[opensuse-marketing] Report from Atlanta Linux Fest
Guys, I am happy to say that the Atlanta Linux Fest was a great hit. They were planning for only fewer than 500 people, but ended up with a turn out of 600+. I am happy to say that all the stuff that Zonker sent was all passed out and we still had people wanting more. We answer all the questions they has. Demo the 11.1 for a bit until my laptop died (there was no power on the wall we were on). The talked that I gave on the openSUSE Community seem to go over well, a lot people were surprise at all the stuff we had to offer (Build Service, SUSE Studio, Factory, and openSUSE Li-f-e). The SUSE Studio seem to really impress a lot of people. Tons of questions, tons of comments from people says they us, or that they will give us a try. The magazine from LixunPro with the Live Disc was a hit. By the way, one the things that amazed me, was I meet a guy from Turkey who been using openSUSE there was surprise to see us this Fest and was happy for us The Fedora Ambassador were they and were impress with us and wanted to help us out. They intorduced me to Dave Yates of Lotta Linux Links Podcast (http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog), who wants to talked to me about the Ambassador program. Also a few people that were from other parts of the country asking me how to become Ambasssador because they too want to go out spread the word of openSUSE. I meet Katina Ferguson and husband from from Foss threads http://www.fossthreads.com/, everyone needs to check them out. I am only pointing the out because their business makes T-Shirts for the open source community. What really impressed me about them was they use openSUSE, inkscape, and GIMP to create their shirts. I am thinking it who be cool that we have in future in the newsletter articles to over openSUSE in the work place. I talked with Arron from the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts at their November Meeting I am going to do launch party for 11.2, we are working out the details. So a great fest! I am happy that I could help. Zonkers, they told me they did miss you. They tell me they will be in contact with me about next year fest. -- ---------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Member skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup friendfeed -- http://friendfeed.com/terrorpup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hey Chuck, all, This is a great example of an event report -- I'd encourage everybody to do something similar. Chuck - do you have a blog or something where you can post this publicly, with pics? Best, Zonker On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
I am happy to say that the Atlanta Linux Fest was a great hit. They were planning for only fewer than 500 people, but ended up with a turn out of 600+. I am happy to say that all the stuff that Zonker sent was all passed out and we still had people wanting more. We answer all the questions they has. Demo the 11.1 for a bit until my laptop died (there was no power on the wall we were on).
The talked that I gave on the openSUSE Community seem to go over well, a lot people were surprise at all the stuff we had to offer (Build Service, SUSE Studio, Factory, and openSUSE Li-f-e). The SUSE Studio seem to really impress a lot of people. Tons of questions, tons of comments from people says they us, or that they will give us a try. The magazine from LixunPro with the Live Disc was a hit. By the way, one the things that amazed me, was I meet a guy from Turkey who been using openSUSE there was surprise to see us this Fest and was happy for us
The Fedora Ambassador were they and were impress with us and wanted to help us out. They intorduced me to Dave Yates of Lotta Linux Links Podcast (http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog), who wants to talked to me about the Ambassador program. Also a few people that were from other parts of the country asking me how to become Ambasssador because they too want to go out spread the word of openSUSE.
I meet Katina Ferguson and husband from from Foss threads http://www.fossthreads.com/, everyone needs to check them out. I am only pointing the out because their business makes T-Shirts for the open source community. What really impressed me about them was they use openSUSE, inkscape, and GIMP to create their shirts. I am thinking it who be cool that we have in future in the newsletter articles to over openSUSE in the work place.
I talked with Arron from the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts at their November Meeting I am going to do launch party for 11.2, we are working out the details.
So a great fest! I am happy that I could help.
Zonkers, they told me they did miss you. They tell me they will be in contact with me about next year fest.
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@zonker.net> wrote:
Hey Chuck, all,
This is a great example of an event report -- I'd encourage everybody to do something similar.
Chuck - do you have a blog or something where you can post this publicly, with pics?
Best,
Zonker
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
I am happy to say that the Atlanta Linux Fest was a great hit. They were planning for only fewer than 500 people, but ended up with a turn out of 600+. I am happy to say that all the stuff that Zonker sent was all passed out and we still had people wanting more. We answer all the questions they has. Demo the 11.1 for a bit until my laptop died (there was no power on the wall we were on).
The talked that I gave on the openSUSE Community seem to go over well, a lot people were surprise at all the stuff we had to offer (Build Service, SUSE Studio, Factory, and openSUSE Li-f-e). The SUSE Studio seem to really impress a lot of people. Tons of questions, tons of comments from people says they us, or that they will give us a try. The magazine from LixunPro with the Live Disc was a hit. By the way, one the things that amazed me, was I meet a guy from Turkey who been using openSUSE there was surprise to see us this Fest and was happy for us
The Fedora Ambassador were they and were impress with us and wanted to help us out. They intorduced me to Dave Yates of Lotta Linux Links Podcast (http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog), who wants to talked to me about the Ambassador program. Also a few people that were from other parts of the country asking me how to become Ambasssador because they too want to go out spread the word of openSUSE.
