May 2015 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] Anyone have any more information on the new website?
by Rolf Riis Bjørnsen 24 May '15

24 May '15

Hi! I just saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u844cs-V__Q#t=1293 That is great! Anyone know anything more about this? I couldn't find anything on Github. Rolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Joining the mailing list
by Olawale Abiola 22 May '15

22 May '15

Hello and Good day, My name is Olawale Abiola from Nigeria with a opensuse user account :'stwalez'. I'm getting interested in Linux usage and as well would like to be an open suse ambassador so as to help my community and mates in my school understand and use openSUSE distro. I would like you to fill me in on what to do. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Don't search developers. Develop them. Events, events everywhere
by Efstathios Iosifidis 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hello my friends, Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the conference due to family health problems. I saw the project meeting and I totally agree with Henne. Actually I was preparing a post about part of what he said. Here it is: https://lizards.opensuse.org/2015/05/06/developing-developers/ It doesn't matter if the product is the best (SLEbased, SLEless, Tumbleweed). If there are no end users to use and promote it (because usually developers don't), then it's useless to have it. Find out WHY you do what you do and just go out and engage people (as I mention, the term marketing leeds to profits-money). Go to events, bring more people (prefer end users) to community and just help them engage-grow. Help end users to find themselfs in the community. If they like it, they'll become developers. If they're not interested in developing, they'll help make our project fantabulous. Don't forget to have fun. /S -- http://www.iosifidis.gr http://linkedin.iosifidis.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

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[opensuse-marketing] Booth box conversation starers
by Efstathios Iosifidis 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hello, I didn't make it to see Robert's presentation about booth boxes. I guess I'll catch up from youtube. I would like to have feedback from the community, what is the conversation starter item from booth box (or local printed leaflet)? Ideas? As it mentioned, a pen is a good gift but it's not something that our advocates can start conversation about openSUSE. A brochure, is something that the visitor will read once or twice and maybe throw it to trash. Maybe it's the same with the PromoDVD. On the other hand, USB is something that he/she will use almost everyday. If he/she uses other distro (and have it inside our USB), he/she'll have the logo on it and remember to check our distro. If he/she's windows user, he/she will also see the logo and remember maybe the advocate and/or the distro. Personally I find it a good place to start a conversation saying that "It includes an installation and live image of the amazing GNOME and KDE of our awesome openSUSE". If you stop there, then you just gave a USB. Do you continue by giving information where the visitor (mostly the windows user) can find information/support (we printed a leaflet with facebook, google +, twitter, mailing list, IRC etc)? I have an example in my country that a university had a presentation about Ubuntu and during the week, most of those students joined Ubuntu's facebook group. They were asking silly questions such as "do I use sudo with this command?". But it's something we all did when we started. We wanted someone to help us. So, do you give a page with information where they can find you? What else do you do? I think I wrote a post (but definately I made a presentation at a conference). Do you stay behind the table with your laptop and wait the visitor to come talk to you or stay outside of the table and you go to talk to the visitor? I think I saw Jos' presentation once and he said that the tables have to be on the wall behind you. Not between you and the visitor. So visitor enters openSUSE booth and the possibilities to talk to you are high. By the way, it would be awesome if the ISO in the USB stick will be like our PromoDVDs (live and installation) and if possible both archs (although only 64bit will be available from now on, but in my country and I guess other countries, there are pretty old computers too). Don't know if technical is possible. Just an idea. 8GB have to be enough for this, right? Food for though. Thanks for reading. Have fun, /S -- http://www.iosifidis.gr http://linkedin.iosifidis.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

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[opensuse-marketing] Strategy for Help openSUSE Advocate
by Luis R. Domínguez 04 May '15

04 May '15

Hi Everyone, my name is Luis Richard Dominguez, all Call me for Second Name "Richard", i am Free Software Activist from 2006 and openSUSE user from 2011 and Advocate from 2013, My Nick is R1chardQ. I have a Ask, for this Year, exist any strategy to help the openSUSE Advocate Pepple for Marketing or Promote the Project in our community ??? In My opinion, one way of increase the people contributing to openSUSE Project is help to openSUSE Advocate to promote them, with things how to example stikers, DVD, T-Shirts, International openSUSE Speakers, other Things, etc Greetings from Panama Luis Richard Domínguez Fundación Fraternidad del Software Libre de Panamá -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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