Anybody know if SuSE has any kind of program or relationship with Linux User Groups? The local OCLUG (Ottawa C_____ Linux Users Group) was large and active, the last time I looked, but they were all using RH, Debian, Mandrake or several lesser-known distros. Hardly anyone admitted to running SuSE. It seems to me that having a connection with LUGs would be a useful marketing tactic for a Linux company. Sponsor some 'install-fests', maybe provide some speakers for their major gatherings, put up some door-prizes... By the way, everyone over here pronounces it "Suzie" (when they mention it at all, which is rare...), though I understand the purists insist on "susuh" or "suseh". That might be a slight marketing barrier right there, unless SuSE were to play it up and make a bit of fun with the name, to get us Nordamericanos talking about it. /kevin (in Ottawa, Canada)
onsdagen den 5 juni 2002 18.03 wrote Kevin McLauchlan:
Anybody know if SuSE has any kind of program or relationship with Linux User Groups?
The local OCLUG (Ottawa C_____ Linux Users Group) was large and active, the last time I looked, but they were all using RH, Debian, Mandrake or several lesser-known distros. Hardly anyone admitted to running SuSE.
I think I'm the only one of the active members in my LUG (SLUG S =Stockholm) who uses Suse. All the others are using debian. Nothing wrong with that but I think Suse is better alternative if we are going to gett new people using Linux.
It seems to me that having a connection with LUGs would be a useful marketing tactic for a Linux company. Sponsor some 'install-fests', maybe provide some speakers for their major gatherings, put up some door-prizes...
That's how I first started using Suse. A local company (nohup) had donated some software and books. Before that I used Mandrake or RedHat distros.
By the way, everyone over here pronounces it "Suzie" (when they mention it at all, which is rare...), though I understand the purists insist on "susuh" or "suseh". That might be a slight marketing barrier right there, unless SuSE were to play it up and make a bit of fun with the name, to get us Nordamericanos talking about it.
In Sweden we pronounce it "suseh" but I think that the proper German is "sooseh". Olle Viksten -- MicroSoft Network may not carry this message without license to do so. License to carry this message requires a fee of $1000, payable within 30 days to Olle Viksten. Appearance of this message on MicroSoft Network constitutes an agreement to terms.
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:03, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Anybody know if SuSE has any kind of program or relationship with Linux User Groups?
The local OCLUG (Ottawa C_____ Linux Users Group) was large and active, the last time I looked, but they were all using RH, Debian, Mandrake or several lesser-known distros. Hardly anyone admitted to running SuSE.
The Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group is in regular contact with SuSE, and there are several of use who are SuSE users. The only complaint so far is with the shipping company. The last shipment came via UPS. The parcel was dropped on at my door and 2 weeks latter they sent a bill for COD. Other companies shipped pre-paid, but we couldn't give those box sets away.
It seems to me that having a connection with LUGs would be a useful marketing tactic for a Linux company. Sponsor some 'install-fests', maybe provide some speakers for their major gatherings, put up some door-prizes...
Attendance at installfests is way down now that linux is so easy to install. We actually had an installfest for people that had been trying and couldn't get it to work. We had old 486's with very old SCSI cards, people trying to build a routre/firewall, a bunch of laptops wanting to get live video and wireless working and an iMac.
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