On 2010-10-26 S wrote:

Am Dienstag 26 Oktober 2010, 21:55:01 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:

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Hi all,

I need some creativity from you all. I've been asked by the UK linuxuser magazine people if I know anyone who could write technical tutorials (eg installing a L.i.f.e thin-client setup) of about 2000 words for them.

There might be some payment but that's not a given - they have to eat too.

So, we must have people in our community who, maybe with some writing help from us, could do this. How do we contact them? Does anyone have any ideas? I could obviously blog, or ask on -project, but I would like to hear your thoughs too.

And if any of you would be willing to work with a techie on such an article, doing some editing and working on wording etc, step up now :D

for Life I would ask 3 persons

1. Lars Vogdt 2. Jan Weber 3. Jigish Gohil

It was just an example, there are plenty more... Where and how could we best ask if people are interested in writing such articles?

br gnokii

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Cheers, Jos

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Helen wrote:

Maybe need to poll a cross-section of developers and users and find out where their preferred points of contact are. IRC? A media mail list?

What's happening with Pavol's social networking platform? I find the idea of some kind of in-house unified platform really appealing. Rather than having a bit on IRC, a bit on Facebook, and a dozen lists, if I had suseCafe open and it was all there in one place....

I'm happy to edit anyone's tech articles for English and grammar. Feel free to pass on my email.

cheers

Helen

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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And if any of you would be willing to work with a techie on such an article, doing some editing and working on wording etc, step up now :D

for Life I would ask 3 persons

1. Lars Vogdt 2. Jan Weber 3. Jigish Gohil

It was just an example, there are plenty more... Where and how could we best ask if people are interested in writing such articles?

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br gnokii

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Cheers, Jos

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Jos, Hey, if you don't find any one I don't mind. I did some stuff of Linux Identity this summer. -- ----------------------------------------- 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 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 For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Am Dienstag 26 Oktober 2010, 23:05:49 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:

On 2010-10-26 S wrote:

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Am Dienstag 26 Oktober 2010, 21:55:01 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:

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Hi all,

I need some creativity from you all. I've been asked by the UK linuxuser magazine people if I know anyone who could write technical tutorials (eg installing a L.i.f.e thin-client setup) of about 2000 words for them.

There might be some payment but that's not a given - they have to eat too.

So, we must have people in our community who, maybe with some writing help from us, could do this. How do we contact them? Does anyone have any ideas? I could obviously blog, or ask on -project, but I would like to hear your thoughs too.

And if any of you would be willing to work with a techie on such an article, doing some editing and working on wording etc, step up now :D

for Life I would ask 3 persons

1. Lars Vogdt 2. Jan Weber 3. Jigish Gohil

It was just an example, there are plenty more... Where and how could we best ask if people are interested in writing such articles?

simple, if u have such a story to write step forward here, then we point u to the right person. Or have u in mind right now to get out some "without request" shoots to magazines? br gnokii

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br gnokii

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Cheers, Jos

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Hey, On 27.10.2010 09:00, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:

This is one of the priorities we discussed last week at our BoF and we really need to go out into the community and over a long period of time seek out qualified folks who can write such articles.

I'm sorry i missed the BoF, it clashed with the appstore one, but i beg to disagree. Basically I think the openSUSE Marketing team needs to transition from an "call for action/organizing" to a "action" team. I also think, given the recent months, you're already half-way there. We need you guys to step up and make it happen. That means that with this opportunity to market openSUSE you need to come up with a prioritized list of things to write about (things YOU deem important) and then go ahead (individuals or as team) and write them. If you in the course of writing them need input or technical help you approach experts directly or ask specific things on the appropriate mailinglist/forum/whatever. The recent months have shown that to make blogposts, articles or announcements happen it needs the marketing team to take care of this and the success has shown that you are more than capable to deliver great media. I would like to strongly encourage you to explore this direction further! Henne P.S. Sorry if I come across as someone who is telling you what to do but i really really liked what you guys did so far. Don't stop now :) -- 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, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

Hey,

On 27.10.2010 09:00, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:

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This is one of the priorities we discussed last week at our BoF and we really need to go out into the community and over a long period of time seek out qualified folks who can write such articles.

I'm sorry i missed the BoF, it clashed with the appstore one, but i beg to disagree. Basically I think the openSUSE Marketing team needs to transition from an "call for action/organizing" to a "action" team. I also think, given the recent months, you're already half-way there. We need you guys to step up and make it happen.

That means that with this opportunity to market openSUSE you need to come up with a prioritized list of things to write about (things YOU deem important) and then go ahead (individuals or as team) and write them. If you in the course of writing them need input or technical help you approach experts directly or ask specific things on the appropriate mailinglist/forum/whatever.

The recent months have shown that to make blogposts, articles or announcements happen it needs the marketing team to take care of this and the success has shown that you are more than capable to deliver great media. I would like to strongly encourage you to explore this direction further!

Henne

P.S. Sorry if I come across as someone who is telling you what to do but i really really liked what you guys did so far. Don't stop now :)

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Guys, I love to be part of the team. I really enjoyed the chance I got this summer. My problem is topic. If there is to be a team of writers, please add my name. I work great when someone says here the topic and here is when it needed by. If it left up to me, I am bad to roam. Trust me I am working on 100 personal projects. I am trying to do more with my blog so that I can get more experience. I agree with Henne, we tend to be more talk than action on something. -- ----------------------------------------- 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 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 For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

On 2010-10-27 Andreas wrote:

On Tuesday 26 October 2010 23:05:49 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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[...] It was just an example, there are plenty more... Where and how could we best ask if people are interested in writing such articles?

Please document such request always here so that we have a canonical reference: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_jobs

Point is that there was/is no specific request, other than several people asking me for articles about openSUSE. I've had requests from linux.com, LWN, linuxjournal and others already - so as Henne said, we need to push this. As Bryen said - we need writers for that. Some have signed up already, so next step is to come up with a list of topics we want to cover and get writing on them. So, let's brainstorm. First would be L.i.f.e stuff: thin client server setup; other things? Then, I'd love to see something like 'zypper insights' or 'the darker secrets of zypper'. To show the world how awesome it is ;-) A how-to of building an appliance - from tarball to final images using OBS and Studio. Build always-updating livecd's with KIWI ...

Andreas

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 18:34:37 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

On 2010-10-27 Andreas wrote:

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On Tuesday 26 October 2010 23:05:49 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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[...] It was just an example, there are plenty more... Where and how could we best ask if people are interested in writing such articles?

Please document such request always here so that we have a canonical reference: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_jobs

Point is that there was/is no specific request, other than several people asking me for articles about openSUSE. I've had requests from linux.com, LWN, linuxjournal and others already - so as Henne said, we need to push this. As Bryen said - we need writers for that.

Let me add it to the list myself then - and check whether you like it ;) http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_jobs#Writing_for_Magazines Do you have a user page in the wiki? Please check the link, somehow it's wrong... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org