Dear people, Despite I'm a lunatic, I do have cool ideas once in a while. I've spoken with a small number of Portuguese speaking enthusiasts from our community and behind 'closed doors' we organized and pushed in a small guerrilla campaign which isn't in any way associated to openSUSE official sub-projects to diffuse the message: openSUSE is a cool and fun alternative to proprietary software. Why the secrecy around this... because given the latest issues regarding RTFM and polemical blog posts, I believe that this initiative should be under wraps, specially given the sensitivity of some people. The very same initiative is being conducted only in Portuguese speaking countries (Brazil and Portugal) as a test pilot for this more 'obscure' technics. Though we have established a small mechanism and some 'key' members of our community are willing to help giving 1st line support to new users (since we are only testing this on Portuguese speaking populations, we need Portuguese speakers only), we can get some feedback from this. This test pilot will be conducted until the release of 11.4, by that time we will either continue with the current strategy if proven to work, or we will even become more agressive with it. For it we need metrics to measure our efforts. As our communication (also developed under wraps and sensasionalist, and in no way related to openSUSE project or openSUSE marketing) is directing users to #opensuse-pt we will have a sort of quantitative information available. This might not be enough, so I could use metrics from the official infra-struture like number of hits from Brazilian and Portuguese IP's to measure if we're actually having some impact and how it's working out. Where can we find these metrics? Don't bother asking what we're doing, because for now, it won't be said. Upon the release of 11.4 we will open the game to everyone :) Peace. nelson PS: as a side note, I would like to thank to the people involved (which don't have a face or a name) and have shown outstanding support and commited themselfs to help a possible wave of newcomers into #opensuse-pt. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org