December 2013

[opensuse-project] Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing and Artwork, who's around?
by Carlos Ribeiro 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Including atwork ml in the loop ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carlos Ribeiro <carlosribeiro(a)opensuse.org> Date: 2013/12/10 Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing and Artwork, who's around? To: openSUSE Marketing <opensuse-marketing(a)opensuse.org> Dear Izabel, +1 As I imagine and planning, next year I will handle other openSUSE activities and responsibilities that will make me a little bit out of the artwork team in general. But as I believe and you … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=11&month=12&year=2013&… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing and Artwork, who's around?
by Chuck Payne 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chuck Payne <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing and Artwork, who's around? To: Efstathios Iosifidis <iefstathios(a)gmail.com> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Efstathios Iosifidis <iefstathios(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/12/9 Izabel Valverde <izabelvalverde(a)opensuse.org>: >> Hello all, >> >> I believe most of us are following the -project … [View More]mailing list so I >> believe we should move on in Marketing too. Project decision is our >> concern too! >> >> I've been deeply involved with openSUSE in the last 3 years and FOSS >> in general at least 15. That is the reason I believe I can present my >> thoughts. >> >> From my perspective... Any contribution is seasonal and some can at >> least stay longer than 1-2 years. Using me, Izabel, as example, I >> started in the Marketing Team and I contributed until the 12.3 >> Release. I did not contributed to 13.1 cause my help wasn't necessary >> besides, quoting "Please ping the Artwork Team". On those 3 years I >> saw some initiatives about Ambassadors Team, Welcome Team, blablabla >> Team and in all of them most of the same people were discussing what >> should be the "rules" to start or who would take care of it... The >> standards were so high that neither the most valuable contributor >> would achive the points to be considerer a mentor or a Ambassador >> or... I hope you can understand my points. >> Now there is a new "program", hopefuly successful one but has >> something writen in the wiki that I don't agree: "Are there rules? >> Hey, we at openSUSE don't do rules ;-) " >> >> It looks so careless! We don't do rules but anytime possible we >> "start" a program or a group to talk about how to do it. Any new >> contributor is totally lost on how to start. #Imlosingsomething >> >> We are marketing, we need to care with the message send. >> >> As Marketing Team we are losing A LOT since we don't have materials to >> send around. Just the free will of our Advocates/Ambassadors/members >> isn't enough. Yes the DVD's shipment costs were really high but turned >> into ZERO didn't help. We became first with the $100 support idea, >> nobody used, poor advertise, so we erase the subsidy, later the >> Marketing Box, months planning and didn't happen yet. What is next? >> >> We had a great time backing 2-3 years ago, we succeed, lots of new >> people joining and lots of people leaving. We need to have >> credibility. It is vital. >> >> Lately I personaly, due to TSP, lost the credibility from some great >> openSUSEans cause we weren't able to follow our own rules to reimburse >> the travel costs within 40 days as discussed with SUSE and promised, >> so, rules? Ok, as TSP we need rules to assure the Program is able to >> help people to join oSC/Summit or present openSUSE worldwide, but >> again, with no marketing materials, with no marketing plans, with no >> marketing strategies, besides oSC and Summit, won't be more than a >> paid trip. >> >> I've seen many people contributing and I'm thankful for have them >> around but there is something that I can't understand. We have people >> around that happened to make us proud more than once but why they are >> not able to at least be an openSUSE user! Did they love our community >> that is why they stay? Do they really believe in openSUSE? Just >> openSUSE opened the doors? Since we are a bunch of nice people is that >> why they join us? Are we failing having them around since not using >> openSUSE? #wearedoingsomethingwrong >> >> My points are to show that we have many aspects to care and work on... >> I really hope that you can see something for us to contribute >> together. >> >> So, please, stand up who is or wants to be part of openSUSE Marketing >> Team. If you do already just mention that you are around, if you are a >> simple follower please consider to join and tell us. If you just want >> to keep following tell us too cause your view will be necessary to >> keep us on track. Any contribution is seasonal. If you can be here now >> tell us. >> >> I hope our Artwork Team/Partners are inside Marketing mailing list, if >> not please someone call them. Marketing and Artwork need to work >> together. We rock better together! >> >> I'm writing now cause many things are being said from few perspectives >> and many decisions will be taken. If we don't stand up now we will be >> apart from marketing decisions and we will send for the rest of the >> project the idea that marketing is just necessary for Release times or >> advertise on twitter, facebook or G+! We must to be more than this, we >> are more than this. >> >> Where we can re-start. >> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Marketing >> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_team >> >> Please let's move and present a group initiative. We can do better. >> >> Thank you >> >> >> Izabel Valverde >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > > Hello, > > We don't need ambassador-advocate or whatever name you want. We need > people that will do presentations, local events, local-global > presence. There's no reason to name someone advocate to make a > presentation. I know few local people that do that without being > active in the project (some use other distro). They just ask me for > promo materials (I give them what left overs I have). Having the term > advocate, we should have some Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and > special outfit, just like Fedora does. I have to STRONGLY disagree with this, when we had the program, we had people sending in reports, you had a good sense of what was going on. So the Ambassador was doing a great job. We welcome them, gave them support, explain how to market. I haven't see any of that lately. It would be nice to have the group so that we can again go out spread the word, get people involve, help them out. Hell, we don't really have a CM to be honest. I thought Jos was, but I don't see him doing that much, if you have a strong Community Manager, then you will have a strong community. I see > Personally, I see lately only the same people involve with marketing > (don't know what's happening with other teams). We lack people to > help. How can we increase numbers? I believe if we increase numbers on > local communities. Not only events or weekly news (or magazine). I'll > give you an example, look what Ubuntu did. They sent many cds to > people asking (you ask a cd and they send you 10 asking you to give > them to your friends). They were sending containers of cds world wide > (even if they knew that 90% will go to trash). That had the result of > creating users. During that period, they were working local > communities too. Now they have a end-user base and active with their > distro base. They attract companies to invest on Ubuntu (Valve). Right > now, they don't need to send cds or any other heavy promo material to > their local communities because the marketing-promo thing is > automatic. They change to Unity? End unsers use unity. They promote > Ubuntu phone? End users are crazy to buy Ubuntu Phone. Another thing > is that they gathered many people so if someone contributes seasonal, > they don't need him/her because someone else is already coming. > > We don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just follow the success stories. > > Regarding local community, as Kostas said, yes, weekly news was > something we did and brought us some contribs (it was something like > junior jobs thing). But the same time #wearedoingsomethingwrong (It's > different thing to develop a team and differenent to keep it). Don't > know what we did wrong. Example was the guy that started > http://ubuntuxtreme.com/ (he lives in my city). Before starting it, he > passed from our community. Personally I believe that we didn't have > something to offer him. He was searching GPU programming (not sure if > I say it correct) and we either were busy with the weekly news or > global marketing. So if we don't focus on local communities, even > marketing hackfests look like paid trips to me (unless we manage to do > that during oSC or Summit). > > So Izabel, some of us do the dirty job and some just are here to show > off (and maybe make some contributors seasonal). > I was here and I'll be here in the future. There are a lot of that are doing stuff all the time, I not sure who you mean by seasonal. I didn't know we had seasonal helpers, I thought everyone helped out when they can. > Have phun, > Stathis > > -- > http://about.me/iosifidis > http://www.eiosifidis.info http://gnome.eiosifidis.info > http://www.gnome.gr http://www.opensuse.gr > > Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. > Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org > -- 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 Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF) 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. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June 7-9, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.org -- 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 Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF) 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. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June 7-9, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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Re: [opensuse-doc] Fw: [opensuse-project] The Activedoc migration has broken links.
by Juergen Weigert 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

