[opensuse-marketing] Attachmate and openSUSE / open source community.
Greetings, I am a bit busy because we are having our Software Freedom Day next Saturday. Questions to be asked: 1. How do the other distros get funded? 2. Use of openSUSE/SUSE on websites, documents etc. Trademarks, rights to use images, logos etc. 3. Support from local Attachmate people? 4. Does Attachmate have a community Manager? I could not find one, so I phoned Seattle yesterday evening. I was handed to Liz an outsourced PR company. 5. What do we tell our members? Does that involve a change of Memorandum and Articles of Association, hence bank account, letterheads, business cards, websites et al? 6. open office is heavily funded by Novell, does that mean that we might less developers? Other developments in progress? 7. Helen is right, what about our pals at Novell? Best wishes, Jimmy President nui.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hey Jimmy, On 11/23/2010 10:17 PM, Jimmy Pierre wrote:
I am a bit busy because we are having our Software Freedom Day next Saturday.
Cool, who is we? :)
Questions to be asked:
1. How do the other distros get funded?
Ask them. I'm sure they will explain to you how "funding" works for them.
2. Use of openSUSE/SUSE on websites, documents etc. Trademarks, rights to use images, logos etc.
We have trademark guidelines for the openSUSE trademark written down in our wiki. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines If you have questions about those don't hesitate to ask the openSUSE Board who is managing the trademark.
3. Support from local Attachmate people?
You have to ask them.
4. Does Attachmate have a community Manager?
They don't have a community, so I expect that they don't have a community manager but I don't know...
I could not find one, so I phoned Seattle yesterday evening. I was handed to Liz an outsourced PR company.
...you see ;)
5. What do we tell our members? Does that involve a change of Memorandum and Articles of Association, hence bank account, letterheads, business cards, websites et al?
As the openSUSE Project has no Memorandum or Articles of Association, no bank account, no letterheads and no business cards and all websites of the openSUSE Project are at *opensuse.org those certainly won't change :)
6. open office is heavily funded by Novell, does that mean that we might less developers? Other developments in progress?
How can the openSUSE Project know about the intention of Novell in regards to LibreOffice? Again, you have to ask them.
7. Helen is right, what about our pals at Novell?
What about them? Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Jimmy Pierre <jimmypierre.rouen.france@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
I am a bit busy because we are having our Software Freedom Day next Saturday.
Questions to be asked:
1. How do the other distros get funded?
There's a little bit of info about Debian funding here: http://www.debian.org/sitemap
5. What do we tell our members?
At this point, my suggestion is "wait and see". It's tempting to fire off emails asking for information, but I figure that the people who are dealing with the business end of all this will probably have enough to do right now and don't need more emails from me! I trust the board (and no doubt other senior representatives) will pass on information as soon as they know anything.
7. Helen is right, what about our pals at Novell?
Again, it's wait and see. Takeovers and sales don't always mean losses: sometimes it's an opportunity for growth. Let's stay positive at this point. Whatever happens, openSUSE wil keep moving forward. At Software Freedom Day, the best thing is to say that we have a strong community and committed developers and contributors, which we do. Most importantly we have a great distribution. We're all still here, developing, patching, packaging, promoting, supporting. Have fun on your Software Freedom Day.! Helen
Best wishes, Jimmy President nui.fr
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To tell the truth, what I'm most scared about is bugzilla. Maybe funding, branding, etc can get messed up, maybe they won't. But if Novell and SUSE are separated, how would bugzilla.n.c, a very 'Novell site', remain functional? All bug links are dead. Instantly. On a smaller scale, it created a temporary bit of havoc on wiki.o.o. In this case, it is potentially huge. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ~kknundy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On 11/24/2010 at 10:27 PM, in message <AANLkTimsTider+HHbyzEn37bjiw3_FXytyxgSfzGDa0Q@mail.gmail.com>, Koushik Kumar Nundy <kknundy@gmail.com> wrote: To tell the truth, what I'm most scared about is bugzilla. Maybe funding, branding, etc can get messed up, maybe they won't.
But if Novell and SUSE are separated, how would bugzilla.n.c, a very 'Novell site', remain functional? All bug links are dead. Instantly.
On a smaller scale, it created a temporary bit of havoc on wiki.o.o. In this case, it is potentially huge.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
No need to panic. Nothiing changes in Novell until the first quarter of next year. And no service will be dropped overnight without prior handoff plans. Sankar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch 24 November 2010, 17:57:20 schrieb Koushik Kumar Nundy: Hi,
To tell the truth, what I'm most scared about is bugzilla. Maybe funding, branding, etc can get messed up, maybe they won't.
But if Novell and SUSE are separated, how would bugzilla.n.c, a very 'Novell site', remain functional? All bug links are dead. Instantly. I don't think that in one day one will show up and pull the wire. If we have to deal with our own bugzilla, I guess we can do it and we will get the data we need. Even for the old links there is a solution, we did that once when we migrated the old SuSE Bugzilla to the Novell BZ - been there - done that :-)
Also here - no need for worries. With an active project we will able to deal with that kind of probs. regards, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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