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C 21 Maio, 2010 >>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 22:52, Andreas Jaeger wrote: W: Novell is not seen - like Red Hat - as Open Source friend `-> this is definitely true. Maybe Novell could act as Sponsor for more oS events. But first of all, Novell should communicate their aims

This is an interesting question in itself. Will throwing money at Open Source events help here?

That's a tough one... throwing money at it probably isn't the solution... neither is ignoring it.

At least for Novell Brazil office, they really understand the importance of Novell to be more involved with openSource events, they have no dedicated guys to work on it, but if we create a good opensource business plan, showing the most important events in our region and how many lead/people this kind of events bring to Novell corporation, ... They probably will sponsor us, for example, Itaipu that is t largest dam working hydroelectric power plant in its generating capacity and turns to be Novell customer inside Linux Community Events, another example could be Banco of Brazil - The biggest bank here, Novell also has found this opportunity during a Linux Community Event.

Open source events are... in my opinion, under-marketed. Take the upcoming LinuxTag in Berlin. Some of us (who are close enough to attend) know about it... I go every year... but even though I know about it, I tend to totally forget about it until it's almost too late.. because it's not marketed.. it's not "in my face" so to speak. It's a nice event...

Could be under-market but this is our business, we must be there, without opensuse presence our lifes turn to be quite impossible. - And to make this happen, I mean, we need to develop a winner business plan to show to our sponsor.

Or another.. the OOoCon. This year it's in Budapest... how many outside of the regulars know about it?

What open source events, or openSUSE events are people going to be i>nterested in? What target audience would we aim for? The new user? The developer? How do you get the word out to that target audience?

My sugestion is: - We need to create a kind of powerfull big list for events we think is important for us. Example I don't know events in India, budapest.... and I'm quite sure none of the openSUSE Board know the most important events in Latin America and Brazil. Our road map could be 1 - identify the regional and maybe importants linux events 2 - Find out if we already have some of our sponsor running there, example, Novell, HP, AMD. 3 - Create a Linux/Community Events worlwide list to help us to have a better vision, because if WE DO NOT KNOW THE existence of it, how will we be asking our sponsors to join us? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org