On Dec 09, 13 12:29:44 +0100, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > From: "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r(a)opensuse.org> > Subject: [opensuse-project] The Activedoc migration has broken links. > > For instance, I have links pointing directly to: > > <http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup/cha.up…> > Chapter 16. Upgrading the System and System Changes > > This is redirected to: > > <http://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/opensuse-… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: Feedback & Call for admins for GSoC and GCI
by Manu Gupta 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Hey All Thanks a lot for such an interesting session this year for GSoC. If you have any feedback for us, please let us know. Next thing, we wanted to do was a call for admins, have one more to our team, while we did pretty ok, but we will have less time in the next year. If anyone who has been with us for the past and will like to help us (this also includes other orgs), it will be great. We want to organize both GSoC and GCI for the coming session, so I hope we maybe able to manage well … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Evergeen 11.2 is EoL
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear openSUSE users, on http://lists.rosenauer.org/pipermail/evergreen/2013-November/001333.html Stefan Lijewski of the Evergreen team announced that he will no longer prepare patches for openSUSE 11.2, to better focus on 11.4 and the upcoming 13.1-Evergreen. This is after releasing 600 Evergreen security patches, which extended the life of 11.2 to 4 years. I think, this is quite impressive and want to thank Stefan for his efforts. Ciao … [View More]

