On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 14:25 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:

Fredag den 13. Juni 2008 13:20:21 skrev Francis Giannaros:

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I was wondering if anyone had some ideas about how to encourage more members in the community to blog about 11.0 when it's released. In previous releases I feel like this has been one of our weakest points, so I'm really interested in hearing any ideas!

We've significantly beefed up the number of openSUSE community members blogging between the 10.3 release and 11.0. I think we'll see much more activity here. My question is how do we get people *outside* the project to blog about it?

Personally I've been planning my 11.0 announcement blogpost for months :-)

I don't fully agree that there's too little blogging. At 10.3 time I remember thinking there was almost too much of it. At release time there was a flood of blogs and articles, drowning each other.. and a week later there was nothing. For that reason I'll probably do my 11.0 announcement post 3-4 days ahead of release to avoid it drowning in noise.

You raise a good point -- promotion and marketing is a marathon, not a sprint. I hope that 11.0 encourages conversation for several weeks, not just a burst of activity for a few days followed by quiet.

I'm really not very enthusiastic about 11.0. Too much immature stuff in critical areas:

Well, I don't necessarily agree with this -- I think 11.0 is by and large a major improvement over 10.3. Remember that users have the option to install KDE 3.5 off the DVD if they prefer. There's also talk of a KDE 3.5 based live CD, which might help revive conversation if it's released shortly after 11.0 proper... Best, Zonker -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org