platform here]" the answer is almost always "yes." :-) 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

Bryen

19:55

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 14:25 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

...

On 05/14/2009 02:17 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

...
P.S.: should we announce this on Twitter? I'm @znmeb. I'll DM some of my openSUSE friends for sure.:)

yes. :0)

Generally speaking: If you think "should I announce this on [insert platform here]" the answer is almost always "yes." :-)

Except when we find out deep dark secrets about Zonker. Then we sit on it until an optimal time. :-)

...

Best,

Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/

Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy

18 May 18 May

03:19

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 22:22 -0500, Bryen wrote:

...

Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth.

Although I was unable to attend this meeting, I have read the wiki page and saw the call for podcasting. I'd be more than willing to begin work on a weekly podcast for openSUSE (although what I would have is more than just a reading of the Weekly News). The only barriers (aside from time, which will start stabilizing once I start this new job in June) is that quite frankly, I can put this show together in Windows successfully, but I have yet to get openSUSE to allow me to record anything. I don't know if it's my hardware or what, but Audacity is just a piece of crap and Jokosher doesn't feel like working (yes, I've filed bugs), so if anyone wants to point me towards a audio recording/editing tool that will actually prove useful, that would be helpful. If I can get a good podcasting setup under openSUSE, then we can begin shooting pilots and getting the show together. I'd like to have multiple hosts (probably two), just to keep the show lively, so that'd be something to think about. Oh, and on the social networking thing: I'd be willing to do some work regarding Facebook (for those who don't know, I set up the openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 launch event pages). Just let me know. -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy openSUSE Member www.twitter.com/KevinDupuy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Stephen Michael Kellat

19 May 19 May

16:47

As for podcasting, I coordinate a network of three programs. We're using widely different hardware profiles and OS profiles. There are some ways we work around software goofiness. Rather than changing software, we try to change techniques used. One example is the interview the network's premier program did with Zonker. You can find that at http://lisnews.org/listen_lisnews_org_podcast_episode_67 . We avoided the masochism of double-sided edits and took the call live into the mixer. The bridge from the wired headphone jack of a cell phone to the mixer has a fairly minimal cost to build using parts from RadioShack. There are always simple ways to run a Skype call into a small Behringer mixer to accomplish the same thing. We try to keep edits to the utmost minimum. Using Audacity only for piecing things together should make it easier to use. For transcoding into the varied formats required, VLC seems to be a good choice rather than fussing with Audacity. Audacity, when saving to a lossless format, is just a high-falutin' simulation of a tape recorder. Command-line tools like id3v2 can be used to fiddle with the ID3 tags after VLC is done transcoding to MP3. SMK ______________________________________________ Stephen Michael Kellat, MSLS Interim Coordinator, LISNews Netcast Network http://www.lisnews.org/podcast http://erielookingproductions.info http://twitter.com/alpacaherder http://identi.ca/alpacaherder Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy wrote:

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On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 22:22 -0500, Bryen wrote:

...
Today, we had a very lively discussion about the use of Social Networking in promoting openSUSE. We came to several conclusions as well as identifying some areas we'd like to explore in more depth.

Although I was unable to attend this meeting, I have read the wiki page and saw the call for podcasting. I'd be more than willing to begin work on a weekly podcast for openSUSE (although what I would have is more than just a reading of the Weekly News). The only barriers (aside from time, which will start stabilizing once I start this new job in June) is that quite frankly, I can put this show together in Windows successfully, but I have yet to get openSUSE to allow me to record anything. I don't know if it's my hardware or what, but Audacity is just a piece of crap and Jokosher doesn't feel like working (yes, I've filed bugs), so if anyone wants to point me towards a audio recording/editing tool that will actually prove useful, that would be helpful.

If I can get a good podcasting setup under openSUSE, then we can begin shooting pilots and getting the show together. I'd like to have multiple hosts (probably two), just to keep the show lively, so that'd be something to think about.

Oh, and on the social networking thing: I'd be willing to do some work regarding Facebook (for those who don't know, I set up the openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 launch event pages). Just let me know. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

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