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Fwd: [opensuse-project] Getting S... Done.
by Chuck Payne 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Henne, I agree with you a little, only because I keep stating that I am will to be a Mentor and to help, but never told, ok. Help. I was like a 9 year kid in class waving my hands in the arm, only to get over looked. I have asked to help out in other areas, but again never to hear ok. So your right that no one in lets say the cool kids are willing to do it, it will died, but there are always the uncool kids that are willing and wanting to help, that get over look. Pup On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 … [View More]at 5:31 AM, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > Hey, > > On 08.12.2013 21:33, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > >> As the ambassador- >> and marketing programs have shown, when a few key people put in lots of >> energy, a huge multiplication effect can follow. See the statistics I shared. >> Once the key people go away, things fall apart. > > Any project that nobody is willing to put an effort to will never happen > or die. That is a good thing! As this leaves only the stuff that someone > really want's. > > Don't propose it, do it... > > Henne > > -- > Henne Vogelsang > http://www.opensuse.org > Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. > - Mike Tyson > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org > -- 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 Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF) 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. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June 7-9, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.org -- 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 Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF) 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. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June 7-9, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE 2016: taking a picture of openSUSE today
by agustin benito bethencourt 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Hi, Once openSUSE 13.1 has been released, it is time for the openSUSE Team to focus on the future. We want to share some ideas we have about the project in general and factory in particular. The topic is not easy. so this mail is a little long and dense, but hopefully worth it. It won't be the last one so let me know how to improve it. INTRODUCTION/GOALS This is the first of a series of mails we will publish the following days with different ideas. The process we are proposing has no … [View More]intention of pointing at anybody, revisiting the past or enforce any situation within the community. Our goals are: * Share a picture as a starting point of discussion. * Use the discussed picture as a reference to agree on actions we all can/want to execute. FIRST STEP: PIECES OF THE PUZZLE One of the first things we did was digging into numbers that provided us information about the status of the project. Data cannot be the only source to create a complete picture, but it is helpful as first step. In order to better understand the rest of the mail, you probably want to look the following references: * Alberto Planas talk at oSC13: openSUSE in Numbers[1] * Alberto Planas' slides from the above talk[2] * First openSUSE Team blog post: Numbers in openSUSE[3] * Second openSUSE Team blog post: More on statistics[4] * Jos post about numbers[5] One important note about the numbers: since most of the behaviors of the variables reflected on the graphs were consolidated, at some point we decided to stop adding effort in collecting numbers until 13.1 was released. Once the Release is well established, we will update them and evaluate the influence of this Release in the global picture. I won't try to go very deep in the analysis. It would be too long. There are many interpretations that can be done based on the graphs. I will just point out the most relevant for our purpose. Feel free to add others. Following Alberto Planas' order from his slides[2]... 1.- Downloads The number of downloads do not measure our user base, but provide hints about the impact of the work done every 8 months, the potential new users we might bring to the project and, looking at pre-release downloads, the number of testers. Taking a look at the graphs, we can see that the overall number of downloads is growing at a slow path (slope). This behavior is not consistent in every release. For instance, 12.1 was more downloaded that 12.2 or 12.3. More and more people uses zypper for updating the distribution though. 2.- UUIDs (installations that update regularly) * Looking at the number of machines that regularly update against openSUSE repositories (daily, weekly and monthly), we can easily conclude that the situation is very stable. The speed of growth (daily and weekly stats) or decline (monthly) is low. * What the graph do not show is the acceleration. It has been negative (small in value) for quiet some time now. * When looking at the architectures, we see that x86_64 is more popular than i586. This behavior is accelerating, as confirmed in the download numbers collected for 12.3 * When looking at the mediums where those installations come from, we clearly see three dominant ones: .iso (dvd version), ftp (net installs) and Live CD. * There is a relevant detail that Alberto mentioned in his talk. More than half, almost 2/3, of openSUSE installations are not using the last version many weeks after Release date. There is also a significant amount of installations using unmaintained or Evergreen versions. 3.- Factory and Tumbleweed installations/"users" Factory is our ongoing development effort. As you can see in the graph, the number of Factory installations is constant. Tumbleweed was very successful when it came out. Many developers and bleeding edge users liked it. Its popularity is decreasing though. 4.- Contributors to factory and devel projects The numbers of users that are submitting request to factory/devel projects is increasing. Now we have more non SUSE contributors. SUSE ones remain constant. The overall growth is about 27 new contributors per year, a little bit more than 2 new contributors per month. 5.- Social media and comparison with Fedora openSUSE is, in the social media channels evaluated, in the range of Fedora. Comparing our numbers, I guess we all agree with this general trend that states that openSUSE is a more user oriented distribution than Fedora is. We have less downloads but more users (installations updating regularly). SOLVING THE PUZZLE All the above pieces shows a stable picture. Every sign of growth or decline is, in absolute and/or relative numbers, small except social media, due to their explosion as communication channels (which I do not think is way different from what other Free Software communities are experiencing). ADDING CONTEXT TO THE PICTURE openSUSE coexist with other "coopetitors" (Free Software competitors + cooperators) and competitors (closed sources distributions). Touchscreens, cloud, big data, games...the Linux ecosystem is evolving and there are new users with new needs. New players are consolidating their positions: Arch, Chakra, Mint... Ubuntu is moving to the mobile space, Debian is getting some attention back from previous Ubuntu users.... On the other hand, some distros that were relevant in the past have disappeared, our 13.1 has got more attention than previous ones, SUSE is healthy and willing to invest more in openSUSE in the future ... In the above context, how is our "stable" situation perceived? How do we think it should be perceived? INTERPRETING THE PICTURE If we agree that the overall number of users of Linux based server + "traditional" desktop OS (let's remove the mobile/embedded space and cloud for now), is growing, not following the "market" growing trend might be perceived as a wake up call, a clear sign that improvements needs to be done. But if we agree that we are playing in a risky and challenging field, stability can be perceived as a healthy sign. After these months of analysis and discussions with both, contributors and users, I would like to ask you if you agree with the the idea that the first picture is more prominent than the second one. But, does the second one provide us a good platform to improve our current position? SHARE YOUR OWN PICTURE Let me propose you some questions: 1.- What other variables we should put in place to create an accurate picture of the current state of the project? 2.- What is the perception you think others have from the project? 3.- What is your perception, your picture? To get some context you might want to take a look at the following contents: * Current strategy[6] * Ralf Flaxa keynote at oSC'13[7] * Jos article: Strategy and Stable[8] * Jos article: Strategy and Factory[9] REFERENCES: Please point us to other relevant references: [1] Alberto Planas talk at oSC13: openSUSE in Numbers: http://youtu.be/NwfohZ8RBd8 [2] Alberto Planas' slides from the above talk: https://github.com/aplanas/opensuse-data/tree/master/osc13 [3] First openSUSE at SUSE team blog post: Numbers in openSUSE http://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/07/04/numbers-is-opensuse/ [4] Second openSUSE at SUSE team blog post: More on statistics http://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/08/23/more-on-statistics/ [5] Jos article about numbers: http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2013/08/on-distributions-numbers-and-breaking… [6] Current strategy: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Strategy [7] Ralf Flaxa keynote at oSC'13: http://youtu.be/fdroo2JZano [8] Jos article: Strategy and Factory: http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2013/07/osc13-strategy-and-factory.html [9] Jos article: Strategy and Stable: http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2013/08/osc13-strategy-and-stable.html Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe(a)suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] The Activedoc migration has broken links.
by Carlos E. R. 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For instance, I have links pointing directly to: <http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup/cha.up…> Chapter 16. Upgrading the System and System Changes This is redirected to: <http://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/opensuse-start-up> which is the main page, not the intended destination. Using the search box for the chapter title does not find it. The correct redirection is now: <http://activedoc.… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Single point of failure : nvidia
by Bruno Friedmann 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

