[opensuse-marketing] susestudio - possible project!
Hi all, I've been looking for this for quite some time as I might be interested in exploring something new... Here's a bit about the idea: A small LiveCD / USB enabled distro based on opensuse 11.3 with GNOME; To be explored in a marketing driven way; Delievering what people might want: eye candy, non-standard packages, integrated Environment, troublesome codecs, etc; Keeping up to date with community submitted materials; Can be enabled on any traditional openSUSE platform; In other words, a selection of non-standard applications (ex: nautilus elementary, notify osd, etc)... The best Ubuntu offers with some patches that annoyed and were forbiden by Shuttleworth to increase functionality and other pieces of software that are popular amongst users) with a powerful meta-theme. I plan to keep this with a gnome-panel vintage look and as a possible alternative to gnome-shell default enabled stuff. This is not to be faced as a distro, but instead as: 1. an artwork pack for GNOME / opensuse 11.3; 2. project branding only covers artwork; 3. marketing experiment; 4. No server components, this is to be only for End Users performing the most normal Desktop tasks, like communication or design development. 5. A different experience from everyone else on the game; In a very raw way that's it... My naming for this... needs to be flashy and hook'able... "MERC PACK" According to Dictionary.com: Mercenary: Adjective: 1. Working or acting merely for money or __other reward__, venal; hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc. Noun: 3. A Professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army. 4. any hireling. That's the metaphore for the name, pretty much enlightening, except we aren't paying no one and everything will be based distribution wise and package wise on guerrilla marketing aimed directly to end users and based on end user demands. In another we want to 'hire' mercs... people who we don't care if they use whatever they use (hopefully our own merc stuff in the future) and build a showcase for their artwork and engineering. A completly scratched Desktop Environment based on GNOME that dares to go where distro's don't want to touch on their default installations. ... I've been looking into SUSE Studio for this... I have my own reasons not to do this on Fedora, and I recon openSUSE is a KDE distro, but it offers good tools that make this easier for a small group of people. So far the group for this is small being: - Samuel Cruz > Developer @ Portugal Telecom - Flavio Oliveira > Advertisement Company CEO and Designer/Artist - Bruno Oliveira > Marketing Manager - Nelson Marques > Marketing Junior Officer @ _some bank_ - Paulo Figueiredo > Communication & Design graduate - Jean Figueiredo > Programmer / Software Engineer @ _some bank_ We are planning to start "merc pack" using SUSE Studio based on openSUSE 11.3 and evolving alongside with it. I'm not sure on how openSUSE wants to keep their image on this or eventually your concerns... but feel free to launch your questions and how you want your Trademarks represented as we are not going to announce ourselfs as a distro or anything in that scope. Questions are welcome as we are still building visual image, guidelines for logos (and we might trademark the logos and brand). We plan to have all the logistical and marketing stuff ready soon, and we might recruit people to help on Portuguese translations to openSUSE as we want to offer the best European Portuguese available as we are planning to do local work about this... I know this is just a junk non-organized email... but it will take form and in this stage it's best for us to check if it's reliable to do it using this platform and that it brings no coalitions with openSUSE, in fact it would awesome to know what openSUSE community members think about it... nelson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
i have a project similar like you want to build. My project is: openGarrobito openGarrobito is a distribution of linux, based in opensuse 11.3, This remix have most multimedia package, like burn aplicacion, rip programs, multimedia players, editing programs FPS games urban terror, and have a desktop like KDE SC 4.5 Broadcom wireless are supported, and nvidia to with property drivers ;) And more stuff ;) The like of my appliance in suse gallery: http://susegallery.com/a/mPtySe/opengarrobito And the web page: decks.260mb.com 2010/8/17, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
I've been looking for this for quite some time as I might be interested in exploring something new... Here's a bit about the idea:
A small LiveCD / USB enabled distro based on opensuse 11.3 with GNOME; To be explored in a marketing driven way; Delievering what people might want: eye candy, non-standard packages, integrated Environment, troublesome codecs, etc; Keeping up to date with community submitted materials; Can be enabled on any traditional openSUSE platform;
In other words, a selection of non-standard applications (ex: nautilus elementary, notify osd, etc)... The best Ubuntu offers with some patches that annoyed and were forbiden by Shuttleworth to increase functionality and other pieces of software that are popular amongst users) with a powerful meta-theme.
I plan to keep this with a gnome-panel vintage look and as a possible alternative to gnome-shell default enabled stuff.
This is not to be faced as a distro, but instead as: 1. an artwork pack for GNOME / opensuse 11.3; 2. project branding only covers artwork; 3. marketing experiment; 4. No server components, this is to be only for End Users performing the most normal Desktop tasks, like communication or design development. 5. A different experience from everyone else on the game;
In a very raw way that's it...
My naming for this... needs to be flashy and hook'able... "MERC PACK"
According to Dictionary.com:
Mercenary: Adjective: 1. Working or acting merely for money or __other reward__, venal; hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc.
Noun: 3. A Professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army. 4. any hireling.
