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[opensuse-project] [opensuse-marketing] One last favor
by Chuck Payne 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Guys, This will be my last cross post. I like to ask one last favor if you can please visit this link and vote for it. http://digg.com/news/technology/opensuse_11_4_release FYI, someone has post it on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/duplicates/g17up/opensuse_114_is_released/ Also, I will try to get launch parties out on twitter and Facebook today. Thanks guys, without your help, we can't be successful on the social media front Pup -- (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-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Meetings
by Sascha Manns 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hello Mates, some questions reaches the Weekly News Team about missing Informations about Meetings. In the past we had introduced that a Meetings comes and after that we published the Link to the last Transcript. Sadly is looks like not every Meeting is added to the calendar, so that means that each possible attendee must search when the next Meeting will be held. And as example some Pages like: * http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_meeting * http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_meeting * http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting needs an update. So i want to motivate all Meeting holders to add their Meetings to the Calendar and after that adding the Link to the transcript to the Meetings Page. Just my 2 cents ;-) cu Sascha -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] International Women's Day
by Nelson Marques 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Dirk Gently <dirk.gently00(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Nelson Marques wrote: >> >> Dear all >> >> 8th March = International Women's day! It's a good time to maybe offer >> a flower to the women in your life! >> > > Why should I or anyone else support this propagation of Communism > agit-prop exercise? > Grow up. -- nelson marques nmo.marques(a)gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] KIWI Documentation
by Kostas Koudaras 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi I recently wrote an article about KIWI and I used the KIWI documentation (http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:KIWI) I discovered that it is not up to date for a long time, I made some corrections but it surely needs some serious work. I am looking for people to help me with it, any volunteers? Thanks in advance for the help Kostas -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] 11.4 Party in San Diego @ KPLUG
by Bryen M Yunashko 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

openSUSE Launch party in San Diego will be held on March 10 (Thursday) at the KPLUG monthly meeting (www.kernel-panic.org) Guests include San Diego Ambassador Tony Su, Brazilian Ambassador Izabel Valverde and Board member Bryen Yunashko Time: 6:30 - 9 p.m. Where: UCSD Extension Mission Valley 404 Camino Del Rio South Suite 102 San Diego, CA 92108 Room 27 We look forward to meeting local openSUSE fans and contributors in the area! Bryen M Yunashko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Information Request : brand usage for hostnames
by Nelson Marques 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Dear all, In september I've started the process to get 'Portuguese' Language forums on the official openSUSE forums. Unfortunately I've not heard for a long time and I do value a lot this kind of resource. Since there isn't really a project devoted to 'spread the word' in Portugal, I've bought a domain to hold the forums. Since I'm just one person and the community in Portugal seems scarce, I've decided to join with other distributions in order to see if we can build a cross-distribution team to work together. I've only offered this invitation to Ubuntu and will soon invite Arch Linux (being this two the largest known communities in Portugal to me). I will also check out with a couple of old timers from Debian. is it safe to use: opensuse.domain.tld ? What are the guidelines regarding branding usage? Nelson Marques. -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] Change your profile picture on Facebook
by Jos Poortvliet 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

See below :D On 2011-03-09 Chuck wrote: Guys, This is a last minute thought, that I think will help promote the release on Facebook. With tomorrow release of openSUSE 11.4, I am asking all members on Facebook to change their profile picture for the next two days to the attached image. This is the Geeko that Carlos Ribeiro created. By changing your Facebook profile, no only are you support openSUSE, but you will have market it. For on the image that you can see is the release day. I hope that you will join me in this. -- (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.

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[opensuse-project] work for the future: why do you still use Windows
by jdd 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I sent this post to the factory list at first, because I guessed that in this very list if somebody still uses windows sometime it's really because it's impossible to prevent this :-). Of course I hav few answers (but proposal to go to bugzilla, which is not the goal here). Whole thread is here (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-03/msg00064.html) On the project list, may be there are some more people to have Windows applications necessary, given you guys are less development oriented. I completed this post with the other answers. I got on short, it's a try to get some planning... Now that 11.4 is done and nearly out, we can think of the future. in 2011, most of us do not use anymore Windows or nearly. Still when we advertise openSUSE we need to be cautious. switching completely to openSUSE is nearly impossible, because there are still some locks. We should try to identify them and make the necessary effort to solve them. The installation problem is the most well known and we already work each day to solve it and make default install a snap on nearly any computer. The use of installable live cd/dvd solves most of these problems and anyway we can't do better than what we already do on this respect. So give testimonies here, and fill openfate entries to any lock you indentify here are three of mine: * have a decent linear video editor: https://features.opensuse.org/311439 * fully read slideshows: https://features.opensuse.org/311440 * I would add: make USB hardware more linux friendly, but this is more a kernel problem. I anyway open a feature for that, but I don't know exactly how we can make it successfull https://features.opensuse.org/311441 this very part led to a discussion of what is the kernel part and what is not. Most probably, the kernel works pretty well with usb at it's level, but it's at the application level that some hardware fails. There is a specific need for GPS map update. We can act on this subject by several ways: activating a more strong lobying to the hardware vendors (We could see that Garmin uses GPL software and linux internally, but only have windows applications), giving a push to opensync and specially for a kde4 kitchensync. same for cell phones. We could also promote a YaST module to guide the user when connecting weird usb gadgets * one user asked for an open notes gateway * how to run windows games? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] International Women's Day
by Nelson Marques 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Dear all 8th March = International Women's day! It's a good time to maybe offer a flower to the women in your life! I understand that under so much short notice not much can be done, but I know also that some people on openSUSE have been working hard to promote women in FOSS projects, don't let this slide over without action, even a small blog post will do! My respect and gratitude to all women in openSUSE (and FOSS projects), today is your day! Happy international women's day! Nelson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] What does "is supported" mean?
by Per Jessen 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

What do we in the openSUSE project mean exactly when we say "11.x is supported"? Is there a definition of that somewhere? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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