With the increasing number of new users, trying out openSUSE 13.1 there's also an increasing complaint rate about the non availability of Nvidia drivers. Why we should care about them, after all they are not free drivers. But as we in the past & recent present offer them by being prepared internally at SUSE then pushed to nvidia people in charge of publishing them. The work done by Stefan Dirsch has always been a great addition to end users that were not able to use nouveau for their … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Announce: Q&A session about openSUSE 2016 in next project meeting
by Christopher Hofmann 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

Hello Ladies and Gentlemenn, for next week's project meeting we will have a Q&A session about the proposals we sent out recently. So feel free to join the project meeting for a realtime discussion with Agustion and some openSUSE-Team-at-SUSE members at 3pm UTC (4pm MET) next Wednesday, Dec 11th 2013. Yours, openSUSE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Board Meeting Minutes
by Robert Schweikert 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hi, The current board had it's next to last meeting this past Monday, December 2nd, and the meeting minutes are now posted: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-12-02 As always if you have questions or concerns please feel free to approach the board directly or respond to this thread. Please do not forget to VOTE. This board will have one more meeting on December 16 and the new board will pick things up in January. Your openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] oSC14 - the search for motto
by Svebor Prstačić 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi all, During our last (first) oSC14 IRC meeting, one of the conclusions is that we need a Motto. What are your thoughts and ideas the motto should be? The idea so far: "oSC14 the geeko kingdom" Svebor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Conference Logo 3rd Proposal
by Andres Silva 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hey, I worked on a simpler design this time than the other two proposals. I was given some tips and this is what came out. I like that this logo could go well on t-shirts, documents, web banners, etc. Let's hear what you think about it! http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/Logo_Proposal3_zps4d7a44… PS: Are we already working on a new conference.opensuse.org? We will need graphics for that as well. I think that if we play red and green on the site for identifying Croatia, … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] SUSE Studio statistics vs openSUSE statistics
by Greg Freemyer 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