That's the metaphore for the name, pretty much enlightening, except we aren't paying no one and everything will be based distribution wise and package wise on guerrilla marketing aimed directly to end users and based on end user demands. In another we want to 'hire' mercs... people who we don't care if they use whatever they use (hopefully our own merc stuff in the future) and build a showcase for their artwork and engineering. A completly scratched Desktop Environment based on GNOME that dares to go where distro's don't want to touch on their default installations.
...
I've been looking into SUSE Studio for this... I have my own reasons not to do this on Fedora, and I recon openSUSE is a KDE distro, but it offers good tools that make this easier for a small group of people.
So far the group for this is small being:
- Samuel Cruz > Developer @ Portugal Telecom - Flavio Oliveira > Advertisement Company CEO and Designer/Artist - Bruno Oliveira > Marketing Manager - Nelson Marques > Marketing Junior Officer @ _some bank_ - Paulo Figueiredo > Communication & Design graduate - Jean Figueiredo > Programmer / Software Engineer @ _some bank_
We are planning to start "merc pack" using SUSE Studio based on openSUSE 11.3 and evolving alongside with it.
I'm not sure on how openSUSE wants to keep their image on this or eventually your concerns... but feel free to launch your questions and how you want your Trademarks represented as we are not going to announce ourselfs as a distro or anything in that scope.
Questions are welcome as we are still building visual image, guidelines for logos (and we might trademark the logos and brand). We plan to have all the logistical and marketing stuff ready soon, and we might recruit people to help on Portuguese translations to openSUSE as we want to offer the best European Portuguese available as we are planning to do local work about this...
I know this is just a junk non-organized email... but it will take form and in this stage it's best for us to check if it's reliable to do it using this platform and that it brings no coalitions with openSUSE, in fact it would awesome to know what openSUSE community members think about it...
nelson
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On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:38:56 Nelson Marques wrote:
Hi all,
I've been looking for this for quite some time as I might be interested in exploring something new... Here's a bit about the idea:
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I know this is just a junk non-organized email... but it will take form and in this stage it's best for us to check if it's reliable to do it using this platform and that it brings no coalitions with openSUSE, in fact it would awesome to know what openSUSE community members think about it...
It's a cool idea and wouldn't be hard to do with the buildservice and SUSEStudio. openSUSE ain't a KDE distro, btw, it happens to be what the majority of users (probably) use but otherwise it's no more KDE than it is Firefox (again something the majority uses) or similar stuff. Again, pretty cool project, please go ahead with it. When it comes to trademarks, don't worry too much about that yet - just create it and call it openSUSE based, should be good enough for now ;-) When it comes to marketing, I'd say you should be sure to send announcements to news.opensuse.org! BTW don't take to many plans like these on your plate, I mean, you also wrote about doing these openSUSE courses, unless you have about 60 hours a week to spend on this stuff or a team of people, you won't have time for both - if you want to do it right :D
nelson
On Sunday 22 August 2010 19:28:05 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Again, pretty cool project, please go ahead with it. When it comes to trademarks, don't worry too much about that yet - just create it and call it openSUSE based, should be good enough for now ;-)
Party pooper voice: our friends are respecting http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines with their derivative distributions, so I would too with this (while trying to get the guidelines relaxed). Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:28 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:38:56 Nelson Marques wrote:
Hi all,
I've been looking for this for quite some time as I might be interested in exploring something new... Here's a bit about the idea:
<snip>
I know this is just a junk non-organized email... but it will take form and in this stage it's best for us to check if it's reliable to do it using this platform and that it brings no coalitions with openSUSE, in fact it would awesome to know what openSUSE community members think about it...
It's a cool idea and wouldn't be hard to do with the buildservice and SUSEStudio. openSUSE ain't a KDE distro, btw, it happens to be what the majority of users (probably) use but otherwise it's no more KDE than it is Firefox (again something the majority uses) or similar stuff.
Again, pretty cool project, please go ahead with it. When it comes to trademarks, don't worry too much about that yet - just create it and call it openSUSE based, should be good enough for now ;-)
When it comes to marketing, I'd say you should be sure to send announcements to news.opensuse.org!
BTW don't take to many plans like these on your plate, I mean, you also wrote about doing these openSUSE courses, unless you have about 60 hours a week to spend on this stuff or a team of people, you won't have time for both - if you want to do it right :D
I've already blogged about and my concerns... Merc and Merc Retro are going to see life one of this days. Merc Retro will be a minimalistic install (only the very own required stuff) and will feature a set of emulators only (ex: Atari, Capcom System 16, Sega Genesis/Master System, SNES, Amiga). Not providing sensible stuff like ROMS or BIOS dumps. Just the emulators. Something people can use on old 256/512Mb's usb sticks. Merc will be a 'tool kit' utility used for tasks... network monitoring, filesystem recovery, MBR recovery... any utilities that might be interesting to have around whenever needed without requiring to install the full load. I will try to build some enthusiasm around artwork around this and will try to make out of it a artwork showcase for themes and other stuff. That's pretty much the plan :) nm
nelson
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