I meet Katina Ferguson and husband from from Foss threads http://www.fossthreads.com/, everyone needs to check them out. I am only pointing the out because their business makes T-Shirts for the open source community. What really impressed me about them was they use openSUSE, inkscape, and GIMP to create their shirts. I am thinking it who be cool that we have in future in the newsletter articles to over openSUSE in the work place.
I talked with Arron from the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts at their November Meeting I am going to do launch party for 11.2, we are working out the details.
So a great fest! I am happy that I could help.
Zonkers, they told me they did miss you. They tell me they will be in contact with me about next year fest.
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Joe, Yes, I do. I am waiting to get photos. But my slides are up there are as well information on the Live Disc I gave out along with the talks. http://opensuseterrorpup.blogstop.com -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Member skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup Identica -- terrorpup freenode(irc) -- terrorpup/lupinstein. friendfeed -- http://friendfeed.com/terrorpup Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. http://www.susestudio.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hi All, My name is Pablo, I registered as a new ambassador for Argentina. I was working with Fedora project Argentina two years, leaving the project in 2008, and coming back to community to collaborate with the spreading of Linux with OpenSUSE. Actually, im working, presenting to the national congress some open source project for the use of opensuse in non formal education centers. I made a remastered with suse studio, called Luminis, to make easy to deploy workstations for that centers, including orca configuration to make it available for bling people. Hope to be useful to the project, i am presenting a speak in Latinoware 2009 in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil, about of how to use susestudio to end users, showing than anyone can create its own linux distribution around it. Even i am waiting for confirmation of the speak, i will need to stuff to give to audience, waiting for some guidance in opensuse marketing dynamics. Greets! -- Pablo Barrera OpenSUSE Ambassador http://pablobarrera.posterous.net http://www.pablobarrera.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hi Pablo, Pablo Barrera wrote:
My name is Pablo, I registered as a new ambassador for Argentina. I was working with Fedora project Argentina two years, leaving the project in 2008, and coming back to community to collaborate with the spreading of Linux with OpenSUSE.
If you are an openSUSE Ambassador, please note: - OpenSUSE + openSUSE ;-)
Actually, im working, presenting to the national congress some open source project for the use of opensuse in non formal education centers. I made a remastered with suse studio, called Luminis, to make easy to deploy workstations for that centers, including orca configuration to make it available for bling people.
Hope to be useful to the project, i am presenting a speak in Latinoware 2009 in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil, about of how to use susestudio to end users, showing than anyone can create its own linux distribution around it.
Even i am waiting for confirmation of the speak, i will need to stuff to give to audience, waiting for some guidance in opensuse marketing dynamics.
As you can see on Ambassador/Events page, one of our Ambassadors, Alexandre D. Rogoski is also planning to attend the event. http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/Events I hope you will add your name to the entry, contact Alexandre, collaborate with one another and have a lot of fun ! ;-) 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 _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Thanks Satoru! We'll keep in touch to provide the best openSUSE experience as possible there. Regards. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Satoru Matsumoto <helios_reds@gmx.net> wrote:
Hi Pablo,
Pablo Barrera wrote:
My name is Pablo, I registered as a new ambassador for Argentina. I was working with Fedora project Argentina two years, leaving the project in 2008, and coming back to community to collaborate with the spreading of Linux with OpenSUSE.
If you are an openSUSE Ambassador, please note:
- OpenSUSE + openSUSE
;-)
Actually, im working, presenting to the national congress some open source project for the use of opensuse in non formal education centers. I made a remastered with suse studio, called Luminis, to make easy to deploy workstations for that centers, including orca configuration to make it available for bling people.
Hope to be useful to the project, i am presenting a speak in Latinoware 2009 in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil, about of how to use susestudio to end users, showing than anyone can create its own linux distribution around it.
Even i am waiting for confirmation of the speak, i will need to stuff to give to audience, waiting for some guidance in opensuse marketing dynamics.
As you can see on Ambassador/Events page, one of our Ambassadors, Alexandre D. Rogoski is also planning to attend the event.
http://en.opensuse.org/Ambassador/Events
I hope you will add your name to the entry, contact Alexandre, collaborate with one another and have a lot of fun ! ;-)
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 _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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aledr -
Chuck Payne -
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -
Pablo Barrera -
Satoru Matsumoto