All, The SUSE Studio statistics and the openSUSE statistics don't seem to agree very well. Reference: <https://www.suse.com/company/press/2012/2/latest-suse-studio-user-statistic…> <http://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/08/23/more-on-statistics/> "To date, there are more than 233,500 registered users who have built more than 1,128,000 appliances in SUSE Gallery. More information can be found at www.suse.com/products/susestudio/features/whats-new.html." SUSE Studio allows both SLES … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE board election up and running
by Thomas Schmidt 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

The openSUSE board election just started! Please go to: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/digitaltomm/43818/opensuse-board… and cast your vote for this election. All openSUSE members[1] are eligible to vote. The board consist of one appointed chairperson and 5 elected members who may serve up to 2 consecutive terms on the board. In this election we will have 4 seats to be elected, 2 for a 2 year term, and 2 for a 1 year term. Andrew Waafaa's and Will Stephenson's terms are coming to … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] oSC14 dates confirmed, IRC meeting on further organization activities
by Svebor Prstačić 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Dear all, The dates for oSC14 have been fixed today, and they are: 24th - 28th April, 2014. I would like to invite all who would kindly help with the organization to an IRC meeting. The proposed date for the meeting to take place is this Friday, November 29th, 17:00 hours CET. The proposed channel is: #openSUSE-project - irc://irc.opensuse.org/openSUSE-project. I am sending the two lists below, which are the proposed table of contents for the meeting. - A short status report is on … [View More]the first list. - Things we have to start doing, that we really need help with from the community, are on the second list. 1. Things happening, report: - University of Dubrovnik and Suse are preparing a venue contract, -- University of Dubrovnik has confirmed the dates (24th - 28th April, 2014) - Free Software Foundation Europe is interested in puting a booth at oSC14, -- Karsten Gerloff (president of FSFE) is interested in giving a talk. Can we suggest a title? -- Program commitee needs to be formed to decide on this - There is an idea to have a business track at the conference -- Program commitee needs to be formed to decide about this, -- Program commitee would need to define what it would look like (if we will have it) - one day or more days; wanted topics etc... - We have been talking with the Tourist board of Dubrovnik about deals for accommodation. I hope we'll be able to start making bookings in a week or two. -- There is possibility of City of Dubrovnik sponsoring the event - Tomo (in Dubrovnik) is making a list of locations/bars for parties, will post info to choose at some time in the near future. 2. Things we need to start doing quickly - A conference program commitee has to be defined - Artwork and web design is needed - talked briefly with Carlos, he's interested to help, but we need more people to help with this -- We have a local designer, she can help if needed, with suggestions to make artwork local; coordinate production of materials locally if/when needed. - A CMS for the conference web is needed -- We can now publish dates and details about the conference venue so we should get this ready - We need to deploy OSEM (Contacted Henne, we were waiting for the dates) -- We need a logo for this - Call for papers needs to be published - program commitee via mail to -project and news release via news.o.o - Marketing machine has to be put in motion -- We should get the announcement texts ready -- news articles; g+ articles... -- notify tech portals -- openSUSE conference marketing at FOSDEM - is there a plan for openSUSE booth at FOSDEM? - Schedule regular IRC meetings If there is anything else you think should be talked about, please bring it up during the meeting, or before by email. Best regards, Svebor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] Board Elections - Anditosan
by Andres Silva 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

Dear community, Here is my elections campaign platform details. I hope that they feel like something that is important for you to see in the community. Our current discussions on focusing our project are very important and I feel they also need to move beyond code and software. They also need to be about marketing, outreach programs, etc. It is in this regard where I want to base my platform. Please leave an endorsement if you feel so inclined. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE board election 2013 - Platform
by Bruno Friedmann 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

Dear fellow's members, just a quick message to announce the publication of my platform. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_platform_2013_tigerfoot There's a nice place at the end of the page called "Endorsements" which shouldn't stay empty :-) This is your place, I already thanks any of your support. If there's questions, how does the election committee wish to handle them? Any direct personal will get a personal answer from my side. All the rest here in the mailing list? We … [View More]

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