[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE night in Milan: What type of event?
Hi to all After the success of the fair in Cerea, we are invited to organize a "openSUSE Night" in Milan. The idea would be to present, in a famous "lug" of Milan, openSUSE. We're planning to make the first presentation of openSUSE, with one or two talks, then a Q&A space, and finally do "installation party". Looking at the list of the types of events, I saw that this looks like a "Launch Party", but, we are organizing that event for Feb. 25, maybe a little late for a Launch Party. What type of event I could use? Tips? Since the event in my city, and being a guest of this "lug", I would not need any kind of budget, but could really help me Marketing material (Few promo DVDs, t-shirts, stickers, posters and the like). Can I request the material here (http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd) as usual? Thank you in advance Alexjan Carraturo -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org) Fedora/openSUSE Ambassador member of FSFE Italian Team Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
Le 27/01/2012 12:08, Alexjan Carraturo a écrit :
a little late for a Launch Party.
"install party"?
Can I request the material here (http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd) as usual?
of course! thanks a lot jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
2012/1/27 Alexjan Carraturo <axjslack@gmail.com>:
Hi to all
After the success of the fair in Cerea, we are invited to organize a "openSUSE Night" in Milan.
The idea would be to present, in a famous "lug" of Milan, openSUSE.
We're planning to make the first presentation of openSUSE, with one or two talks, then a Q&A space, and finally do "installation party".
Looking at the list of the types of events, I saw that this looks like a "Launch Party", but, we are organizing that event for Feb. 25, maybe a little late for a Launch Party.
No it's never late for a launch or a release party ;-) but you can name it install party as Jdd suggested :)
What type of event I could use? Tips?
Since the event in my city, and being a guest of this "lug", I would not need any kind of budget, but could really help me Marketing material (Few promo DVDs, t-shirts, stickers, posters and the like). Can I request the material here (http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd) as usual?
Thank you in advance Alexjan Carraturo
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Alexjan Carraturo <axjslack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi to all
After the success of the fair in Cerea, we are invited to organize a "openSUSE Night" in Milan.
The idea would be to present, in a famous "lug" of Milan, openSUSE.
We're planning to make the first presentation of openSUSE, with one or two talks, then a Q&A space, and finally do "installation party".
Looking at the list of the types of events, I saw that this looks like a "Launch Party", but, we are organizing that event for Feb. 25, maybe a little late for a Launch Party.
What type of event I could use? Tips?
Since the event in my city, and being a guest of this "lug", I would not need any kind of budget, but could really help me Marketing material (Few promo DVDs, t-shirts, stickers, posters and the like). Can I request the material here (http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd) as usual?
Thank you in advance Alexjan Carraturo
-- Alexjan Carraturo -- Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org) Fedora/openSUSE Ambassador member of FSFE Italian Team
Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner@opensuse.org
Alexjan, Sounds awesome. I wish you the best, takes some video and photos. Give a us some feed back, what people like, don't like, what are their top ten questions. Things we can build on. If you don't want to call it a Launch Party, you can do a mini linux fest, or one that I got a lot of good feed, "openSUSE Geekos Dare to Compare", the theme is where you dare others that don't use openSUSE to take a DVD try it for a week, compare to their current linux and give you five reason they would not switch. Ubuntu users hate this one, Fedora and other distro user will try. It better than install fest because you can present why openSUSE is one of the "Best Distro". Because you can present what is new and cool to the masses, dare people to take the week test drive, and install for those what one. It does work because when I got back to my LUG, people remember it more than "Launch Party", because they came up to me and told me what they like, what didn't worked for them. Trust me this was really hard because my LUG is so pro Ubuntu. I know it style works because the Fedora Ambassador and a Arch user copied me. By the way, you want the number one reason people most the people who tried openSUSE for a week didn't switch. Because they were too lazy to move off Ubuntu. I only got one, one negative comment, it was "I don't see all the apps I see with Ubuntu and openSUSE does have a good package manager", but when I showed them OBS and zypper, they didn't have anything negative to say. That my two cent. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 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. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
2012/1/27 Chuck Payne <terrorpup@gmail.com>:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Alexjan Carraturo <axjslack@gmail.com> wrote: [cut]
Alexjan,
Sounds awesome. I wish you the best, takes some video and photos. Give a us some feed back, what people like, don't like, what are their top ten questions. Things we can build on.
I'll do.
If you don't want to call it a Launch Party, you can do a mini linux fest, or one that I got a lot of good feed, "openSUSE Geekos Dare to Compare", the theme is where you dare others that don't use openSUSE to take a DVD try it for a week, compare to their current linux and give you five reason they would not switch. Ubuntu users hate this one, Fedora and other distro user will try. It better than install fest because you can present why openSUSE is one of the "Best Distro". Because you can present what is new and cool to the masses, dare people to take the week test drive, and install for those what one.
Seems to be a very good idea. If will be possible I would try to do something similar.
It does work because when I got back to my LUG, people remember it more than "Launch Party", because they came up to me and told me what they like, what didn't worked for them. Trust me this was really hard because my LUG is so pro Ubuntu. I know it style works because the Fedora Ambassador and a Arch user copied me.
Interesting.
By the way, you want the number one reason people most the people who tried openSUSE for a week didn't switch. Because they were too lazy to move off Ubuntu. I only got one, one negative comment, it was "I don't see all the apps I see with Ubuntu and openSUSE does have a good package manager", but when I showed them OBS and zypper, they didn't have anything negative to say.
I'm not really so sure about this; during Cerea Fair, a lot of Ubuntu user come to us, and makes a lot of question about openSUSE because they don't like Unity and would like to change. A lot of people use only Ubuntu because know only Ubuntu. I use a lot of distro, day by day, and I think that people can use event like this to know that alternatives exist. When people see "yast" they likes a lot. Than, there are lazy people too, as you said. I'll use "install fest" way for the wiki, but I'll try to do something similar to what you have described before. Thanks for the adivces Alexjan. -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Free Software User Group Italia administrator (http://www.fsugitalia.org) Fedora/openSUSE Ambassador member of FSFE Italian Team Twitter/Facebook/Identica: axjslack Blog: http://axjslack.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
On 2012-01-27 12:08:20 (+0100), Alexjan Carraturo <axjslack@gmail.com> wrote:
After the success of the fair in Cerea, we are invited to organize a "openSUSE Night" in Milan. The idea would be to present, in a famous "lug" of Milan, openSUSE. We're planning to make the first presentation of openSUSE, with one or two talks, then a Q&A space, and finally do "installation party".
Really hot topics that are unique to openSUSE are * for contributors: - Open Build Service (simply the best, more powerful and most comfortable package building platform) - Packman (you can join, we need more packagers!) - SUSE Studio - we're still a young project, most of us hate bureaucracy, if you wanna join, you're welcome! * for users: - Open Build Service repositories: pick what you want/need, ranging from stable (only use the distro + maybe Packman) to very up-to-date (add a dozen or more repos from download.o.o) - Packman - SUSE Studio (make your own spin :)) - choice: repositories, desktop environments, ... If you need help, or information, or something to start to talk about the topics above (or anything else), or even existing presentation material, please let us know. [...] cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf
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Pascal Bleser