On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Michal Hrusecky <mhrusecky@suse.cz> wrote:
Will Stephenson - 13:08 3.12.13 wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2013 07:00:29 Michal Hrusecky wrote:
I would agree with companies part but disagree with your conclusion. We have actually really good marketing.
Are you sure about that?
Well, nobody calls us dead and people know that we still exist. Which is more that I can tell about Gentoo :-)
How well we do depends on what you look at. We do great for the release: our press kit is in time and we write articles for news.o.o. Or at least, I do, and there sometimes is a little help (andi has recently helped out, thanks for that). It of course USED to be a team effort. Social-media wise, we're doing great too, thanks to the efforts of Ilias, Terrorpup, Stathis, Gertjan Letting, Victorhck and others. I think I shared a graph before, but if I didn't - here's one: http://susepaste.org/63730501 - statts are maintained by Ilias, yay ;-) In other areas - I looked up a few numbers. Draw your own conclusions. The openSUSE Ambassador program was one of the main activities of AJ and myself (together with general marketing, of course) until the 1st half of 2012, when we both got new responsibilities. Mails on the ambassador ML from Jan-Nov: 2011: 1010 2012: 338 2013: 151 This communication is of course about planning events, we were still building up our efforts in 2011 and the first months of 2012 (planning happens in advance...) So, the events: 2011: 71 2012: 78 2013: 27 * 20 on the list are actually an event in Mexico
From http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events (not complete, never is, never was - but it gives a good idea).
Then there is writing articles for various websites and magazines, preparing marketing materials, promoting our events etc. which we coordinate on the marketing ML. Mails on the marketing ML from Jan-Nov 2011: 2499 2012: 730 2013: 354 I didn't look up the nr of articles written by the marketing team about openSUSE in various places, but in 2013 there were none that I am aware off. Most of the marketing materials we have are from the 12.1 and 12.2 releases. And anybody remembers https://twitter.com/omgsuse ??? Cheers, Jos
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