Hi all, Some days ago on the IRC it poped out that I would be writing a small article for openSUSE Build Service. In the past days I've took the opportunity to take a closer look into OBS from a scope that isn't mine, the one from a developer/packager.
I've signed up for the opensuse-buildservice list, picked a cool soundtrack (Moderat/Aparat/Paul Kalkbrenner), and two packages. notify-osd > a replacement for notification-daemon[1], and to make it more interesting picked up leolik patch[2] alongside, which has been criticized hard by Mark Shuttleworth. This patch allows the bubble of notify-osd to be customized by the user, functionality that Shuttleworth doesn't want out off the box in Ubuntu. A good candidate for all the other distro's, lets make the difference ;) notifyconf[3] > A small tool to customize notify-osd written in Qt (go figure that out). I've struggled, squeeled, but also conquered and the packages in my home repo[4]. I'm going to pick a cool project and then try to make them through to openSUSE:Contrib. During all this process I've been taking notes, gimping for help here and there and checking out the problems usually people have and making notes of the documents people point to me. Once I've finished the process, getting my packages approved or not into the repo, I'll start scribing the article (I would assume depending on answering times this would take 1 or 2 days more). So here's the deal: * Andreas, want to be my wingman on this? I am aware you have in your possession some interviews to be processed. We can use them. I would also need a small talk over IRC if possible (10/20 minutes) so I know how you want to present OBS, to whom you want it to be appealing to, and pretty much the stuff you want to promote. For the 'new user' experience I'll base it on my own adventure. Also any interesting information you can provide would be great. * Marketing Team, is it possible that we create a simple Marketing Banner/Badge, whatever to create a wiki template for Marketing articles? (flag the article, print the article and inform the readers our Marketing is alive and kickin'). * Artwork Team, could you provide such banner? * Wiki Team, could we have such template? I would also like to know what would be the best place to file this article on the current wiki structure. * Editorial Powers, need someone to review it later, and to make it more english friendly. I have really no schedule for this (only proves that I'm a poor marketeer), but I would point for a final release soon before the conference (as it can be used in the conference). I'm running some extra qualitative research also through some interviews with current packagers/contributors to get some more material to support some claims. PiratePad coming soon. Nelson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
