[opensuse-marketing] [in the press] talking about openSUSE 11.4
Good news everyone! The two german Linux-magazines "PCWELT Linux" and "Linux intern" published some specials about openSUSE 11.4 PCWL delivers oS 11.4 KDE live in their DVD and an article about the new release plus Workshop for installation. http://www.pcwelt.de/news/Neues-Sonderheft-PC-WELT-LINUX-2-2011-mit-10-Distr... Linux intern delivers an Ubuntu & openSUSE special, and called the two distros the most popular in Germany. They also delivers /two/ DVDs instead of one as usual, with oS 11.4 DVD, and oS 11.4 KDE live. Good marketing for us, isn´t it? ;-) Have a nice week-end! -- Kim-Dennis Leyendecker openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de 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
Le 11/06/2011 12:55, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :
PCWL delivers oS 11.4 KDE live in their DVD
does somebody know how this works? I the paper completely free to use openSUSE or is there any talk between the paper and Novell or anybody else? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Am 11.06.2011 13:06, schrieb jdd:
does somebody know how this works? I the paper completely free to use openSUSE or is there any talk between the paper and Novell or anybody else?
I don´t know. They sell their magazine with a DVD and there normaly some distributions included, like Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva or openSUSE or Fedora. thanks -- Kim-Dennis Leyendecker openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de 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
Le 11/06/2011 13:55, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :
I don´t know. They sell their magazine with a DVD and there normaly some distributions included, like Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva or openSUSE or Fedora.
thanks
yes, I wondered if we can make this happen more often :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Am 11.06.2011 14:29, schrieb jdd:
yes, I wondered if we can make this happen more often :-)
The best way is a friendly e-mail with a simple request to ship our distro with the next issue of the magazine. Here in Germany, openSUSE often comes along with a Linux magazine. Do you now how it is in France? thanks -- Kim-Dennis Leyendecker openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de 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
Le 11/06/2011 16:11, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :
Am 11.06.2011 14:29, schrieb jdd:
yes, I wondered if we can make this happen more often :-)
The best way is a friendly e-mail with a simple request to ship our distro with the next issue of the magazine. Here in Germany, openSUSE often comes along with a Linux magazine. Do you now how it is in France?
thanks
there are sometime. I didn't want to interfere not knowing if there is money involved in any direction jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday, June 11, 2011 16:47:47 jdd wrote:
Le 11/06/2011 16:11, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :
Am 11.06.2011 14:29, schrieb jdd:
yes, I wondered if we can make this happen more often :-)
The best way is a friendly e-mail with a simple request to ship our distro with the next issue of the magazine. Here in Germany, openSUSE often comes along with a Linux magazine. Do you now how it is in France?
thanks
there are sometime. I didn't want to interfere not knowing if there is money involved in any direction
there's no money involved - feel free to talk with any magazine - or bring them in contact with me if they have any questions, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj@{novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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
On Saturday 11 June 2011 13:06:28 jdd wrote:
Le 11/06/2011 12:55, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :
PCWL delivers oS 11.4 KDE live in their DVD
does somebody know how this works? I the paper completely free to use openSUSE or is there any talk between the paper and Novell or anybody else?
They just do it. Sometimes they contact us for information, questions - or ask for info on how to create a special localized version of openSUSE but they do that themselves too. There's no money involved or anything, it is free software etc after all :D Kim's suggestion to ask them to ship openSUSE sometimes is not a bad one but you have to be a bit careful: they might say "sure, if you pay for it"... They pay for this currently themselves so that doesn't make things better. What we could do is offer them articles. Writing costs them time and money and we have ppl who know a lot about openSUSE so that would be a good reason for them to ship more openSUSE stuff too. In other words, yes, it is terribly useful and productive to write articles for magazines. We sometimes write extensive articles about things like openSUSE medical on news.o.o - making that into a smaller news item or putting it into a larger context with screenshots and sending it to magazines saying 'feel free to use it' or offering them it exclusively (they like that) would be a great way to get openSUSE to more users. I have contacts at magazines and we have a press mailinglist so I can help here - if any of you are interested in that... And i can help review and write if you want, too. I enjoy writing after all ;-) Cheers, Jos
thanks jdd
Am 12.06.2011 13:30, schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
They just do it. Sometimes they contact us for information, questions - or ask for info on how to create a special localized version of openSUSE but they do that themselves too.
In case of PCWelt, they got kind of a fix schedule for shipping major distros with. openSUSE normaly in the issue after the release and in the issue before the release with the old version. In the issues between, they deliver Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu or Debian and sometimes a own spin of Fedora with better German translations (the german translation of Fedora is just ridiculous, but that´s not the target market for Red Hat´s community distro. Powerusers will use their system in English too.)
There's no money involved or anything, it is free software etc after all :D
yes, they just need to give you access to the sources. And they do.
Kim's suggestion to ask them to ship openSUSE sometimes is not a bad one but you have to be a bit careful: they might say "sure, if you pay for it"... They pay for this currently themselves so that doesn't make things better.
What we could do is offer them articles. Writing costs them time and money and we have ppl who know a lot about openSUSE so that would be a good reason for them to ship more openSUSE stuff too.
Here it goes. I think if we offer them articles they will ship the *articles* and *not* our distro with the next issue.
In other words, yes, it is terribly useful and productive to write articles for magazines. We sometimes write extensive articles about things like openSUSE medical on news.o.o - making that into a smaller news item or putting it into a larger context with screenshots and sending it to magazines saying 'feel free to use it' or offering them it exclusively (they like that) would be a great way to get openSUSE to more users.
We got news.o.o. Why not doing a monthly newsletter to some magazines (like the LinuxJournal) and offer them some of our articles at news.o.o?
I have contacts at magazines and we have a press mailinglist so I can help here - if any of you are interested in that... And i can help review and write if you want, too. I enjoy writing after all;-)
+1 -- Kim Leyendecker (kdl@k-dl.de.vu) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de 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 Saturday, June 11, 2011 13:06:28 jdd wrote:
Le 11/06/2011 12:55, Kim Leyendecker a écrit :
PCWL delivers oS 11.4 KDE live in their DVD
does somebody know how this works? I the paper completely free to use openSUSE or is there any talk between the paper and Novell or anybody else?
Everybody can easily take one of our unmodified images and distribute it according to the license the openSUSE distribution is under. So, there's no separate deal with them. If you think deals are needed, please tell me, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj@{novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 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
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