[opensuse-marketing] User Days/Open Week
Hello everybody, Seeing as Ubuntu User Days and Open Week are coming up I have a idea for the openSUSE community to do something too. The idea of User Days and Open Week are that people run IRC based session about it like using Firefox, switching from another OS, and others. User Days should run over 1 weekend and try to have a session every hour like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam/natty starting with a intro about User Days. Open Week would happen a week or two before a new release and should focus on the previous release as it turns it into the new *stable* release. Thinking this would require a team of at least 3 or 4 people with monthly meetings and I am more then happy to lead the team if the community does not object. So I send this email for approval for this and your opinion. =========== Thank you very much, Ben Donald-Wilson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 24 September 2011 06:22:56 Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote:
Hello everybody, Seeing as Ubuntu User Days and Open Week are coming up I have a idea for the openSUSE community to do something too. The idea of User Days and Open Week are that people run IRC based session about it like using Firefox, switching from another OS, and others. User Days should run over 1 weekend and try to have a session every hour like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam/natty starting with a intro about User Days. Open Week would happen a week or two before a new release and should focus on the previous release as it turns it into the new *stable* release.
Thinking this would require a team of at least 3 or 4 people with monthly meetings and I am more then happy to lead the team if the community does not object.
So I send this email for approval for this and your opinion.
=========== Thank you very much, Ben Donald-Wilson
Hi Ben! First of all, I love the idea! Second, approval - we're OPENsuse, so if you want to do this, nobody can stop you ;-) I do not exactly understand the timing thing. This is meant to happen just BEFORE a new release? Does it not make sense to do it just AFTER a release so we can showcase the new features? In any case, you mention it's needed to have a (large) number of sessions on a variety of things. It might make sense to start a piratepad with ideas for sessions, then try to find people to pick and do a session etc. Cheers, Jos
Am 24.09.2011 14:39, schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
I do not exactly understand the timing thing. This is meant to happen just BEFORE a new release? Does it not make sense to do it just AFTER a release so we can showcase the new features?
Well, after reading the wiki article, it would make more sense for me to do it AFTER the release and take with the "hype" about the new release (like: "Oh see, that great new features and the new design and that blink, blink there and there too!") Ben, what would you suggest? :-) Kim -- kind regards, Kim Leyendecker ***************** Linux is userfriendly. It´s just not idiot friendly. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Yeah I agree with just after a release, I think the reason why Ubuntu does there Open Week before each release because the old release is apparently turning into the new *stable* The Pirate Pad is at feel free to add to it http://piratepad.net/0kiL335kXa we would just need session runners. =========== Ben Donald-Wilson openSUSE Ambassador (July 2011) On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 06:54, K. Dennis Leyendecker <kdl@lhag.de.vu> wrote:
Am 24.09.2011 14:39, schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
I do not exactly understand the timing thing. This is meant to happen just BEFORE a new release? Does it not make sense to do it just AFTER a release so we can showcase the new features?
Well, after reading the wiki article, it would make more sense for me to do it AFTER the release and take with the "hype" about the new release (like: "Oh see, that great new features and the new design and that blink, blink there and there too!")
Ben, what would you suggest? :-)
Kim
-- kind regards, Kim Leyendecker ***************** Linux is userfriendly. It愀 just not idiot friendly.
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On Saturday, September 24, 2011 07:39:27 AM Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Saturday 24 September 2011 06:22:56 Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote:
Hello everybody, Seeing as Ubuntu User Days and Open Week are coming up I have a idea for the openSUSE community to do something too. The idea of User Days and Open Week are that people run IRC based session about it like using Firefox, switching from another OS, and others. User Days should run over 1 weekend and try to have a session every hour like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam/natty starting with a intro about User Days. Open Week would happen a week or two before a new release and should focus on the previous release as it turns it into the new *stable* release.
Thinking this would require a team of at least 3 or 4 people with monthly meetings and I am more then happy to lead the team if the community does not object. ..... Hi Ben!
First of all, I love the idea! Second, approval - we're OPENsuse, so if you want to do this, nobody can stop you ;-)
I do not exactly understand the timing thing. This is meant to happen just BEFORE a new release? Does it not make sense to do it just AFTER a release so we can showcase the new features?
In any case, you mention it's needed to have a (large) number of sessions on a variety of things. It might make sense to start a piratepad with ideas for sessions, then try to find people to pick and do a session etc.
Cheers, Jos
I like Benjamin's idea. Pre-release sessions using anything from Beta to RCx will help to extend the buzz, from after release to period prior to release. 1) This will help to have interested waiting for new release involved in this kind of activity instead to keep them on standby as it is now. 2) Not everyone will answer on a call for bug testing as it sounds so technical, but using pre-release to see how it works can be also bug report generator. 3) We have a lot of new stuff this time and increased number of people able to help with launch and right after launch can be only advantage. Where to ask for interested, IRC, Forums, other ML. When, as soon as some etherpad, or mail list/forums post has some content that we can discuss. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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